chapter 6

, with averages and kindred terms.”—Am Econ R

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“The book will be serviceable as an introductory text.”

+ =Am Econ R= 10:388 Je ’20 40w

“No city official or head of a department or a business man who has an annual report to make can afford to miss the suggestions contained in Mr Secrist’s book.”

+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 100w

“The particular methods explained by Mr Secrist are not new; but they are presented with commendable clearness and brevity.”

+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 110w

=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Christmas roses, and other stories. *$2.25 (2½c) Houghton

20–21186

The titles of these stories are: Christmas roses; Hepaticas; Daffodils; Pansies; Pink foxgloves; Carnations; Staking a larkspur; Evening primroses; Autumn crocuses; and in each there is something in the delicately complicated situation or in revelation of character of which the flower is a symbol. The stories are all English in background and reflect the war.

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“Quiet delicacy of style and subtle character analysis mark these nine flower-named stories.”

+ =Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“Her understanding of character, her appreciation of beauty in all its forms, her ability to work quietly and effectively, yet with dramatic intensity, all make up the sum total of the satisfaction which we find here.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Ja 29 ’21 580w

“With her happy choice of words and smooth rhythm of her style, the artistry is invisible, yet produces a telling effect. The characters and temperaments of her people are implied and evolved, not labelled.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 480w

=SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS (MRS BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT).= Third window. *$1.50 (10c) Houghton

20–10315

The setting of this story is the parental estate of a soldier killed in the war, and in it his young widow, Antonia, his maiden cousin, Miss Latimer, of contracted but acutely intensified vision, and Captain Saltonhall, the husband’s friend and now Antonia’s lover. Miss Latimer, whose entire limited emotional life had been concentrated on her cousin Malcolm, has succeeded in putting Antonia in an agonized frame of mind. The latter is torn by misgivings that, by marrying Saltonhall, she will be unfaithful to her first husband. By certain telepathic powers Miss Latimer obtains a knowledge of the unspoken thoughts in the two lovers’ minds and with it conjures up a vision of Malcolm’s sorrowing ghost standing by the fountain (seen from the third window of the drawing-room). The result is a tragedy, for the distressed Antonia takes an overdose of her sleeping powders.

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=Ath= p736 Je 4 ’20 850W

=Booklist= 16:350 Jl ’20

“Few writers of fiction today can equal in perfection of style the work of Anne Douglas Segwick. But ‘The third window’ has an intrinsic interest as a story.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1200W

+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 120w

“It is a welcome relief to find, among the flood of books that exploit the present interest in psychic phenomena, one that is both an artistic piece of work, and a sincere attempt to penetrate beneath the usual morbid sentimentalism of the theme to the vital problems involved in a belief in survival.” H. W. M.

+ =Grinnell R= 15:260 O ’20 260w

“It has much of the delicate precision of line and enhanced effect of perspective which the frame of a fine window can give to the view which it reveals. But the perfection in arrangement is not complete, and the flaws which appear come close to calling in question the validity of Miss Sedgwick’s studied placement of events and deliberate simplification. Yet even with these lapses, ‘The third window’ keeps a singular and exquisite beauty.” C. M. R.

+ − =New Repub= 24:101 S 22 ’20 680w

“Her characters are drawn with deftness, delicacy and skill, the book is beautifully written in a style at once clear and subtle, and all the values of the picture are finely maintained. Yet for all its excellences it has one great flaw, a defect at the very root of the argument. The reader cannot but believe that Antonia’s fondness for Malcolm was a very superficial thing, since she was not only willing but even anxious so quickly to put another man in his place.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 800w

“Somber in theme, the story is written with exquisite delicacy and grasping strength.”

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 180w

“The redeeming features of the book are its truth to English life and its brevity. It may be added also that the delineation of the characters, such as they are, is quite skilfully done but there is nothing in the book as a whole which the world could not spare without any great sense of loss.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 130w

“So tense and subtilized is the atmosphere of Mrs de Sélincourt’s story that we fear to breathe lest we should break its charm. Indeed, the story is its atmosphere. It seems to emanate from and surround its characters like the perfume of flowers. Yet they affect us at length as if they were mere automata.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 950w

“The story is told with fine artistry and will appeal to discriminating readers with a taste for mental analysis.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 140w

=SEGUR, SOPHIE (ROSTOPCHINE) comtesse de.=[2] Old French fairy tales. il *$5 Penn

20–19079

“An octavo with full-page plates, both in color and in black and white, by Virginia Frances Sterrett, is ‘Old French fairy tales,’ compiled by Comtesse de Segur.” (Springf’d Republican) “The titles are: Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon; Good little Henry; Princess Rosette; The little grey mouse and Our son.” (Booklist)

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+ =Booklist= 17:127 D ’20

“These tales are told in that simple and direct fashion that children love and older folk find good. And the illustrations are in truth among the loveliest that have ever translated fairy tale into fairy scene.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 210w

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

=SEIFFERT, MARJORIE ALLEN (ELIJAH HAY, pseud.).= Woman of thirty, and Poems of Elijah Hay. *$1.50 Knopf 811

19–19879

This is vers libre that sings. There is elusive beauty, the sweet and the bitter of life, and the wistfulness of passing youth. The opening piece is a morality play: The old woman, in which the new that makes place for the old is but the old in disguise. The poems are divided into Love poems in summer; Studies and designs; Interlude; Love poems in autumn; and the Poems of Elijah Hay.

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=Booklist= 16:272 My ’20

Reviewed by H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 100w

“The trouble with ‘A woman of thirty’ is its lack of synthesis. Colour and a free movement, subtleties of thought and rhythm are here, but they have not been integrated: they ravel out into many unconnected loose ends.” L: Untermeyer

+ − =Dial= 68:535 Ap ’20 160w

“The poems are sophisticated and a little cynical. She writes free verse naturally, unaffectedly and effectively.”

+ − =Ind= 104:65 O 9 ’20 130w

“Her figures, elaborate and excellent as they are, do not penetrate that core of the memory which lives on tranquilly and forever.” M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 111:248 Ag 28 ’20 80w

“Almost one wishes that Mrs Seiffert could produce some disassociation in her personality. Then she might give us, besides the poems that are all too human, much more about the harsh black birds flying in the design—more in the style of that odd and very memorable little morality ‘The old woman.’ These are poems that evidence intellectual conception.” Padraic Colum

+ − =New Repub= 25:54 D 8 ’20 150w

“It must be admitted that in her failing Mrs Seiffert is better than many who achieve their limited successes; but the dominant overtone is an attempt at a deft sophistication, which can never quite conceal that it is the sophistication of rural Illinois, rather than the sophistication of Chicago, London.” Clement Wood

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 28 ’20 500w

“Mrs Seiffert writes equally well in free verse and in regularly stressed rhythm. Her work is remarkable for a felicitous ease in expression and a great variety of interests and ideas.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w

=SELIGMAN, V. J.= Salonica side-show. il *$4 Dutton 940.42

“There are four parts to the book, of which the first and last were written in Macedonia during the summer of 1918. Beginning with a description of the Seres road which was of the greatest importance for the British line of communications and on which the writer ‘can really claim expert knowledge’ after spending two years in various camps by its side, he proceeds to give amusing accounts of life behind the front among the British Tommies and Greek Johnnies.... The second part, which explains the events that led to the final offensive of September 15 to September 30, 1918, and gives an account of the battle itself with more details regarding the Anglo-Greek attack at Doiran, will prove of greater value to the historic mind.”—Review

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“Mr Seligman’s book embodies a considerable amount of information regarding the expedition, and is printed in a clear and readable form.”

+ =Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 80w

“There is a harmonious combination of humorous anecdote and serious study expressed in an easy but by no means slipshod style. Equally entertaining and instructing, the book is well worth reading.” A. E. Phoutrides

+ =Review= 3:450 N 10 ’20 960w

“Mr Seligman treats the expedition so disconnectedly that his is a terrible rag-bag of a book. Some of his stories are excellent.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:366 O 18 ’19 520w

“His chapter on ‘The tragedy of Constantine’ is worth reading; nothing that he says about the allied diplomacy in regard to Bulgaria is too strong, but he errs in putting all the blame on the British foreign office.”

+ − =Spec= 122:411 S 27 ’19 190w

“Those who enjoyed ‘Macedonian musings’ will certainly take pleasure in ‘The Salonica side show.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 S 18 ’19 600w

=SELIGMANN, HERBERT JACOB.= Negro faces America. *$1.75 Harper 326

20–10771

This book is a study of the negro problem in the United States today from the friendly viewpoint of a former member of the editorial staff of the New York Evening Post and the New Republic, who is now connected with the National association for the advancement of colored people, The author discusses race prejudice at length and tries to show how many problems that most people consider to be racial are fundamentally economic and political problems. There are chapters on the negro in industry, the negro as scape-goat of city politics, and the effect of the European war upon the American negro. The Chicago, Omaha and Washington riots are explained and the Arkansas trouble of 1919 is treated under the caption “The American Congo.” There is an appendix on the Bogalusa, Louisiana, trouble by the president of the Louisiana state federation of labor. There is no index.

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=Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21

Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

=Bookm= 52:302 Ja ’21 300w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 1200w

+ =Cleveland= p91 S ’20 20w

“‘The negro faces America’ is the best general survey yet written on the negro in the United States. The book contains much fresh material.” M. W. Ovington

+ =Freeman= 1:573 Ag 25 ’20 800w

“Besides reporting unanswerable facts Mr Seligmann gives us excellent discussion of such questions as ‘social equality’ and sex relationships.” O. G. V.

+ − =Nation= 112:121 Ja 26 ’21 890w

“Mr Seligmann has written an interesting book, a generous, ardent piece of agitation, but its usefulness is greatly impaired by its failure to make good upon the pretences of its arrangement. The issue as to the evolutionary inferiority of the negro, which, if it was relevant at all to his purpose, deserved thorough scientific presentation, is superficially handled.” L. B. W.

+ − =New Repub= 24:151 O 6 ’20 800w

“Mr Seligmann is a vigorous writer, very journalistic, who interests you by the rapid flow of his thought. He has considerable power in arranging his facts, but he quotes and quotes and quotes.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 Ag 8 ’20 500w

“The question is here discussed in an intelligent, fair-minded manner.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 70w

“His book should be read by those who wish to know what negroes think and feel.” W: A. Aery

+ =Survey= 45:24 O 2 ’20 450w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w

=SERAO, MATILDE.= Souls divided; tr. from the Italian by William Collinge. *$1.75 Brentano’s

20–7144

“The telling of a story by means of a series of letters is a fictional form which, though once exceedingly popular, is seldom used by modern writers. This method is employed in the new volume by Matilde Serao, the noted Italian writer. It is the hero, Paolo Ruffo, who does all the letter-writing, the lady to whom all his passionate epistles are addressed never replying to any one of them. She was an orphan, Diana Sforza, eldest daughter of an ancient house, and practically penniless. Gifted with a rarely lovely and very sympathetic voice, she won Paolo Ruffo’s heart by her singing. For a year he worshipped her, followed her about from place to place, and poured out his heart to her in a long succession of most fervent letters. Then, at last, utterly discouraged and broken, he left his native country, accompanied by the faithful sister upon whose shoulder he had wept more than once, and became a wanderer upon the face of the earth.”—N Y Times

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+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 80w

“‘Souls divided’ is probably a better novel than the translator has managed to project, yet even with this allowance its theme and substance tend toward emotional futility.”

− + =Dial= 68:399 Mr ’20 50w

“The story is like a pressed flower suddenly found in the pages of a Lamartine. For a moment it gives you the nostalgia of the past. Then it crumbles.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w

“Though it is always difficult to judge of the style of a book read only in translation, ‘Souls divided’ would seem to be very well written. As far as its interest and its appeal to the reader are concerned, these will depend largely upon whether that reader is or is not a sentimental temperament.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:128 Mr 21 ’20 400w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:434 Ap 24 ’20 540w

“The fact that the whole story, except the epilogue, is related in Paolo’s letters to Diana is bound to give it an air of unreality, since he is obliged to write her a detailed description of her own wedding. But the southern passion of the letters, though it strikes one as a little strained in our colder northern tongue, has a genuine ring about it, and the lady reader who falls under its spell will readily forgive such little improbabilities. The translation is above the average.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p689 N 27 ’19 700w

=SERGEANT, ELIZABETH SHEPLEY.= Shadow-shapes; the journal of a wounded woman, October 1918–May 1919. *$2 Houghton 940.48

20–20217

In this record of her hospital experiences the writer attempts to envisage “a vast, embracing, unseizable truth that was essentially our common possession. The heightened glow cast by danger and death on the faces of the young, and its fading into the rather flat daylight of survival; the psychological dislocation of armistice; the weariness of reconstruction; the shift in Franco-American relations that followed President Wilson’s intervention in European affairs; and the place of American women in the adventures of the A. E. F.” (Preface) The three parts of the book are: The wing of death; Pax in bello; The city of confusion.

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+ =Booklist= 17:149 Ja ’21

“It is, indeed, amazing that Miss Sergeant is able to make her meagre details of vivid interest, but such is her art that she ably succeeds in holding attention throughout the pages of this novel journal.” C. K. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 390w

“The book derives a unity from its synthesis of fragments—a shade too clinical at times, but otherwise sharply realistic and delicately expressed.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 50w

+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 200w

“Books so concentrated, so vivid, and so sustained in their spiritual excitement rarely get written.”

+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 170w

“How readable ‘Shadow-shapes’ is, and what is more, how full of feeling, of generosity, of the gold of human intercourse delicately essayed, of difficult things bravely thought out, of fine things appreciated, of good things described with sympathy, accuracy—this quite outweighs in my impression of it that vast excess of the sympathy over the accuracy, of the personal over the impersonal which, artistically at least, is a serious fault.” R. L.

+ − =New Repub= 25:268 Ja 26 ’21 1100w

“Originality is a force everywhere, and Miss Sergeant’s ‘Shadow-shapes’ is a very original volume. Miss Sergeant is an accomplished stylist, her art conceals itself. Picture after picture rises before us, in its very color, form and significance. If Miss Sergeant is supremely sensitive to the drama of minds, she is no less sensitive to the beauty of nature. Truly, every one should read this book.” Amy Lowell

+ =N Y Times= p10 N 14 ’20 3200w

“A book of fine perceptions, enriched by a background of feeling and intelligence.”

+ =Review= 3:622 D 22 ’20 820w

“Miss Sergeant has done much more than give a vivid record of hospital experiences. That indeed, although interesting, is the least part of an unusual book. The figures which Miss Sergeant draws from real life, frequently giving initials or only first names, are extraordinarily vivid and human.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 540w

Reviewed by E. B. Moses

+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 130w

=SETON-WATSON, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Europe in the melting pot. *$1.50 Macmillan 940.3

20–2792

“One of the most authoritative writers on eastern European politics here brings together a series of important papers which he has written during the war. For the most part they are reproduced from The New Europe, the weekly review which he founded in 1916 to represent the policy of himself and of those who cooperated with him. These embraced a league of nations, looking forward ultimately to all-round disarmament; support of the Slav movement; an advanced democratic programme for Russia; a federal solution for the border nations; agrarian reform throughout eastern and southern Europe; parliamentary control over foreign policy; equality of treatment for big and small nations; ‘satisfied nationalism’ as ‘the first essential preliminary to a new international order.’ A few of the papers have appeared in the Round Table or the Contemporary Review and one in the English Review. There are seven maps.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 180w

=Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 400w

“Especially well informed, competent, and obstinate in dealing with southern Europe.”

+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 50w

“The book is the work of a historian at grips with reality, and has the stamp of the best qualities of political writing.” N. C.

+ =Int J Ethics= 30:345 Ap ’20 180w

“The author’s history merely records diplomatic and military events. Of history as a series of processes, dependent mainly on regional economics and national tradition, he shows little conception.”

− =Sat R= 129:412 My 1 ’20 1200w

“His treatment of the Adriatic question in this volume seems to us unfortunate, especially in regard to Fiume.”

+ − =Spec= 123:623 N 8 ’19 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 O 23 ’19 180w

“They are an excellent illustration of the best kind of political writing, viz., the application of genuine knowledge and settled principles to the immediate situation which from time to time presents itself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p682 N 27 ’19 1300w

=SEWALL, MRS MAY (WRIGHT).= Neither dead nor sleeping; introd. by Booth Tarkington. *$2.50 Bobbs 134

20–8214

“There is a peculiar difference between Mrs Sewall’s communications with the world beyond and most of those with which the public is familiar through books without number. For she says that she found the discarnate spirits, urged and led by that of her husband, anxious to give her help and direction. The whole of Mrs Sewall’s nearly 300 pages is filled with the continuous, detailed, personal story of her intimate association and communication with these spirits. There is not much about conditions of life with them, as there usually is in books of this kind, but its place is taken instead by her account of what they did for her, what they taught her, and what she learned of their anxiety to help human beings. Their efforts in her behalf were mainly inspired, she says, by their wish to make it possible for her to give their message to humanity.”—N Y Times

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“Strains certain tenets of temperate spiritualism but is brightly written and replete with interest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:50 N ’20

=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 300w

“The story is told with such full detail and sincerity, all resting, too, on the character of a woman so widely and favorably known, as to make on any reader a profound impression.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1000w

=SEYMOUR, HARRIET AYER.= What music can do for you; a guide for the uninitiated. *$2 Harper 780

20–22166

The author holds that we need a new scheme of education which will be based upon the idea that man is his own salvation, that within himself are all the possibilities for harmony and growth. The new education must furnish the stimulus that will awaken this larger self. This stimulus is music and in this sense music is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Contents: Awakening to life through music; Melody, rhythm, and harmony; Melody; Rhythm; Harmony; Music for children; Practicing; Technique; Music for grown-ups; Phonographs and pianolas; Music and health; The philosophy of music. The appended bibliography contains three groups of book: books on psychology taking cognizance of music; biographies and books on music. There is also a list of phonograph records chosen from the catalogue of the Columbia Graphophone Company.

=SEYMOUR, WILLIAM KEAN=, ed. Miscellany of British poetry, 1919. *$2 Harcourt 821.08

A20–533

“This ‘Miscellany of poetry, 1919,’ is issued to the public as a truly catholic anthology of contemporary poetry. The poems here printed are new, in the sense that they have not previously been issued by their authors in book form.” (Prefatory note) Among the contributors are: Laurence Binyon; Gilbert K. Chesterton; William H. Davies; John Drinkwater; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Theodore Maynard; Edith Sitwell; and Alec Waugh. There are decorations by Doris Palmer.

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“Mr Seymour is to be congratulated on having brought together what is on the whole a very interesting collection of verse. The list of contributors on the cover is in itself reassuring, and when we read the book we find that almost all of them are worthily represented.”

+ =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 180w

+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

=Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 60w

=Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w

“Chesterton’s St Barbara ballad contains touches as magical as his Lepanto, although the sustained flight does not equal the earlier chant. Lawrence Binyon is represented by verses full of magic, Davies is his own naive self, Drinkwater is faultless and polished, Edith Sitwell is whimsically delightful, Muriel Stuart is sharply dramatic, and, best of all, W. W. Gibson appears in verses equal to his best.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 900w

“To sum up, Mr Seymour’s book can be recommended to those who already possess collections of contemporary poetry in which poets of more modern temper are represented, or to those reactionaries who will read nothing but the most conservative verse.” Marguerite Williams

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 360w

“Mr Seymour has not exercised, or indeed sought to exercise, the faintest critical faculty in forming his collection.”

− + =Sat R= 129:391 Ap 24 ’20 950w

“There is a wholesome (one means esthetically, not morally wholesome) departure from the preciosity, the fine-spun, over-intellectual, finically phrased impressionism that was, in prewar days, the distinctly Georgian note.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 150w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 100w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:201 O ’20 140w

=SHACKLETON, SIR ERNEST HENRY.= South. new ed il *$6 (4½c) Macmillan 919.9

20–1604

The book is the story of Shackleton’s last expedition, 1914–1917, undertaken to achieve the first crossing of the Antarctic continent. It failed in its object, owing to the loss of one of its ships, but, says the author: “The struggles, the disappointments, and the endurance of this small party of Britishers, hidden away for nearly two years in the fastnesses of the polar ice, striving to carry out the ordained task and ignorant of the crisis through which the world was passing, make a story which is unique in the history of Antarctic exploration.” (Preface) Contents: Into the Weddell sea; New land; Winter months; Loss of the Endurance; Ocean camp; The march between; Patience camp; Escape from the ice; The boat journey; Across South Georgia; The rescue; Elephant island; The Ross sea party; Wintering in McMurdo sound; Laying the depots; The Aurora’s drift; The last relief; The final phase. The appendices contain: Scientific work; Sea-ice nomenclature; Meteorology; Physics; South Atlantic whales and whaling; The expedition huts at McMurdo sound. There are eighty-eight illustrations and diagrams and an index.

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“The volume is extremely well illustrated.”

+ =Ath= p1304 D 5 ’19 40w

+ =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1100w

+ =Booklist= 16:201 Mr ’20

“Sir Ernest Shackleton’s new book adds another to those priceless records of high human quality, and the story that it tells, aside from its scientific value, will have many readers who will find its pages enthralling and deeply moving.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:42 Ja 25 ’20 1500w

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 200w

“Few modern authors have so effectively utilized the pent-up force of sturdy Anglo-Saxon monosyllables.” Philip Tillinghast

+ =Pub W= 97:607 F 21 ’20 480w

+ =R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 260w

“Sir Ernest Shackleton’s book is written in a vigorous style.”

+ =Spec= 123:862 D 20 ’19 1100w

“The story of the voyage that six men made in an open boat across eight hundred miles of the roughest water in the world, to bring relief to the twenty-two companions who remained on the island, rivals the best sea tale ever written. It is good for any one to read such a narrative as ‘South!’ We see what men may be.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 2500w

“The story is told simply, for the most part without much passion; but there is no need for that to hold our interest. This book, and many another like it, are written for the general reader; and the general reader (who would not read a scientific treatise if it were set before him) is rather prone to forget the scientific aspects of polar exploration. Sir Ernest Shackleton yields, perhaps too far, to this consideration.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p683 N 27 ’19 1250w

=SHACKLETON, ROBERT.= Book of Chicago. il *$3.50 Penn 917.7

20–19424

“To Chicago goes Mr Shackleton, after having exhausted New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. The Art institute, the clubs, the theatres, the elevated, the freight subway and the river all come in for his inspection, and Mr Shackleton has apparently gone over, under, around and through Chicago with a thoroughness that not many of its citizens would care to duplicate. Anon, he varies a charming style by telling stories, and by gallant attempts to rake up some worth-while poetry that has been written concerning the city.”—Boston Transcript

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=Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 120w

“For each matter which Mr Shackleton has not set down, there are a dozen that he has. Mr Shackleton is always interesting.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 24 ’20 600w

+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 70w

“A truly interesting and broadly conceived tribute to the much abused ‘Windy city.’”

+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w

“The book is far from being a catalogue of land-marks and monuments, or even of merits and faults. It gives to the city a personal quality, and to the reader a sense that here is a mass of people, living, breathing, and enjoying life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 250w

=SHAFER, DONALD CAMERON.= Barent Creighton. *$2 (2c) Knopf

20–11224

“An old time story of youthful romance and hot adventure, well seasoned ... with simple love and pleasant humor”—thus the author himself correctly describes his story. In the early forties, when the hero’s fortunes are at their lowest, an old aunt leaves him a legacy of four old keys, a box full of small gold figures of Inca gods, an undecipherable manuscript and the family estate with 5000 acres to hold in trust for his wife to be. The first three items point to family secrets all of which develop and unravel in the course of the story in quaintly romantic fashion with underground passages and chambers and hidden treasures. Of immediate interest to Barent, however, is to find a wife that is to save him from a debtor’s prison. How a wealthy land greedy neighbor of the Creighton estate offers his daughter to fill the place; how the daughter resents the bargain; how Barent tears up the contract when he finds he loves her and faces a variety of troubles instead; how the tables turn and how Ronella comes to require Barent’s help; and how the two really love each other more than gold and acres, make a fascinating tale.

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“Very readable romance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 350w

“This is Mr Shafer’s first novel, and it is one of considerable promise, colorful and related with no little spirit.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 360w

“A broad vein of humor rescues the tale from melodramatic lapses.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 220w

=SHANKS, EDWARD BUXTON.= People of the ruins. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes

20–17169

According to this “story of the English revolution and after,” (sub-title), the revolution broke out in 1924. During its first skirmishes Jeremy Tuft, physicist, is overtaken by a bomb while inspecting a new scientific discovery. Thanks to the new “ray” he awakens from the shock and crawls out of his hole in the ground in the year 2074 into a ruined and degenerate world. Almost all traces of our civilization are gone and the people are too ignorant and tired to restore what is left or to rebuild better. What is left is a ruling house in England, landlordism, and a degenerate industrialism in the north of England. In the ruler—an old Jew known us the “Speaker”—however, some of the old ambition survives. The form it takes to desire to reconstruct, with the aid of the oldest surviving mechanics, the onetime efficient gun. Now Jeremy Tuft is pressed into his services and the gun becomes a fact. Immediately there is war and more disaster in which the Speaker, his daughter Eva, and Jeremy, her lover, all go down to destruction together.

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“The author writes entertainingly, imaginatively, and with a creative skill that makes his work pleasant if not nutritious reading.”

+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w

=N Y Times= p22 O 24 ’20 800w

=SHANNON, ALASTAIR.= Morning knowledge: the story of the new inquisition. *$5 Longmans 192

“For two years and a half a prisoner of war in Turkey, the author devoted nearly half of that period to the writing of this work. If, perhaps, somewhat premature as a presentment of philosophy, the book is at all events an essay at the expression of a young man’s ‘positive assurance in the value of man as a real creator.’ Beginning with negations, the author advances by degrees to the conclusions that there is ‘more in life than mechanism, and more in reason than intellect’; that intellect is ‘so formed as to grasp mechanism wholly’; and that reason is so formed as to reflect life wholly and to find for life a purpose which is not yet palpable, though psychologically evident.”—Ath

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=Ath= p125 Ja 23 ’20 120w

=Cath World= 111:691 Ag ’20 140w

“A very beautiful and a very sane philosophy will be found in these pages. The poetry in them has a lyrical quality reminiscent of Mr W. B. Yeats, and the prose at times glows at white heat. Although Mr Shannon’s work is uneven, and sometimes baffling, it is never commonplace.”

+ =Sat R= 129:373 Ap 17 ’20 490w

“The condemnation of Mr Shannon’s method lies in the obscurity of his own conclusions.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p134 F 26 ’20 760w

=SHARP, DALLAS LORE.= Patrons of democracy. 80c (8c) Atlantic monthly press 379

20–4555

Professor Sharp of the English department of Boston university, holds that the true end of American education is not life or the getting of a living, but “living together,” “getting-on-together.” For this purpose the higher schools and colleges are negligible and the secondary schools are everything; for all the fundamental things of life are learned by the time a person reaches his eighteenth year. The spirit of democracy is one of these fundamental things and it is a matter of education. The book, therefore, is a plea for the common school and an arraignment of the private, parochial and vocational school.

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=Booklist= 16:263 My ’20

“The book is a witty and idealistic appeal for a truer democracy.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Mr 17 ’20 120w

+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 80w

“Dallas Lore Sharp’s belief in democracy is a tonic for us all. Moreover, he has a simple and, within limits, entirely practical prescription for democracy.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 1050w

=SHARP, HILDA MARY.= Pawn in pawn. *$1.90 (*7s) (1½c) Putnam

20–8275

Julian Tarrant, a distinguished English poet, comes into a fortune somewhat late in life. He has never married and has no close kin and he one day expresses his intention of adopting a child whom he may make his heir—and then forgets all about it. But his friend, Richard Drewe, who has taken him seriously, goes to the orphanage flippantly known as the Pawn shop, and returns with a little six-year old girl. The story thereafter is concerned with the development of this child, her relations to her adoptive father and uncle, and to one other man, a younger friend of the two others. An anonymously published book of poems proves the girl to have unusual poetic talent and then the secret of her birth and parentage is revealed. The story covers the last years of the nineteenth century and the period up to and including the world war.

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=Ath= p464 Ap 2 ’20 100w

+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

=Lit D= p96 N 20 ’20 700w

“‘A pawn in pawn’ is an example of excellent writing, and in point of vital interest and ingenuity of plot quite out of the ordinary.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 500w

“It is a tale which will really give great pleasure in the reading; but its weak construction and the hackneyed coincidences which lie at the back of it must prevent its ranking very high among novels of the moment.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 120w

=SHAW, CHARLES GRAY.= Ground and goal of human life. (Studies in philosophy and religion) $3.50 N.Y. univ. press 171

“The problem which Professor Shaw presents and endeavours to solve is the establishment of a ‘higher synthesis’ between an individualistic egoism and a scientifico-social self-suppression. The ‘higher synthesis,’ when he arrives at it in book three, is expounded in three sections, The joy of life in the world-whole, The worth of life in the world-whole (to be found in work), and The truth of life in the world-whole (to be found rather in culture than in æstheticism).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“In formulating his code of ethics, Dr Shaw has succeeded in adding an illuminating and clearly written volume to the already large library dealing with the origins and values of human conduct.” L. M. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 550w

=Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 60w

“Prof. Shaw’s presentation of his case is far from shallow and unconsidered—and has the inestimable merit of making no concessions to prejudices, of being absolutely unafraid. Moreover, it is a positive and too rare joy to find a book with exact footnote knowledge of the history of thought and literature.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 Mr 13 ’20 1350w

“It may be doubted whether this very substantial volume makes any very definite fresh contribution either practical or theoretical to its subject; and Professor Shaw is by no means free from the tendency among American philosophers to avoid clear logical exposition and to smother their thought under a heavy load of philosophic verbiage.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 180w

=SHAW, FREDERICK JOHN (BROUGHAM VILLIERS, pseud.), and CHESSON, WILFRID HUGH.= Anglo-American relations, 1861–1865. *$2.50 Scribner 327.73

(Eng ed 19–18602)

“‘Anglo-American relations, 1861–1865,’ deals with the causes of friction and misunderstandings between Great Britain and the United States during the trying years of the Civil war. The reasons which, for a time, gave prominence to the southern sympathies of the British ruling classes, while rendering almost inarticulate the far deeper feeling for the cause of union and emancipation among the masses of our people, are examined and explained. W. H. Chesson, grandson of George Thompson, the antislavery orator, who was William Lloyd Garrison’s bosom friend, contributes a chapter which attempts to convey an impression of the influence of transatlantic problems upon English oratory and the writings of public men.”—Springf’d Republican

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“While Mr Villiers’s general presentation of national attitudes is excellent and very well worth reading in both countries, the facts of history which are brought into his narrative are unfortunately not so well understood by him.” E. D. Adams

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:715 Jl ’20 500w

“The whole book is instructive and very timely.”

+ =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 100w

=Nation= 110:436 Ap 3 ’20 420w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 4 ’19 140w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 N 13 ’19 60w

=SHEDD, GEORGE CLIFFORD.= Iron furrow. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–7422

An American engineer of indomitable grit and perseverance sees possibilities in a barren tract of Arizona desert if the land is irrigated. He buys the land and sets to work in the face of the intrigues of a Mexican plutocrat, the wiles of eastern capital, his own shortage of funds, and the inclemencies of an Arizona winter. With all these troubles he still finds time to fall in love with a girl of fickle affections. The successful termination of his work on the canal is marked by the termination of his engagement by the faithless girl and the crowning of his efforts by a true woman’s love.

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“It is a pleasant story in a quiet key, and is restful after the many stories where gun-play is a prominent practice.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 300w

=SHEDLOCK, MARIE L.= Eastern stories and legends. *$2 Dutton 294

20–18410

An enlarged edition of a collection of stories of the Buddha published in 1910, now issued with a foreword by T. W. Rhys Davids and an introduction by Annie Carroll Moore. “In India, Prof. Davids tells us, crowds may be seen listening all night long to these tales. There are many hundreds of them from which Miss Shedlock has selected only a few, and of these we are assured that their appeal to an audience never fails. She has told them again and again, and Miss Moore, of the New York Public Library, adds her conviction of their admirable suitability for telling.”—Boston Transcript

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+ =Booklist= 17:124 D ’20

“In rearranging and expanding this selection of stories from the Buddha rebirths, Miss Shedlock has wisely freed the book from limitations, which in the earlier edition gave it too much the appearance of a text-book to look readable.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 51:315 My ’20 140w

“Discriminating and valuable selection of stories.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 60w

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 150w

=SHEEHAN, PERLEY POORE.= House with a bad name. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright

The house was an anachronism in a part of New York that had fallen from a former grand estate. The neighborhood would have it that it was haunted. The people living in it were anachronisms and as such full of mystery. Old Nathan Tyrone and his daughter Mélissine lived in an older generation in thought, in dress, in habits. They were paragons of virtue and unworldliness, and their butler a good second to themselves. In due time Mélissine falls in love, and, about the same time, an evil woman appears upon the scene with blackmail and corruption. After the death of Mélissine’s father she insinuates herself into the house and for a time the air is dense with mystery and evil forebodings. But before so much virtue and saintliness even the wicked Belle becomes repentant and the evil mysteries she conjured up fade away. All but one, which comes to light after Mélissine’s marriage: through some estrangement between her father and grandfather, the former had been disinherited and had unwittingly been living on the bounty of the butler, the sole heir, all his life.

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=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 480w

“Mr Sheehan is a facile, delicate artist in the weaving of such a theme; the texture of it is excellent and his people, especially the two women, are admirably real.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 150w

“With a slight, old-fashioned plot, little dramatic action and characters that have been worn threadbare, it still must be conceded that the lazy reader, desiring mild bookish entertainment, will find it worth while to work his way through this placid novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 420w

“The mingling of love and mystery is well sustained.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 210w

=SHEFFIELD, MRS ADA (ELIOT).=[2] Social case history; its construction and content. *$1 Russell Sage foundation 360

20–19858

The book belongs to the Social work series and deals with the recording of the relief workers’ cases and the purposes it subserves. The record is made with a view to three ends: (1) the immediate purpose of furthering effective treatment of individual clients, (2) the ultimate purpose of general social betterment, and (3) the incidental purpose of establishing the case worker herself in critical thinking. To expound these three ends from every point of view is the purpose of the book. It is indexed and contains: The purpose of a social case history; A basis for the selection of material; Documents that constitute the history; Composition of the narrative; The narrative in detail; The wider implications of case recording.

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“‘The social case history’ is a new landmark in the profession of social case work. No one hereafter can undertake case work without first mastering the material and the method put into permanent form by this book. It does for the case record, and incidentally for certain phases of treatment, what Miss Richmond’s book on ‘Social diagnosis’ has done for investigation.” Frank Bruno

+ =Survey= 45:432 D 18 ’20 980w

=SHEFFIELD, LYBA, and SHEFFIELD, NITA C.=[2] Swimming simplified. il $1.75 The authors, box 436, San Francisco 796

20–9362

“The purpose of this text book is to simplify the learning and teaching of swimming from a scientific point of view. Our further objective has been to arrange a series of lessons in their logical progression to meet the demands of schools, playgrounds, clubs and aquatic centers.... A special section upon the class man-procedure for mass instruction and class management has been arranged for teachers of swimming.” (Introd.) Contents: The method of procedure in learning or teaching swimming; The beginner’s first lessons; Analysis of the various swimming strokes; Racing turn—treading water—plunge for distance; Diving; Life saving; The safety valve and the swimming and life-saving tests; Water sports; Suggestions to instructors. There are numerous helpful illustrations. The authors are teachers of swimming in the San Francisco high schools and the University of California.

=SHERARD, JESSE LOUIS.= Blueberry bear. il *$1 Crowell

This biography of a bear cub forms an entertaining story for children altho it belongs to the type of story in which human psychology is attributed to animals. Blueberry with his father and mother lives near the home of Farmer Green. The father is shot by one of the farmer’s men and the little bear thereafter does all in his power to take revenge. Finally the farmer’s boys make him a captive and take him home with them and he learns that his father is still alive and a prisoner. The two escape and the bear family seeks a new home in the canebrake far from the haunts of man.

=SHERIDAN, SOLOMON NEILL.= Typhoon’s secret. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday

20–7516

John Wentworth, a bank president’s son, is suddenly stranded, when the bank fails and his father mysteriously disappears out to sea. John’s friends scent a mystery and foul play connected with the failure and send John in a wild goose chase over the Pacific in search of clues and his father. The rest is a sea yarn full of thrilling incidents which culminate in a yacht’s wild flight before a typhoon, a burning ship, a companion yacht with romance on board, and finally a restored father, a restored fortune and a bride for John Wentworth.

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=Booklist= 16:283 My ’20

=SHERINGHAM, HUGH TEMPEST.= Trout fishing memoirs and morals. il *$5 (5c) Houghton 799

The author begins his fishing reminiscences with an account of eel-fishing by hand as a child of nine, newly escaped from London. But he soon found that trout fishing is the sport par excellence and that trout fishers “by-nature,” not merely because sporting fashion prescribes it, belong to the pick of humanity. Among the contents are: Early days; A little chalk stream; The fishing day; The fly question; Minnow and worms; In a Welsh valley; Weather and wind; New waters. There are illustrations.

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+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 80w

“It is rather long drawn out, and not straight to the point.... Anyway, the angler who can’t learn something and get many new thrills from the book will not be found hereabouts.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 D 26 ’20 410w

“His volume is as delightfully written as any work on angling which we have recently seen. American anglers will find themselves very much at home in the atmosphere of this work, even though it deals with unfamiliar waters.”

+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 600w

+ =Spec= 125:309 S 4 ’20 860w

“Mr Sheringham’s latest book on fishing is delightful for its humour and sound English as well as for the range of its reminiscences and its insight into the ways of trout. Its morals make it as companionable as its memories.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Je 24 ’20 920w

=SHERLOCK, CHESLA CLELLA.= Care and management of rabbits. il *$1.25 (4c) McKay 636.9

20–14848

The purpose of the book is to set forth the commercial possibilities of rabbits and to point out to beginner and breeder alike the most economical way to success. It is intended as a handy, companionable guide on all phases of the care, breeding and management of rabbits. A

## partial list of the contents is: Some reasons for raising rabbits; The

domesticated rabbit; The commercial breeds; The fancy breeds; The hutches; Feeding adult stock; Feeding young stock; Breeding; Utility value of rabbits; Fur farming; Pedigrees; Diseases and remedies; Appendix-handy feeding schedules. The book is illustrated.

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+ =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20

=SHERRILL, CHARLES HITCHCOCK.= Have we a Far Eastern policy? with an introd. by David Jayne Hill. il *$2.50 Scribner 327

20–7581

“One-half of Mr Sherrill’s book is not suggested by its title, and deals with matters which have no political implications—with the flora of the Hawaiian islands, with Japanese umbrellas, footwear, lanterns, street games, chrysanthemum shows, and private gardens. As to whether the United States has a definite Far Eastern policy, a negative is not distinctly asserted but is clearly implied. At any rate our author presents us with one of his own which he considers worthy of adoption by our government. Shortly stated, it is as follows: That the United States should refrain from all opposition to Japan’s expansion north and west upon the continent of Asia, that is, in the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberia; that, in return, Japan should agree to abandon her southeasterly development and transfer the Caroline and Marshall islands to international control or to administration by Australia; and, thirdly, that Japan, Australia, and the United States should jointly guarantee the independence of the Philippines.”—Review

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+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20

“General Sherrill’s ten months in the East seem to have been insufficient to awaken him to an adequate sense of the intricacy of problems that with such bland simplicity he has undertaken to solve.” R. M. Weaver

− =Bookm= 51:632 Ag ’20 420w

Reviewed by Harold Kellock

=Freeman= 2:188 N 3 ’20 580w

=Lit D= p86 Je 26 ’20 1500w

“This book, though spirited enough, lacks verity of perception, and is typical of the thanks propaganda of foreigners who visit Japan and spend their time with hospitable officials.” F: O’Brien

− + =Nation= 111:250 Ag 28 ’20 560w

Reviewed by W. W. Willoughby

+ − =Review= 2:655 Je 23 ’20 850w

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 100w

=SHERWOOD, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS.= Glimpses of South America. il *$4 Century 918

20–20207

The author knows South America well, as a business man having made several prolonged trips throughout its extent. He calls his book an informal one, covering the ground and containing information about that part of South America that a casual visitor would be most apt to visit and about which he would be less likely to get information from more formal treatises. It is compiled from notes jotted down for personal amusement and is illustrated with the author’s own photographs. It has six maps, a geographical and a general index and the text contains: The beaten track around South America; New York to Kingston and Panama; Panama and the Panama canal in war time; Down the west coast—Panama to Lima, Peru; Lima—the city of the past; Southern Peru and northern Chile; Iquique, Antofagasta and the nitrate desert; Valparaiso and Viña del Mar; Santiago—the capital of Chile; Over the Andes to the Argentine Republic; Buenos Aires—the Paris of America; Montevideo and the republic of Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the way home.

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“He gives many valuable tips about hotels, boats, and railroads in an entertaining way. His chapters on Lima and Buenos Aires are rather long, but his chatty method of writing gives charm to the volume.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 6 ’20 90w

“‘Glimpses of South America’ is frankly a book of travel—and a very entertaining one—but it will prove highly educational for the man who wishes to learn something of Latin Americans, their customs, mode of living, needs and psychology.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 30w

“Mr Sherwood’s characterizations of people and places are terse and vivid and he makes no pretensions to an elaborate study of any of the matters of which he treats. What he has to say is intended to be helpful to the ordinary traveler.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 100w

“If there are traces of exaggeration, or of facetious inference, the reader, amused thereby, will not be disposed to be too inquiring. The work, as a whole, is vivid and informing—a thoroughly animated travel book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 660w

=SHERWOOD, MARGARET POLLOCK.= World to mend. *$2 (2c) Little

20–17008

The story is ostensibly the journal of a working man. He was not always thus, this son of the idle rich, of New England birth, who had lived fifty years of inactivity, addicted to theoretical speculations of a critical and analytical nature, when the European war broke out. The war brings him a sudden realization that he has been but a looker-on in life, has not been a good citizen, not in immediate touch and sympathy with his fellow men. He must act, must become a worker, must undertake a handicraft. He chooses cobbling, settles in a typical New England coast town, and gradually works himself into the confidence of his fellow townsmen and into local influence. His journal records his experiences, is full of philosophical criticism of American life and character in general, of the flaws in our democracy, of our attitude to the war before our entry into it and of the imminence of a regenerated world after the war. Our actual

## participation in the war fills him with satisfaction and pride and the

hope of future greatness.

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+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“Of the high earnestness of her mood there are visible manifestations. The delicate play of humor which we have so often noted in her work is absent. The poetic trend of her prose has been almost as ruthlessly stifled. Yet in spite of the handicap of abandoning two of her largest assets, the spell of the book is very strong. Miss Sherwood here as in ‘The worn doorstep’ has lived up to the magnitude of her opportunities.” D. L. Mann

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 1250w

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“The cobbler of Mataquoit is a good thinker. He thinks through his problems, whether they be of government, economics, education, religion or sociology. He is, moreover, the master of a high style which sounds the tocsin of hope for literature in America once again.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 N 14 ’20 460w

=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w

“Miss Sherwood has genuine literary power, and whatever she writes is worth reading from the point of view of style as well as for its subject. Miss Sherwood has spiritual insight and, looking through her eyes, we have at least a vision of how the new world should be built.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 O 20 ’20 240w

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

=SHESTOV, LEO.= All things are possible. *$2 McBride 891.7

21–480

In this collection of aphorisms the author delivers himself of his reflections on life and literature. The work is translated from the Russian by S. S. Koteliansky and has a foreword by D. H. Lawrence, who sees in Shestov the final liberating struggle of the Russian psyche to shake itself free from the bondage of an alien European civilization.

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“There is much that is brilliant in the book, much that is even profound. Moreover, if Hamlin Garland is right in reproaching this part of the United States with being ‘hopelessly sane,’ its influence here might be salutary. But we wonder whether a native of Iowa could be cajoled into reading beyond the first two pages. Nevertheless it is well now and then to face a defiant arraignment of the entire fabric of our civilization.” C. M. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 350w

Reviewed by Stark Young

=Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 450w

“His style is clear, uncollegiate and literary.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= p19 O 3 ’20 1000w

“In any proper sense of the word there is not an atom of originality in the book, which is merely a decoction from Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche. To exalt Shestov as original, or as in any sense a philosopher, is mischievous nonsense. He is interesting as an illustration of the Slavonic nihilism which is capturing the fancy of so many of our half-educated modern youths.”

− =Review= 3:273 S 29 ’20 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’21 540w

=SHOWALTER, NOAH DAVID.= Handbook for rural school officers. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$2 Houghton 379.17

20–10062

The object of the book is to stimulate the rural school officers’ interest in education. The information given is based on personal investigation of the best plans, methods and practices now in use in the best rural communities of the United States. The foreword is a creed of nine paragraphs for the school trustee or director and the ground covered in the text takes in school organization, election and work of officers, resources and finances; school sites, plants, furnishings, apparatus and decorations; selection of teachers; the daily program, home and school cooperation, and supervision; the consolidation of rural schools; manual training and home economics; the question of lunches, health education and medical inspection, and, lastly, citizenship. There are also illustrations, appendices and an index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:15 O ’20

+ =El School J= 21:154 O ’20 310w

+ =School R= 28:554 S ’20 210w

=SHUGRUE, MARTIN JOSEPH.=[2] Problems in foreign exchange. *$2 Appleton 332.45

The principles and methods of foreign exchange are briefly described in the introduction to the book which falls into three parts. Part 1 consists of typical problems and solutions fully worked out. Part 2 sets problems for the student to work out. They come under the headings; Sources of supply and demand; Par of exchange; Theory of foreign exchange rates; Conversions in foreign exchange; Financing imports and exports; Arbitrage transactions and finance bills; General problems. Part 3, Appendices, contains foreign exchange documents and tables for the simplification of foreign exchange calculations.

=SHUTE, HENRY AUGUSTUS.= Real diary of the worst farmer. il *$1.75 (1½c) Houghton 817

20–7300

The diary begins with March 10, the appearance of the first bluebird, and gives a delightfully humorous account of all the haps and mishaps of an amateur farmer’s summer, until the reader takes leave of him on November 21, meditating before his empty pork barrel—he still had his pork barrel left—after the pigs, reared with so much effort, expense and expectation, turned out to have been tubercular. He consoles himself with characteristic optimism, that, in spite of a pile of unreceipted grain bills and other debts, he now has before him the satisfying winter pleasures of milking, bedding, feeding and caring for his stock twice a day by lantern light. The book is dedicated to amateur farmers, particularly to professional and salaried men, whose love of the soil and of domestic animals takes them to the country not for the money profit that may result, but for the interest in the life for its own sake.

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+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

“Professionally I am inclined to condemn the book as a piece of deliberate manufacture by a man who knows too well that he is expected to be funny; personally I like it very well indeed.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 51:686 Ag ’20 650w

“‘The worst farmer’ satisfies all expectations with its dry wit and skilfully woven humor.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 460w

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

“The book is amusing in its way, and no doubt many amateur farmers will find their own experiences more or less accurately reflected in this ‘Real diary of the worst farmer.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 450w

=Outlook= 125:125 My 19 ’20 50w

+ =St Louis= 18:228 S ’20 20w

“Aside from the humor of the book one finds the author a genuine nature lover.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 24 ’20 370w

=SIDGWICK, CECILY (ULLMANN) (MRS ALFRED SIDGWICK), and GARSTIN, CROSBIE.= Black knight. *$2 (2c) Holt

20–14287

When Michael Winter comes up with a jolt against the fact that his father is a swindler and a suicide he ships for Canada with not a friend to bid him farewell. But a compassionate young girl, noticing his loneliness, proffers her hand as a good-bye for England and cherishes the memory of her daring as her romance ever after. In Canada he roughs it with the roughest and plunges with the rashest and indeed makes a fortune but incurs a term of prison in the bargain. Free again and rich he arrives in Paris in time to rescue his unknown friend from the clutches of a wicked aunt. They marry first and he pays the piper after, to settle his own and his father’s score, and there is an interrupted honeymoon, with a happy ending.

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+ − =Ath= p410 S 24 ’20 200w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 150w

“The workmanship of the novel bears intrinsic evidence of its subdivision of labour. The Canadian scene is sketched with descriptive vigour, and enlivened with incident. Mrs Sidgwick, however, scarcely qualifies with her entries.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 210w

“The collaboration is only a juncture of opposites and not a mixture of complementary elements. In short, however faithful and interesting a collection of adventures the two authors may have chronicled, however successful they may have been in parts, as a unified whole their book fails because of a lack of unity in construction, in style, in character and in place.”

− + =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 210w

“Life on the great wheat ranch, in lumber camps, and in other more conventional scenes is described with vigor, knowledge, and a certain robust sense of fun. The book holds the attention firmly.”

+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 100w

“Having been given the first innings Mr Crosbie Garstin has scored so fast and freely that the sequel inevitably partakes of the nature of an anti-climax.”

+ − =Spec= 125:861 D 25 ’20 500w

“A live and busy story.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 100w

=SIEVEKING, L. DE G.= Dressing gowns and glue. il *$1 Harcourt 827

(Eng ed 20–8231)

A book of nonsense verse, with drawings by John Nash. It is published “with an introduction about the verses by G. K. Chesterton and an introduction about the drawings by Max Beerbohm and something about all concerned by Cecil Palmer” and is edited by Paul Nash.

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“Introductions, nonsense verses, and pictures are all alike absurd and equally delightful.”

+ =Ath= p986 O 3 ’19 100w

“Nonsense in its finer form will be found in the illustrations more frequently and more definitely than in the text. Captain Sieveking’s verses have got extremely pleasant qualities; some of the poems that he calls ‘examples of blatant naughtiness’ have a real charm of idea; but he is not sufficiently severe, and allows himself to go on writing when the humor of the idea has already been sufficiently illustrated.” R. E. Roberts

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 O 4 ’19 1200w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 320w

“There is not quite enough of this book—that is its only flaw.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p503 S ’19 520w

=SIMONDS, FRANK HERBERT.= History of the world war. 5v v 4–5 il ea *$5 Doubleday 940.3

=v 4–5= “The fourth volume of Mr Simonds’ ‘History of the world war’ is concerned with the crucial developments of the year 1917—the German retreat to the Hindenburg line, the entry of America into the war, the Russian revolution and the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the French and British offensives and reverses on the western front, the Italian defeat, and the aggressive submarine campaign on the part of Germany.” (R of Rs F ’20) “The fifth volume marks the culmination of his account of the allied campaigns. He tells with dramatic vividness the full story of American participation.” (R of Rs S ’20)

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=Booklist= 16:276 My ’20 (Review of v 4)

“Here again we have, possibly displayed better than elsewhere, his fine sense of historical proportion, his superlatively dramatic style garnishing the most prosaic scientific manoeuvers, if important, with all the color of romance. He has taken critical advantage of the books by German military men published since the war.” Walter Littlefield

+ =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w

“The author’s running comment and interpretation are most illuminating and instructive.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 160w (Review of v 4)

+ =R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 180w (Review of v 5)

=SIMPSON, CHARLES TORREY.= In lower Florida wilds. il *$3.50 (4c) Putnam 917.59

20–15140

“A naturalist’s observations on the life, physical geography, and geology of the more tropical part of the state.” (Sub-title) The author has been a resident of the region he describes for more than twenty years. He found it an almost unbroken wilderness in 1882, which is now rapidly and forever disappearing. “Today most of its hammocks are destroyed, the streams are being dredged out and deepened, the Everglades are nearly drained; even the pine forests are being cut down.” (Introd.) Many species of animals and plants, found only in this area, have already been exterminated. The author has thoroughly explored the territory in its virgin fecundity and describes it both as a collector and a general naturalist. Contents: The building of the land; The Florida keys; The Ten Thousand islands; Cape Sable; The south shore of the mainland; The Everglades; The planting of our flora; The lure of the piney woods; The origin of the hammocks; In the primeval forest; Along the stream; Along the mangrove shore; The open sea beach; The wonders of Ajax reefs; The secrets of the sea; The story of the land snails; The beauty of the night; The survival of the fittest. There are an index, a map, and numerous illustrations.

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“The style is a curious, though pleasant, blending of the scientist’s delight in naming, describing or explaining, and the artist’s sensitiveness to vivid coloring, ethereal lights or deeps of forest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20

Reviewed by S: Scoville, jr.

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 23 ’20 1400w

“He has written well and he has presented his material in as popular a form as was possible, but the reviewer would be failing in his duty if he did not warn the casual book-buyer of the scientific nature of this volume with so attractive a title.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 250w

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 60w

=SIMPSON, EUGENE E.= America’s position in music. *$1 (14c) Four seas co. 780.9

20–9483

A brief essay in which the author points out “that America has for a long time possessed a number of distinctive elements in music which were found in no other country, therefore were inevitably American.” He traces the pioneer efforts in American music, beginning with Lowell Mason in 1821, and he takes special notice of the use made of Indian and negro themes. The chronology at the end lists over ninety American composers, with the titles of their best known works. The essay is reprinted from “Modern music and musicians,” revised edition of 1918.

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“Unfortunately Mr Simpson, who means well and has much common sense, tries to write grandiloquently. It is often difficult to understand him.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 450w

+ − =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 180w

=SIMS, NEWELL LEROY=, ed.[2] Rural community. il *$4.50 Scribner 301

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“Regarding the present stage of rural community development as one of transition from an individualistic to a co-operative economy, it is the expressed purpose of the volume to bring together in organized form the available ‘knowledge of the past communal order, both ancient and modern, for the shaping and perfecting of the order that is to be.’ The book is divided into three parts, each comprising four chapters, each chapter presenting material from several sources so organized as to constitute a comprehensive discussion of some unit phase of the general topic. Thus, the first part treats of the Ancient community, one chapter being given to each of the following topics: The primitive village; The mediaeval manor; The village community in America; and The disintegration of the village community. Part 2 considers the modern community under the headings, The modern community defined; Types of communities; Institutions of the community; and The evolution of the community. The latter half of the

## book is devoted to Part 3, Community reconstruction.”—School R

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=School R= 28:795 D ’20 450w

=SIMS, WILLIAM SOWDEN, and HENDRICK, BURTON JESSE.= Victory at sea. il *$5 (4c) Doubleday 940.45

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This is not a complete history of the operations of our naval forces during the great war, but an account of the submarine campaign and the means by which it was defeated. Little or nothing was made public of the anti-submarine exploits at the time of their happening owing to the necessity for secrecy. Contents: When Germany was winning the war; The return of the Mayflower; The adoption of the convoy; American destroyers in action; Decoying submarines to destruction; American college boys and subchasers; The London flagship; Submarine against submarine; The American mine barrage in the North sea; German submarines visit the American coast; Fighting submarines from the air; The navy fighting on the land; Transporting two million American soldiers to France; Appendix; Index.

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“This is a very interesting book carrying with it a comprehensive and intelligent description of the submarine and anti-submarine warfare of the late war, and is by far the best yet made known to the world.”

+ =Am Hist R= 26:332 Ja ’21 1050w

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1050w

“Among the numberless books about the war I have seen no other which is so concise and clear and which shows the march of the main events so unobscured by unessential details. From beginning to end, the reader is never left in doubt on a single point.” B. A. Fiske

+ =N Y Times= p4 O 31 ’20 2600w

“The most illuminating account of the war against the submarines which has yet appeared. It is a thrilling narrative, and we advise everybody to read it.”

+ =Spec= 125:815 D 18 ’20 1850w

“It is in the highest degree authoritative.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p847 D 16 ’20 2100w

“The telling of this story is so attractive that the book ought to have a wide popularity.” W: O. Stevens

+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 180w

=SINCLAIR, BERTRAND WILLIAM.= Poor man’s rock. il *$1.90 (2c) Little

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A story of Puget Sound. Jack MacRae comes home from the war to find his father dying. In a letter left to his son the father tells the story of his youth and explains the reasons for his hatred of Horace Gower. Jack also learns that he has been robbed of his inheritance by Gower, and adding his father’s grievances to his own, he sets out to compete with the rich man in the salmon industry. As an independent buyer for his friend, Stubby Abbott, a rival canner, he makes inroads on Gower’s business and soon merits the magnate’s open hostility. In the meantime Jack has fallen in love with Betty Gower and the working out of the story involves the old tangle of youthful love thwarted by family disapproval, which in the end is triumphantly overridden.

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+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“As a student of character, Mr Sinclair is rather clever than profound. His interest lies primarily in the story he is telling and not in its setting, and, fortunately, he has the power to make us follow that story so keenly that only here and there do we miss the background.” E. A. W.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 600w

“In the telling Mr Sinclair has revealed a strange mental combination of psychologist, economist and artist. Nevertheless, ‘Poor man’s rock’ is an interesting story of an interesting phase of American endeavor.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 220w

“This is by far Mr Sinclair’s best novel. There is a great deal in it that is worth while, and every page is real. The theme is handled with such a blending of strength and beauty that it falls wide of the mark of maudlin sentimentality.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 520w

“Altogether the novel is a strong piece of writing.”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w

“Taken all in all, it’s a story that moves rapidly and with a lift straight to the end.” L. M. Harbeson

+ =Pub W= 98:660 S 18 ’20 280w

=SINCLAIR, MAY.= Romantic. *$2 (4c) Macmillan

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This story of the first weeks of the war in Belgium is a psychological study of cowardice. At the opening of the story Charlotte Redhead has just broken off an episodic love affair with Gibson Herbert, her employer. The qualities that attract her in John Conway are his apparent cleanness and strength. The two work together as farm laborers for a year, maintaining a very satisfactory relationship on platonic terms. With the beginning of the war they go out, in company with two others, as an ambulance corps. And here under danger Charlotte sees John go to pieces. He welcomes the idea of danger and death, but turns tail at the reality, and at the same time develops a strain of cruelty. Charlotte gives in to the truth slowly and it is only after he has been killed, when a psycho-analytic doctor gives her the key, that she comes to understand, and so forgive, his weakness.

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“It is not possible to doubt the sincerity of Miss Sinclair’s intentions. She is a devoted writer of established reputation. What we do deplore is that she has allowed her love of writing to suffer the eclipse of psycho-analysis.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p552 O 22 ’20 860w

“Into ‘The romantic,’ which for its greater part is scarcely anything more than a sketchy record of war-time incident, Miss Sinclair has put a curious jumble of pseudo science and pretentious psychology.”

− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 1400w

“In ‘The romantic’ the psycho-analytic purpose stands out like a framework. It is a semi-scientific study rather than a novel, missing almost entirely the effect of mixed, unguided, concrete life which belongs to fiction.” C. M. Rourke

+ − =Freeman= 2:429 Ja 12 ’21 450w

“Her Charlotte Redhead is new and authentic both as a type and as an individual. The implications of Miss Sinclair’s fable and analysis are of the broadest significance. It is these implications that give Miss Sinclair’s book an extraordinary intellectual suppleness and strength.”

+ =Nation= 111:567 N 17 ’20 600w

“A more difficult subject than this one which Miss Sinclair has chosen it would be almost impossible to find. And she has treated it sanely, admirably, with a certain clean honesty which renders it void of offense. ‘The romantic’ is a most unusual and most noteworthy book.” L. M. Field

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 1100w

“The story in all its poignant brevity has that assured touch of artistry which we have a right to expect from the author of ‘The divine fire.’” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 98:657 S 18 ’20 420w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:650 D 29 ’20 660w

“The book is a notable achievement in psychoanalysis, and Miss Sinclair is to be congratulated on the close study of character which she has given us.”

+ =Spec= 125:641 N 13 ’20 640w

“‘The romantic’ is a rather curious book in that it is written almost spontaneously according to fixed theory. Its mechanism is flawless.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 500w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 620w

=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL (ARTHUR STIRLING, pseud.).= Brass check. *$1; pa *50c U. B. Sinclair, Pasadena, Cal. 071

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The book is a fierce arraignment of our present-day journalism. “When you have read this story, you will know our journalism; you will know the body and soul of it, you will know it in such a way that you will not have to be told what it is doing to the movement for industrial freedom and self-government all over the world.” (Introd.) It falls into three parts: part 1, The evidence, which is one half of the book, is a personal story telling what the author himself has seen and experienced in his struggles with the press for a period of twenty years. In part 2. The explanation, other witnesses are heard, “the wisest and truest and best people of our country” and the author pledges his honor that his statements are based on facts and facts only. Part 3, The remedy, has among its contents a practical program for a “truth-telling” weekly to be known as the National News.

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Reviewed by H: L. West

=Bookm= 52:116 O ’20 950w

“Mr Sinclair’s book is a brave and sincere effort carried out in the worst of all tastes—so that your attention becomes focused on the writer instead of his writing.” Edwin Björkman

− + =Freeman= 2:212 N 10 ’20 1850w

“Is Mr Sinclair telling the truth? If he is not, the Associated press and every newspaper he includes in his amazing revelations owe the American public the solemn duty of bringing him to justice but if Mr Sinclair’s statements go unchallenged by the press, every honest American must possess himself of the facts. Fascinating as his book is, incredible though it may appear to the dazed reader, it is a treatise based on names, places and dates, convincing despite our great desire to remain unconvinced.” J. J. Smertenko

+ =Grinnell R= 16:329 Ja ’21 1000w

=Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 140w

“This is a most important book which every reader will want to pass on to his neighbor. It is a complete, masterful study, and the presentation of its facts is wholly convincing. With Mr Sinclair’s conclusions, drawn from his facts, it is not necessary to agree. Mr Sinclair is a Socialist. He sees everything through the spectacles of class-consciousness. Also, at times he is humorless, and he has been persistently naive.” E. H. Gruening

+ − =Nation= 111:72 Jl 17 ’20 1050w

“There is nothing here even remotely approximating a rational survey of the conditions and practices of American journalism. There is a vast deal about the topic most interesting to Mr Sinclair—and that is Sinclair himself. The picture, while more or less true in many of its details, is, as a whole, a caricature. Is the book worth reading? It is; indeed, it should be widely read. But it should be read with the intelligence and information which will enable one to sift the truth from the mass of absurd and misleading statements which it contains.” W. J. Ghent

− + =Review= 3:420 N 3 ’20 1350w

“The effectiveness of the facts in ‘The brass check’ for the average reader, not to mention a hostile critic, is seriously marred by the intermittent ‘bow-wowings’ of the writer. Can the author bring to the tragic theme of the prostitution of modern journalism no language but that of the yellow press? The people have been too deeply betrayed by the illusions of language not to demand the facts without the fireworks.” M. C. Crook

+ − =Socialist R= 8:382 My ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 160w

“A passionate, intimately personal, elaborately detailed and documented indictment.” J. G. McDonald

+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 320w

“For the sake of the honour of the American press—the better elements in which cannot but be glad to see the worse exposed—one would like to know that this book was being widely read.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 720w

=SINCLAIR, UPTON BEALL (ARTHUR STIRLING, pseud.).= 100%; the story of a patriot. *$1.20 (1½c) pa *60c Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, Cal.

21–1179

In fiction form Mr Sinclair has told the story of the Mooney case, bringing in other recent events that show the methods used by business interests and their secret police, under-cover men, and agents provocateur. Peter Gudge is near the scene of the explosion on preparedness day. He is knocked senseless, arrested as a suspect, and given the third degree. Taking his measure, Guffey, the chief of police, decides that Peter is the man for his purpose and uses him first as star witness in the Goober case and later as one of his secret agents, detailed to spy on the “reds.” Peter is faithful and painstaking and rises to the top in his profession, a true 100% American. The data on which the story is built is supplied in an appendix.

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“Mr Sinclair has abandoned the Zolaist symbolism and declamation of his earlier books and has chosen an intellectual and artistic method which is none other than that of Swift. Mr Sinclair has gods and a great subject burning, literally burning, out his heart. And so it comes about that this pedestrian mass of graceless prose achieves—in the most fundamental sense—literary values that young intellectuals seeking cultural modes for our American life can never reach. The book is a literary achievement of high and solid worth.”

+ − =Nation= 111:481 O 27 ’20 320w

“Dealing in certain facts that we all know to be true, it carries an impression of verisimilitude, despite elements of sentimentality and exaggeration. It gives a graphic insight into some of the ugliest phases of the class struggle.” G. H.

+ − =World Tomorrow= 4:30 Ja ’21 160w

=SINGMASTER, ELSIE (MRS HAROLD LEWARS).= Basil Everman. *$1.90 (2½c) Houghton

20–5404

Basil Everman, who never once appears in person, nevertheless dominates the entire story. The scene is laid in a small college town, lying a little north of Mason and Dixon’s line, where “the Civil war was still the chief topic of discussion among the older men.” The chief characters (after Basil) are: Richard Lister, son of the president of Walton college; Richard’s mother who is violently opposed to the musical career on which he has set his heart; Eleanor Bent, who has promising literary talent and with whom Richard falls in love; Mrs Bent, formerly Margie Ginter, an innkeeper’s daughter, who conceals Eleanor’s parentage from her; Dr Green, a physician; Thomasina Davis, spinster, who loved Basil Everman; and Mr Utterly of Willard’s Magazine, who has come across a story, an essay and a poem of Basil’s so wonderful that they have sent him to Waltonville to learn all he can about the defunct genius. The story ends happily.

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“A good armchair story for people who enjoy this kind of character study, which is pervaded by kindly humor and gentle satire.”

+ =Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

=Lit D= p87 S 4 ’20 3500w

“Miss Singmaster gives us a warm and charming picture of her little college town; she catches the external characteristics and harmless little oddities of her people. But she will not let herself regard their real lives with a critical eye.”

+ − =Nation= 110:401 Mr 27 ’20 500w

“Carefully and skillfully written, showing a restraint and finish far removed from the hasty, slipshod performances of so many writers of contemporary fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 500w

“Told with care and dignity, this novel has the quality we call distinction.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

“A fine piece of work.”

+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 80w

“Both in plot and in character delineation Miss Singmaster has been very successful in this story. ‘Basil Everman’ ought to be one of the star volumes of the year.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 550w

=SIRÉN, OSVALD.= Essentials in art. il *$3.50 Lane 704

20–20086

The author of this volume is professor of the history of art at the University of Stockholm and has a world reputation as lecturer on art, especially primitive Italian art, in other European countries, in America and Japan. The essays in this volume are: Rhythm and form; Art and religion; Art and religion during the renaissance; The importance of the antique to Donatello; A late Gothic poet of line. The last two essays are profusely illustrated. The poet of line in the last essay is Parri Spinelli, a list of whose works is appended.

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“His book on Leonardo da Vinci is better worth reading than many others that have been written on that, apparently inexhaustible subject. But his new volume can hardly be said to satisfy the expectations that the title might legitimately arouse.” E. M.

+ − =Ath= p836 Je 25 ’20 860w

“Most of the book is objective criticism of the highest order; the essay on ‘Rhythm and form’ is both penetrating and remarkable. Professor Sirén understands art—his volume is a distinctive contribution to aesthetics.”

+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 50w

“Really touches essentials only in the initial essay on ‘Rhythm and form,’ in which an important matter is treated with more fulness than precision or originality. The rest is agreeable padding from the author’s recent magazine articles. The book is well made, and has the merit, in a critical work, of being easy to read.”

+ =Review= 3:564 D 8 ’20 90w

“Professor Sirén is a typical modern student, who has travelled much, and has first-hand knowledge of many arts. In his more purely historical essays he does not, in the pursuit of facts, lose sight of underlying principles. The essay ‘On the importance of the antique to Donatello’ is actually marred by a too careless treatment of material facts, and by a strange misconception of the character of Gothic art.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:97 Jl 31 ’19 1200w

“We welcome Professor Sirén’s collection of essays, for, although they contain nothing that is very fresh in point of view, they breathe a reasonable spirit, and state the modern position with moderation and sense.”

+ − =Spec= 124:620 My 8 ’20 520w

“With the subject of line-drawing and rhythm, he is especially happy.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 360w

“He is not a lively writer, at least in our language; and his thought is so abstract that, dealing as it does with a subject so concrete and

## particular as art, it is often hard to follow. He is, by the present

condition of aesthetic thought, forced to use a number of general terms without defining them; we ourselves have to supply the definition as we read, and we may supply it wrong; but those who are really interested in the subject will find his essay [Rhythm and form] worth reading.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p211 Ap 1 ’20 1750w

=SITWELL, OSBERT.= Argonaut and juggernaut. *$1.50 Knopf 821

20–3704

This volume by one of the young soldier-poets of Great Britain opens with a preface poem “How shall we rise to greet the dawn?” written in November, 1918. The four parts of the volume are entitled: The Phœnix-feasters; Green-fly; Promenades; and War poems. In the war poems satire predominates.

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“Poems by one of the more notable exponents of the modern manner, who seems as yet to be uncertain both of his aim and method.”

+ − =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 80w

“Some will applaud Mr Sitwell’s political sentiments; others, when they read such things as ‘Sheep song,’ will be profoundly irritated. The intensity of their irritation will be the measure of Mr Sitwell’s success as a writer of satire. When we turn from Mr Sitwell’s satirical to what we may be permitted to call his ‘poetical’ poems, we are less certain in our appreciation and enjoyment.”

+ − =Ath= p1255 N 28 ’19 600w

“Mr Sitwell is thought by many, and doubtless considers himself, to be extremely wild and daring, when in reality he is merely a bad rider of his hobby. The only pieces in this volume in which he betrays genuine feeling are some of the vers libre efforts written in protest against the attitude of society towards the war.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 360w

“As a satirist, and he is nothing if not a satirist, he never is vivid; he nowhere bites or breaks. His abuse is oratorical in its plenitude, oratorical and round and blunt. He by no means has mastered the indirectness, the cut, the slant, the side-sweep, the poetry of satire.” M. V. D.

− =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w

“He is moved to write by unbelief in the ideals of other people rather than by the passionate force of ideals of his own. He is a sceptic, not a sufferer. His work proceeds less from his heart, than from his brain. It is a clever brain, however, and his satirical poems are harshly entertaining and will infuriate the right people. They may not kill Goliath, but at least they will annoy Goliath’s friends.” Robert Lynd

+ − =Nation [London]= 26:352 D 6 ’19 650w

“Mr Sitwell’s impressive title is about the only impressive thing in his book.” Clement Wood

− + =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 380w

+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 80w

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 300w

“There are passages in these pages which show that Mr Sitwell has embryonic poetic talent that may develop significantly, if he can get far enough away from the disturbing moods and reflections of war to give it free rein. He has the love of nature that is the poet’s best teacher. In ‘Argonaut and juggernaut’ Mr Sitwell is primarily not a poet, but a prophet. And his prophecy is full of flaming indignation and scorn.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 1000w

“When Captain Sitwell is not occupied with telling home truths he discloses an imaginative mind and a subtle sense of the value of words. Nor can his word-pictures fairly be criticised as rhetorical; each embodies an unobtrusive idea. Thus his ‘Sailor-song’ expresses with Elizabethan freshness the Elizabethan delight in the wonders of ocean and the life marvellous.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 280w

=SKELTON, OSCAR DOUGLAS.= Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor. (Chronicles of America ser.) il subs per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 971

20–3361

“Volume forty-nine of the series is about ‘The Canadian Dominion’ and is by Oscar D. Skelton, professor of political science at Queen’s university. The book takes up the story of Canada from where it was left off by G. M. Wrong in ‘The conquest of New France’ at about 1760 and continues it to Canada’s entry into the great war.”—N Y Times

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“The limitations are insignificant in comparison with the high intrinsic merit of the whole book. Its delightful literary form, together with its accuracy and suggestiveness, make it both the most readable and the most valuable of the general histories of the Canadian Dominion. The volume, in short, is a credit to Canadian scholarship.” C. D. Allin

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:350 Ja ’21 620w

“While thoroughly Canadian and more intensely patriotic than the self-styled scientific historians may favor, Mr Skelton is broad visioned, never provincial. To write impartially of Quebec Nationalists and Ontario Orangemen and of the language and separate school questions, required the restraint of a scholar.”

+ =Cath World= 112:392 D ’20 1100w

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 52:223 Ag ’20 40w

=SKILLMAN, WILLIS ROWLAND.= A. E. F. who they were, what they did, how they did it. il *$2 Jacobs 940.373

20–7445

“We all have hobbies,” says the author, and his is the collection of facts and figures. From his habit of noting down “bits of information about army organization, divisions, insignia, casualties, dates, awards of medals, and a dozen other subjects of interest to soldiers” (Foreword) grew this book, and its object is to “explain, in terms any civilian can understand, the system by which the American army accomplished its work in France.” Among its distinctive features are statistical tables, maps, charts, diagrams, collar insignia, officer’s insignia, chevrons and a large colored chart of the shoulder insignia of the United States army. The table of contents is: A soldier’s survey of the world war; America’s part in the world war; System of command; The American divisions; The branches of the service; Army honors and symbols; Reminiscences; Appendix; Index.

=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. Child’s book of modern stories. il *$3.50 Duffield

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Sixty-six stories by such authors as Louisa M. Alcott, Julia Darrow Cowles, Abbie Farwell Brown, Josephine Scribner Gates, Mary Stewart, Patten Beard, Thornton Burgess, and others. They are grouped as: Home tales; The story garden; Cheerful stories; and Tales and legends beautiful. There are eight pictures by Jessie Wilcox Smith.

+ =Booklist= 17:127 D ’20

“Filled with seventy or more of the best short stories for children that have been written in recent years.”

+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 100w

“The stories have been edited with tact and put into a style easy of comprehension by the simplest minds.”

+ =Lit D= p95 D 4 ’20 240w

“The pictures are characteristically charming.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 40w

=SKINNER, ADA MARIA, and SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE=, comps. and eds. Garnet story book. (Jewel ser.) *$1.75 (3c) Duffield

20–3194

For this collection the compilers have brought together “tales of cheer both old and new.” The collection opens with The good-natured bear, by Richard H. Horne, a story praised by Thackeray. The other stories are: Christmas wishes, by Louise Chollet; The man of snow, by Harriet Myrtle; Butterwops, by Edward A. Parry; Finikin and his golden pippins, by Madame De Chatelaine; The story of Fairyfoot, by Frances Browne; The snow-queen, by Hans Christian Andersen; The merry tale of the king and the cobbler, from Gammer Gurton’s Historie; The story of Merrymind, by Frances Browne.

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+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 170w

=SKINNER, CONSTANCE LINDSAY.= Adventurers of Oregon; a chronicle of the fur trade. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Tale univ. press 979.5

20–4768

“Constance Lindsay Skinner’s ‘Adventurers of Oregon’ describes the Lewis and Clark expedition and the cruise of the Tonquin, through which John Jacob Astor hoped to ‘control a mighty fur-trading system reaching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific ocean and on to China and India.’” (N Y Times) “The titles are: The river of the West; Lewis and Clark; The reign of the trapper; The Tonquin; Astor’s overlanders; Astoria under the Nor’westers, and The king of old Oregon. The period covered is from the beginnings of exploration to the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute in 1846, and the themes represented by the above chapter-heads are essentially two—discovery and exploration, and the fur-trade.” (Am Hist R)

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“This book is a delight. The author treats the dramatic scenes and incidents in the background of Oregon’s history, achieving therein a wholly unusual degree of literary perfection. Thus she has produced a narrative which, for adult readers, deserves to take very high rank in its special field.” Joseph Schafer

+ =Am Hist R= 26:117 O ’20 650w

“Occasionally it would seem that the effort to maintain a swiftly moving narrative has betrayed the author into sacrificing clarity. As a ‘Chronicle of the fur trade’ this work fulfills the purpose of the editors of the series in presenting an interesting account of a romantic phase of American development; historical perspective appears to have suffered in ‘Adventurers of Oregon.’” L. B. Shippee

+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:171 S ’20 660w

“The book has the true pioneering tang.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 30w

=SKINNER, ELEANOR LOUISE, and SKINNER, ADA MARIA.= Children’s plays. il *$1.25 Appleton 812

19–1207

The authors urge the use of dramatic material in school work and have designed these plays to that end. They say “The little plays in this book, planned primarily for class room reading lessons, may be used (1) for practice in oral reading, (2) for original dramatizations in language work, (3) for school entertainments.” Some of the plays are original, others are adaptations. Contents: Nick Bluster’s trick; Cicely and the bears; The happy beggar; Professor Frog’s lecture; Cock-Alu and Hen-Alie; Mother Autumn and North Wind; The one-eyed servant; Little rebels; Everyday gold; The village shoe maker; The faithful shepherd; A royal toy-mender; The new New year. There are pictures by Willy Pogany.

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“The simple, natural dialogue of these thirteen plays makes them excellent for reading and acting or for exercises in language work.”

+ =Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

=St Louis= 17:312 O ’19 50w

=SLATER, THOMAS.= Foundation of true morality. *$1.25 (9c) Benziger 171

20–12834

The author holds that man is not a mere physical machine but a moral agent, endowed with freedom to choose between good and evil. What is needed is a moral standard by which man can judge their actions. That this standard can be supplied by the Catholic conception of Christian morality rather than by the Protestant conception is the contention of the book. Contents: Man a moral agent; Legalism; Casuistry; Counsels and precepts; Sin; Grace.

=SLATTERY, JOHN T.= Dante. *$2 Kenedy 851

A course of lectures delivered before the student body of the New York state college for teachers in 1919 and 1920. The author treats of Dante as “Christianity’s greatest poet” and adopts for him Ruskin’s descriptive phrase “the central man of all the world.” There are five lectures: Dante and his time; Dante, the man; Dante’s “Inferno”; Dante’s “Purgatorio”; Dante’s “Paradiso.” There is a preface by John H. Finley.

=SLATTERY, MARGARET.=[2] Highway to leadership. *$1.50 Pilgrim press 174

20–19286

In a series of essays the author expounds all the qualities necessary for leadership and incidentally the necessity of leadership. In the first essay: “A leader—one who leads,” the illustrations of born leadership are taken from children’s playgrounds with the conclusion that the requirements are three: “some knowledge and the hunger for more, an abandon of self-effacing consecration to the purpose, and a real passion for the goal.” The other essays are: The eyes that see; The ears that hear; The heart that feels; The mind that interprets; The practice that prepares; The courage that faces facts; The patience that teaches; The will that persists; The confidence that dares dream.

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“In the clear convincing style which is usual with her, Miss Slattery gives the world another of her inspiring volumes.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 180w

=SLOANE, THOMAS O’CONOR.= Standard electrical dictionary; a complete manual of the science; with addition by Prof. A. E. Watson. il *$5 Henley 621.3

20–12131

To this 1920 edition a second part has been added to the first. “In this part all the recent advances in appliances, new developments and refinements in theory have been very fully treated. The second part includes a series of short treatises on a multitude of topics which have arisen in the short period since the last enlarged edition appeared. There are also a large number of what may be properly termed definitions, which are required because of the increased terminology of the science.” (Preface) The new section comprises 175 pages of text with new illustrations and diagrams.

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=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w

=SLOANE, WILLIAM MILLIGAN.= Balkans; a laboratory of history. 4th ed, rev and enl *$2.50 Abingdon press 949.6

20–14471

“The first edition of this work was issued a few months before the outbreak of the world war. Beginning with the fall of the Byzantine empire, the history of this section of Europe, where the blood of so many races have mingled that the author considers it an ethnological museum, the history is followed down to the opening of the year 1914. To make his story of the Balkans complete it was necessary for the author to revise it in the light of the last six years. Seven new chapters have been added. They make a concise and very broad sketch of the events leading up to the war, of the war, and of events up to and including the peace conference.”—Boston Transcript

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“The author transforms his pre-war volume so that it becomes one of the best books on the war that we have.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 880w

=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 20w

“In this difficult work he well maintains his reputation for fairness and impartiality as an historian.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 70w

=SLOSSON, EDWIN EMERY.= Easy lessons in Einstein. il *$1.35 Harcourt 530.1

20–8295

“A discussion of the more intelligible features of the theory of relativity.” (Sub-title) Dr Slosson, literary editor of the Independent, has attempted a simple explanation of the Einstein theories, making use of “such crude and absurd analogies as trains and elevators and projectiles flying through space and Coney island mirrors.” A paper by Dr Einstein on Time, space, and gravitation is reprinted from the London Times, and there is a bibliography of eight pages and an index. Parts of the book have appeared in the Independent.

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“He is to be congratulated on the enthusiasm he has brought to what must have been a difficult and fatiguing performance.”

+ =Ath= p618 N 5 ’20 260w

“The main points of the Einstein theory and the experiments leading to it are explained in an interesting, informal way so that those not trained in mathematical physics can grasp them.”

+ =Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20

“Slosson’s ‘Easy lessons in Einstein’ is a good attempt written in an easy style far above the breezy smartness of the Sunday supplements; it is trustworthy and throughout entertaining, if not always instructive. There is perhaps too much about the fourth dimension and somewhat too much striving ‘to loosen up,’ as he puts it, ‘our conventional ideas of the fixity of time and space.’” R: F. Deimel

+ − =Freeman= 1:422 Jl 14 ’20 1700w

=Ind= 102:371 Je 12 ’20 650w

“A book with which the absolute layman may amuse himself for a few hours.”

+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 60w

“If the reader will take the time to read this little book only as fast as he can really understand it—say a few pages at a time, with intervals of a day or more to let the ideas soak in, or to think them over—he will find this both stimulating and informing.” B. C. G.

+ =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 500w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p37 Ap ’20 40w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 5 ’20 650w

=SMALLWOOD, WILLIAM MARTIN, and others.= Biology for high schools, il *$1.40 Allyn 570

20–17589

“Specifically the book aims to do six things: (1) To teach the pupil to see accurately what he looks at and describe exactly what he sees. (2) To teach him to think clearly and to base his conclusions upon his facts. (3) To broaden his knowledge of his own body through the study of the structure and functions of other animals and plants. (4) To show him by the adaptations of plants and animals how he can adapt himself to the varying conditions of life. (5) To make him a good citizen through his knowledge of good food, good health and good living conditions. (6) To teach him how biology has helped human progress and welfare.” (Preface) The contents are in four parts: Animal biology; Plant biology; Human biology; General biology. There are numerous illustrations and an index.

=SMITH, CHARLES HENRY.=[2] Mennonites. $2.25 Mennonite bk. concern, Berne, Ind.

289.7

“The volume falls into two parts: the Mennonites in Europe, and in America. Beginning with the Anabaptists in Switzerland, and the indigenous movements of a similar character in Germany and the Netherlands, and their unjust and unwarranted identification by the authorities with the tragedy at Münster, the book leads to the systematizing of Anabaptist views by the Dutch ex-priest, Menno Simons, after whom the religion is named. The early scattered congregations in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Cleves-Julich, East and West Prussia, East Friesland, Hamburg, Holstein, Bavaria, Württemberg, Alsace-Lorraine and France, Moravia and Galicia, and their leaders all find their place. The story is one of martyrdom, division, confiscation, dispersion, but of abounding willingness to die for faith. The source for much of this is Thielman von Bracht’s ‘Martyr’s mirror,’ one of the monuments of Mennonite literature. The section devoted to the Mennonites in America is a reworking of Dr Smith’s earlier treatise on the ‘Mennonites in America.’ The final chapters of Dr Smith’s study are given over to special topics.”—Am Hist R

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“Dr Smith is to be complimented on the patience and skill which has enabled him to produce what is undoubtedly the most authoritative work on the Mennonites in our language. His impartiality in dealing with the present-day rival branches of the sect is also worthy of commendation.” E: Krehbiel

+ =Am Hist R= 26:310 Ja ’21 1500w

=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 80w

=SMITH, CHARLTON LYMAN.= Gus Harvey, the boy skipper of Cape Ann. il *$1.65 (6c) Jones, Marshall

20–14706

A story for boys. Gus Harvey is a New York boy adopted by the captain of a fishing vessel from Gloucester. In spite of his New York bringing up Gus is familiar with boats and he readily adapts himself to the life of Cape Ann, his new home. He wins a yacht race, learns to build a boat and with his chum salvages a wreck and captures a band of burglars. There is a glossary of marine terms.

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“Only for the boy who understands sailing and nautical terms. Nicely printed and illustrated.”

+ =Booklist= 17:124 D ’20

“The story has the quality of an old skipper’s talk.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w

=SMITH, CORINNA HAVEN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOSEPH LINDON SMITH), and HILL, CAROLINE R. (MRS WILLIAM HILL).= Rising above the ruins in France. il *$3.50 Putnam 914.4

20–13141

“Observations in the devastated regions of France, made since the armistice, by two American women who have devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the work for ‘the children of the frontier.’ By the use of pen and camera these women undertake to show us in America something of the destruction that the north of France has undergone and something of the brave spirit with which the population has sought to rebuild its devastated homes.”—R of Rs

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“The authors’ pictures of the re-awakening of life are simply and impressively sketched.”

+ =Ath= p645 N 12 ’20 160w

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Cath World= 112:693 F ’21 440w

“When they speak of conditions actually witnessed they speak with the natural authority of sincerity and lucidity. The book takes a

## particular value from the large number of photographs with which it is

enriched.”

+ − =Nation= 111:331 S 18 ’20 240w

“There is little of deliberate description, there are few adjectives, no one incident or visualization is dwelt on long. But the book is a glimpse of life and indomitable achievement—and that is an epic thing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 25 ’20 2100w

“It is no small praise of the narrative to say that, while by no means purely descriptive, it matches the pictures in striking or appealing presentation of fact.”

+ =No Am= 212:718 N ’20 980w

+ − =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w

“This incessant use of the historical present time gives their style an air of pretentious artifice; their frequent use of direct discourse gives it an air of fiction. So, except for the pictures and the appendix, they have succeeded in producing only an effect of make-believe in confusion.”

− + =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 200w

=R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 70w

“It would be misleading to say that this record of wonderful accomplishment is interesting throughout. Literary interest can hardly be achieved unless the principle of progression and climax be adhered to. Mrs Haven Smith, gives us a good many of those human touches which one always looks for in such a book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p736 N 11 ’20 420w

=SMITH, DAVID.= Life and letters of St Paul. *$6 Doran 220.92

20–9032

“The author’s point of view in this book is well expressed in the preface: ‘Controversy is a foolish and futile employment; and I have endeavored to portray St Paul simply as I have perceived him during long years of loving and delightful study of the sacred memorials of his life and labor, mentioning the views of others only as they served to illustrate and confirm my own. And I would fain hope that I have written nothing discourteous, nothing hurtful.’ One of the most attractive parts of this volume is the translation of the epistles into modern English. The text is accompanied by a running exposition which takes note of the thought and purpose of these rich writings, and sets them in their historical context in a way that the average mind can understand. On the other hand, the scholar will find a great deal of suggestion from the extensive footnotes, which discuss the deeper questions of Biblical learning on subjects that are not always familiar even to the general run of scholars.”—Bookm

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“The warmth of its style is likely to make it more acceptable as an aid to devotion than as a contribution to historical research.”

+ − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 150w

“This detailed, voluminous, and interesting life of Paul is by the author of ‘In the days of his flesh,’ and bears all the marks of unwearied scholarship, sympathetic interpretation, and exegetical insight that we have learned to associate with the name of Dr Smith.”

+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 450w

“Dr Smith has produced a work of genuine literature. He has a lucid style, a finely poised imagination, deep historical insight, a rich understanding of religious values, and a full grasp of the profoundest scholarship. He has thus written a volume that unquestionably takes rank with the great biographies of recent times. There is not a dull page.” O. L. Joseph

+ =Bookm= 51:303 My ’20 1200w

=N Y Times= p29 O 17 ’20 80w

“This book is disappointing. The notes indicate that the author possesses minute scholarship, but the text does not indicate that he possesses spiritual insight.”

− + =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 130w

+ =Spec= 124:317 Mr 6 ’20 170w

“It is designed for the general reader rather than for the scholar, and throughout it maintains an allusiveness to general literature and history which will make it specially attractive to a wide circle of readers.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p347 Je 3 ’20 700w

=SMITH, GEORGE GREGORY.= Ben Jonson. *$1.25 Macmillan

20–4866

“After many years Ben Jonson has been admitted to the sacred circle of English men of letters, that series of little critical biographies now numbering more than sixty names. In Mr Smith’s belated biography we have in his two opening chapters a recital of about all that is known of the circumstances of Jonson’s life, the rest of the book being given to a study of his literary work, with chapters on ‘literary conscience,’ the comedies, masques, tragedies and poems, and a final survey of his influence.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p10 F 7 ’20 1450w

“Mr Smith, in his entirely laudable anxiety to write unlike Swinburne, has written the greater part of his book with too much caution. The biography is all crowded into the first fifty pages and the remaining two hundred and fifty are left wholly free for criticism: the easiest arrangement, perhaps, but in this case not the best. It is only in the last two chapters, those on Jonson’s literary criticism and influence, that Professor Smith, himself an authority on sixteenth and seventeenth century poetical theory, comes into his own and does his author the fullest justice.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 110:206 F 14 ’20 1100w

“The new ‘Ben Jonson’ is generously written, but Mr Gregory Smith has kept Ben’s secret. It was, of course, impossible to quote much in the limits of space set by the conditions of the series; the more’s the pity that it came out in a series at all. The book is too big for it; it is so rich a harvest that one could wish the master of it had pulled down his barns and built greater; cancelled his contract, and made ‘Ben Jonson’ his magnum opus.”

+ =Nation [London]= 26:608 Ja 31 ’20 1950w

“Mr Smith is constantly on the defensive; he is often arrogant and peevish in his attitude towards other critics. Under his handling Jonson becomes not only dull but a source of dullness in other men, to wit in Mr Smith himself.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 23:342 Ag 18 ’20 500w

“Professor Smith has done full justice to Ben’s robust character without minimizing [his] grave faults. His plays are analysed with much ability, and their peculiar qualities are admirably explained and illustrated with reference to the theory upon which they were constructed. Insight and accuracy are the chief essentials in a short account of Ben Jonson, and Professor Smith possesses both.”

+ =Spec= 124:279 F 28 ’20 550w

“For the critical study in the Men of letters series which Mr Gregory Smith has just produced there is a place; it satisfies curiosity, it supplies many just observations, it provides valuable matter on the neglected masques; it only fails to remodel the image of Jonson which is settled in our minds.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p637 N 13 ’19 2100w

=SMITH, GORDON ARTHUR.= Pagan. *$1.75 Scribner

20–5580

“This is a collection of twelve short stories. In ‘The pagan,’ from which the book takes its title, there are three outstanding characters: Ferdinand Taillandy, son of Maxime Taillandy, a wealthy Parisian; his sister Marthe, and Peter Mason, a young American lawyer whose firm practiced on both sides of the Atlantic. In the ‘Feet of gold’ and ‘The end of the road’ the author draws further entertaining pictures of the same Ferdinand Taillandy—‘poet, pagan and wanderer on the face of the earth.’ The ‘City of light’ and ‘The bottom of the cup’ are pathetic tales of two young sisters, daughters of a widow of Evremont-sur-Seine, who, dazzled by the attractions of Paris, leaves home, only to return broken and disillusioned. ‘Tropic madness’ is decidedly humorous.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:246 Ap ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 700w

=SMITH, HENRY LOUIS.=[2] Your biggest job, school or business. *$1 Appleton 174

20–21351

These heart-to-heart talks with boys contain “Some words of counsel for red-blooded young Americans who are getting tired of school.” (Sub-title) The author’s object is to give the boy the necessary incentive to develop the will-power that will enable him to go thru with an irksome task for the sake of his future. The essays are: The American freight train; Quitting school for business; Grindstones: A study in tool-sharpening; A neglected art; The key to success in study; A widespread fallacy disproved; On getting rich; The cash value of book-learning; First lesson of the world war: Value of morale; A square deal for the home folks; College and university training; The home half of college preparation.

=SMITH, HERBERT ARTHUR.=[2] American Supreme court as an international tribunal. *$3.50 Oxford 341.6

20–16853

“This small volume essays to draw an analogy between the Supreme court of the United States, when sitting as a tribunal to try cases involving sovereign states, and any international court that may hereafter be established for such purpose. The author reviews the various cases before the Supreme court in which one or both of the litigants have been states of the union, stressing those cases in which the jurisdiction of the court has been challenged, either successfully or otherwise.”—N Y Evening Post

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+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 180w

“Professor Herbert Smith has compiled a very useful book, deserving close study at the present time.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 O 7 ’20 650w

=SMITH, JUSTIN HARVEY.= War with Mexico. 2v *$10 Macmillan 973.6

19–19605

“This exhaustive historical work may be regarded—although the author does not so claim—as a sequel to his previous work, ‘The annexation of Texas.’ Professor Smith devotes two opening chapters to the consideration of the social, economic and political condition of Mexico and the Mexicans, both before and since the revolt from Spanish rule, which made it an independent state under the rule of Iturbide. Next are considered the relations between Mexico and the United States prior to the beginning of the war and the attitude of both powers on the eve of war. The second volume is devoted chiefly to a description of the war itself, the siege of Chapultepec, the capture of the capital city, the naval operations and the final victory and the signing of a treaty. Professor Smith has sought his material for this exhaustive history in public documents and records of the two governments, in collections of historical societies, and public and private libraries, in manuscripts public and private ... and in personal recollections of men still living, who took part in the conflict.”—Boston Transcript

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“The reviewer is disappointed, because it seems to him that Dr Smith has not accomplished once for all the results that his immense labor and impressive grasp of the subject would have enabled him to do had he written with more regard to the necessary limitations of his readers. It would be a grievous error, however, to infer that he has not produced a notable book. One may not always agree with the author, but very few will be rash enough to neglect him.” E. C. Barker

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:729 Jl ’20 1400w

=Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20

“This book must be regarded as the definitive work on this important episode in the history of the expansion of our country.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 1050w

“A thoroughgoing and accurate narrative.”

+ =Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 40w

“Elaborate, but not very plausible.”

+ − =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 70w

“The many engagements before final victory are described with a

## particularity which proves the author to have acquired a general

understanding of military matters, with an appreciative grasp of the technique of the battlefield that make his narrative markedly convincing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:300 Je 6 ’20 1000w

“Professor Smith has labored with a keen eye for the human and picturesque qualities in his material. At the same time this is fundamentally the work of a painstaking scholar.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 100w

=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 180w

“Mr Smith has made a thorough examination of the available material, and has built it into a monumental work which supersedes all previous histories of the subject. His treatment of the military part is admirable. His book is fully documented, and in every way a credit to the American school of history.”

+ =Spec= 124:869 Je 26 ’20 350w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 70w

“The public is deeply indebted to Prof. Smith, who after years of patient delving in the vaults of historical societies, in local archives, in private collections, etc., has produced a scholarly and well thought-out history.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 8 ’20 600w

“The episodes are sufficiently distant to have enabled the passions and excitements to grow cold and for their comparative importance to be weighed and allocated in a just position in the history of the construction of the United States. The materials are adequate, even abundant, and the author with commendable industry has fortified his narrative with a wealth of corroborative annotation, and a formidable bibliography of his subject. He has, moreover, compiled a really useful index.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p350 Je 3 ’20 950w

=SMITH, LAURA ROUNTREE.= Like-to-do stories. il 55c Beckley-Cardy co.

A book of stories for boys and girls who are just beginning to read for themselves. Each story has its moral, as some of the titles will show: The little girl who liked to wash dishes; The little boy who liked to bring in wood and water; The little girl who couldn’t tell time; The little boy who was afraid of the dark; The little boy who liked to hang up his coat and hat; The little girl who did a kindness every-day.

=SMITH, LEWIS WORTHINGTON, and HATHAWAY, ESSE VIRGINIA.=[2] Skyline in English literature. il *$2 Appleton 820.9

20–20033

The object of the book is to present the story of English literature in continuity by eliminating minor details and minor writers and keeping the attention on the skyline. The authors hold that territorial expansion and intellectual expansion go together and that while English-speaking peoples hold the forefront of the world their literature is the greatest in the world. The book is intended for high school use and its contents are: The English language and the English people; The Anglo-Saxon beginning; The Norman-French expansion; The Englishman’s house in order; The Greco-Italian expansion; The world expansion; Spiritual and social idealism: the overthrowing of masters; Spiritual decadence: the return of the masters; The intellectual expansion; the age of enlightenment; The spiritual expansion; idealism and the rebirth of song; The beauty and fullness of life; The industrial expansion; artists, workers, thinkers; Recent and contemporary writers. There is a list of literary places in England with map; a chronology, a glossary, an index and illustrations.

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=Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 800w

=N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 30w

=SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL=, ed. Treasury of English prose. *$1.75 (3c) Houghton 820.8

20–5686

This collection of extracts from English prose begins with Chaucer in the fourteenth century. From the sixteenth century there are extracts from the “Book of common prayer,” from Sir Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare. Beginning in the seventeenth century with quotations from authorized versions of the Bible, there are, moreover, such names as Izaak Walton, Sir Thomas Browne, John Milton, Jeremy Taylor, and on through the eighteenth century, Swift, Addison, Johnson, Burke and Gibbon. Some of the more modern writers presented are Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Shelley, Keats, Carlyle, Emerson, Ruskin, Walter Pater, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, and George Santayana.

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=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“Not absolutely representative but includes some charming and little-known prose gems by several famous poets.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w

“Mr Smith has let his ear preside at every choosing, so that his volume is as rigorously cadenced as a collection of sonnets would be. Here with some omissions is the most perfect music which English prose has made.”

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 100w

“What Mr Pearsall Smith holds to be good prose is to us only a kind of good prose; the kind that is alembicated and, as we say, poetical. It is the prose of conceit, imagery, and eloquence which stands over against the prose of narration, argument, or satire. So that it would strike even one who had no critical opinion of English prose and very little reading in it as somewhat strange that there is not one single piece of narrative in all this book.”

+ − =Nation [London]= 26:398 D 13 ’19 2500w

“The contents are charmingly arranged and delightfully savory and brief.”

+ =New Repub= 22:161 Mr 31 ’20 100w

“His treasury is a book of beauty, a book to keep at one’s bed’s head, a book to dip into, to travel with, to reread.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 22:253 Ap 21 ’20 1500w

“The anthology as it stands is now anything but representative.... The selections from the Bible are entirely admirable. The passages from Jeremy Taylor and Dr Donne are excellently chosen, and Mr Pearsall Smith is to be congratulated upon his phrase from Traherne and upon having recollected that Chaucer was not only the first English poet. Indeed, much of the prose written by poets in this book will delight and surprise most of Mr Pearsall Smith’s readers.”

+ − =Spec= 124:50 Ja 10 ’20 1000w

=SMITH, MABELL SHIPPIE (CLARKE) (MRS JAMES RAVENEL SMITH).=[2] Maid of Orleans. *$1.25 Crowell

19–15636

“M. S. C. Smith has published a new volume of the old story of ‘The maid of Orleans,’ written particularly for girls, but by no means confined to such a constituency. To the length of nearly 300 pages the author relates the story of the girl and the voices that guided her in her efforts to free France from a foreign foe and set her rightful sovereign upon the throne.”—Springf’d Republican

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“A commendable piece of work.”

+ =Cath World= 111:254 My ’20 120w

+ =Outlook= 124:28 Ja 7 ’20 70w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 N 30 ’19 180w

=SMITH, NORA ARCHIBALD.= Christmas child, and other verse for children. il *$1.75 Houghton 811

20–19659

Verses for children reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Outlook, Youth’s Companion and other periodicals, including school and educational journals. There are about twenty poems on Christmas themes followed by others, with such titles as The fairy ring; Everybody’s baby; The answer of the flag; Learning to knit; Easter blossoms; The doll’s calendar.

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“Miss Smith has the gift of sprightly versification, and her experience as a kindergartner leads her to a knowledge of the theme and the treatment that will please boys and girls.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 100w

=SMITH, ONNIE WARREN.= Casting tackle and methods. il *$3 (4½c) Stewart & Kidd 799

20–16779

## Part 1, which is devoted to tackle, has chapters on The bait casting

rod; The casting reel; Terminal tackle; Casting lures; Housing the tackle; Repair kits and methods. Part 2, on Methods, has nine chapters: A first lesson in casting; Landing tools and how to use them; Fishing a wadeable stream; Fishing a river from a boat; Shore casting; Casting after dark; Lake casting from a boat; Spoons and how to cast them; Trolling for bass. There are fourteen illustrations. The author is angling editor of Outdoor Life, in the pages of which the chapters of the book originally appeared. He is also author of “Trout lore.”

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=Booklist= 17:103 D ’20

“A free and easy book full of authentic information given with the jocular assurance of the long-experienced angler.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 140w

“It is good reading; but it is meant primarily to be a guide to catching bass by casting, and such it excellently is. That it is well and heartily written is an added virtue.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 80w

=SMITH, WILLIAM WESLEY.= Pork-production. il *$3 Macmillan 636.4

20–12385

This volume of the Rural science series has been prepared by an associate professor of animal husbandry in Purdue university. “The material in the book has been drawn from three sources: from practical experience; experimental studies, particularly of feeding questions; and the results of research in the field of chemistry and biology.” (Preface) Subjects covered include handling and feeding of the herd, size of litters, forage crops, cereals, corn substitutes, cost of producing pork, marketing, judging, breeds and breeding. A chapter on The prevention of hog diseases is contributed by R. A. Craig. The volume is illustrated with eight plates and is indexed.

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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 50w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 60w

=SMYTH, ETHEL MARY.= Impressions that remained. 2v il *$10.50 Longmans

20–3070

Miss Ethel Smyth is an English musician and composer. In this book of memories she writes of her childhood and girlhood in a typical Victorian household and of her musical life in Germany, more

## particularly in Leipsig where she went as a student in 1877. The story

of her friendship with Elisabeth von Herzogenberg adds a dramatic element to the book.

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“Relentlessly truthful about herself, she refuses to say anything that could hurt others who still live. Her autobiography ends almost before her artistic career began; but even so it is a wonderfully fascinating record of a fierce, passionate and courageous life, told from the point of view of a woman who has reached a plane of rare serenity and detachment.” E: J. Dent

+ =Ath= p1294 D 5 ’19 1900w

“This book is a rich and irresistibly vivid panorama. The reader has the pleasure of it that he has of a portrait gallery whose subjects, interesting in themselves, are delineated with comprehension and an unerring instinct of reproduction.” Pitts Sanborn

+ =Dial= 68:637 My ’20 3300w

“No one can fail to be drawn by the record of that vanished Germany. The psychologist will study these fascinating pages for data of the artistic temperament, its force, its egotism, its limitations, of which it is not itself aware. But no one who begins the book can lay it aside until he reaches the end.”

+ =Review= 2:182 F 21 ’20 950w

“Of the earlier part we can say little. Despite the fact that the author has a nice turn for observation, an easy style, and a good memory, we feel that much of the material is of too private a nature. It is when the author goes to Germany that the chief interest in the book begins.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:sup14 N 29 ’19 900w

“She writes of herself for the most part as if she were writing of another person, with a detachment that is almost uncanny. And although music naturally plays a large part in the narrative, these memoirs can be read with the keenest interest by those to whom music is a sealed book.”

+ =Spec= 124:247 Ja 10 ’20 2000w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15a Ja 4 ’20 1600w (Reprinted from Ath and Observer [London])

“This is one of the most remarkable books of memoirs that has appeared in recent times. The intensity of the private life which she discloses, with something of Rousseau’s sensitiveness yet with a mixture of lively humour quite beyond his capacity, carries the reader away from the very outset. Without the descent into the abyss of the second volume there would have been matter enough for admiration in these witty pages; but it is that descent which gives the book a power of appeal which raises it far above the merely amusing and interesting.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 O 23 ’19 2350w

=SMYTHE, J. A.=[2] Lead, including lead pigments and the desilverisation of lead. il $1 Pitman 669.4

The author of this booklet in the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series assumes very little knowledge of chemistry and physics on the part of the reader and tells the story of lead from the time the ore is dug from the earth to its finished products. Contents: History of lead; Lead ores: their method of occurrence and mineral associates; The finding and mining of lead ore and the preparation of the ore for smelting; The chemical changes involved in smelting; Smelting in the ore-hearth; Smelting in the reverberatory furnace; Smelting in the blast furnace; Condensation of lead fume; Softening and desilverisation of work lead; Cupellation of alloys of silver and lead; Properties and uses of lead and its alloys; Compounds of lead—litharge and red lead; White lead and other lead pigments; Lead in medicine and lead poisoning; Index, map and illustrations.

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+ =Nature= 106:241 O 21 ’20 70w

=SNAITH, JOHN COLLIS.= Adventurous lady. *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–15066

Lady Elfreda Catkin was something of an imperious young lady. Her parents, owing to Lord Carabbas’, the father’s, impecuniosity, had decided on a wealthy marriage for her with the newly rich, new nobility. Lady Elfreda had decided on frustrating their plans. On the spur of a moment opportunity offers for an exchange of rôles between her and a poor shy little nursery governess. After a true comedy of errors the hoax comes to light with the result that little Miss Cass marries Lord Duckingfield and the now thoroughly emancipated Elfreda marries George Norris, grandson of the former butler of her ladyship’s grandfather and of a former ladies’ maid.

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“The adventures are very little adventures and dreadfully dull.” K. M.

− =Ath= p616 N 5 ’20 240w

“Gay, crisp comedy shot through with a thread of genial satire.”

+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“The adventures of Girlie Cass may not be morally significant to a universe in the throes of parturition, but they surely are jolly good fun, as Elfreda would say.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 1 ’20 520w

=Lit D= p95 O 23 ’20 1400w

“‘The adventurous lady’ is perhaps more nearly akin to the history of the delectable Araminta than to any other of Mr Snaith’s books—a social comedy, witty and amusing, light and sparkling as sunflecked foam. All this it is, and yet more—an admirable illustration of what a really good writer can do with a well-worn and somewhat trite plot.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 850w

“The tale is mildly amusing, but it is a pity that the author of ‘The sailor’ should think it worth while to write such a trifling farce.”

− + =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 50w

Reviewed by Katharine Perry

=Pub W= 98:659 S 18 ’20 290w

=Spec= 126:24 Ja 1 ’21 40w

“The story is obviously at variance with the class of work Mr Snaith has done heretofore. It is a sprightly tale, written to amuse.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 400w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p705 O 28 ’20 140w

=SNOWDEN, JAMES HENRY.= Truth about Christian science; the founder and the faith. $2.40 Presbyterian bd. 289.5

21–397

It is the object of the book to ascertain and state, as accurately and impartially and fairly as possible, the facts as to the founder and the faith of Christian science and to discriminate between the truth and error of the system. That it contains both is the author’s conviction. Contents: The subsoil of Christian science; Life of Mrs Mary Baker G. Eddy; Where did Mrs Eddy get her system of healing? “Science and health”: (1) the making of the book; (2) the contents of the book; Christian science teaching; The Christian science church; Mind healing and Christian science cures; The appeal of Christian science; Old truths newly emphasized; Index.

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“‘The truth about Christian science’ is for the layman. It may be heartily recommended.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 340w

“He has put together a very readable and useful account of the movement, together with a lucid examination of its doctrines, from the standpoint of an orthodox Christian theologist.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 300w

=SNOWDEN, JAMES HENRY.= Wonderful night. *$1.25 Macmillan 232

19–18544

“Egyptian history, old Greek and Roman, Persian, Phœnician, early Jewish, historic and prehistoric; all were preparation for the coming of Christ. Then came the first Christmas, the wonderful night. The writer of this version has undertaken to reconcile religion and science, to show that all thinking men could but have expected the thing which came to pass. It is an attempt to correlate the Christian story with ancient and modern history.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 600w

“If it must be done it could not be done in a more finished manner, with more attractive illustrations and illuminations.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 220w

=SODDY, FREDERICK.= Science and life. *$4 Dutton 504

(Eng ed 20–12133)

“Among the investigators of radioactive substances Professor Frederick Soddy shares with possibly half a dozen men a position of preeminence. To the general public he is best known through his readable little book on ‘Matter and energy’ in the Home university library.” (Freeman) ‘Science, and life’ is the outcome of Professor Soddy’s five years’ tenure of the chair of chemistry at Aberdeen; and the addresses, together with articles here collected with them, are devoted to two main themes—the vast significance and importance of radioactivity, and the need of more and better science teaching in school and university. The Evolution of matter is the subject of one of the chapters reprinted from the Aberdeen University Review. In appendices Professor Soddy criticizes the financial operations of the Carnegie trust for the universities of Scotland.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“It is surely a great merit in Mr Soddy’s book that it awakens in us once more the feeling of adventure.... Being brought back to realities, and finding that they are purely ‘material,’ we can discover hope of essential change only in a profound alteration in the material basis of life. Mr Soddy’s book is exciting because this is exactly what he promises.” J. W. N. S.

+ =Ath= p301 Mr 5 ’20 900w

“The book is of special interest to men of science, because it brings out their immense burden of responsibility. The chapters on radioactivity are beautifully written, and, coming from Prof. Soddy, are authoritative.” Ellwood Hendrick

+ =Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering= 23:545 S 15 ’20 680w

“Given his lack of metaphysical subtlety, Professor Soddy can not be expected to say anything particularly new or enlightening on the relation of religion and science. Indeed, the essay devoted to that theme is singularly pointless. On the other hand, Dr Soddy is refreshingly clear and sound in his discussions of the relation of science and democracy.” R. H. Lowie

+ − =Freeman= 2:20 S 15 ’20 1000w

=Int J Ethics= 31:114 O ’20 260w

“The whole story [of research in radio-activity] is told in a condensed form in several of the essays in this volume, and it could not be told better. Those who are interested in such subjects should obtain the book and read it.” W. A. T.

+ =Nature= 105:1 Mr 4 ’20 1550w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p65 Jl ’20 150w

=Review= 3:391 O 27 ’20 290w

“Professor Soddy, in urging the claims of the present and the future, seems unduly contemptuous of the past. He should leave it to undergraduates to make a bonfire of the ancient humanities, and should remember that the study of the past serves to guide the present and interpret the future.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:500 My 29 ’20 1150w

“Specially interesting to those who wish to know what light has been thrown upon the inmost secrets of matter in the last few years are the three papers entitled ‘Science and life,’ ‘The evolution of matter,’ and ‘The conception of the chemical element as enlarged by the study of radioactive change.’”

+ =Spec= 124:84 Jl 17 ’20 1050w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 90w

=SOME= British ballads.[2] il *$5 Dodd 821.08

(Eng ed 20–8033)

“Although this charming collection is entitled ‘British ballads,’ most of them are Scotch, but are none the worse for that. Indeed, we suppose it may be truly said that the best ballads are those of Scotland. There are here such old favourites as The lass of Lochroyan, Young Bekie, Chevy Chase, The twa corbies, Binnorie, and Get up and bar the door. There are eleven illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham.”—Sat R

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“Everybody knows the drawings in color with which Mr Rackham is wont to embellish the classics. This new volume is, if possible, more exquisite than those preceding. It is all that heart could wish.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 160w

“It may be that when parents see Rackham’s dramatic picturing of the ballad of ‘The twa corbies,’ they will have some misgivings as to its suitability for young folks. For boys and girls of fourteen there is much to be missed, if ‘Chevy Chase,’ and ‘The duke of Gordon’s daughter,’ and ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ are passed by because of nerves or the difficulties of dialect. Rackham is always decorative, delicate, and dramatic.”

+ − =Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 190w

“It is hard to decide which is the more attractive feature of this book—Mr Rackham’s paintings or the ballads themselves.”

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 26 ’20 500w

=Sat R= 128:615 D 27 ’19 70w

=SOMERVILLE, EDITH ANNA ŒNONE, and MARTIN, VIOLET FLORENCE (MARTIN ROSS, pseud.).= Mount Music. *$2 (*7s 6d) Longmans

20–2644

“‘Mount Music’ is a tale of Ireland in transition, beginning in the late ‘eighties’ and ending early in this century. The years in which the action takes place mark the passing of the old régime, incarnate in the person of Major Richard Talbot-Lowry, a genial, improvident, dashing, and artless sportsman. And the situation is complicated for him by the fact that his estate marches with that of a young kinsman, a Roman Catholic and a home ruler, the playmate, and in time the lover, of Dick’s daughter Christian. Larry Coppinger, the young home ruler, was ‘in tune with all the world’; and if Christian yielded to the wishes of her father when he was broken in health, she had personally no fear of a mixed marriage. They are both attractive and generous young people, but the finest portrait is that of Francis Mangan, the ‘big doctor like an elephant in his hugeness and suppleness, his dangerousness and his gentleness.’ His relations to his father confessor and his family, his social ambitions and real benevolence, make a wonderful amalgam.”—Spec

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“An Irish story, charming and wise and hard to classify because it is such a real book.” R. M. Underhill

+ =Bookm= 51:444 Je ’20 20w

“Her Irish characters are every whit as entertaining, and presumably as truthful as those of Mr Birmingham himself. There are none of the stereotyped good and evil persons of modern fiction here. Everyone is taken as he or she is, and Miss Somerville wastes no valuable time in moralizing over the foibles of her characters. A good story, excellently told.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 500w

“It is hard—nay, it is impossible—for an alien to write sympathetically or truthfully of things Catholic, especially if there be question of Catholic Ireland.”

− =Cath World= 111:410 Je ’20 150w

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w

“Alike in description, characterization, and dialogue preserves that unerring felicity of phrase, wide range of sympathy, and intrepid humour which were first exhibited in ‘An Irish cousin.’”

+ =Spec= 123:898 D 27 ’19 700w

“The authors have written many pleasanter books and many that will be more popular, but their genius has never been more unmistakable than in this picture of the ‘big doctor,’ so sordid and vulgar and crafty and with something so big in him.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p766 D 18 ’19 1100w

=SONNICHSEN, ALBERT.= Consumers’ coöperation. *$1.75 Macmillan 334

19–16460

“John Graham Brooks gives a brief introduction to this volume. The author gives a brief review of the history and explanation of the cooperative movement, developed extensively throughout Europe during the war and now being adopted to some extent in the United States, especially in the middle western and western sections. He asserts it to be the alternative, not an antidote, to bolshevism. The growing importance of the procedure is illustrated by statistics. Its object, the author shows, is to reorganize industry on a collective basis from the point of view of the consumer; to create a consumers’ industrial democracy. He points out that it proceeds by action, rather than by talk.”—Springf’d Republican

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“The value of the book consists in its giving the most adequate exposition of consumers’ coöperation yet given in this country,—a comprehensive story of the movement, the fullest in later years, and interesting suggestions as to future achievement.” E. P. Harris

+ =Am Econ R= 10:169 Mr ’20 450w

“The book is well written and is a clear exposition of consumer’s co-operation.” L. E. Hagerty

+ =Am J Soc= 26:371 N ’20 360w

“Students of the coöperative movement will find some useful information, lucidly set forth.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:363 My ’20 70w

+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20

“Informing and of general interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 30 ’20 450w

“Of singular interest in this book is the full description which it gives of the history of cooperation in the United States and its present status. We cannot, however, agree with the author in his interpretation of success and failure even though we take his statements of fact as accurate.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 80w

=SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON.= Letters; with a chapter of biography. *$5 Macmillan

(Eng ed 20–13569)

“It has been said that the death, in action, of Charles Hamilton Sorley constituted the greatest loss of the war to English literature. There may be some, perhaps, who will hardly commit themselves to this; but none will be so foolish as to deny that more than sufficient interest in his personality was kindled by the publication, in 1916, of his ‘Marlborough and other poems’ to justify the present appearance of this volume. These letters, edited by his parents with admirable restraint, form an invaluable commentary on the poems themselves. The letters really divide themselves into three groups: those written while at school at Marlborough; those while staying (and studying) in Germany, first at Shwerin in Mecklenburg and then at the University of Jena; and, lastly, those while in the army at home and in France.”—Sat R

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“We do not receive many such gifts as this wonderful book; the authentic voice of those lost legions is seldom heard.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p136 Ja 30 ’20 2500w

“His published book of poems is not alone evidence of his literary ability. His letters reveal exceptional powers and proclaim the man that might have been.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Mr 27 ’20 1300w

“One approaches them prepared to find little beyond promise—a hint of something fine cut down before fulfillment; they turn out to be very much more than mere promise; they are in themselves achievement, the expression of a rarely independent mind, humorous, rich and wise far beyond its years.” R. L.

+ =New Repub= 23:231 Jl 21 ’20 1250w

“Charles Sorley was a born letter-writer. As we read we feel ourselves to be wandering pleasantly among the green places of earth, with a brilliantly discursive boy at our side.”

+ =Sat R= 129:281 Mr 20 ’20 1000w

“They necessarily lose something of freshness and vividness when they are put together in a book, but they are full of amusing phrases and interesting comments.”

+ =Spec= 124:351 Mr 13 ’20 1400w

“Quite apart from any sentimental associations, it is a more entertaining book than the average, and it has been edited by Professor and Mrs Sorley with a perfect restraint which has been sadly lacking in certain other books of this kind.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p726 D 11 ’19 1050w

=SOTHERN, JOHN WILLIAM MAJOR.=[2] Oil fuel burning in marine practice. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 621.12

“A manual of practical instruction in oil fuel burning: contains full and copiously illustrated descriptions of all modern oil fuel burning systems, together with exhaustive practical information relating to same; intended for the use of naval and mercantile marine engineer officers, etc.” (Sub-title) The book is in six sections; The properties and combustion of fuel oil; Fuel oil tests; Description of oil fuel fittings; Pressure systems of oil fuel burning; Faults in oil fuel burning; General notes on oil fuel burning. There are 102 diagrams and other illustrations. The author is principal of Sothern’s Marine engineering college, Glasgow, and member of the Institute of marine engineers, London, and of other engineering societies.

=SOUTHARD, ELMER ERNEST.= Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems. (Case history ser. Boston State hospital, Psychopathic dept.) il $10 Leonard 616.8

20–2508

“A comprehensive volume setting forth the conclusions of medical experts in a field which has recently undergone remarkable development is Dr E. E. Southard’s ‘Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems.’ The data are presented in 589 case histories from the war literature—largely French and German—of the years 1914–1918, from these data Dr Southard draws about 70 pages of conclusions. The book has a bibliography by Dr Norman Fenton and an introduction by Prof. Charles K. Mills of the University of Pennsylvania.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 130w

“Primarily of value to physicians and army surgeons, the book is interesting even to the layman in its dramatic accounts of the soldiers who were victims of shell-shock.”

+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 110w

“Dr Southard presents his ideas not only with the thoroughness of the medical expert and scholar but with a certain humor and pungency, general literary culture and full appreciation of the relations of the subject to military service, and, incidentally, to everyday life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 350w

“The book will stand as a monument to a man of many talents. Southard the scholar would not object to the statement that his book is as much a part of history as of medicine.” A. Myerson, M. D.

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 190w

=SPADONI, ADRIANA.= Swing of the pendulum. *$1.90 (1c) Boni & Liveright

20–774

Opening in San Francisco and ending in New York, this long novel tells the story of a woman’s life from youth to the beginning of middle age. The swing of the pendulum carries her from an unfortunate early marriage thru a passionate love affair with a man who is already bound by wife and child, to a safe and settled union based on mutual regard and need. Jean Norris graduates from the University of California, turns her back on teaching as a profession, enters library work, marries Franklin Herrick, follows Journalism, discovers the settlement movement, comes to New York as a social worker, plunges into civic reform, loves and loses Gregory Allen, forsakes her work to return to San Francisco, comes back and takes it up again, and after many emotional reactions marries her co-worker, Jerome Stuart.

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“There is a good deal of fine characterization in this book; the dialogue is extraordinarily natural. But the prevailing atmosphere is sultry with sex; the middle-aged reader, at least, may find the performance as a whole both strained and wearisome.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 240w

“This novel cannot be commended as a work of art. The story does not grip, several of its chapters are so episodic that they might be suppressed without loss, and the male characters are not men, but marionettes.”

− =Cath World= 111:700 Ag ’20 190w

“To hold the serious attention of serious readers through nearly five hundred pages argues at once a kinship with the wealthy mind of the true novelist. And such a kinship Miss Spadoni undoubtedly possesses.”

+ − =Nation= 110:208 F 14 ’20 300w

“Miss Spadoni’s imagination sends forth into a real, three-dimensioned world a troop of pale characters cursed with congenital indistinctness doomed from birth to wander unrecognisably in the fog of a common origin.” R. L.

− =New Repub= 23:209 Jl 14 ’20 500w

“It is sincerely conceived and written, it shows grasp of character and its development, and it unfolds its story interestingly. It has also its distinct crudities, technically and ethically. Like others of its numerous kind, its prolonged emphasis upon sex will condemn it for a large body of readers who will feel that it gives a distorted and unhealthy view of life.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 600w

“Any sincere study of ‘the woman alone’—to use Brieux’s phrase—is bound to be interesting, bound, indeed, to have a certain amount of value. In ‘The swing of the pendulum’ there is much that is crude, but there is real thought, real study and some vividness.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 750w

“Miss Spadoni has done some notable work in the past. Some of her short stories were of men and women, futile, and sordid, but she cut down beneath the events of their lives to the poetry of life. She has not, in ‘The swing of the pendulum’ kept the pace which she set herself in those tales.” Lucy Huffaker

+ − =Pub W= 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 700w

“There are evidences of cuts which in places make for uncertainty of delineation—the only blemish of an otherwise almost perfect work of its kind.”

+ − =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 150w

=SPARGO, JOHN.= “Greatest failure in all history.” *$2.50 (2c) Harper 947

20–14005

In this “critical examination of the actual workings of bolshevism in Russia” (Sub-title) the author claims to have assembled evidence which “must compel every honest believer in freedom and democracy to condemn bolshevism as a vicious and dangerous form of reaction, subversive of every form of progress and every agency of civilization and enlightenment,” and to show it up as “the curse which during less than thirty months has afflicted unhappy Russia with greater ills than fifty years of czarism.” (Preface) Contents: Why have the bolsheviki retained power? The soviets; The soviets under the bolsheviki; The undemocratic soviet state; The peasants and the land; The bolsheviki and the peasants; The red terror; Industry under soviet control; The nationalization of industry (I-II); Freedom of press and assembly: “The dictatorship of the proletariat”; State communism and labor conscription; Let the verdict be rendered; Documents; Index.

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“Although most of the evidence carries its own weight the disinterested reader will wish in many cases for some critical evaluation of authorities cited.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20

“Mr Spargo is a Socialist, and it is because he considers the doctrines of Lenin and his followers a ‘grotesque travesty of Marx’s teachings,’ and a blow to socialism, and the arch enemy of all democracy, political, and industrial, that he exposes it as it is. This is the great merit of the book. It compels the reader to look at bolshevism as it is.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 680w

“His latest volume attains a level of even greater detachment and cool judgment than its predecessors. The first uprush of hot revulsion of feeling against a false and violent philosophy, masked in the forms of the author’s own cause, has passed. Attacks upon the personal characters of bolshevist leaders are practically absent. The argument gains greatly in strength from this avoidance of personal invective.” M. W. Davis

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 S 25 ’20 780w

“Mr Spargo’s book is a stern book, but a just one. It was much needed, and it is especially timely now.” W: C. Redfield

+ =N Y Times= p6 Ag 8 ’20 2650w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 80w

=SPARGO, JOHN.= Russia as an American problem. *$2.25 (2c) Harper 947

20–3715

The author is a sworn enemy of Bolshevist rule and thinks that Russia is not ready for anything like a socialist state, lacking industrial development as she does. “At present she needs capital and capitalist enterprise.” This makes Russia an American problem and “there should be a very clear recognition, alike by the government and the people of the United States, of the great and far-reaching importance of securing for this country a very large share in the immense volume of trade which Russia’s recovery and economic reconstruction must inevitably produce.” Contents: Russia as an American problem; Russia and western civilization: Russia’s subjection to Germany; Japan as Germany’s successor; Japan and Siberia; Russia’s needs and resources; Postscriptum; extensive appendices and an index.

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+ =Booklist= 16:276 My ’20

=Lit D= p95 My 1 ’20 1400w

“The ultimate political advantage for the world of a Russia free from economic vassalage to militaristic neighbors is obvious, but Mr Spargo’s case would be equally strong if he did not magnify the danger of Russia’s position; for whatever may be the reality of Japan’s menace in Siberia the threat from Germany to European Russia or of a German-Japanese alliance belongs for the present in the realm of imagination.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ − =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 2000w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ap 10 ’20 1250w

“Mr Spargo’s study is vitally interesting and illuminating, and it contains a wealth of precise information which will be priceless to business men in many lines when the time comes for meeting German commercial rivalry in her new Mitteleuropa.” J: Corbin

+ =N Y Times= 25:127 Mr 21 ’20 1600w

“Vital and patriotic book.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 9 ’20 620w

Reviewed by Reed Lewis

=Survey= 44:51 Ap 3 ’20 200w

=SPEARS, RAYMOND SMILEY.= River prophet. il *$1.50 (1c) Doubleday

20–10310

A story of the “Old Mississip” and of the vagrant population—shanty boaters, pot hunters, river pirates—that lives upon its broad waters. Parson Elijah Rasba, from the mountains, floats down the Tug river to the Big Sandy, down the Big Sandy to the Ohio, down the Ohio and out onto the great river, where he exclaims “If this is the Mississippi what must the Jordan be!” Parson Elijah is seeking a lost soul, Jock Drones, whose mammy wants him back in the mountains, and so he joins the motley throng that goes “dropping down” the lower river. Among the other characters are Nelia Carline, who has left her husband, Gus Carline, the husband in pursuit of her, Lester Terabon, a newspaper man in search of copy, Mame Coape of the many divorces, Buck the river gambler, and Jock Drones, the lost soul who turns back to his mammy.

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+ |=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

=SPENCE, LEWIS.= Legends and romances of Spain. il *$6.50 Stokes 863

20–26986

The literature of the romantic period in Spain treated by a folk-lorist, who says, “Since the days of Southey the romantic literature of Spain has not received from English writers and critics the amount of study and attention it undoubtedly deserves.... I have made an earnest endeavour to provide English readers with a conspectus of Spanish romantic literature as expressed in its cantares de gesta, its chivalric novels, its romanceros or ballads, and some of its lighter aspects. The reader will find full accounts and summaries of all the more important works under each of these heads, many of which have never before been described in English.” (Preface) Among the chapters are: The sources of Spanish romance; “Amadis de Gaul”; Catalonian romances; Moorish romances of Spain; Tales of Spanish magic and sorcery; Humorous romances of Spain. There are illustrations and a brief bibliography.

* * * * *

“It is an honest attempt to interest the general reader in a delightful department of literature. A book of this sort is in special need of an index, especially as there are no detailed ‘Contents,’ only general chapter-headings. But though there is a useful short bibliography, there is no index at all.” G: Saintsbury

+ − =Ath= p516 O 15 ’20 900w

+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

=Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 60w

“Extremely readable.”

+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 60w

“The attractive page, the good print, the popular treatment, the fine coloured illustrations, render it exactly suitable for a present to an intelligent youth of either sex, while the accounts and summaries of all the important works under the various headings provide a real fund of instructive information.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 100w

“‘Legends and romances of Spain’ is not only a story book. There is a great deal of information in it and some real research. It is not quite up to date, perhaps.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p833 D 9 ’20 660w

=SPENCE, THOMAS, and others.= Pioneers of land reform. *$1.50 Knopf 333

This book is one of the series of economic reprints of the famous Bohn libraries. It contains an introduction by M. Beer, characterizing and comparing the three essays. The essays are: The real rights of man, by Thomas Spence; The right of property in land, by William Ogilive; and Agrarian justice, by Thomas Paine.

* * * * *

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Mr 25 ’20 1200w

=SPENDER, HAROLD.= Prime minister. il *$4 Doran

20–22843

In writing this biography the author has drawn upon “the memories of twenty-seven years of unbroken friendship” and in summing up the characteristics of his friend he says: “It is this combination of the slow qualities, with the swift—of judgment with daring, of mercy with rigour, of slow reflection with swift attack, of the zeal of the Cambrian with the shrewdness of the Fleming—that marks him off from so many of his race.” The first thirteen chapters are devoted to Lloyd George’s childhood and youth and earlier career up to the beginning of the war and the rest of the contents is: A war man (1914–1915); East or west? (1915); Serbia (1915): Munitions (1915): The new ministry of munitions; Premiership (1916); The saving of Italy; The Versailles council; Victory; The peace conference; The new world; The man; Highways and byways; Through foreign eyes. There are illustrations, appendices and an index.

* * * * *

“This record has the force of an autobiography rather than of a detached appraisal.”

+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20

Reviewed by D: J. Hill

+ =Bookm= 52:163 O ’20 1800w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 1800w

“The book is pitched in a high dithyrambic key which is too laboriously sustained to be convincing and at last becomes exasperating. The literary frills are, moreover, a trifle cheap and shabby. Either the whole thing is the most flagrant and therefore self-defeating sort of pamphleteering or Mr Spender’s once robust literary sense is suffering a sad decline.” R: Roberts

− =Freeman= 1:571 Ag 25 ’20 1650w

“Mr Spender’s portrait of the Prime Minister can claim in one respect only to be a faithful one. It is Mr Lloyd George as he appears to himself—not to his Maker. Not merely by false interpretation of events but by false attribution of qualities and acquirements Mr Spender fabricates his hero.” J. A. Hobson

− =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 1400w

“It has none of the detached judgment of a historical appraisal of a completed career. Instead it has the militant interest of a brief presented in behalf of one of the most brilliant statesmen of modern times. It is not biography in the highest form of that art nor is it great literature. But Mr Spender’s work is not cheapened or vitiated by unseeing eulogy of his subject.” W: L. Chenery

+ =N Y Times= 25:3 Je 27 ’20 3550w

“Mr Spender knows no discrimination in his eulogy: whatever his hero has done is not only right but so conspicuously right that it needs neither apology nor explanation. The best we can honestly say of ‘The prime minister’ is that it will serve as a quarry from which some future biographer may draw useful materials.”

− + =Spec= 124:427 Mr 27 ’20 750w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 800w

“Much the most satisfactory part of the book is that which describes Mr Lloyd George’s birth and upbringing, his early political

## activities, his entry into Parliament, and the brilliant fighting

years in which he marked himself out as a certain minister of the crown. The history of his career as a minister down to the outbreak of war is vague and scrappy and generally inadequate.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 350w

=SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH (PRESCOTT) (MRS RICHARD S. SPOFFORD).= Elder’s people. il *$1.75 (2c) Houghton

20–5405

Through these stories of old New England we look into the hearts of the country people, hear their gossip, learn to know their homely religion, their superstitions, see the struggles they have with their baser selves and glimpse their higher natures. We also learn to love the sturdy souls that recur in all the stories and embody the best that is in them all—Elder Perry, Old Steve, Miss Mahala, and others. The stories are: The deacon’s whistle; A change of heart; A rural telephone; The step-father; John-a-dreams; Miss Mahala’s miracle; An old fiddler; The blessing called peace; Father James; The impossible choice; A village dressmaker; Miss Mahala’s will; A life in a night; Miss Mahala and Johnny.

* * * * *

“Undramatic, but interesting.”

+ =Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20

+ =Lit D= p102 O 23 ’20 1200w

“Mrs Spofford is not by any means a great craftsman, her limitations are quite evident, but within her power—and she is never unduly anxious to achieve what is beyond her—she provides some interesting and entertaining bits of fiction.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 10 ’20 480w

“The series of short stories which makes up this chronicle contains nothing particularly new or striking, but the tales have quite a good deal of verisimilitude, and some of the characters are likable.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 280w

=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w

“Mrs Spofford has finely and strongly delineated a number of choice spirits here whom one will not easily forget. She has also incorporated much of the quiet humor of this type of people, and, all in all, has presented here not an especially great book but a very interesting one.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 250w

=SPRING RICE, SIR CECIL ARTHUR.= Poems. *$3 Longmans 821

20–17907

“Mr Bernard Holland reminds us in his preface that the late ambassador to the United States published two books in his lifetime, a book of verse with interludes in poetic prose ‘adapted from the Persian’ and a prose version of a Persian love tale with a veiled mystical meaning. Besides the Persian sonnets this volume contains ‘In memoriam, A. C. M. L.,’ and a number of miscellaneous poems.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“His poems are like his personality and please us by some charm which is not quite analysable. They are strangely different from the work of most men of action. There are only a few poems in this book which are absolutely bad, but, on the other hand, there is probably none which is not marked by some flaw.”

+ − =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 850w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 720w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup O 14 ’20)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 90w

“They are true poetry. The volume may not add one to the list of great English sonnets; but the beauty and the sincerity of these claim attention.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 720w

=SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER).= Cornelli; tr. by Elisabeth P. Stork. (Stories all children love ser.) il *$1.50 (3½c) Lippincott

20–17408

In his introduction to this story for children Charles Wharton Stork regrets that its author should be known for one of her books only, altho that one is the justly popular “Heidi.” In the present story, he thinks “we find a deeper treatment of character, combined with equal spirit and humor of a different kind.” It is the story of a happy-hearted little Swiss girl who is changed into a sullen, morose and unattractive child through the misunderstanding of two women in whose care her father leaves her. A woman of different type, the mother of a family of four, finds the secret of Cornelli’s unhappiness and brings back the old sunny disposition.

* * * * *

“There is a breath of the mountain freshness which suggests ‘Heidi.’ The translation of the children’s speeches into formal English gives them sometimes a rather stilted effect.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21

=SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER).= Toni, the little wood-carver; tr. by Helen B. Dole. il *$1 (9c) Crowell

20–15071

From earliest childhood Toni had carved animals out of wood and his dearest ambition is to be a wood-carver. But the cost of instruction is beyond his mother’s means and he is sent up into the mountains to herd the farmer’s cows. Here, overcome by the loneliness, he breaks down and falls into a lethargy from which nothing arouses him. He is taken to a great sanitarium where he finally recovers and finds a good friend who provides the money for the desired training.

* * * * *

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 90w

=SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.).= Birds, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821

(Eng ed A20–244)

Birds, the first poem of this collection is based on the thought that the birds are older than man and that in the days of his infancy they built their nests in the self-same way and with the same perfection they do today. The other poems are: Processes of thought, Airship over suburb, Harlequin, Winter nightfall, Two songs, and A far place.

* * * * *

“‘The birds’ is an interesting poem full of felicitous things. But it seems somehow to lack intensity. The three poems called ‘Processes of thought’ are naturally more personal, more intimately felt; for they are a record of introspection. In these we seem to be getting nearer our ideal of what the lyric inspired by science or philosophy should be like.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p783 Ag 22 ’19 1000w

“His nature minutæ, his tenderness, his color are Wordsworthian, with a drama, a music, a diamond-cut-diamond quality, as well as a quality of the noblest oratory, that the old bard never knew.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 280w

“The poem after which the collection takes its name has a common idea but one which Mr Squire expresses with uncommon vigor and suggestion. The advantage of Mr Squire over the average American poet of similar gifts is his ability to express sentiment without sentimentalizing the mood.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 1500w

“The difficulty with his poetry, for there is a difficulty—lies in the unfortunate fact, that despite the obvious care he lavishes upon it, it is too lax, too impersonal. Like everyone else who has something new to say, Mr Squire has discovered that a new idea depends on a new form of utterance being found to fit it. It is only a pity that he has so few new ideas, and that he is content instead with writing poems in which neither the idea—nor the utterance—is of the slightest importance.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:284 D 1 ’20 900w

“His head is clearer than his poetry is fine; he is sober, and he has a vein of reflection not wholly resembling other men’s, but the strength that he has displayed rather than implied, and his metaphors, of which he apparently is proud, are painfully overdeveloped.”

− + =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w

“The writing of verse is only one of Mr Squire’s innumerable

## activities, and yet he is a poet of no small talent. Unlike most of

his brother Georgians, he is at his best when he is most metaphysical. At his best he is fantastically powerful; at his worst he is florid and bombastic. The present volume shows him more in the latter mood.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 180w

“Mr Squire in his present volume has lost none of that quiet controlled distinction which was always his; but he seems to have got rid of the rather hard, metallic note which was noticeable in some of his former work. The most remarkable poem of the book is called ‘A far place.’ To us it seems one of the most original and absolutely successful and complete poems that Mr Squire has ever written.”

+ =Spec= 123:376 S 20 ’19 620w

“This little book is not merely a joy in itself and additional to what is now a considerable body of work, but extremely rich in promise.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p409 Jl 31 ’19 980w

=SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.).= Books in general. (2nd ser.) *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 824

20–16289

This is the second series of short essays, reviews and squibs on books and writers, collected from weekly contributions to the New Statesman. They are brilliant, witty and full of originality. Some of the topics are: The descendants of Shakespeare; Scientific management for Pegasus; The inferior poems of Keats; One’s favourite author defined; Shelley’s letters; The essay in America; The humours of hymnology; Dialect in literature; Verhaeren; On submitting manuscripts; Rupert Brooke in retrospect.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

“Even more interesting than technical success, in this sort of thing, is the quality of mind we see at work. Mr Squire has an admirable sanity.” K. F. Gerould

+ =Bookm= 52:263 N ’20 780w

“Mr Squire’s style is distinctly conversational. The fluent grace of such table-talk, however, neatly disposes of the adage that all men talk in prose.”

+ =Dial= 69:665 D ’20 70w

“Somehow the sense of leisure in ‘Books in general’ is not richly filled; the notations are too fluent, the writing lacks spring, and more often than not it lacks the effect of enjoyment. Scarcely one of his papers can be read without expectancy. But the promise is seldom fulfilled.” C. M. R.

− =Freeman= 2:382 D 29 ’20 210w

“The comments on books, politics and things in general are thoughtful, amusing and suggestive, worth reading and thinking about.”

+ =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 320w

“They are informative, witty, often merely playful. Critical acumen is shown at times, but more often the evident purpose of the papers is to amuse.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 8 ’20 550w

“Mr Squire mentions books and publications from this country only for the purpose of jeering at them; it is gently done, but still a jeer. ‘Books in general,’ however, includes such pleasing essays ... that most of us will forgive ‘Solomon Eagle’ for tweaking a feather or two of the American eagle’s tail.” E. L. Pearson

+ − =Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 180w

Reviewed by P. U. Kellogg

+ =Survey= 45:27 O 2 ’20 680w

=STARLING, ERNEST HENRY.= Feeding of nations. *$1.90 (*5s) Longmans 338.1

20–666

“This small book of one hundred forty-five pages contains a vast store of information concerning the principles of human nutrition and the application of these principles to the problem of feeding the community in times of peace and war.” (N Y Evening Post) “Dr Starling was chairman of the Food committee of the Royal society which took up the study of the problem of feeding the nation before the government realized that there was a problem, and afterwards scientific adviser to the ministry of food.” (Survey)

* * * * *

“An extremely able and attractive presentation of a difficult subject.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 500w

+ =Survey= 43:656 F 28 ’20 1050w

=STEARNS, HAROLD EDMUND.= Liberalism in America: its origin, its temporary collapse, its future. *$1.75 (2½c) Boni & Liveright 321.8

20–1878

“The core of liberal philosophy” writes the author, “is respect for the individual and his freedom of conscience and opinion.” To trace the foundations of this philosophy in America and to account for its complete break-down during the war is the main purpose of this book. The ten chapter titles are: What liberalism is; The English heritage and the American development; American liberalism to the eve of the war; The emotional breakdown before warhysteria; Timidity and the seductions of office or career; President Wilson, the technique of liberal failure; Political symbolism and the mob; Débâcle of pragmatism; Leadership; The future. A bibliography of two pages follows. The author was formerly associate editor of the Dial.

* * * * *

“His plea for tolerance is marked by intolerance, for good-nature with ungenerosity in weighing the motives of others, for nonpartisanship and detachment with evident animus and one-sided advocacy rather than fairness and breadth of vision. Hence the value of the work as a critique of American liberalism is very seriously impaired for the general reader and the serious student.” C. E. Merriam

− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:511 Ag ’20 520w

“While one cannot altogether agree with the conclusions of the author of this extremely readable exposition of liberalism, the arguments are in most cases clear, and fairly presented.”

+ − =Bookm= 52:173 O ’20 200w

“But for all the flat contradictions with which the book seems to abound, it is interesting for the variety of subjects of current interest it touches notwithstanding the author does not seem to have completely assimilated these—as, indeed, who has? One thing that can be said about the book in general is that it is liberal.” W. A. M.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 800w

“Herein lies the fundamental weakness of the discussion. One gathers no clearly defined impression of what liberalism is or expects to do, and who are the liberals. Mr Stearns writes impassionately and with a refreshing verve that carries the reader headlong with him.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:254 My ’20 340w

=Ind= 102:234 My 8 ’20 170w

“One inclines to a wish that the writer had brought to his task a little more sympathy, a little more humility, and a great deal more information, and the wish becomes very strong when one reaches his discussion of Mr Wilson. In a considered estimate by a liberal thinker one looks for a fair and balanced examination of causes and results. Mr Stearns simplifies the president’s problems so that any departmental clerk might have overcome them. He imputes low motives without the least apparent justification.” Jacob Zeitlin

− =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 850w

“The book is of great value. Its analysis of American tendencies is more balanced and inclusive than any contemporary work upon the subject.” C. W.

+ =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 230w

Reviewed by W. J. Ghent

− =Review= 2:229 Mr 6 ’20 1150w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 50w

“It is no engaging picture of our American war mind that Mr Stearns paints, and twenty months ago it would have been hotly resented by the great majority of our people. That the average man of intelligence is likely to find himself mainly in agreement with it now (although he may hesitate to admit the fact, even to himself) is the best evidence that the picture is essentially true.” F: A. Ogg

+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 350w

“As a volume of broad discussions, enriched by much reflection on books and events, and by brilliant insight into motives, this book is a success. Yet as an ordered analysis of the basic problem of liberty the book fails, and its chief value will be lost unless it becomes the starting point of a much needed discussion.” G: Soule

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:197 O ’20 500w

=STEBBING, EDWARD PERCY.= Diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. il *$5 Lane 799

20–22627

This diary is published with a purpose. The author says: “The sporting anecdotes and material selected from my note-books, which form the greater part of the book, are designed to lead up to and emphasize the necessity which exists of affording an adequate protection to the game and other animals of India.” (Preface) The book is in two parts: Sport in the big game jungles of India; and Game protection and the provision of sanctuaries for the preservation of the Indian fauna. There are illustrations from photographs and sketches by the author and others.

* * * * *

“He describes his experiences fairly graphically, although, after a few pages, we have too much confidence in his shooting to be seriously alarmed for him.”

+ − =Ath= p473 O 8 ’20 260w

“There is a chapter on ‘Jungle lore,’ and several real tiger stories that outdo most of those common to fiction. All the photographs are very good, and the little pen and ink drawings, which are the productions of five different persons, while not equal to Mr Seton’s, carry their own individuality, and give new life to the already entertaining text.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 11 ’20 210w

“A most interesting collection of reminiscences. His tiger stories are capital.”

+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 250w

“As a faithful account of conditions as they have been during the last quarter of a century, Mr Stebbing’s book is likely to have a definite and permanent value; and he knows well how to entertain as well as to instruct.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 Ag 5 ’20 750w

=STEELE, DAVID MCCONNELL.= Papers and essays for churchmen; being a series of studies on topics made timely by current events. *$1.50 (2½c) Jacobs 204

20–1134

The only unity that the author claims for this collection of papers is that “they were all written to be read either to or by churchmen.” (Foreword) The author’s mental tenor is conservative and his thinking along the lines of his convictions is vigorous. He holds that the war has dispelled the mist of immoral emotionalism that had begun to envelop the churches, a form of this emotionalism being the literal interpretation of “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” He repudiates woman’s suffrage as wholly bad, hurls anathema against labor organisations and socialism and advises that the poor, as the “economically sick,” are properly the charges, not of the church, but of the state. The contents are: Effect of the war on religion; Wanted, an American Sunday; Woman suffrage and religion; Men’s clubs and the churches; The poor, with you always; The church and labor agitation; Socialism—Christian and pagan; Revelation—final or progressive; The Episcopal church; Change of name of the church; Proportionate representation.

=STEELE, HARWOOD ELMES ROBERT.=[2] Canadians in France, 1915–1918: with 8 sketch maps. il *$8 Dutton 940.371

(Eng ed 20–10382)

“A detailed history of the operations of the Canadian Army corps, consisting of four divisions and ‘corps troops.’ In writing this account Captain Steele is describing in the main events that occurred under his own observation in 1915 to the close of the war in 1918.”—R of Rs

* * * * *

“Captain Steele has the gift of clear, straightforward description; and there is little to be desired in the succinctness and clarity with which he etches in a number of Homeric incidents.”

+ =Ath= p816 Je 18 ’20 80w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 420w

=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w

“Captain Steele’s book is admirably written and full of vivid detail.”

+ =Spec= 124:49 Jl 10 ’20 200w

=STEINER, RUDOLF.= Four mystery plays. 2v *$3 Putnam 832

20–6848

H. Collison, one of the translators of these plays, describes them as representing “the psychic development of man up to the moment when he is able to pierce the veil and see into the beyond.” (Introd.) They embody the author’s occult philosophy and form one continuous series. The characters are represented on their physical as well as on their spiritual plane and include many types—the occult leader, the seeress, the artist, scientist, philosopher, historian, mystic, and man of the world, also the forces of evil in Lucifer and Ahriman. Collaborators with the translator are S. M. K. Gandell and R. T. Gladstone. The plays are: The portal of initiation; The soul’s probation; The guardian of the threshold; The soul’s awakening.

* * * * *

“‘Four mystery plays’ will doubtless command the attention of the author’s disciples, but they are too formidable to win the interest of the average outsider. The blank verse translation is adequate, but hardly inspired.”

+ − =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 70w

“The only advantage gained by the play form is, perhaps, a little simplicity in the treatment of very abstract subjects.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 N 25 ’20 110w

=STEPHENS, JAMES.=[2] Irish fairy tales. il *$5 (6½) Macmillan

20–21207

The first of these ancient folk-tales tells of the subduing of Tuan mac Cairill, the powerful heathen, by Finnian, the Abbott of Moville. Finnian lays siege to Tuan’s stronghold by seating himself before its gates and fasting. Heathen etiquette forbade the attack of a defenceless man and heathen hospitality a man’s starving before the gates. So Finnian is admitted and at once proceeds to convert Tuan. Thereupon Tuan, the grandson of Noah, tells his story which dates back to the beginning of time in Ireland and is wonderful indeed. The other tales are: The boyhood of Fionn; The birth of Bran; Oisin’s mother; The wooing of Becfola; The little brawl at Allen; The Carl of the drab coat; The enchanted cave of Cesh Corran; Becuma of the white skin; Mongan’s frenzy. The full page illustrations in color and the chapter vignettes are by Arthur Rackham.

* * * * *

“This book is written by a man who has a touch a little beyond talent.” R. E. Roberts

+ =Ath sup= p783 D 3 ’20 180w

+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21

“It is unfortunate that in the arrangement of his book he does not give greater heed to the various cycles in which nearly all Irish stories belong. But lack of unity is almost the only adverse criticism that can be brought against the book. Mr Stephens has re-told Irish legends in a volume that should take a permanent place in literature.” N. J. O’Conor

+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 18 ’20 1350w

“James Stephens’ writing has the gift of everlasting youth. Arthur Rackham’s drawings have inherent magic. Wherefore the two are fortunately met in a new book, primarily for children, but also full of appeal to grown-ups with a sense of humor.”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w

“Though some of the stories as told by Mr Stephens appear to be more in the nature of historic legends rather than fairy tales, the collection provides good reading in which humour of a subtle kind abounds.”

+ =Int= Studio 72:206 Ja ’21 60w

“There is enough of the hard line of beauty in his work to make one rejoice in its amplitude.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 25:111 D 22 ’20 1700w

“Humor shines, here, riots in wild fancy, extravagance rides by the side of beauty.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w

“Stephens has put a lot of himself into the telling of these tales; they are moulded by his story-telling instinct, given finish by his English and burnished by his humor.” D. W. Webster

+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 200w

“Children may enjoy it, but, like Arthur Rackham’s exquisite illustrations, it will be fully appreciated only by more sophisticated readers.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 170w

+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 60w

“There is much good narrative, much humour, and, usually, unstrained simplicity in the book, but above all there are passages of enchanting beauty.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 310w

=STERRETT, FRANCES ROBERTA.= Nancy goes to town. *$2 (5c) Appleton

20–18766

Nancy goes to town to take nurses’ training, telling all her friends in Mifflin that she intends to marry a rich patient. She meets two rich patients, one an old woman, the other an old man. The two are business rivals and they become rivals also for Nancy’s favor. One has a nephew, the other a grandson, both put forward as candidates for Nancy’s hand. So the rich husband is within her reach, but Nancy chooses, after some faltering, to marry Dr Rolf Jensen, the poor young doctor.

* * * * *

“The description of hospital life from the point of view of a lively girl, with quick wit and a keen sense of humor, is capital.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 420w

=STEVENS, WILLIAM OLIVER, and WESTCOTT, ALLAN FERGUSON.= History of sea power. il *$6 Doran 359

20–18945

This volume covers the evolution and influence of sea power from the beginnings to the present time and treats naval history not from the point of view of a sequence of battles but as a vital force in the rise and fall of nations and in the evolution of civilization. It traces its beginnings from the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean long before the dawn of history to its present significance. The book is indexed, has a list of references at the end of each chapter and ninety-six maps, diagrams and illustrations. Contents: The beginnings of navies; Athens as a sea power; The sea power of Rome; The navies of the middle ages (two chapters); Opening the ocean routes; Sea power in the North; England and the Armada; Rise of English sea power (two chapters); Napoleonic wars (three chapters); Revolution in naval warfare; Rivalry for world power; The world war (three chapters); Conclusion.

* * * * *

“Though surprisingly condensed, an informative and authoritative work.”

+ =Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21

“It is a more objective and less theoretical study [than Mahan’s ‘Influence of sea power on history,’] with more interest for the general reader; in addition to which it is a convenient reference book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 620w

=STEVENSON, GEORGE.= Benjy. *$1.75 (*7s) (2c) Lane

20–5234

The book recounts the fortunes of the Ainsworth family from the time when young Dr Ainsworth drives his bride Priscilla home in the gig, to the coming of the children—up to the number of thirteen—with its resultant poverty; and the varied careers and fortunes of all these in turn. Benjy, the youngest, his mother’s favorite, follows his father into the medical profession. Outwardly his life is drab, all its important happenings being of the nature of disappointments. The more brilliantly endowed brother, Basil, wins and weds Benjy’s own beloved Clara who dies in childbirth through Basil’s light-hearted want of foresight. When Uncle Benjy adopts little Clara to save her from a bad step-mother, death robs him of her also. Then comes the war and offers him a welcome escape from himself.

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“It is only when the children grow older and come into touch with the world that Mr Stevenson fails lamentably. The quaint, old-fashioned children are replaced by plain, strange young men and women, and the author in his effort to convince us of Benjy’s purity of heart pours over him such a great pale flood of sentimentality that he is drowned before our eyes.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p1371 D 19 ’19 420w

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

+ =Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 130w

“An almost masterly understanding of human (and English) limitations pervades the story. It is told always with a sure judgment and reticence.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 130w

“A calm tale; interesting incident and fairly interesting characters, but no particular point.”

+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 20w

“Such is the charm of Mr Stevenson’s insouciant style that we lose consciousness of the fact that we are listening to an ‘author.’ The author’s powers of characterization are, in fact, responsible for a minor fault in ‘Benjy’—the diffusing of interest in too many characters.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w

=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w

“It is well conceived and full of appreciation of individual character.”

+ =Sat R= 129:234 Mr 6 ’20 60w

“Though the reader may become rather bewildered in trying to follow each particular thread, the book is illuminated with many of the author’s quiet touches of humour and is written with his usual distinction of style.”

+ − =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 80w

=STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR.= Learning to write; ed. by J: W: Rogers, jr. *$1.35 Scribner 808

20–6692

“This book is a compilation of everything R. L. S. has said on writing, both in his essays on literary art and in the casual observations made in his letters.”—Booklist

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+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20

+ =Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 380w

“You cannot learn much about electricity by watching the lightning in the thunder cloud. Even if Stevenson did teach himself to write as he says he did, which is nothing more than an improbable hypothesis, reading his extremely characteristic and technically complex descriptions of his methods will not help a single youngster out of the toils and troubles of the early days of his probation.” W: McFee

− =N Y Evening Post= p9 My 8 ’20 1300w

“It is to be feared that Stevenson’s confidences in regard to his own literary processes have done all too much to foster hope in the bosom of ‘would-be’ authors.... One is inclined to take it with several grains of salt.” R: Le Gallienne

+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Je 27 ’20 2250w

+ =School R= 28:628 O ’20 110w

“Likely to prove a gold mine of interesting information not only to aspiring writers, but to people who are interested in books as well.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 24 ’20 240w

=STEWART, BASIL.= Japanese color prints and the subjects they illustrate. il *$20 Dodd 761

“Mr Stewart knows just what collectors of Japanese prints want and do not want. But they want a handbook of 300–odd pages, with reproductions of signatures, lists of important sets, chronological tables, brief biographical information; of handy format and popular style. And such is the book before us. There are a glossary, a chapter on ‘Forgeries and imitations,’ another on ‘Actor prints’ in general, and an excursus on the ‘Forty-seven rōnins’ in history and on the stage.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“It is no serious condemnation to say that ‘Japanese colour prints’ is not the book on Japanese colour prints for which we are all looking.”

+ − =Int Studio= 72:33 N ’20 200w

“The ground covered is so vast that the treatment in certain cases inevitably seems somewhat cursory. One or two inaccuracies may be noted.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 Jl 22 ’20 640w

=STEWART, WENTWORTH.= Making of a nation. $1.50 (3c) Stratford co. 325.7

20–3491

In this discussion of Americanism and Americanization the author holds that we cannot make American citizens of aliens by formal educational programs, that we must take into consideration the psychology of Americanization and treat Americanism as a thing of the spirit rather than of naturalization papers. Certain undesirable features in our alien population—such as foreign language newspapers, religious worship in a foreign tongue—should be treated by a process of elimination rather than coercion, while “all anarchistic agitators,” and unamerican labor agitators should be summarily dealt with. As one of the educational factors for Americanization a modified form of the open forum is recommended. Contents: The nation’s awakening; The nation’s task of unification; Eliminating the handicaps to Americanism; Constructive government and nation building; Providing conditions for Americanism—or the application of constructive government; The neighborhood and the nation; International sentiment and nationalism.

=STILL, JOHN.= Poems in captivity. *$2 Lane 821

20–5612

The author discovered the poet in himself during his three years of captivity in Turkey, “where each one of us was driven to seek inside himself some alleviation of the daily dullness, many of us there found things we had not suspected to exist.... I found these verses, all of which were written there, and their discovery made more happy many of the eleven hundred and seventy-nine days I spent as a prisoner of war.” (Foreword) The poems are in five groups: Prison verses; Woodcraft and forest lore; Tales from the Mahawansa; Various songs and sketches. The frontispiece is a facsimile of a part of the ms. which was concealed in a hollow walking-stick, and some explanatory notes are appended.

* * * * *

“Mr Still’s work is undeniably interesting, and his chosen vehicle seems to be the right one.”

+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 100w

=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 280w

“He writes fluently and the Ceylonese legends that he relates are interesting in themselves, but his medium hardly ever touches the authentic heights of poetry.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 100w

“The merit of Mr Still’s work is that it gives aptly and agreeably a full, warm picture of scenes picturesque and historic.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 O 2 ’19 160w

=STOCKBRIDGE, MRS BERTHA EDSON (LAY).= What to drink; the blue book of beverages. il *$1.50 Appleton 641.8

20–2272

In these days of prohibition this book solves the hostess’ problem of what to serve to drink. All she needs is a stock of syrups, shrubs and vinegars, says the author. “If, however, she is inclined to think it an arduous task, let her turn to these recipes, and she will be convinced that the labor and the time expended bring their own reward in ... a delicious drink delightfully made.” (Foreword) The contents present an exhaustive array of recipes for fruitades and punches and drinks hot and cold—non-alcoholic cocktails, syrups, grape juice, root beer and cider, hot drinks such as coffee, chocolate, etc., drinks for invalids and children, sundaes and sauces, ice-creams, sherbets, etc. There is an index.

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=Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

=Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 50w

=STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Yankee ingenuity in the war. il *$2.50 Harper 623

20–8261

It was as a reaction of the author’s patriotic pride to the slanderous disparagements of America’s participation in the war that the book was written and for that reason it is limited to the consideration of distinctly American enterprise. It has, however, not been written for the scientist or the technologist, but for the average American, neither skilled nor interested in technical details. A partial list of the contents is: The mobilization of science and industry; The Liberty motor; American military airplanes; The chemical conquest of the air; Potash, sulphuric acid, and dyestuffs; Poison gas; Some extraordinary ship-building feats; Some Yankee tricks in undersea warfare; The wonders of war wireless; Medical and surgical achievements. The book is profusely illustrated from official photographs.

* * * * *

“Interesting and informative.”

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 70w

=STOCKLEY, CYNTHIA.= Pink gods and blue demons. *$1.50 (9c) Doran

20–10303

A story of South Africa. The pink gods and blue demons are the lightning flashes of temptation from the facets of diamonds. Loree Temple, a young and much indulged wife, falls under their spell. Her husband has gone north on business leaving her alone in Kimberley. She falls under the spell of the diamonds and so into the power of the man who can give them to her. She is extricated through the loyalty and generosity of another woman, and, her lesson learned, goes to join her husband.

* * * * *

“The tale is interesting and moves swiftly forward to a sufficiently dramatic climax.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 450w

“The story holds one’s attention closely.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w

=STOCKTON, JAMES LEROY.= Project work in education. *$1.20 (3c) Houghton 371.3

20–14397

The book is one of the “Riverside educational monographs” edited by Henry Suzzallo. Its object is to show what can be done to replace the traditional teaching by isolated subjects by a more vital method built on a practical psychological basis. The project method in brief implies “learning to do by doing,” or “self-education through

## activities,” and is the result of the working-out of the most

fundamental of modern educational principles. The book falls into two parts, considering project work both as a method and as a subject.

## Part I contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the

project method; The transfer of the principles to America; Modern American principles of education; The project method in the modern public school; Project work in trade education. Part II contains: The evolution of the project subject; The broader conception of the content of the project subject; The necessity of more direct teaching of the project subject; Summary; Outline.

=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Rising tide of color against white world-supremacy; with an introd. by Madison Grant. *$3 Scribner 327

20–7502

“Mr Stoddard has written an analysis of the present-day relations of the white and colored races throughout the world. What he describes as the rising tide of the yellow, brown, black and red races is graphically described in a series of tersely written chapters. This is followed by an historical account of The ebbing tide of white, and the

## book concludes with brief chapters on The outer dikes, The inner

dikes, and The crisis of the ages. Mr Stoddard’s immediate program, involving what he regards as ‘the irreducible minimum,’ calls for a thorough revision of the Versailles treaty and a provisional understanding by which the white races will give up their tacit assumption of domination over Asia, while the Asiatics forego their dreams of migration to the lands of white and other races. Without some such understanding Mr Stoddard looks forward to a race war on a world scale.”—R of Rs

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“On the resurgence of Asia Mr Stoddard writes wisely, yielding neither to panic nor to ignorant optimism. His views on the future of his own North American continent display less sanity.”

+ − =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 200w

“Interesting to read in connection with Du Bois’ ‘Darkwater.’”

+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20

Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

=Bookm= 52:301 Ja ’21 780w

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 850w

“Mr Stoddard’s book is one of the long series of publications devoted to the self-admiration of the white race. The books must be characterized as vicious propaganda, and deserve an attention not warranted by any intrinsic merit in their learning or their logic. The fundamental weakness of all books of this type, and eminently so of Mr Stoddard’s book, is a complete lack of understanding of the hereditary characteristics of a race as against the hereditary characteristics of a particular strain or line of descent.” Franz Boas

− =Nation= 111:sup656 D 8 ’20 980w

“A brilliant and highly suggestive survey.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 160w

“Many people will regard this book as highly dangerous and provocative. This verdict, though it might at first sight seem just, would be, we are convinced, short-sighted and unfair. When we say this we do not mean that we agree with every word of the premises put forward by Mr Stoddard or with all his conclusions; for we do not. What we do feel, however, is that it is a book which gives with vigour, and yet with essential moderation, most important and often most necessary warnings.”

+ − =Spec= 125:336 S 11 ’20 1550w

+ − =Spec= 125:367 S 18 ’20 2150w

“Because of its profound knowledge and eloquence this is a book that must be reckoned with. Had he been more moderate in his diagnosis and prognosis of the impending racial conflict, his book may have found fewer readers, but it would have been more convincing to the student of history and of public affairs.”

− + =Survey= 4:450 Je 26 ’20 450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 130w

“Mr Stoddard’s work is more convincing and useful when he deals with subsidiary questions, such as the real peril of Asiatic industrial competition or the serious pressure of overpopulation brought about in ‘coloured’ lands by the humanitarian hygiene of the whites. But his vision of the ‘rising tide of colour’ fails to carry conviction.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p692 O 28 ’20 1450w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 130w

“Mr Stoddard’s book is the work of a pseudoscientist with a considerable skill in writing who, sincerely enough no doubt, jumbles assumptions and facts in a plausible and dangerous combination.” N. T.

− =World Tomorrow= 3:287 S ’20 680w

Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler

+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=STODDART, JANE T.= Case against spiritualism. *$1.50 Doran 134

(Eng ed 20–4476)

“This book assembles articles from various writers, culling even from believers every clause usable as antagonistic comment. It is not backed by personal experience.”—Booklist

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“Perhaps the best Protestant manual opposing the cult.”

+ =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20

+ =Brooklyn= 12:122 My ’20 30w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19)

“It will require mightier counter-thrusts than the slight rebuff of Miss Stoddart to make any headway against the encroachments of the insidious brand of personalism sponsored by psychical research.” Joseph Jastrow

− + =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 100w

“A short but effective and well-considered statement of the case.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 40w

=STOLL, ELMER EDGAR.= Hamlet; an historical and comparative study. (Studies in language and literature) pa $1 Univ. of Minn. 822.3

20–2038

“A close analytical study; reaching the conclusion that Hamlet is meant for an heroic, not a pathetic, figure, and not for one who falters or who deceives himself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“His results afford a wholesome check to introspective and romantic criticism, and may be accepted as the starting-point for a reasoned consideration of Shakespeare’s intentions.” G: F. Whicher

+ − =Nation= 110:433 Ap 3 ’20 800w

=New Repub= 25:326 F 9 ’21 360w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w

=STONE, GENE.= Cousin Nancy and the Lees of Clifford. il *$1.75 Crowell

20–15505

The Lees are a jolly western family living in a mountain valley in Nevada. Nancy is a cousin from New York who comes to spend a year with them. Nancy has been used to every luxury and there are many things about her cousins’ way of life that surprise her. She is not used, for one thing, to being introduced to delivery boys and she doesn’t see Ralph Mariner’s outstretched hand. But Nancy is a “real girl” after all. She easily adapts herself and enjoys the hearty fun and the impromptu good times her cousins offer her, and comes to appreciate Ralph’s worth, at the same time that he comes to see that she isn’t a snob. Nancy changes her mind about finishing schools too and decides to go to college and a great discovery, made on one of their expeditions, makes it possible for the others to go too.

=STONE, GENE.= Jane and the owl. (Sage brush stories) il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell

A series of fairy tale adventures for young readers. The initial setting is unusual. Jane lives in the sage brush country and her playground is a rocky canyon. Climbing its steep slopes one day, she sits down on a broad flat rock to rest and falls asleep and then begin her adventures in company with Oskar the owl. The stories are: Jane and the owl; The wobbly wudgets; The tremendous terwollipers; The moon sprites; The strike of the stylish young ladies of Fairtowers; The land o’ nod; The joyful mermaids; Break o’ day country.

=STOREY, MOORFIELD.= Problems of today. *$1.50 Houghton 304

20–18501

A volume containing the Godkin lectures for 1920. These annual lectures, delivered at Harvard, must deal in some manner with “the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen.” Mr Storey chose five unrelated subjects of vital present interest. These are: The use of parties; Lawlessness; Race prejudice; The labor question; Our foreign relations. The author is a lawyer and member of the American bar association. He has been president of the Massachusetts civil service reform association, the Anti-imperialist league, and of the National association for the advancement of colored people.

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+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“Mr Storey is at his best when he is considering conditions that are not complex, where rightmindedness and neighborly feeling and a willingness to do one’s share are enough to remedy human ills. When we turn to discussion of the distribution of wealth and the relations between employer and employed we find Mr Storey less adequate.”

+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 450w

=STORM, MARION.= Minstrel weather. il *$1.50 (8c) Harper 814

20–20910

A volume of nature essays, one for each month of the year, with such titles as: Faces of Janus; A woodland valentine; Ways of the March hare; The April moment; The crest of spring; Hay harvest time. The author has a keen eye for the delicate shadings of the seasons’ changes, and the book will appeal to those of similar tastes. In addition to the twelve essays for the months, she writes of Landscapes seen in dreams; Hiding places; The play of leaves; The brown frontier; Far altars.

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“The style is full of color and highly charged with meaning. It is not a smooth papershelled almond, but a shagbark hickory nut. If you want the full sweetness of the kernel, you must pick it out carefully. It well rewards the trouble. I am glad she has chosen to send out her first book, not in some strange form of free verse, but in clear, spicy, juicy prose. It is alluring and refreshing, a cupful of cordial.” H: Van Dyke

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 700w

=STORY, A. M. SOMMERVILLE (FRANKFORT SOMMERVILLE, pseud.).= Present day Paris and the battlefields. *$1.50 (3½c) Appleton 914.4

20–15940

“The visitor’s handbook with the chief excursions to the battlefields.” (Sub-title) All but one of the fifteen chapters are devoted to Paris. There are chapters on Paris of today; Fashionable Paris; Intellectual Paris; The origins of Paris; Paris of the middle ages; The art, gayety and genius of Paris; Aristocratic and pious Paris; etc. The excursions to the battlefields are outlined in the final chapter. The style is intimate and many of the conventional guide book features are omitted. There is no index.

* * * * *

“It is well written, interesting, accurate as far as it goes, but it is not a handbook. It has no index, no maps. A more important omission, however, is its failure to live up to its title. The book has little concern with ‘present-day’ Paris.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 540w

=STRATON, JOHN ROACH.= Menace of immorality in church and state; messages of wrath and judgment. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doran 176

20–6996

A series of sermons preached in Calvary Baptist church, New York city, all dealing with “the rank paganism and ever widening indecencies of the modern age.” The author says, “After every war, there is a wave of immorality. We have just passed through the greatest war of all time, and we are now witnessing the widest wave of immorality in the history of the human race.” Among the subjects of the sixteen chapters are: Slaves of fashion: the connection between women’s dress and social vice; The awful corruption of the modern theater: should Christians attend? The scarlet stain of sexual impurity: will America go the way of the great empires of the past? The great American gambling craze; God or Mammon? a message to the millionaires of New York; Sabbath observance as social sanity.

* * * * *

“The book is all emphasis. Ring the bell for church a few times and it has an effect; toll the bell and the stridence of its tone wearies.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w

=N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 700w

“The value and importance of his appeal, which might have been great, are largely lost by lack of perspective, grotesque exaggeration, superficial reasoning, and inaccurate statements of important facts. To those abreast of the times in the field of social hygiene effort and accomplishment, the book offers an object lesson in unscientific method and presentation.” B. J.

− + =Social Hygiene= 6:580 O ’20 240w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 28 ’20 450w

Reviewed by F: H. Whitin

=Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 500w

=STRATTON, CLARENCE.= Public speaking. *$1.48 Holt 808.5

20–12400

“This book on public speaking attempts to provide fundamental rules and enough exercises to train members of a class to become effective speakers before audiences. It aims to be practical. The idea underlying the treatment is that the student will be continually doing much more speaking than studying.” (Prefatory note) The chapters take up: Speech; The voice; Words and sentences; Beginning the speech; Concluding the speech; Getting material; Planning the speech; Making the outline or brief; Explaining; Proving and persuading; Refuting; Debating; Speaking upon special occasions; Dramatics. Additional exercises are given in the two appendixes and there is an index. The author is a member of the English department of Central high school, St Louis, and of the Division of university extension, Washington university.

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“The chief value of the book is its excellent organization of the large variety of activities which make up a worthy course in public speaking.”

+ =School R= 28:635 O ’20 180w

=STRAUS, RALPH.= Pengard awake. *$2 Appleton

20–17317

Pengard was first discovered by some English tourists, as a bookdealer in Chicago. According to the testimony of his friends, he had been queer for some time and was getting queerer, disappearing from time to time for increasingly long intervals. As he also appeared to be suffering, Sir Robert Graeme sets himself to fathoming the mystery. A famous English physician is requisitioned for the probe. That Pengard is a victim of amnesia, is coming more and more under the influence of another personality and is living in dread of complete surrender, is certain from the start. And this is what gradually reveals itself: John Pengard and Hartley Sylvester are one and the same person, and the latter, author of a book that has made him famous, is gaining in sinister influence. By the aid of psychoanalysis, hypnotism and shrewd guesses, Dr Arne achieves the unexpected result that Pengard fades away as a dream person and Sylvester comes to stay. After more patient experimenting, more startling disclosures, Sylvester transforms himself into John Mathieson, one-time pal and brother-in-arms to Sir Robert’s dead brother.

* * * * *

“We must admit that even an inveterate novel reader will scarcely be able to forecast the various developments which arise, and in

## particular the utterly unlooked-for conclusion.”

+ =Ath= p555 O 22 ’20 130w

“The story becomes more and more baffling as we proceed. The mystery is well worked out and the unraveling is exciting up to the very close.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 190w

“An uncommonly good story of this kind. Based upon actual psychological fact.”

+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w

+ =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 200w

“While the plot is clever enough to carry the book, the pleasant literary style it is that will attract the average reader.”

+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 470w

“Anybody who wants to be entertained will thoroughly enjoy this story, but most readers will probably agree that Lucius Arne is the least convincing part of it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p651 O 7 ’20 640w

=STRAUS, SIMON WILLIAM.= History of the thrift movement in America. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott 331.84

20–7771

The book is one of Lippincott’s thrift text series edited by Arthur H. Chamberlain. In his introduction Mr Chamberlain says of the author: “He clearly saw the wasteful tendencies of our people, and deplored the results, bound, he well knew, to come from them. He saw the problem in its totality. He appreciated thoroughly the distinction between proper spending and useless wasting; between common-sense saving and narrow parsimony.... He alone could write the history, indicate the need and significance and point the way of the thrift movement, of which he is the apostle.” The book falls into two parts. Some of the chapters in part 1 are: Characterization of thrift; America’s record of thriftlessness; The organization of the American society for thrift; The international congress for thrift; Resolutions recommending the teachings of thrift in the public schools of America. Among the contents of part 2 are: Little talks on thrift; Money-making and money-saving; How thrift shapes the character; The need of personal account keeping; Waste in the kitchen; Personal standards of thrift; Thriftlessness among the poor. There is an index and five symbolic cartoons by Rollin Kirby.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20

“Certainly, the gospel of thrift which Mr Straus expounds needs to be spread far and wide. The little talks on thrift contained in part II will be helpful to teachers as illustrations of the thrift idea.” G: F. Zook

+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w

=STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and ENGELHARDT, NICKOLAUS LOUIS.= Classroom teacher at work in American school. il *$1.48 Am. bk. 371.2

20–7789

“This volume is one of the American education series, of which Prof. Strayer is the general editor. It treats exhaustively of the organization and administration of public education, as well as of the technique employed by the teacher in his daily work. Chapters are included dealing with records and reports, the organization of public education, the classification and progress of children, the measurement of the achievements of children, the health of school children, as well as extra-curricula activities that make possible an intelligent and sympathetic cooperation with the plans of the administrator.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 80w

“Contains little that is new, but is a restatement of material which is already familiar to all except elementary students of education. It will doubtless be used in many introductory courses.”

+ − =El School J= 21:152 O ’20 500w

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

=STREET, JULIAN LEONARD.= Sunbeams, Inc. il *$1.25 Doubleday

20–16499

Henry Bell Brown is introduced to us first as he is leaving the staff of the New York Evening Dispatch, and is given a farewell banquet. He is leaving to join a firm of “advertising engineers,” and subsequently becomes H. Bell Brown. It is only when he goes into business for himself that he rises to the glory of “Belwyn Brown.” It is his big idea of “merchandising” (one of his favorite verbs) sunshine that brings him success. He becomes a sort of a commercial Pollyanna spreading Gloomer Chasers broadcast on boiler-plate pages—something on this order: “No business is busted when there’s a smile left in the bank.” The war threatens the business of Sunbeams, Inc., but he enlarges its scope, goes to France and helps “win the war with sunshine.” Upon his return he is more convinced than ever that his name and fame shall be a household word and spares no effort to accomplish this result. At the end of a successful banquet given in his honor by the Pundits he is able to “indulge himself in a brief self-gratulatory yet philosophical reflection. ‘One thing is sure,’ he said to himself; ‘In this world a fellow gets just about what’s coming to him.’”

* * * * *

“Not only is the story so thin that it will hardly hold together, but it is impossible to feel any sympathy with the leading character—a state of things which often is fatal in a work of this kind. That it is not so in this instance is immeasurably to the credit of the author. It affords whimsical entertainment of unique quality.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 350w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 200w

“Short story with a lot of humor and various amusing exhibitions of psychology.”

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

=STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN, ed.= Spirit; the relation of God and man, considered from the standpoint of recent philosophy and science. *$2.50 Macmillan 231

19–19611

“The movement toward a scientific and philosophical conception of God is materially aided by the publication of a book called ‘The spirit,’ edited by Canon B. H. Streeter of the Church of England. ‘This volume,’ says the editor, ‘puts forward a conception of spirit—considered as God in action—which is definite but not scholastic, and which is capable of affording a basis both for a coherent philosophy and for a religion passionate and ethical, mystical and practical.’ The chapter on Immanence and transcendance is by Prof. A. Pringle-Pattison. Miss Lily Dougall writes on God in

## action. The psychology of power is treated by Capt. J. A. Hadfield of

the Ashhurst neurological war hospital at Oxford. A. Clutton-Brock’s customary distinction of mind and style is apparent in two chapters on Spiritual experience and Spirit and matter. Other chapters are What happened at Pentecost by Rev. C. A. Anderson Scott, The psychology of grace, by Rev. C. W. Emmet, The language of the soul, by Miss Dougall and Christ, the revolutionary by Canon Streeter.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Bib World= 54:428 Jl ’20 320w

“Its temper is frank, its thought, for the most part, keen and clear, and its language, though frequently employing the terms of traditional theology, simple and eloquent.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 19 ’20 680w

“Alike in its fearlessness, in its refusal to make terms with narrow types of orthodoxy, and in its strong Christocentric theology it is a characteristic product of modern English religious thought. Its main defect is that it only implicitly recognizes the affirmation of modern research that Christianity is a synthesis.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 My 6 ’20 2300w

=STREIT, CLARENCE K.= “Where iron is, there is the fatherland!” il *$1; pa *50c Huebsch 940.318

20–19447

The booklet comes under the “Freeman pamphlets” series and is “a note on the relation of privilege and monopoly to war.” (Subtitle) It is an exposé of the stock and bond morality of big business and shows “that the interests of a nation and the interests of private property are two separate and distinct things. Whether the money and mineral international did or did not prepare and start the war ... it is certain that the fifty-one months during which millions of men were killed was a most profitable era for these interests.” Some of the topics discussed are: The basin of Briey; Interlocking directorates; Nickel not contraband; The French trust favors Krupps; Patrioteers; When is a fort not a fort? The agreement for a Lorraine offensive; The flag of big business; Bloody profits.

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“Mr Streit tells the story simply, straightforwardly, with ample citation of authority, but almost too unjournalistically. The booklet is marred by awkward translations and by careless proof-reading of place names.”

+ − =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 300w

=STRINGER, ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT.= Prairie mother. il *$2 Bobbs

20–11073

“Those who met ‘Chaddie’ McKail in ‘The prairie wife’ will be glad that Arthur Stringer has embodied her later experiences in ‘The prairie mother.’ Many of the characters of the earlier story of the Canadian prairie appear here. The story is in the form of a diary in which she sets down the details leading up to, and during, her greatest trial. The McKails have passed the first material difficulties of home-making in the new land, and their condition borders on opulence. But unfortunate speculation sweeps away their broad acres and solid home, and they are faced with the necessity of starting all over again. The ‘prairie mother’ gladly surrenders her charming home to the husband’s titled English cousin, and moves her household and three small tots to an unbroken half section which is in her name. The new owner of the old home is a woman who had entrusted funds to McKail. The former speedily proves the fly in the ointment, for she seems to fascinate ‘Dinky-Dunk’ and ere long there is a virtual separation. With deep sympathy, Mr Stringer details Chaddie’s efforts to mend her broken life.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

“Mr Stringer’s public is accustomed to expect good work from his pen and we venture the opinion that in ‘The prairie mother’ he has surpassed himself.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 600w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 390w

=STRONG, EDWARD KELLOGG, jr.= Introductory psychology for teachers. il $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1

A series of lessons in psychology arranged to form a classroom course. The author has planned the course on the well-known principles of proceeding from the known to the unknown, of learning by doing, etc. He describes his method in the preface: “Instead of beginning with the most uninteresting phases of psychology and those most unknown to students, the course takes up concrete experiences of everyday life, relates them to the problems of learning and individual differences, and so develops these two topics. Each general principle is discovered by the student out of his own experience in solving specially organized problems. Only after he has done his best is he expected to refer to the text and by then the text is no longer basic but only supplementary.” The sections of the book following the introduction are devoted to: The learning process; Individual differences; Some physiological aspects of psychology. There is a brief general review at the close. Charts and diagrams illustrate the book, references follow most of the chapters, and there is an index. The text is also printed in the form of seventeen booklets. The author is professor of vocational education, Carnegie institute of technology.

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“There is growing up a pronounced distinction between two schools of educational psychologists. The one is interested in dealing with the relatively tangible outcomes of learning activities and is satisfied to put all explanations in the form of Professor Thorndike’s easy, but quite meaningless, formula of bonds. The other is interested in finding out in detail the steps by which a pupil acquires his mental results. Professor Strong may be described as belonging to the first type. For that school he has rendered the service of getting together a large body of interesting examples, and he has put these examples in a more teachable form than any writers of that group who have preceded him.”

+ − =El School J= 20:793 Je ’20 300w

=STUART, SIR CAMPBELL.=[2] Secrets of Crewe house. il *$2 (*7s 6d) (4½c) Doran 940.342

20–22069

Crewe house was the headquarters of the department of propaganda in enemy countries under the directorship of Viscount Northcliffe. The story of its activities and successes during 1918 are revealed in this book. According to a quotation from the Tägliche Rundschau on page 127, “It cannot be doubted that Lord Northcliffe very substantially contributed to England’s victory in the world war. His conduct of English propaganda during the war will some day find its place in history as a performance hardly to be surpassed.” The book is indexed and contains besides the portraits of the various members of the committee on propaganda and other illustrations several maps and facsimiles of the leaflets distributed by means of balloons. The contents are: Propaganda: its uses and abuses; Crewe house: its organization and personnel; Operations against Austria-Hungary: propaganda’s most striking success; Operations against Germany; Tributes from the enemy; Operations against Bulgaria and other

## activities; Inter-allied cooperation; From war propaganda to peace

propaganda; Vale!

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=Ath= p333 S 10 ’20 260w

“Although there is much that is eulogistic of his chief, Sir Campbell does not overdraw the picture. He uses none of the arts of the professional writer, preferring at all times to tell the story without attempting the dramatic.” H. D. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 780w

“This complacent book is ludicrous, not because it takes for granted that all it aimed to achieve was achieved; nor because it omits due credit to French propaganda (more extensive than British) and Russian (not even mentioned); but because it tries to get glory out of war.” Heber Blankenhorn

− =Nation= 111:594 N 24 ’20 1600w

“Sir Campbell’s lively style and his keen enjoyment of what he has to tell engross the reader.”

+ − =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 1750w

“‘Secrets of Crewe house’ is rather hastily put together, and is too much a eulogy of Lord Northcliffe by his chief assistant. But it contains a good deal of interesting description of the sundry ingenious devices by which Lord Northcliffe spread his propaganda.” H: W. Bunn

+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 900w

=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w

“In Lord Northcliffe’s mentality we have always been struck with a strong vein of simplicity, which the charitable call naïveté, and the uncharitable call knavery, or stupidity. There are two signs of this quality in this book. Again and again it is explicitly stated that the propaganda told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is childish. No propaganda could succeed which told the truth.”

− =Sat R= 130:239 S 18 ’20 1100w

+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 300w

“A very lively and exciting story, which the many illustrations in the volume help to diversify. Yet the book is more than a piece of good reading about the war, and more than a historical record. It will have a permanent value as a handbook to the principles of propaganda in enemy countries.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 S 2 ’20 450w

=STUCK, HUDSON.= Winter circuit of our Arctic coast. il *$6 (5c) Scribner 979.8

20–9131

This is the author’s fourth book of Alaskan travel and describes a journey with dog-sled around the entire Arctic coast of Alaska in the winter of 1917–18. It is not a record of discoveries of exploration and does not describe an already “scientifically known” people anthropologically but rather socially during their “normal life” which is their winter life. “My purpose was an enquiry into their present state, physical, mental, moral and religious, industrial and domestic, into their prospects, into what the government and the religious organizations have done and are doing for them, and what should yet be done.” (Preface) Besides many illustrations, two maps and an index the

## book contains: From Fort Yukon to Kotzebue Sound; Kotzebue Sound to

Point Hope; Point Hope; Point Hope to Point Barrow; Point Barrow; The northern extreme; Point Barrow to Flaxman Island; Flaxman Island and the journey to Herschel Island; Herschel Island and the journey to Fort Yukon.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20

“There is a quiet and peculiar charm, distinctly of the North, in this narrative.” F: O’Brien

+ =Nation= 111:537 N 10 ’20 680w

“This book is readable from cover to cover—entertaining, thoughtful, wise in its recommendations concerning our great territory, and attractive in its illustration.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 80w

“Mr Stuck is a man of many interests, and his narrative is the more absorbing for being discursive.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p576 S 9 ’20 900w

=STUDENSKY, PAUL.= Teachers’ pension systems in the United States. *$3 Appleton 371.17

20–2739

The book is published under the auspices of the Institute for government research, in the series Studies in administration, and is both a critical and descriptive study of the subject. It “should be not only a substantial contribution to the science of administration, but an immediate and practical aid to teachers, school authorities, legislators and all other persons interested in solving the problem of reorganizing their own systems or establishing systems ... upon bases that have been tested by experience and are in accordance with sound social, economic, and financial principles.” (Editorial introd.) Part 1: The problem of teachers’ pensions, contains: The evolution of teachers’ pensions in the United States; The teachers’ pension problem outlined; Superannuation benefits; Disability benefits; Death and withdrawal benefits; Determining the cost of benefits; The division of cost between government and teachers; The government’s contribution; The teacher’s contribution; Compulsory participation and the right to management. In Part 2 an account is given of the movement in the United States and an examination made of the history and present condition of the more important systems now in existence. There is also an appendix, actuarial tables and a bibliography.

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=Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20

“In his efforts to inculcate the sound principles, Mr Studensky errs rather on the side of overloading his discussion with too much detail, which for the readers most concerned will probably lead to confusion rather than clarification. While general agreement will be found with the principles of a sound pension system discussed in the volume, Mr Studensky’s acceptance of the salary scale as the basis of the pension considerably diminishes the value of his work.”

+ − =Nation= 111:622 D 1 ’20 350w

“The book covers the subject critically and thoroughly.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w

“The volume will serve the purpose of a work of reference and will be of value to committees of teachers considering the establishment of a pension system. The average teacher, however, will perhaps be a little more confused by the problem after reading the book than before, mainly because it is over-loaded by too much detail and because the discussions of theory and practice are too widely separated.” I. L. Kandel

+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 390w

=STURGEON, MARY C.= Studies of contemporary poets, rev. and enl. *$2.50 Dodd 821.09

“These short studies, warmly presenting the merits of a number of contemporary poets with much illustrative quotation, first appeared in 1916. The additional chapters are on John Drinkwater, ‘Michael Field,’ (Katharine H. Bradley and Edith E. Cooper), Thomas Hardy, J. C. Squire, Contemporary women poets (Anna Wickham, Helen Parry Eden, Anna Bunston, Olive Custance, Eva Gore Booth, Margaret Radford), and W. B. Yeats.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“The best one can say about Miss Sturgeon’s work is that it is the outcome of a wide knowledge of the poets and versifiers of her time. But she fails to do justice to whatever understanding of them that knowledge might have given to her.”

− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 240w

“One does not receive in these pages the keen analysis, the subtle interpretation of contemporaries such as Arthur Symons gave to his public in ‘Studies in two literatures,’ but they do give an honest, workable survey of the figures and qualities among the contemporaneous poets of England that is serviceable and informative.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 840w

“The fact is that Miss Sturgeon’s criticism leans toward sentimentalism, and not only because she tends always to stress the good, the true, the perennially sad. Her writing clings too close to its matter even when she is at her best, which is in interpretation of the thought and melody in giving passages; and her exquisiteness of appreciation tends in one way or another to impede the flow of critical thought. One poet seems in retrospect very much like another.” C. M. Rourke

+ − =Freeman= 2:331 D 15 ’20 780w

“Miss Sturgeon’s book, taken with the necessary ‘grano salis,’ has much to recommend it. Its value as criticism would have been higher if Miss Sturgeon had not been so uniformly enthusiastic.” R: Le Gallienne

+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 17 ’20 1700w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 60w

=STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS).= Personal prejudices. *$1.65 (4c) Houghton 814

20–16519

In these chatty essays the author gives her opinions on many subjects, as the table of contents reveals, with much wit and humor. Her husband in his preface to the book says of it that it is not immoral and therefore not really modern, but commends it for its patriotic enthusiasm. Contents: Gardens; Husbands and housekeeping; Autres temps, autres mœurs; The lost art of letterwriting; My Bolshevist; Old friends; New acquaintances; House and home; Quality versus equality; Differences and distinctions; Epilogue by the favourite nephew.

* * * * *

“Sweet, homely essays with the humor which pleased readers of ‘Random reflections of a grandmother.’”

+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

“The odd thing is that this book of informal essays will probably please readers of sharply different types, though perhaps not always in the way in which the writer would choose. She has the real gift of the familiar essayist, the gift for self-revelation.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 300w

“Her originality is as clearly reflected in her refreshing style as in her prejudices. Her commentaries sparkle with the same charming wit, compounded of shrewd common sense and abundant humor that made such delightful reading of her ‘Random reflections of a grandmother.’”

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 5 ’20 600w

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 30w

=SULLIVAN, ALAN.= Rapids. *$1.75 (2) Appleton

20–11223

The story is a fairy tale of what the genius of one man can achieve in developing the powers of nature. Robert Fisher Clark was a man of vision, of action, of unusual concentration, and of hypnotic personality. At a glance he takes in the possibilities of the Rapids of St Mary’s and the surrounding wilderness. Immediately he is at work developing plans and attracting the necessary money and good-will by his personal magnetism. But the test of his greatness comes when human covetousness and stupidity wrests the fruits of his labor from him after the end of seven years and he is ready to acknowledge that he has worked in the service of humanity not for his own gain. He abandons everything, even the woman he loves, to the equally wholehearted love of his engineer and seeks new fields for his

## activity.

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“Men will like it.”

+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20

“It is an interesting and well-told story, with vivid presentation of its scenes. In its purpose and manner and spirit the author has made a successful venture in turning aside a little from the usual lines of fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 460w

=Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 620w

“A fine romance of industrial enterprise from the western world.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 40w

=SULLY, JAMES=, My life and friends. *$5 Dutton

(Eng ed 19–4187)

“James Sully’s latest book, ‘My life and friends: a psychologist’s memories,’ is the record of a man devoted to music and literature as well as to his technical subject. The book is not burdened with formal information about himself. It does not tell us the date of his birth, or the name of his wife, or the number of his children. It begins the narrative of his life by a description of the sleepy Somersetshire town of Bridgwater, where he was born, and ends with a chance remark on Sicilian painted carts. It touches upon the circumstances of his childhood in a Nonconformist family and of his early education in Baptist schools; upon his student days in Germany under Ewald and Lotze; upon his literary and professional work in London, where he became professor of philosophy in University college. But it dwells most affectionately upon his vacations and upon the men and women whose intimacy or acquaintance he enjoyed.”—Nation

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“An inspiring reminiscent volume.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Je 7 ’19 1400w

“A very readable contribution to biographical literature and to the intellectual history of an important period is offered in Professor James Sully’s volume of reminiscences.” R. H. Lowie

+ =Freeman= 2:524 F 9 ’21 760w

+ =Nation= 109:446 S 27 ’19 250w

“His memoirs are not great in themselves: it is rather the friendships they chronicle that add lustre to them.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 27 ’20 160w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w

“By those who wish to enjoy the society of the superior Hampsteadians of the last quarter of the last century, Dr Sully’s autobiography should be read, and will certainly be relished.”

+ =Sat R= 126:sup10 N 23 ’18 1050w

“Dr Sully’s new volume belongs to that class of books, unhappily rare, which are much more pleasant to read than to criticise. Its merits, like those of a well-baked cake, are diffused imperceptibly throughout the whole mass; it does not lend itself to quotation; there are many plums, but to savour their true excellence they have to be taken in their original environment.”

+ =Spec= 121:460 O 26 ’18 940w

“Dr Sully contributes to literature a book of value as well as interest in ‘My life and my friends.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 25 ’21 1100w

=SUMMERS, A. LEONARD.= Asbestos and the asbestos industry. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman 553.6

20–9018

“Until the completion of this work, there existed no comprehensive book on the absorbing study of asbestos.... The uses and scope of asbestos having now become universal, it has long been felt that a book thereon was much needed, so few people really understanding the subject; and the author (for many years closely associated with the industry), while avoiding as far as possible too dry and tiresome technicalities, has dealt with everything of real interest and utility in a concise and popular style to appeal to every class of reader.” (Foreword) There are illustrations by the author and from photographs and the book is indexed.

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“The volume on ‘Asbestos’ decidedly suffers by comparison with its companion volume [on ‘Zinc’ by T. E. Lones] as the author does not take care to avoid a number of errors, which, though common enough in the trade, ought not to find their way into a book of this description.”

+ − =Nature= 105:194 Ap 15 ’20 300w

“As a catalogue of finished products the volume will find use; as a text-book covering the technical preparation of asbestos it hardly merits consideration.”

+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w

=SUMMERS, WALTER COVENTRY.= Silver age of Latin literature. *$3 Stokes 870

The period covered is from Tiberius to Trajan. The preface says: “The term ‘Silver Latin’ is often applied loosely to all the post-Augustan literature of Rome: in this book it has been reserved for that earlier part of it which, in spite of a definite decline in taste and freshness, deserves nevertheless to be sharply distinguished from the baser metals of the imitative or poverty-stricken periods which followed.” (Preface) A chronological table is followed by discussions on: The declamations and the pointed style; The epic; Drama; Verse satire; Light and miscellaneous verse; Oratory; History, biography and memoirs; Philosophy; Prose-satire and romance; Correspondence; Grammar, criticism and rhetoric; Scientific and technical prose. There are notes on translations and an index.

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“The book contains some smooth translations, of which, as might be expected, the renderings from the satirists are probably the most successful. Without stating any particularly fresh theory, Mr Summers covers the old ground very thoroughly.”

+ =Ath= p435 O 1 ’20 640w

“In ‘The silver age of Latin literature,’ we are given a text-book, admirably written and closely digested, that is an open door to a literature that often amazes us by its evident modernity.”

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 1500w

“Rather dull. But Prof. Summers is full of learning on the period which is not commonly mastered by classical students; and his record is so thorough that it should not be neglected.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 70w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 400w

=SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM.= What social classes owe to each other. 2d ed *$1.50 (4c) Harper 171

20–8048

This is a republication of Prof. Sumner’s book on ‘Social classes’ with an introduction by his successor to the chair of social science at Yale university, Albert Galloway Keller. Prof. Keller thinks that our age, more than any other, needs an unflinching statement of the individualistic position, of laissez-faire. “At a time when the world is menaced with the curtailment of civil liberty and the paralysis of individual initiative through weird and grotesque developments of socialism ... the man who takes to heart the truths of this little

## book cannot be led by the nose even into that pseudo-open-mindedness

that toys with bolshevism and anarchism.” (Foreword)

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“The book is a brilliant piece of writing, an impassioned vindication of individualism, a resolute arraignment of the social meddling and social doctors that were popular in 1883, are now, and perhaps always will be.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 240w

=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 100w

“Plausible as all this may have sounded in 1883, it seems unfair to the memory of an eminent scholar to resurrect a study in which such manifestly outgrown sentiments are predominant.” Ordway Tead

− =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 220w

“Whatever we may think of such old-fashioned individualism, it is wholesome to have a dash of it now and then, and the reading of such a book as this, like a cold bath after a warm day, is both refreshing and stimulating.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 270w

=SWEETSER, ARTHUR.=[2] League of nations at work. *$1.75 Macmillan 341.1

20–17503

“A series of articles contributed to the New York Evening Post by Arthur Sweetser, a member of the American peace commission, is published in book form. Mr Sweetser writes to clear away misconceptions and to make the purposes and the actual machinery of the league as clear as possible. Mr Sweetser’s study covers in detail the permanent court, the secretariat, the questions of disarmament, minorities and mandates, international labor and health organizations, freedom of transit, economic co-operation and open diplomacy.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w

“He shows a very clear understanding of essentials and he presents his well-digested knowledge in clear language, with simple figures to drive home his points. As a popular elucidation of the league, Mr Sweetser’s book is from every point of view commendable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 310w

=SWEETSER, ARTHUR, and LAMONT, GORDON.= Opportunities in aviation. il *$1 (3½c) Harper 629.1

20–2110

The authors of this volume, one a captain in the American air service, the other a lieutenant in the Royal air force of Canada, claim that it is the training, not the individual, that makes the pilot and that “any ordinary, active man, provided he has reasonably good eyesight and nerve, can fly, and fly well. If he has nerve enough to drive an automobile through the streets of a large city ... he can take himself off the ground in an airplane, and also land—a thing vastly more difficult and dangerous.” (Introd.) The authors also claim that aeronautics in the future must cease to be a highly specialized business, that the airplane will become a conveyance of everyday civilian use and that what they have written is based on actual accomplishments to date. Contents: War’s conquest of the air; The transition to peace; Training an airplane pilot; Safety in flying; Qualifications of an airplane mechanic; The first crossing of the Atlantic; Landing-fields—the immediate need; The airplane’s brother; The call of the skies; Addendum.

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+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Selections; ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise. *$2 Doran 821

(Eng ed 20–9019)

Mr Gosse and Mr Wise, who edited Swinburne’s letters and a collection of “Posthumous poems,” have prepared the first selection from his works since the one compiled by Watts-Dunton in 1887. This early volume, the present editors say, “was not broadly characteristic of Swinburne’s many moods and variety of subjects.” The aim has been to make the new selection more representative.

* * * * *

“Without having at hand the older volume of selections made by Swinburne himself it may yet be said that the present selection is a good one. It would have been more ‘representative’ if it had included one or two of the ‘Songs before sunrise,’ and the omission of ‘Laus veneris’ and especially ‘The leper’ is regrettable. What one would like to have would be a volume of selections including these poems and omitting the two choruses from ‘Atalanta,’ and another volume containing the whole of ‘Atalanta.’” T. S. E.

+ − =Ath= p72 Ja 16 ’20 1400w

=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

“The present selection is, in almost every way, admirable, and represents adequately the poetical genius of the author.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 140w

=Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 40w

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 160w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w

“Lovers of Swinburne will be grateful to Mr Gosse and Mr Wise.”

+ =Spec= 124:463 Ap 3 ’20 50w

“So long as a selection contains the ‘Triumph of time,’ the ‘Garden of Proserpine,’ ‘Hertha,’ the Atalanta choruses, and a few others, it will content us; these we need, and beyond these whatever else is included the editor may be at peace—we shall take it and be satisfied.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p732 D 11 ’19 1000w

=SWINDLER, ROBERT EARL.= Causes of war. *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 902

20–1549

“This publication is based on the idea that it is idle to talk of world peace without an intelligent world understanding. ‘The causes of war’ is designed to meet the need of a systematic organization of the great mass of material concerning the war. It gives all the essential points, and is equally suited to the busy student, teacher, or general reader. The work includes not only an outline and study of the world war together with the official peace negotiations, but also a survey of all the wars that preceded with particular emphasis upon those since 1870.”—School R

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“This volume is pertinent and timely. It is one of the most convenient reference books on a subject of universal interest that has so far been published, and is well-nigh indispensable for writers and speakers.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 160w

“The work is so clearly and logically written that it is particularly valuable for use in current history classes.”

+ =School R= 28:237 Mr ’20 200w

=SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR.= September, *$1.90 (2c) Doran

19–18833

Mr Swinnerton’s new novel is a story of the coming and passing of love in the late summer of a woman’s life. As in his memorable “Nocturne,” the characters are four: Marian Forster; her husband, Howard; Cherry Mant; and Nigel Sinclair. In the beginning, Howard, who is eleven years older than his wife, and far past his youth, is carrying on a love affair with Cherry, a girl of twenty and daughter of one of Marian’s friends. Marian is shocked, not at Howard’s faithlessness, which is an old story to her, but at Cherry’s bright callousness, for irresistibly she feels herself drawn to the girl. Then comes Nigel, young, charming and adoring, to offer her his boyish adulation and surprise her into love. But youth responds to youth and Nigel is won over by Cherry. The interplay of emotions is delicately complex, involving on Marian’s side love for Nigel, sympathy for Howard, and genuine friendship for Cherry.

* * * * *

“Mr Swinnerton’s analysis of the women’s characters is singularly penetrating. He makes the conflict and its solution arise inevitably out of the two opposed natures; the plot and the characterization are not two distinct things, but the same.”

+ =Ath= p962 S 26 ’19 140w

=Ath= p1002 O 10 ’19 1150w

+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:81 Mr ’20 750w

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w

“Granted his acceptance of the established romantic values of fiction, he has concocted a good story, serious and sensitive along its own lines.” F. H.

+ − =New Repub= 22:63 Mr 10 ’20 1650w

“‘Nocturne’ established Frank Swinnerton as one of the highly promising novelists in the young English group that is building an age of novels in England commensurate with the two great periods of the past. ‘September,’ to our mind, is an even greater and more penetrating study of the human mind and heart.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 420w

“The novel lacks something of the intensity, vividness and variety of ‘Nocturne’ which still remains Mr Swinnerton’s best book, but it is a very great improvement on the rather disappointing ‘Shops and houses.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w

“The beautiful artistic quality of the author’s wonderful ‘Nocturne’ appears again in this new book, one of the most notable productions of the season.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 150w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub= W 97:174 Ja 17 ’20 500w

“Mr Swinnerton’s sensitivism, if the term may properly be applied to him, is on the side of the angels. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he does not throw decency overboard because hypocrites exist, or exalt impulse over principle.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:85 Ja 24 ’20 450w

“The book is one that almost any English novelist might have been proud to write.”

+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 80w

+ − =Spec= 123:773 D 6 ’19 440w

“The relationship between the two women is the theme of the book; and as Mr Swinnerton has been at pains to endow each with character, and to make out from his own insight how such a relation might shape itself, the development is original enough to have an unusual air of truth.”

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

=SWINNERTON, HELEN (DIRCKS) (MRS FRANK SWINNERTON).= Passenger. *$1.50 Doran 821

(Eng ed 20–16192)

In introducing this book of poems Frank Swinnerton refers to originality and candour as their outstanding qualities. Of the author he says, “Whatever technical faults her verses may have they remain altogether unspoilt by literary sophistication.” Some of the titles are: Underground; Withholding; Then and now; Alone; Piccadilly, 1917; America, 1917; London in war; The betrayal; Adjustment; Garden song; Trying to sleep; The traveller; In the dark.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 300w

“Many of these pieces are happy little efforts in lyrical poems of love or regret, and the whiffs of verse in vers libre are felicitous.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= Je 3 ’20 110w

=SWISHER, WALTER SAMUEL.= Religion and the new psychology. *$2 Jones, Marshall 201

20–12542

“A psycho-analytic study of religion,” with chapters devoted to: The nature of the religious problem; The nature of the unconscious and its influence on the religious life; The motivation of human life; Determinism and free-will; Mysticism and neurotic states; The problem of evil; Pathological religious types; The occult in modern religious systems; Conversion and attendant phenomena; The changing basis and objective of religion; Methods of mental and religious healing; The religious problem in education. Two appendices are devoted to: Dreams and dream mechanisms and Birth dreams. There is a brief bibliography and an index. The author goes rather fully into the principles of psycho-analysis and the book may serve as an introduction to those who have not read widely on the subject.

* * * * *

“The most useful part of the book deals with religious education and illustrates the baneful effects of early religious fears. The author is dogmatic in his statements regarding the religious and non-ethical life of primitive people. Most of the readers, familiar with psychoanalytic literature, will turn from the book with the conviction that a satisfactory discussion of religion and the new psychology is hardly to be expected from within the ministerial profession. The book would serve a useful purpose were it not unlikely to be read by those who need it most.” E. R. Groves

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:376 N ’20 240w

+ =Booklist= 17:8 O ’20

“Rarely, perhaps never, has a writer failed so signally to accomplish his aim. The book is a heterogeneous mass of poorly digested, badly assimilated psychology, and worse religion, while from the pedagogical point of view that which he says has been said many times.” Joseph Collins

− =Bookm= 52:172 O ’20 620w

=Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 80w

“That much is here done to illustrate the indubitable connection between the religious motives of mankind and other motives and faculties, is true; it is also true that the book by swallowing the Freudian system of sex symbols too uncritically makes itself a candidate for laughter in that day, sure to come, when the excesses of Freud will recall the excesses of Max Müller.”

+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 120w

Reviewed by G. E. Partridge

=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 570w

“Like many other books on psycho-analysis, this one proves that until expounders of this theory develop greater balance or a keener sense of humor in considering the phenomena of sex, there is small likelihood of their labors resulting in a substantial addition to our scientific understanding of ourselves.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 190w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p863 D 16 ’20 100w

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=TAFT, HENRY WATERS.= Occasional papers and addresses of an American lawyer. *$2.50 (2½c) Macmillan 304

20–10712

Of these addresses the author says, in his long introduction, that “the march of events has been so rapid that little more than a historic interest now attaches to the subjects they deal with,” but he hopes they may stimulate the younger members of the legal profession to greater effort in promoting the effective administration of justice and in the duties of citizenship. The contents, in part, are: Address to the Harvard law school students delivered in 1908; Some responsibilities of the American lawyer; The bar in the war; Report of the war committee; Aspects of bolshevism and Americanism; The League of nations; Sovereignty, constitutionality and the Monroe doctrine; What is to be done with our railroads? Some of the papers appeared in the New York Times.

* * * * *

“Mr Taft brings to his consideration of these subjects sound information and a forceful dignity of judgment.”

+ =Ind= 105:171 F 12 ’21 40w

“A fresh, clear viewpoint, together with that true liberalism which is the fruit of independent thought, makes these essays enjoyable. One of the most interesting of all is the introduction, in which there are some critical and friendly estimates of Theodore Roosevelt and of some of the things proposed by him—these latter more critical and not quite so friendly, though never ungenerous or unfair.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 S 12 ’20 2100w

“They are uniformly clear, good tempered, and conservatively progressive.”

+ =Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 80w

=TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD.= Taft papers on League of nations. *$4.50 Macmillan 341.1

20–19170

The papers are edited by Theodore Marburg and Horace E. Flack and the former, in a long introduction, sets forth the reasons why they are an evidence of the ex-president’s grasp of the guiding legal principles of our government and of the attitude of mind which the best thought and feeling of the country heartily accept as true Americanism. Among the papers are: League to enforce peace; The Paris covenant for a league of nations; Constitutionality of the proposals; The purposes of the League; Self determination; Workingmen and the League; Why a league of nations is necessary; Disarmament of nations and freedom of the seas; President Wilson and the League of nations; Senator Lodge on the League of nations; Representation in the League; Ireland and the League; Answer to Senator Knox’s indictment; Guaranties of article X. The book is indexed.

* * * * *

“Although this important collection of documents appears subsequent to the conclusion of the ‘solemn referendum,’ and the fall of Wilsonism in our country, it will doubtless prove of great value when the new régime shall come in and the whole question of the League of nations shall be definitely disposed of.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 780w

“This volume embodies much of the soundest thinking on the subject of the League of nations that has thus far found expression in America.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:224 F ’21 120w

=TAGGART, MARION AMES.= Pilgrim maid. il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday

20–5775

For the heroine of her story for girls the author has chosen Constance Hopkins, a real maid of Plymouth who came in the Mayflower in 1620 with her father, her stepmother and younger brothers and sister. Other real people have a place in the story too, among them John Alden and Priscilla. The preface says, “The aim has been to present Plymouth colony as it was in its first three years of existence; to keep to possibilities, even while inventing incidents. Actual events have been transferred from a later to an earlier year.... But there is fidelity to the general trend of events, above all to the spirit of Plymouth in its beginnings.”

* * * * *

“Interesting, though accentuating the severity of Puritan life. For older girls.”

+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20

“‘A Pilgrim maid’ is that rare thing, a really good story for girls. It is a story first and history second.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w

=TALBOT, FREDERICK ARTHUR AMBROSE.=[2] Millions from waste. il *$5 Lippincott 604

20–2995

“The present volume deals with the reclamation of waste of all kinds, from scrap-iron to fish-offal. Although it is written from the British standpoint, the solutions that are given of the various problems are as applicable to American conditions. In general, each chapter considers some particular kind of waste product, discussing both the extent of such waste and the processes that have been developed for utilizing these products. Wastes from the kitchen, the slaughter-house, the fishing industry, the ash-can, the sewer, the metal industry, and many other branches are discussed.”—Mining and Scientific Press

* * * * *

“This timely book combines to a marked degree solidity of substance with an entertaining style.” C: W. Mixter

+ =Am Econ R= 10:824 D ’20 950w

=Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 180w

=Brooklyn= 12:129 My ’20 30w

“The treatment is popular enough to be interesting, but not so popular as to fail of being informative.”

+ =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:177 Ja 31 ’20 150w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ’20 110w

“A capital book for the general reader.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 120w

=TALBOT, WINTHROP, comp, and ed.= Americanization. 2d ed rev. and enl. by Julia E. Johnsen. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 Wilson. H. W. 325.7

20–8819

In this second edition the bibliography is brought down to date and fifty-three pages of new matter are added. In these additional reprints “special endeavor has been made to emphasize the more concrete aspect of Americanisation.” (Explanatory note)

* * * * *

“Eminently suited to its purpose.”

+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w

=Booklist= 16:358 Jl ’20

“The purely political aspects of the subject—especially the effect of deportation proceedings—are not yet included. Perhaps the editors have been wise in limiting their attention to the purely constructive efforts. The book in its present form should prove very useful to Americanization workers.”

+ =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 30w

=TANSLEY, ARTHUR GEORGE.= New psychology and its relation to life. *$4 Dodd 150

(Eng ed SG20–137)

While the old psychology has over-emphasized the purely rational faculties of the mind, the new psychology recognizes the importance of its unconscious processes. The object of the book is to set forth the fundamental importance of the instinctive sources of human actions, and the part played by psychotherapy in throwing light upon normal mental processes. Part 1 describes the scope of the new psychology and the problem of the relationship of mind and body. The other divisions or the contents are: The structure of the mind; The energy of the mind; By-ways of the libido; Reasons and rationalization; The contents of the mind. There is an index.

* * * * *

“Mr Tansley has written a really excellent exposition and summary of the chief speculations in modern psychology.”

+ =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 220w

“The author reveals throughout his work the poise of the man who has mastered his subject. The book will be welcomed by those who wish to know the latest developments in psychology.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 2 ’20 810w

“His survey of the Freudian theories is both readable and clear. His graphic method of presenting the interaction between consciousness and the unconscious in convenient spatial diagrams is very helpful as long as the reader guards himself against taking them too literally.” A. B. Kuttner

+ − =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 730w

“Mr Tansley’s book is most satisfactory when he is dealing with such matters as the interpretation of dreams, the ‘rationalisations’ by which men try to justify conduct which is really prompted by non-rational motives, and the great psychic complexes which correspond to the main instincts of man. The book is less satisfactory in the general theoretical chapters with which it opens.” H. S.

+ =Nature= 105:770 Ag 19 ’20 780w

“Mr Tansley’s book seems to me the best general survey of psychology now available. It is the best, partly because it is the latest, but chiefly because Mr Tansley enjoys a fine gift of exposition. He himself has an orderly and a lucid mind, and an unfailing respect for the reader.” W. L.

+ |=New Repub= 25:112 D 22 ’20 1000w

“Particularly interesting is his discussion of the ‘universal complexes’ of the ego, herd, and sex which result from the play of experience upon the primary instincts. The book is on the whole free from those pathological exaggerations which characterize so many of the productions of so-called psychoanalysts.” Bernard Glueck

+ =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 250w

“Mr Tansley is not, however, a blind follower of these authorities; he has preserved his independence of view, and produced an original and stimulating discussion.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 100w

=TAPPAN, EVA MARCH.= Hero stories of France. il *$1.75 (3c) Houghton 944

20–7446

These stories, written for children, begin with the first encounters of the Gauls with the Romans under Caesar, and the gallant patriot hero Vercingetorix’ desperate efforts to save his country from the powerful conqueror. From the entire history of France, down to our own time and Marshal Foch, heroic personalities are selected and among them are: Vercingetorix; Clovis; Charlemagne; The six heroes of Calais; Jeanne d’Arc; Coligny; Henry of Navarre; Richelieu; Lafayette; Napoleon the Great, and “Napoleon the Little”; and Marshal Foch. The

## book is illustrated.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20

=TARBELL, IDA MINERVA.= In Lincoln’s chair. *$1 (11c) Macmillan

20–5208

In fiction form, this is a condensed story of the life of Lincoln as told, by way of reminiscence, by Billy Brown, in his drugstore on the public square of Springfield, Illinois, and while his listener was seated opposite him in “Lincoln’s chair.” It brings out the salient features of Lincoln’s life before he went to Washington, his views on God, and their influence on his intellectual development, his early experiences as a lawyer, and his political progress.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w

“Must a saint or hero be all sugar, without spice or salt? Miss Ida M. Tarbell seems to think so still more in her imaginary conversation ‘In Lincoln’s chair’ than she did a dozen years ago in ‘He knew Lincoln.’ The moment she leaves the cold path of history she falls into the most abandoned myth-making.”

− =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 160w

=TARN, WILLIAM WOODTHORPE.= Treasure of the isle of mist. *$1.90 (5c) Putnam

20–1903

This is a delightfully fantastic story of a student and his little daughter Fiona who lived on the Isle of mist on the shores of a gray sea-loch. The old hawker who came to them with a pack of buttons to sell and who gave Fiona an old copper bangle bracelet, and the “search” turned out in the end to have been the king of fairies. The bracelet gave Fiona the power to talk with animals—to hold long philosophic conversations with a centipede—and to see and talk with the spirit of the mountain. But it was not only on account of the bracelet that she could do this but—because she was a child and could still see. When the treasure cave was closed up to her by a great fall of rock she knew that now she was too old for the search. The chapters are headed: The gift of the search; The beginning of trouble; The haunted cave; The urchin vanishes; The oread; The king of the woodcock; Fiona in the fairy-world; Fiona finds her treasure.

* * * * *

“Delicately imaginative and beautifully written.”

+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“An exquisite fantasy of youth and autumn.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:259 N ’20 670w

“W. W. Tarn has written a book so beautiful, so whimsical, so exquisite alike in its humor, its loveliness and its sheer charm that it will be a dull reader indeed to whom it does not bring an abiding joy. This is a rare and beautiful book, a real discovery.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 850w

“The fact is that Mr Tarn, apart from his lovely scenery, has adorned his tale with a remarkably bushy moral, excellent for Fionas and Urchins as such, but un-fairyish.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p740 D 11 ’19 900w

=TASSIN, ALGERNON DE VIVIER.= Craft of the tortoise. *$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812

19–18735

A satirical play in four acts tracing the evolution of the present status of woman, especially her social supremacy over man, from the ancient faraway beginnings to the present day. The play is built on the premise that woman, at first a slave, subjugated to man’s will and power, had to resort to trickery, exploitation of her sex attractions, and a clever use of clothing and adornment, in order to get ahead of her lord and owner; and that she finally made a complete reversal of social conditions. In his long introduction, brilliant and with a certain Bernard Shaw piquancy, the author is complimentary to neither sex. Having in his introduction compared woman with the tortoise in the fable racing with the gamboling hare, the author has titled the four acts respectively: The tortoise finds herself; Tortoise turns the first corner; Tortoise strikes her gait; Tortoise on the home stretch. The first three are remotely laid in that past so alluring to the imagination, the last is a satiric picture of modern life.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20

“In the preface, Mr Tassin’s style reminds one of Chesterton in its sharp shafts of wit and depths of irony. The first and second acts are excellent in their humor and sardonic style, the third lapses momentarily, and the fourth merely ‘carries on.’”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 280w

“The plays hover between satire and burlesque, and contain much that is arbitrary, didactic, and as inept as the figurative title; but they contrive to be both entertaining and provocative.”

+ − =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w

“An ingenious and sometimes witty satire.”

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w

“The source of this play in Mr Tassin’s mind was some moment of extreme irritation over the modern American woman. But to jump to the conclusion, as many would at once, that he is an anti-feminist, would be quite erroneous. The play has wit, it has wisdom, it has keen characterization of the purely intellectual sort, and it has dramatic energy.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 110:148 Ja 31 ’20 1100w

“Undoubtedly in many respects this dramatic symposium is outrageously unfair. It is a bit of special pleading, at once vigorous and shallow, which it would be absurd to take too seriously. And it is marred by a spice of somewhat cheap and unattractive cynicism. But it is a piece of literary and dramatic workmanship of highly superior quality.” J. R. Towse

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 800w

“It is quite amusing in parts, although it is written to the length of prolixity. Mr Tassin’s characterizations are entertaining; he scores his points with consistency if one accepts his premises, and reveals a genuine humor that is admirable.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 460w

“In spite of a satyrical vein which makes many of the scenes amusing, the entertainment is too heavy for continuous enjoyment. The known facts of anthropology and history are in places perverted into grotesque misstatements.” B. L.

− + =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 110w

=TAUSSIG, FRANK WILLIAM.= Free trade, the tariff and reciprocity. *$2 Macmillan 337

20–1763

“A collection of papers and addresses covering the phases of the tariff controversy now chiefly under discussion in the United States by the Henry Lee professor of economics at Harvard (who has been chairman of the United States tariff commission).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The papers have been taken from talks to various audiences and periodical articles from 1904 to date discussing the tariff pro and con in a form usable by the general reader.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Am Econ R= 10:616 S ’20 140w

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w

“Useful to high schools.”

+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20

“Dr Taussig’s authority, which rests alike upon research and watchful, even-tempered criticism, is preeminent.”

+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w

“The volume is characterized by more of unity than usually attaches to such a collection, and the reader will find in it a coherent, consistent presentation of the author’s views on the main issues of the tariff question. In a time marked by the uncertainties and confusions which characterize domestic conditions and foreign relations today, it is not surprising to find the author chary of dogmatism as to the future course of events.” F: C. Mills

+ =J Philos= 17:334 Je 3 ’20 360w

“Each problem is handled with the author’s characteristic open-mindedness. Each conclusion is reached after painstaking analysis, with a realization that future developments and changes in economic factors may take from an argument all its force.”

+ =J Pol Econ= 28:524 Je ’20 300w

Reviewed by Bertram Benedict

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 16 ’20 850w

“There is no safer guide on these topics than Dr Taussig. He was never an opportunist, but ever a preacher of the true word, with little if any reference to partisan expediency. Therefore, he is able to reproduce his arguments for the most part without change. Dr Taussig is a popular as well as an authoritative writer.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 18 ’20 1000w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 40w

=TAWNEY, RICHARD HENRY.= Acquisitive society. *$1.40 Harcourt 330

20–21421

The author holds that no change of system or machinery can avert those causes of social malaise which consist in the egotism, greed, or quarrelsomeness of human nature. But it can create an environment in which these qualities are not encouraged; it can offer people an end on which to fix their minds, thus, in the long run directing their practical activity. To think of the economic organization of society on the basis of function rather than of rights, is a habit of mind to be encouraged. It implies three things: that proprietary rights shall be maintained when they are accompanied by the performance of service and abolished when they are not; that the producers shall stand in direct relation to the community for whom production is carried on; that the obligation for the maintenance of the service shall rest upon the professional organization of those who perform it. Contents: Rights and functions; The acquisitive society; The nemesis of industrialism; Property and creative work; The functional society; Industry as a profession; The “vicious circle”; The condition of efficiency; The position of the brain worker; Porro unum necessarium; Index.

* * * * *

“The author uses sound logic and pertinent historic facts to maintain his cause and there can be little doubt that this book will exert a great influence for good, for his theory is perfectly consistent with Christian principle.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 240w

“This little book is destined, we believe, to be regarded as a classic masterpiece upon its subject. The treatment is at once profound and brilliant; brilliant because it gives powerfull and worthy expression to profound thought.” D. S. Miller

+ =New Repub= 23:130 Je 23 ’20 2300w

“He advocates revolutionary doctrines with temperateness and a seasoned mind. He writes of the ‘nemesis of industrialism,’ but with no trace of fanaticism.” R. B. Perry

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 Ja 29 ’21 650w

“Cleverly written pamphlet. It is encouraging to find that one Socialist at least is on the right track.”

+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 660w

=TAYLOR, EMERSON GIFFORD.= New England in France, 1917–1919. il *$5 Houghton 940.373

20–19427

The book is the record of the Twenty-sixth division of the American Expeditionary force, whose organization, personnel and record as a fighting unit are typical of American fighting troops in the field, on the march, in billets, or in the heat of battle. It is also the story of volunteer American citizens, non-professional soldiery. The contents in part are: Organizing the division; Overseas; Settling down in France; The chemin des dames; On the march; The Le Reine (Boucq) sector; The fights at Bois Brulé and Seicheprey; The affairs of May and June; The Aisne-Marne offensive; The Saint-Mihiel offensive; In the Meuse-Argonne offensive; Before the armistice and after. The book is illustrated and indexed and has six maps.

* * * * *

=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 50w

=TAYLOR, FRANCES LILIAN.=[2] Two Indian children of long ago. il 70c Beckley-Cardy 398.2

A book that combines information about the Indians with stories drawn from Indian myth and legend. “The author has endeavored to describe child life in the wild-rice region west of the Great Lakes ... and to retell some of the most interesting stories enjoyed by Indian children. The aim of the book is to gratify the American child’s natural interest in primitive life by stories of our own land and to increase his respect for all that is original and worthy in the lives of the first Americans.”

=TAYLOR, IDA ASHWORTH.= Joan of Arc, soldier and saint. il *$1.50 (2½c) Kenedy

A very simple and direct presentation of the life story of Joan of Arc. A prefatory note states: “The list of the lives of Joan is long; but some are too lengthy, some too much weighted with historical complications and details of campaigns, some too full of more or less controversial matter, to commend themselves to young readers. The following narrative is purely a personal record of her deeds and ideals, recounted, whenever possible, in her own words or in those of contemporary chronicles and in the archives of her tragic condemnation as heretic, her death as martyr, and her triumphant rehabilitation.” There are eight black and white illustrations by W. Graham Robertson.

=TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND.= Yellow soap. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday

20–10312

In an atmosphere of yellow soap, Theodore Hargraves Bradly grew up—laundry soap, for his mother was a washerwoman. She tried her best to bring him up as a gentleman, as, she impressed upon him, his father had been. At her death, he was left at seventeen, to shift for himself and became a ‘Knight of the road,’ which calling he followed for several years. He then came into an unexpected fortune and proceeded to gratify his own desires and those of his pals of the road. Running along with his story is that of Frances Milton, the little girl in whose home his mother had done washing, and whose childhood, in its way, was unhappier than his. She was always his ideal and when their paths cross again, the barriers which he had erected between them on account of his origin, proved to be no barriers at all.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 500w

“Despite its many crudities and its frequent unconvincingness, the book shows a real gift for the creation of character, much inventive faculty and an instinct for story-telling that promise worth-while achievement in the future.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 420w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w

=TEAD, ORDWAY, and METCALF, HENRY CLAYTON.= Personnel administration; its principles and practice. *$5 McGraw 331.1

20–13089

“The field of their task is defined by the authors as setting forth the principles and the best prevailing practice in the field of the administration of human relations in industry; and they take up seriatim the personnel department, employment methods, health and safety, education, research (job analysis, specifications, etc.), rewards, administrative correlation, and joint relations.”—Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

* * * * *

“An unusually full index adds much to the usefulness of this valuable and timely volume.” T. T. Read

+ =Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering= 23:642 S 29 ’20 1150w

“An honest and intelligent effort to induce employers to face the industrial problem intelligently and with a liberal spirit. Although not as incisively phrased or as brilliant as Sidney Webb’s ‘Works manager today,’ or Commons’s ‘Industrial good will,’ this is nevertheless a good book in a field where good books are unfortunately rare.” P. H. Douglas

+ =J Pol Econ= 28:790 N ’20 500w

Reviewed by G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 230w

+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 40w

“Adequate scholarship and a fine instinct for democracy characterize the writing.” W: L. Chenery

+ =Survey= 45:167 O 30 ’20 450w

=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Little garden the year round. il *$2.50 Dutton 716.2

20–181

“Mr Teall has had much experience as an editor of House and Garden and American Homes and Gardens to sponsor his name on a book cover. It isn’t merely a horticultural handbook that he offers, such as any enterprising seedsman might evolve for the guidance of the uninitiated; this is the work of a garden litterateur, a man who knows the flowers, knows what to say about them, and what the poets have said about them and various other things that are more or less essential ingredients of a real garden essay or a series of them. He writes ‘to convey some sense of the joys of gardening, some realization of the pleasures that find place in the heart and soul of one who combines the companionship of prose and poetry in the going about his gardening.’”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“One somehow gets the impression from this book that a garden-maker must be completely happy—or would be if it were not for slugs, aphids, and red spiders. Mr Teall writes with contagious enthusiasm and full knowledge of his subject.”

+ =Outlook= 124:337 F 25 ’20 70w

+ =Review= 2:392 Ap 17 ’20 750w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 220w

=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Pleasures of collecting; being sundry delectable excursions in the realm of antiques and curios, American, European and oriental. il *$4 (6½c) Century 749

20–17080

“The contentment to be found in the acquisition and in the contemplation of the things that are dear to the heart of the antiquarian and the art-lover is a contentment that is the gift of the gods, always awarded the intelligent, though not always disclosed to them. A friend, then, will be he who discovers to one a treasure like that which the joy of collecting uncovers.... And so it is that this little book is not devised for savages, but tenderly has been nurtured in sympathy with the interesting and beautiful things of yesterday.” (Foreword) Among the contents are: The pleasures of collecting; Collectors of yesterday; American tables; Tea and antiquity; Chintz; Pewter; Samplers; Hand-woven coverlets; Chairs; English drinking-glasses; Delft; Early desk furniture; Saving the pieces; Consoles; The romance of a potter; Bernard Palissy; Italian Maiolica; Engraved gems; Fraudulent art objects. There are many illustrations, an extended bibliography and an index.

* * * * *

“Useful to the collector, it will also beguile leisure moments of others.”

+ =Booklist= 17:103 D ’20

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 800w

“Any one who harbors even the germ of the collecting habit will find it developing in the glowing atmosphere of the author’s enthusiasm.”

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w

“Of course there is not enough about any one hobby to more than whet the appetite for a deeper acquaintance with the subject; and the book opens up vistas that are impractical for any but millionaires. Nevertheless. It is also a book for general reading and will prove entertaining to many a reader who gets much pleasure from looking into shop windows without being able to purchase the goods behind the glass.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ’20 280w

=TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER).= Flame and shadow. *$1.75 Macmillan 811

20–19070

“Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death. In this latest book we may watch the conflict between the light that comes from the everlasting flame and the darkness that is the ever-present shadow.... There are many poems in ‘Flame and shadow’ to delight those who cannot share her philosophy. There are songs of the faithful beauty of Aldebaran and Altair, and songs of the open sea and the mountains. It is necessary to mention, also, the songs of places, of St Louis, of New York, and Santa Barbara, and the songs of people and of their secret thoughts, ‘rushing without sound’ from the hidden places of their minds. But the best of Sara Teasdale’s songs of people are her love songs, always.”—N Y Times

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“While other melodists are still copying the effects of Sara Teasdale, Miss Teasdale has stopped imitating herself. The clean, straightforward idiom of ‘Rivers to the sea’ has a warmer naturalism in ‘Flame and shadow,’ a more spontaneous intensity.” L: Untermeyer

+ =Bookm= 52:361 Ja ’21 600w

“Into these songs are gathered many an element, many a mood, many an image that I cannot display here upon the screen of comment. It is indeed almost like sacrilege to do ought but read and be delighted by the rare and subtle presentment of them in Miss Teasdale’s songs.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 1200w

“Sara Teasdale seems constantly assailed with two temptations, and it is only at intervals that she entirely surmounts them. One is the temptation to make effective endings, to save up points and appeals for a last line. The other temptation is to deal exclusively in stock love-lyric materials.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 360w

Reviewed by Babette Deutsch

=N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 150w

“This is a book to read with reverence of joy.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1750w

+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 30w

=TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, ALEXANDER LOUIS.= Tyltyl. il *$5 (21c) Dodd

20–18246

A prose version of Maeterlinck’s play “The betrothal” prepared by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The story is told in seven chapters: The woodcutter’s cottage; The miser; The fairy’s palace; The ancestors; The children; The leave-taking; The awakening. There are eight colored illustrations by Herbert Paus.

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Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 20w

“The pictures here are distinctly made for the text, not merely repetitions of the play.”

+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 160w

“It has all the appeal to both young and old that Maeterlinck is able to conjure with such apparent ease. It is a fascinating story. Paus has achieved a sort of stained glass quality in the illustrations, and this effect is enhanced by the mounting.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 190w

+ =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 50w

=TELBERG, GEORGE GUSTAV, and WILTON, ROBERT.=[2] Last days of the Romanovs. il *$3 Doran 947

20–21942

The book consists of two independent parts. Part one contains an account of the judicial examinations of the witnesses connected with the life of the family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by N. A. Sokoloff and copies of the depositions taken from the Omsk archives by George Gustav Telberg, after the fall of the Kolchak régime. Part two is the narrative of Mr Robert Wilton, for sixteen years correspondent of the London Times in Russia. While part one is taken up almost entirely with the examination of witnesses Mr Wilton’s narrative contains: Prologue; The stage and the actors; No escape; Alexandra misjudged; Razputin the peasant; Captives in a palace; Exile in Siberia; The last prison; Planning the crime; Calvary; “Without trace”; Damning evidence; All the Romanovs; The jackals; By order of the “Tsik”; The red kaiser; Epilogue. Among the contents of Part three are a list of the members of the imperial family at the outbreak of the revolution, a chronology of the documents and an alphabetical index of names.

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“We cannot speak very highly of Mr Wilton’s method of handling this tragic history. His narrative contains much that is of interest and importance, but it seems to have been hastily written, and it is diffuse, occasionally slangy, and hotly argumentative. The second part of the book is the more interesting.”

+ − =Ath= p518 O 15 ’20 580w

=Booklist= 17:154 Ja ’21

“To the present reviewer at least Mr Wilton’s habit of intemperate statement largely vitiates whatever of truth there may be to his charges. This allowance being made, however, the present work is really invaluable as historical evidence, and simply as a human document and a dramatic picture of life it possesses a profound and poignant interest.” J: Bunker

+ − =Bookm= 52:364 Ja ’21 800w

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 480w

=R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 90w

=Spec= 125:572 O 30 ’20 260w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 S 23 ’20 1050w

=TEN-MINUTE= talks with workers. $1 (2½c) Doubleday 330

20–18322

Short articles reprinted from The Times (London) Trade Supplement. “In preparing them for American publication, only such editorial interpolations were made as were considered desirable in order to make the talks more readable for an American audience.” Among the subjects are: The partners; Paying our way; The origin of wealth; The pillars of society; What is capital? The sanity of society; The cost of an article; What is money? Money and prices; What banks do for us; What is the worker entitled to? What are profits? The ideal factory; The upward path.

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“They are clearly worded, aptly illustrated, and the lessons are easily understandable. He is talking rather to employers in his book than with workers, for he makes no point of contact with the latter.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 160w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 9 ’20 130w

“There is a bit too much of a literary quality about it, and it is too advanced in subject matter for consumption by American factory labor much below the rank of foreman. But with suitable modifications it could be adapted to the requirements of any given group. In the hands of an able and resourceful teacher it would be an admirable text in conventional economics for secondary schools or even college freshmen.” E. R. Burton

+ =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 180w

“They all contain a great deal of thought, pithily and happily expressed in compressed form.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 260w

=TENNYSON, HAROLD COURTENAY.= Harold Tennyson, R. N.; the story of a young sailor; put together by a friend. *$2 Macmillan

(Eng ed 20–5765)

“The facts about young Tennyson are mainly drawn from his mother’s journal and from his own bright, chatty letters to members of his family. That he was the grandson of the poet and, in addition, came from such stock as the clever Boyles and the handsome Courtenays accounts for his gifts of brain and physique, as well as for his wonderfully keen appreciation of all things beautiful, whether in nature or in human relations. The story of his early years is told from Lady Tennyson’s diary. After entering the British navy, his letters home take up the narrative. He served for a while on board the Queen Mary before being transferred to the destroyer Viking, which struck a mine in the English Channel in January, 1916. The explosion killed him and several of his shipmates, and brought to an end a career full of promise of the highest order.”—Nation

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+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20

“Presents a peculiarly engaging character, and forms, in its modest way, a valuable document on the British navy’s doings in the war.”

+ =Brooklyn= 12:17 O ’19 30w

“In those letters written during his midshipman’s cruise to the West Indies the descriptions of the places visited reveal an unusual eye for scenery, as well as a happy faculty of making real the persons he met.”

+ =Nation= 109:254 Ag 23 ’19 240w

“This little volume is full of charm, and the best part of it consists of Harold Tennyson’s letters. Perhaps the most delightful letters are those about Russia. The description of Reval is a masterpiece of condensation, and the brilliant account of Petrograd is quite as good.”

+ =Sat R= 127:205 Mr 1 ’19 660w

“The main characteristic of his letters is his striking power of description.”

+ =Spec= 122:141 F 1 ’19 520w

=TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON.= Bruce. *$2 Dutton

20–7674

“All dog lovers, especially those who have read ‘Lad—a dog,’ by Albert Payson Terhune, will be interested in another story about a collie by the same author. Bruce’s story is different, however. His early history is unique. We learn of his mother’s unfortunate experiences, and how she came to ‘The place’ by accident. Her only son, named Bruce, a ‘hopelessly awkward and senseless pup,’ soon merited the name of ‘The pest,’ through his countless escapades. Interesting, indeed, is the story of his development from an ‘Ugly duckling’ into a beautiful, intelligent collie, who was destined to play his part in the world war; and no small part it was that Bruce played overseas. Trained at home to carry messages, he readily learned the duties of a courier dog, and soon became the idol of the soldiers with whom he was stationed. Through many thrilling crises of war Bruce proved himself a soldier and a hero. Finally wounded, he was allowed to return to his happy home in America.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

“Few writers have portrayed collies as cleverly as has Mr Terhune. Bruce is made to seem quite as much a personality as any of his human friends, and his actions are always interesting and never boresome.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 260w

+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 310w

“Whether or not the incidents are true matters little, so entertainingly and sympathetically is the story told. A well-written war-story with a collie for its hero ought to find many readers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 210w

=THATCHER, EDWARD.= Making tin can toys. il *$1.50 Lippincott 680

20–661

“The instructor in metal working at Teachers college, Columbia, gives a detailed instruction book on the making of toys in which both grade pupils and wounded soldiers have found interest and profit.”—Booklist

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=Ath= p717 My 28 ’20 80w

“This book is very useful in its emphasis on methods of working.”

+ =Booklist= 16:193 Mr ’20

“A book that will appeal both to the experienced mechanic and to the inexperienced one, particularly to the younger or older boy who delights to handle tools.”

+ =Cath World= 110:844 Mr ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 60w

=THAYER, LEE (MRS H. W. THAYER).= Unlatched door. *$1.75 Century

20–9139

“The hero of this mystery tale, after a night with Bacchus, misses his own doorway and steps through the unlatched door of his next neighbor in the brownstone block in which his house is situated. But in a few moments he emerges, thoroughly sobered, for just within the door lay the dead body of a beautiful woman. She has been murdered of course; and the young man instinctively decides that he will be wise to maintain ignorance. The next day, however, he is drawn in, when the servants next door summon him. Unfortunately, he has accidentally left evidence of his visit, and when the police take charge he becomes one of the suspects. A considerable group is involved, and, characteristically in stories of the type, each one suspects the other. When guilt is fixed, the one least suspected proves to be the murderer.”—Springf’d Republican

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“A fairly well written mystery murder story with an ingenious plot better worked out than the average.”

+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

“It would be foolish to suggest that ‘The unlatched door’ is as thrilling a mystery story as ‘The thirteenth chair,’ because it most certainly is not. It is a good mystery story, but Mrs Thayer is rather too much interested in the love story which she introduces.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 240w

=Cleveland= p72 Jl ’20 30w

“‘The unlatched door’ is likely to puzzle even the most sophisticated of fiction readers.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 400w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 140w

=THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE.= Art of biography. *$1.50 Scribner 920

20–15938

“‘The art of biography’ is a subject on which Mr W. R. Thayer may justly claim to be heard, since he has proven his mastery of the art by his biographies of Cavour, John Hay, and Theodore Roosevelt. In this little volume, which comprises three lectures which he gave at the University of Virginia, Mr Thayer does not attempt to formulate rules to guide aspiring biographers to success. But he does trace the development of the art of biographical writing from that perfect ancient example—the story of Joseph and his brothers—down to Morley’s three-volume ‘Gladstone.’ Mr Thayer thinks that ‘the constant direction in the evolution of biography has been from the outward to the inward.’ Three indispensable qualifications, he thinks, the biographer must have. He must have real sympathy with his subject. In the second place, the biographer must tell the story as nearly as possible as the actors underwent it. Finally, the biographer must work as the portrait painter works with his brush, always aiming to discover and to reveal the salient characteristics which made a real flesh-and-blood personality.”—Review

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+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20

“Mr Thayer’s work evidences a wide range of reading and his critical faculty gives especial value to his comment.”

+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 210w

“At his best he is capable; at his worst, his lack of imagination is conspicuous.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 350w

“A scholarly, illuminating survey.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 30w

+ =Review= 3:425 N 3 ’20 390w

“There is more than entertainment here: it is a pungent bit of literary criticism.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 180w

=THOMAS. DANIEL LINDSEY, and THOMAS, LUCY BLAYNEY.=[2] Kentucky superstitions. *$3 Princeton univ. press 398.3

20–18391

“Ancient and modern love signs, weather signs, good luck signs, bad luck signs, cures, wishes, dreams, beliefs about ghosts, witches, hoodoos, haunted houses, and a great variety of other things are brought together and arranged in a very readable form. There are altogether 3,954 superstitions listed. An index adds to the value of the volume.”—Survey

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“The volume will be of great value for psychologists.”

+ =Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 170w

=Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 190w

+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 280w

“The authors have done an excellent piece of work by collecting and classifying with great patience and care the current superstitious beliefs found almost everywhere in this region.” J: F. Smith

+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p857 D 16 ’20 880w

=THOMAS, EDWARD.= Industry, emotion and unrest. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 304

20–13787

In dealing with our modern economic life and the factors which make for industrial and social unrest, the author chooses to portray incidents and cases rather than to present economics and sociology as a science. He emphasizes the need of an ethical interest of the worker in his work and a satisfying emotional connection with its product. He sees the solution of our present day troubles in administrative methods rather than in more drastic revolutionary changes; and makes it one of his practical suggestions, at the end of the book, that the middle class youth—as the potential industrial leaders—should learn by practical experience of the strenuous life of workers. Contents: Emotion in industry; Business groups and business ideals; Business methods and business ethics; Decadence of the middle class; Our social group heredity; Ideas, ethics and institutionalism; Education, emotion and idealism; Adventure and ethics; The government, law and unrest; Some gulfs, complexities and loyalties; A summary and some suggestions; Notes and index.

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“The form of his book is unusual because, being a lawyer, the author has seen the advantage of presenting his material in the case system. They are in fact actual and not theoretical cases, which will mean much to the interest of readers.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 320w

+ =Ind= 105:170 F 12 ’21 50w

Reviewed by C. S. Parker

=Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 500w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w

=THOMAS, GEORGE HOLT.= Aerial transport. il *$12 (*30s) Doran 629.1

(Eng ed 20–13149)

The author was one of the first to advocate aircraft as a weapon in war-time and is now interested in proving its value in commerce, for high-speed travel and mail service. His object in this book is to supply “between the covers of a single volume, and written in a quite informal, non-technical way, a clear, uncoloured statement of just what a commercial aircraft can do, and also—which is just as important—what it cannot do.” (Foreword) The contents, after an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe, are: First considerations (Essence of the problem—length of stages—loads—speed—risk—etc.); Progress—immediate and future; “The air express”; Speeding up the business letter; Meteorology in commercial flying; Some general conclusions, with special reference to airships; Some questions of L. S. D.; Flying and the law; Aerial transport in remote places, with some notes as to passenger-carrying; Aerial photography and patrol. The book is profusely illustrated, has an appendix, an index, and four infolded maps.

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“Mr Holt Thomas is an enthusiast, but a reasonable and restrained enthusiast. As the book is somewhat discursive and contains many repetitions, it is a pity he did not see that a proper index was provided.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p150 Mr 4 ’20 930w

=THOMAS, SHIPLEY.= History of the A. E. F. il *$6 Doran 940.373

20–19161

In the foreword to the volume, Brigadier General U. G. McAlexander says of the author that he “has taken great pains to present historical facts in an attractive, readable form and to show to the mind a realistic picture of the whole scene of operations.” After giving the history of events, from the arrival of Pershing in France to the armistice, he devotes four chapters to: Auxiliary arms; The services of supply; Division histories; A visitor’s guide. The book has illustrations, maps and an index.

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=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

“Amid the great multiplicity of books on the war in its various phases which have appeared since the armistice there is none which, in the present or the future, is of more intensive value than this.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 620w

“It is written with unflagging energy and interest, is thoroughly readable, and its author is the very embodiment of the type and spirit of the thousands of young officers from civil life who made such admirable leaders of our troops in action.” F. V. Greene

+ =N Y Times= p3 O 24 ’20 3950w

“It is the opinion of those most competent to judge that his story of America’s participation in the war is as accurate and complete as it can be made at this time.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 80w

=THOMPSON, CHARLES THADDEUS.= Peace conference day by day; a presidential pilgrimage leading to the discovery of Europe. *$2.50 Brentano’s 940.314

20–9820

“Mr Thompson is the superintendent of the Associated press foreign service. He acted as special correspondent in reporting the proceedings of the Peace conference, and Colonel House has vouched for his accuracy. This book gives a circumstantial account of the writing of the peace treaty and the League of nations covenant.”—R of Rs

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+ =Booklist= 17:16 O ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 190w

“This is by far the most interesting and valuable of the contributions to our post-war literature. Mr Thompson’s work seems to be an honest, unbiased effort to present the reader with the facts as he saw them. His training enabled him to get at the inside of many situations that were decidedly complex. All this wealth he gives most liberally to his readers in a vivid, chatty way that entertains and enlightens.”

+ =Cath World= 112:248 N ’20 450w

Reviewed by W: MacDonald

=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 230w

Reviewed by M. F. Egan

=N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 18 ’20 3300w

“Such a useful volume as this should assuredly have had an index. The work is not only extraordinarily informative but equally entertaining.”

+ − =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 200w

=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 50w

=THOMPSON, FRANK VICTOR.= Schooling of the immigrant. *$2 Harper 371.9

20–18396

This volume is the first of eleven Americanization studies instituted by the Carnegie corporation of New York, under the direction of Allen T. Burns. The author calls attention to the fact that since the preparation of the volume was begun such a complete overturn of ideas respecting Americanization has taken place that the term itself is being replaced by such terms as “citizenship” and “national unification.” This implies a larger comprehension of the problem and a realization that the “drive” method must give way to a process of education “not to be undertaken impulsively, but systematically, persistently, and determinedly.” Contents: The school and nationalization; Problems and policies; Public-school administration; Private schools and public responsibility; Methods of teaching English; Measuring progress in English; Educational service stations; The training of teachers; Trend of legislation; Schooling in citizenship; Summary; Appendix, maps, diagrams and tables.

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“Very useful to the serious organizer of immigrant work.”

+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

“As a text-book it gets to the heart of the matter and will be found invaluable to teachers interested in the education of the immigrant.” A. Yezierska

+ =Bookm= 52:498 F ’21 420w

“Leaders in educational, industrial, or welfare work in any community which is facing the immigrant problem will find this book interesting in its account of conditions that exist and rich in suggestion of means by which these may be improved.”

+ =School R= 28:788 D ’20 750w

“This is the most reassuring book on the subject of immigrant education that has yet appeared.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 70w

=THOMPSON, HOLLAND.= New South; a chronicle of social and industrial evolution. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 975

19–19140

“With no desire to encourage sectionalism, it seems to have been the purpose of the editors to have every part of the country intelligently presented in ‘The chronicles of America.’ ‘The new South,’ written by a southern man, Dr Holland Thompson, gives an account of the industrial, intellectual, and social progress that has been made by the South since the Civil war. In this volume, land and labor problems have an important place.”—R of Rs

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“This small volume on a large subject has two notable characteristics. One is its catholicity of spirit. The other characteristic of the book is its descriptive value. As a brief and suggestive survey of the rise of a civilization the book is unsurpassed.” W: K. Boyd

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:146 O ’20 360w

“The chapters on The background, The revolt of the common man, and Industrial development may, perhaps, be found to contain more that is new than any of the others. The second mentioned, which describes the wresting of political control from the Confederate soldier, is probably the best in the book. All are good, however.” M. J. White

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:159 S ’20 500w

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 80w

=THOMPSON, MRS JANE SMEAL (HENDERSON), and THOMPSON, HELEN GERTRUDE.= Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters. il *$7.50 Dutton

(Eng ed 20–11520)

“Many old students of the Finsbury technical college will welcome the life of its first principal, which has been compiled by his wife and daughter. Thompson accepted that post in 1885 and occupied it until his death in 1916. In addition to his life-work at Finsbury, Thompson wrote one of the best of elementary textbooks on electricity and magnetism, a standard work on dynamo-electric machinery, lives of Faraday and Lord Kelvin, and various monographs connected with Gilbert and the early history of magnetism, besides other books and a number of scientific papers. He was a convinced member of the Society of Friends, and frequently spoke at the Westminster meeting and elsewhere. Some of his religious addresses were printed in a posthumous work, ‘A not impossible religion.’—Spec

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“These ladies enable us to make a closer acquaintance with one, to whose lucid explanations from the platform we have listened with pleasure, and whose text-books we have read with profit. The references to his home life are restrained but interesting. But we could have wished that letters other than those dealing with scientific matters were more plentiful.”

+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 180w (Reprinted from Engineering Ag 6 ’20)

“His biography is interesting and it is also stimulating.”

+ =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 170w

=Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’19 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Mr 18 ’20 1700w

=THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN.= Poems; with a biographical introd. by J: S. Patton. *$2 Scribner 811

20–6690

“The University of Virginia edition of the ‘Poems of John R. Thompson’ is a tribute to the memory of one of the most memorable of Confederate poets. Now first collected, Thompson’s verses exhibit the gay and friendly—nor wholly unpuritanical—spirit which ruled the older literary Richmond. Here are echoes of Byron, Campbell, Southey, Béranger, Heine, Praed, Holmes, Saxe, neatly fitted to Virginian occasions. The rhymed essays, Patriotism, Virginia, and Poesy, sum up practically all that young Virginians were thinking and feeling from 1855 to 1859. The book was made possible by the Alfred Henry Byrd gift, and well edited by Mr John S. Patton.”—Nation

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=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20

“It is good poetry of its time and kind, perfectly typical of the spirit of the mid-nineteenth century, although it does not touch the beauty and vigor of Poe, or the later sweetness and light of Lanier.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 1500w

+ =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 260w

“John R. Thompson was not a genius. He was a gentleman of talent and culture. His verse is witty, fluent, eloquent, exquisitely ironical, but never great.” M. Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 750w

=THOMPSON, MARGARET J.= Food for the sick and the well: how to select it and how to cook it. *$1 World bk. 641.5

20–1484

Of the author of this practical little volume of recipes and suggestions on diet Dr William Gerry Morgan says in the introduction that she “has had years of experience in the care and feeding of the sick, and during all that time she has been a close and earnest student of dietetics from a practical standpoint.” Contents: General considerations—food and health, a balanced menu, suggestions and cautions; Recipes; Treatments; Index.

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“This little book is written more especially for nurses but should prove very handy also on the household book shelf of the home maker.”

+ =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 100w

=THOMS, CRAIG S.= Essentials of Christianity. *$1.25 Am. Bapt. 230

20–272

“Religion, like everything else,” says the author, “has caught the temper of the age,” and this little book can be called an attempt to apply modern efficiency methods to religion. In these times of wornout institutions and necessary readjustments in all our relations, religion too must be reduced to its lowest terms in order that we can build anew; and constructive thought and vigor of action are called for. Whatever our difficulties may be, the author thinks it is always possible “to secure an effective starting point for one’s religious life by beginning where one is and cooperating with God according to one’s light and opportunity.” Contents: Faith; God; Christ: Evolution; The Bible; Prayer; Immortality; The church; Cooperating with God.

=THOMSON, JOHN ARTHUR.= System of animate nature. 2v *$6 Holt 570

20–18325

Two volumes containing the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St Andrews in the years 1915 and 1916, by the Regius professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. The subject matter of this lecture series is usually philosophical, dealing with the nature of man and the universe. In presenting the biological point of view, Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but as a coninterpretation or our religious conviction, we must admit the desirability of having more than a passing acquaintance with the system of things of which our everyday life is in some measure part.” His aim has been “to state the general results of biological inquiry which must be taken account of if we are to think of organic nature as a whole and in relation to the rest of our experience.” (Preface) Volume 1 contains ten lectures on The realm of organisms as it is; Volume 2, also composed of ten lectures, is devoted to The evolution of the realm of organisms. Volume 2 has a bibliography of nineteen pages and an index.

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“As correcting the ‘red in tooth and claw’ conception of the animate world. Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but, as a contribution to the ethical and religious problem, they are unimportant.”

+ − =Ath= p478 O 8 ’20 1150w

“Will appeal only to the reflective who can use biological facts as the material of thought. For large and special libraries.”

+ =Booklist= 17:101 D ’20

“The author’s resources in the way of naturalistic erudition are astounding, and his command of English at once fresh and fascinating.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 70w

“It is a book that most certainly ought to have been written. It takes stock, so to speak, of the situation of speculative biology at the beginning of a new phase in science, and it does so in a manner that is candid, comprehensive, and most attractive.” J. J.

+ − =Nature= 106:494 D 16 ’20 1950w

“If these Gifford lectures had no other value they would be welcome for their simple and comprehensive statement of the present phase of the Darwinian theory. In some cases he lays himself open to a charge of bad philosophy, in others of bad science. None the less, we are grateful for what is always a serious and often a true and beautiful book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 1900w

=THORLEY, WILFRID CHARLES=, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. *$2 Houghton 841.08

20–26552

This anthology of French verse reaches from the thirteenth century to the present. It is a free translation and in his introduction to the collection, which is in part a treatise on the art of translation, the author sets forth his reasons for a free rendering. The greater part of the introduction is a historical survey of French verse. The poems are chronologically grouped and the English employed is likewise chronologically adapted to the original verse. There are copious notes, an index of authors and an index of first lines.

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“Mr Thorley’s power of fluent expression gets the better of his sense of history. What he brings with him obscures what he takes. But to harp on Mr Thorley’s failures is ungenerous. Let us rather express our surprise and admiration that in a volume so large and so varied the failures are not more numerous and more complete.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p209 F 13 ’20 1000w

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

“The whole collection is marked by inspiration, technical flexibility and literary tact.”

+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 60w

“Mr Thorley displays more earnestness than achievement.”

+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 70w

“There is perhaps no version in his book that is not accomplished poetry, and he has an especial richness, ease, and sonorousness in handling the frequent sonnet form. He is less happy when he rebuilds poems. But it is his whole book that places Mr Thorley definitely in the front rank of those artists among whom he wishes to be counted.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 280w

“Mr Thorley is sometimes a spirited translator. But his felicity is intermittent, and is sometimes dotted or crossed with infelicity.”

+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 240w

“With a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 60w

=THORNDIKE, ASHLEY HORACE.= Literature in a changing age. *$3 Macmillan 820.9

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“The effect of life upon literature, especially as it concerns the English people, is the problem that Professor Thorndike examines in this book. His survey includes a century as he contrasts the difference of English literature after Waterloo with its character today after the great war. The study of the changes that are the groundwork upon which literature bases its expression is primarily concerned with life. Thus Professor Thorndike in the first four chapters of his book deals with literature—down to Carlyle with a more or less historical sense. His next five chapters shift the whole basis of this historic groundwork with the revolts and evolutions that began to change the aspects of society. Hence Progress and poverty, Democracy and empire, Religion, Woman, and Science, invention and machinery are the subjects discussed. What Professor Thorndike predicts for the future is a reconcilement, a quicker compromise than in the past, between the changing forces of life and the imaginative symbols, which is literature’s interpretation and embodiment of them.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“One always takes up with respect a work by Professor Thorndike, but this book is below his reputation. It is solid and sensible, and presents truly the main facts about the period and its literature. But the ground covered is so wide that little not already known to the student of history or of literature can be told within the small compass of the volume: and the book lacks the unity, lucidity, and brilliancy which could alone make memorable so brief a treatment of so large and complex a subject.” W. C. Bronson

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 410w

“A careful piece of work that will interest only widely read people who do not need an entrancing style to attract them. No index.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 780w

“Perhaps it is this wealth of illustration which hinders the movement of the thesis: the author is continually led astray into the realms of literary criticism admirable in itself, but not bearing directly enough on the subject under discussion. We must confess to having found the opening chapters dull, academic, a laboring of the obvious.” W. H. B.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:333 Ja ’21 400w

“On the political and economic side his conclusions are terrifically unconvincing.” Pierre Loving

− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w

“To this new study he has brought the integrity of method and the comprehensive acuteness which he had displayed in his previous works. He has written a book to be enjoyed by all lovers of literature and to be appreciated by all who can recognize the clear and cogent writing which is the result of wide culture and of deep thought.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p2 O 17 ’20 1800w

“With what seems pretty near perversity, he has chosen scrupulously to avoid the inevitable circumstances of chronology, and to arrange his matter under such categories as ‘Democracy and empire,’ ‘Woman,’ and so on, and instead of stating facts he is apt only to allude. The resulting impression is of confused admiration.”

+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 130w

=Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 260w

“It is an extensive and fascinating subject, and it is handled as we should expect a thoroughly efficient American professor to handle it. That is to say, he designs his structure in a clear and logical way.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D ’20 230w

=THORNLEY, ISOBEL D.= England under the Yorkists, 1460–1485; with a preface by A. F. Pollard. (Univ. of London intermediate source-books of history) il *$3.35 (*9s 6d) Longmans 942.04

20–4567

“Though primarily intended for the use of undergraduates, this volume of extracts from contemporary sources for the reigns of Edward IV and Richard III will interest a larger public. Miss Thornley has ranged widely among printed and unprinted materials in selecting passages to illustrate the political, constitutional, ecclesiastical, economic, and social aspects of that turbulent generation.”—Spec

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“The work is admirably done.”

+ =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 240w

+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 210w

=THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.= Sheepskins and grey russet. il *$2.50 Putnam

20–1212

This is the story of a curious couple, “vagabonds,” the author calls them, from the restlessness with which they change from one abode to the other. They have a fad for old houses, and whenever they are “settled for life” in one place they find another which is even older and more to their liking. At last they buy quite an ancient farm near Tewkesbury and it is at this place that “A. H.” describes his visit to them. They are a most engaging couple, are Bellwattle and Cruikshank, with their oddities and whimsies and their farming vicissitudes, and the reader is left with the impression that if a child should come to bless their union, their restlessness would vanish. The illustrations are by Emile Verpilleux.

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+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

“There is a whimsical tenderness in Mr Thurston’s treatment of his characters. It is his most pleasing mood, and it is present throughout his pastoral.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 700w

“‘Sheepskins and grey russet’ is really of value. This is a most gentlemanly book, with good antecedents, a reasonable income, and an excellent digestion.”

+ =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 120w

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 80w

+ =Lit D= p89 Je 26 ’20 2150w

“Many chapters give us an insight into country life in England. Not in the manner of Thomas Hardy or Eden Phillpotts, but in the more substantial and eternal manner of the ‘Stable boys’ almanac.’” B: de Casseres

− =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 800w

“Charmingly printed and illustrated.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w

“The charm of the present book lies not a little in its slightness and unobtrusiveness as a story. The thread is there, a tale is told; but with great economy of motion, almost as if by inadvertence.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 400w

“It must be confessed that as far as any practical assistance to an American family wanting to break into country life is concerned, the

## book is literature pure and simple, and by no means to be classed

under useful arts. Perhaps they would say the same in England; but anyway, literature is quite worth while, and this book belongs in the worthwhile class.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 260w

=THWING, ANNIE HAVEN.= Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston, 1630–1822. il *$5 (7c) Jones. Marshall 974.4

20–19769

The book gives a brief historical survey of how Boston came to be Boston and then confines itself to the history of its streets and their original inhabitants and ancestry. But few of the old streets survive even in pictures and of the survivors most have been widened. “Many of the old streets were so narrow that it was difficult for two vehicles to pass each other and so crooked that after a fire the town invariably ordered them straightened.” (Introductory) The contents are: The North end; Government and business centre; South end; The West end; The neck; Notes and index of streets. The book is illustrated with old prints and has seven insert maps.

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+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

“It is replete with accurate and minute information, and yet it does not lack the anecdotal vivacity which makes this kind of book good reading. The volume is admirably put together, and the engravings and old maps are especially interesting.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 130w

“There could hardly be a pleasanter guide book for a devout explorer than ‘The crooked and narrow streets of Boston.’”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w

“Its accuracy is vouched for by the fact that it is the outcome of a life-work, whose results are treasured by the Massachusetts Historical society. There are numerous agreeable lighter touches.”

+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 160w

“It is a work giving much valuable information and might well be imitated in all of our important cities.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 160w

“Miss Thwing’s book will remove any lingering doubt you may have as to the historical interest of those streets or as to the quaint picturesqueness that was theirs in a bygone age.”

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 2 ’21 500w

+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w

=TITUS, HAROLD.= Last straw. il *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–4711

Jane Hunter falls heir to a western ranch. She is an eastern society girl who knows little about the West and had it not been that her fortunes were at a low ebb she would have taken little interest in her new property. She goes West hoping to realize ready money out of the place and once there events decide her to stay. Dick Hilton, the easterner who had long wanted to marry her, follows her to the West and remains there to add to her troubles. Of the latter she has many, including a dishonest foreman, cattle thieves, and a “nester” who cuts off her best watering place and who is only a tool in the hands of her enemies. Tom Beck, who had refused to take a chance in the draw for foreman but who stays on the ranch to serve her at every turn, makes a very satisfactory hero and after an exciting bit of fighting the story comes to a peaceful close.

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“The excellence of the novel lies not in its characters, not in its plot, which is always stirring, but in the way the plot works out of the characters. This stamps it as first-class work.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 520w

“Mr Titus knows his subject; he writes with a facile pen, and ‘The last straw’ will be keenly enjoyed by all lovers of western adventure tales.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 550w

=TODD, ARTHUR JAMES.= Scientific spirit and social work. *$2 Macmillan 361

19–18666

“Prof. A. J. Todd, in his new book, points out that for 25 years social work has been professionalizing itself. He shows how modern social work enlarges the ‘rights of man,’ how it contributes to social progress, and what qualifications in character and training it demands of those who have entered it as a vocation.”—Springf’d Republican

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“A most readable book for social workers”

+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w

“The book, like some others based on college lectures, achieves an effect of reasoning by interpellation of ‘then,’ ‘therefore,’ ‘it follows,’ ‘and to sum up’ and contains frequent adjurations to ‘hard thinking’ without corresponding performance. Much of the material is a trifle obvious.”

− =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 220w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 15 ’20 270w

“In matters of detail we find much with which we differ. But all trained social workers and all teachers of applied sociology will welcome this vigorous, powerful statement of the principles and methods and ideals of social work.” J. E. Hagerty

+ − =Survey= 43:621 F 21 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 40w

=TOMLINSON, H. M.= Old junk. *$2 (5c) Knopf 910

(Eng ed 19–15918)

This collection of sketches and essays has been reprinted from various publications between January, 1907 and April, 1918. They contain impressions and reminiscences from many lands and seas. S. K. Ratcliffe in his foreword to the volume, says of the author: “Among all the men writing in England today there is none known to us whose work reveals a more indubitable sense of the harmonies of imaginative prose.” The last seven of the papers reveal the author as war-correspondent. Among the contents are: The African coast; Old junk; The pit mouth; The art of writing; The derelict; The Lascar’s walking stick; On leave; A division on the march; The ruins.

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“It is at times like these that we find it extraordinary comfort to have in our midst a citizen of the sea, a writer like Mr H. M. Tomlinson. We feel that he is calm, not because he has renounced life, but because he lives in the memory of that solemn gesture with which the sea blesses or dismisses or destroys her own. The breath of the sea sounds in all his writings.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p205 Ap 18 ’19 700w

+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

“One opens this book at random and finds sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that are at once a delight and a despair: a delight because they are—well, delightful; and a despair because, peer as you may, you cannot discover the secret of their making.” J: Bunker

+ =Bookm= 51:474 Je ’20 1050w

“For a set of essays written on land and sea, ‘Old Junk’ is a misleading title. Mr Tomlinson is an artist to whom ‘the light that never was’ is plainly visible. His descriptions of two voyages, one along the African coast, and the other, the more familiar passage across the Atlantic, are marvelous prose.” C. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w

“Delicate and helpless in his gestures, he yet is enduringly accurate in imagination. His images are of that excellent variety which send your eye to the corner of the ceiling for testing and reflection and acceptance.”

+ =Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 180w

“No one has the right to look knowing when literature is mentioned unless he is fully aware of Mr H. M. Tomlinson.” Rebecca West

+ =New Repub= 19:332 Jl 9 ’19 1400w

“A collection of stories of travel and chance which open out to the reader new visions of the sea and all that thereon is.”

+ =Sat R= 127:428 My 3 ’19 70w

“Several of his papers deal with the war. He does not describe the fighting, but its effect on those who come back from it—how it disgusts them with life, how it works in them a change, not outwardly perceptible, which makes them strangers to their own kith and kin. All this is admirably thought and said, and so is a tribute to ‘the nobodies’ who restore the balance of the world when it has been upset by the highly placed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Ap 3 ’19 500w

=TOMPKINS, DANIEL AUGUSTUS.= Builder of the new South; being the story of his life work, by George Tayloe Winston. il *$3 Doubleday

20–18666

The new South, says the author, is not the achievement of educational and religious missionaries but of industrial forces which are epitomized in the life of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. “He built a new South—of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, of diversified and intensified agriculture, of improved railways and highways, of saving banks and building and loan associations—a new South also of public schools, technical colleges, and expanding universities, of independent journalism and independent thought—a new South of universal education and democracy.” (Author’s summary of the contents of the book)

* * * * *

“Describes a strong character and an important movement in American history.”

+ =Booklist= 17:114 D ’20

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 240w

=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR [TOMPKINS] POTTLE).= Joanna builds a nest. il *$1.75 Bobbs

20–18300

“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post

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“How she succeeded in her efforts is related in a delightful manner, quite in harmony with the subject and its circumstances.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 300w

“It is a comfortable story, a little sentimental, and the characters are extremely well sketched. On the other hand, the illustrations are anything but that.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 280w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p22 F 6 ’21 850w

Reviewed by D. W. Webster

+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 290w

“There’s a good bit of sound sense in the house-remaking, and plenty of entertainment in the story as a whole.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 150w

=TOOKER, LEWIS FRANK.= Middle passage. $1.90 (3c) Century

20–16345

David Lunt, a mere boy, of seafaring ancestry, ran away to sea in what turned out to be a slaver. Being a saucy and adventurous lad he tried the patience of the captain and the treatment he received aroused in him a passion for vengeance. For this reason and not from a bad heart he ships a second time in a slaver but his experiences this time close that episode. Other risky undertakings follow, just this side of crime. He is kept from overstepping the boundary line by the memory of a face back home. In his brief and infrequent visits to the home town, his love for Lydia becomes a pledge and he finally overcomes her father’s opposition by a courageous confession of his near lapses in church. The story is full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes.

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=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“It retains a certain value as a picture of life in an era which today is as remote as Babylon. Mr Tooker is an alert and companionable story-teller—a disciple of Conrad in action, though not in atmosphere.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 130w

“Certain merits lacking in many of the sea stories which come from the presses every year are possessed by this novel. In the first place, Mr Tooker knows the sea in the intimate way that a sailor knows it. Secondly, he has style, a simple and effective style.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 380w

“Mr Tooker always writes of the sea with sympathy and knowledge, and we are inclined to think that this is the most vivid and exciting book he has written.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w

=TORMEY, JOHN LAWLESS, and LAWRY, ROLLA CECIL.=[2] Animal husbandry. il $1.40 Am. bk. 636

20–6658

“This brief manual has been prepared for use in the agricultural classes which the Smith-Hughes act brought into being, and it is consequently written for elementary students and for use in connection with practical, every-day farm work. It comprises, like most ambitious texts in animal husbandry, a description of the principal breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry, a guide to methods of stock judging, and a section on the care and management of animals.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“A comprehensive volume, well illustrated, and most useful to the intelligent student of modern farming.”

+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 60w

“A few faults arise from the necessary brevity of the treatise. Occasionally important information is left out.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 180w

=TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK.= Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval England. (Publications of the University of Manchester) 2v ea *$7 (*12s) Longmans 354

20–14380

“Mr Tout’s magnum opus had its origin in a mood of almost casual curiosity, awakened ten years ago by the essay of a young French scholar upon the use or ‘diplomatic’ of the small seals which the English kings used in their correspondence—the privy seal, the secret seal, the signet. A desire to clear up a few obscure points in English diplomatic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led him to explore the untouched treasures of the public record office. The next step was a reconstruction of the royal household—in particular, of its administrative offices, the chamber and wardrobe, and of their instruments, the small seals. Hence the sub-title of the work——‘The wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals.’ To a scholar with Mr Tout’s wide knowledge of European history in the later middle ages such an inquiry was full of suggestion; and so his book reached its present form—a survey of English administration, almost a revision of English political and constitutional history, from the Norman conquest to the death of Richard II.”—Ath

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“A most valuable feature of Professor Tout’s book will be found in the luminous exposition of sources and authorities as set forth in a descriptive chapter on documentary material. With clearness and originality there is apt to be excessive positiveness. In points of controversy the author occasionally falls into the temptation of exaggeration by over-stating an opposing view in order the more sharply to challenge it.” J. F. Baldwin

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:78 O ’20 1200w

“In these days of specialism Professor Tout has never forgotten the more spacious period of scholarship. He is still under its influence. And this is why, to a book packed with new material and highly technical in character, he has been able to give the quality of fine and significant history. Limited in range though it is, this book is not unworthy of a place beside the ‘Constitutional history of England.’” F. M. P.

+ =Ath= p174 Ag 6 ’20 2150w

“This is the most important contribution to the study of English history that has been made in many a year. At every point it breaks new ground; and at every point it shows an amplitude of knowledge and a depth of research which put Professor Tout among the most eminent scholars of this generation.” H. J. Laski

+ =Nation= 111:sup666 D 8 ’20 1000w

“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”

+ =Review= 3:507 N 24 ’20 520w

“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again, in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”

+ =Spec= 125:277 Ag 28 ’20 1300w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 Ag 19 ’20 1450w

=TOWARDS= reunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280

20–6733

“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World

* * * * *

“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a general contribution to the problem.”

+ − =Ath= p686 Ag 1 ’19 1450w

+ − =Bib World= 54:203 Mr ’20 400w

=Sat R= 128:368 O 18 ’19 1400w

“There is much in what they describe as ‘contributions to mutual understanding’ which commands sympathy. On the main issue, that of reunion, it is difficult not to think that they multiply words without increasing sense. It is certain that they contain a large number of very disputable assertions.”

+ − =Spec= 123:215 Ag 16 ’19 900w

=TOWNS, CHARLES BARNES.= Habits that handicap. *$1.50 (4½c) Funk 613.8

20–3199

An exposition of the present prevalent evil of drug addiction in the United States; the results it invariably causes, both socially and individually; the difficulty of overcoming it; and the surest effective remedy. The poisons Dr Towns condemns include many widely used narcotics,—bromides, headache powders, cough syrups, etc.,—alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco, as well as more virulent drugs. As a nation we are fond of poisoning ourselves. Prohibition has driven many to more harmful habits than the daily cocktail or glass of beer. Our women have, many of them, acquired the cigarette habit. Depoisoning ourselves will not be easy. The author urges as the most effective remedy, legal regulation of the sale of all drugs and narcotics, authoritative control of their use, and “pitiless publicity.” The book includes a preface by Dr Richard C. Cabot, and an appendix on The relation of alcohol to disease, by Dr Alexander Lambert. The book covers practically the same ground as the volume of similar title published by the Century company in 1915.

* * * * *

“The new edition is written in a manner even more attractive and vigorous than the first.”

+ =Booklist= 16:292 My ’20

“Were the moderation of the book’s title reflected in the letterpress, its influence would be strengthened. His denunciations take no account of divergent views, save in so far as he disposes of them on the ground of bias.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 220w

“On the title page we find the sub-title, ‘The remedy for narcotic, alcohol, tobacco and other drug addictions.’ It is disappointing therefore to find no hint or suggestion in the book as to what the remedy is.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 300w

=TOWNSHEND, SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS.= My campaign (Eng title, My campaign in Mesopotamia). 2v *$10 McCann 940.42

20–16919

“If the first campaign in Mesopotamia is not the best-known episode of the war it is not for lack of information, and Sir Charles Townshend’s contribution is one that will appeal to the student of military affairs not only for the light it casts on the motives that moved him, but also and even more as a careful and frank study of a campaign which must ever be memorable in our history. Sir Charles Townshend took the field as commander of the Sixth division in succession to General Barrett, who retired through ill health, in April, 1915; and in the last month of the year his offensive operations had ceased and he was shut up in Kut. He had fought three battles, and his Sixth division had proved itself a splendid fighting unit.”—Ath

* * * * *

“General Townshend reveals himself throughout as that rarest of British products, a thoughtful, well-instructed student of scientific warfare.”

+ =Ath= p474 Ap 9 ’20 1000w

=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 900w

“The commanding officer of those British forces which fought Kut and Ctesiphon writes a magnificent story without patches, and with considerable skill.”

+ =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 130w

“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual detail.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:279 Mr 20 ’20 780w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 1500w

=TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND=, marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton

20–12812

The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations. Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.

* * * * *

“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility who peeps into its pages.”

− =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 520w

“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”

− =Sat R= 128:537 D 6 ’19 450w

“A quite negligible tale.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 50w

=TRABUE, MARION REX, and STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Measure your mind; the mentimeter and how to use it. il *$3 Doubleday 136

20–7589

This popular treatise on the measurement of intelligence by scientific methods is based on the experiences of psychological investigators in both school and army. It addresses itself “to employers and those in charge of the selection, grading, and promotion of workers of every class, in factories, offices, and stores; to teachers of all grades, from kindergarten to university; to parents who are interested in ascertaining, and watching the growth of their children’s mental development and to young men and young women striving for self-improvement and advancement and desirous of learning something of their own mental capacities and limitations as a guide to the intelligent choice of vocations or professions.” (Preface) Contents: Science versus guesswork; The applications of psychological tests; What these tests measure; Standards for mental tests; Different types of mental tests; Mental tests in the army; Psychological tests in education; Mental tests in industry; How to use the mentimeter tests; The mentimeter tests; Trade tests or tests of skill; Appendices, charts and diagrams.

* * * * *

“A thoughtful examination of the tests will show that they have been carefully worked out. But this valuable material of the book is likely not to receive its due attention from industrial or business men because, although the book purports seriously to crave the audience of industry, it wavers to catch the teacher and other professional classes; the early pages are sluggish, indefinitely organized reading. The defects of ‘Measure your mind’ are entirely those of organization and composition; the theory, the technique, and the essential content are meritorious.” C: L. Stone

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:830 D ’20 350w

“If books of this sort can be used by others than experts, this one has the advantage of simplicity.”

+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

“The appendices with their diagrams are not the least valuable parts of the work. The mentimeter tests form its more especially unique feature.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 120w

+ =Cleveland= p89 S ’20 50w

“An excellent handbook, in popular style and very readable, but in thorough-going scientific fashion. The book will have great value for industrial personnel managers.” B. D. Wood

+ =J Philos= 17:640 N 4 ’20 690w

“The chief value of the book lies in its contribution to the general education of the public.”

+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 240w

=TRACY, LOUIS.= Sirdar’s sabre. $1.90 (4½c) Clode, E. J.

20–16931

This book consists of a series of ten loosely-connected stories of life in India. They are told by Reginald Wayne, a young Englishman who becomes an officer in the 2d Bengal Lancers. For the most part they concern the exploits of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan, a “fire-eater” Mohammedan officer. Three of them have an element of romance, but the majority tell of the various problems that the English government meets in India. The titles are: First impressions; La belle Americaine; How Mohammed Khan became invulnerable; How the Sirdar prevented a great war; The Tàj—and a fortune-teller; How the Sirdar dacoited a dacoit; How we fed crocodiles on the Indus; The destiny of the emerald eye; How we guarded the great pearl necklace; How the Sirdar fought Ali Bagh, the Afridi.

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“Full of adventure but not the author’s best in plot or characterization.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“With ‘The sirdar’s sabre’ something seems to have gone radically wrong. From the man who built up such atmosphere and vitality as was in ‘The wings of the morning’ this book is inexcusable. Here we find no sustained interest, little of characterization, and slight exercise of the descriptive powers which the author possesses. Mr Tracy is to be soundly berated for wasting excellent material.” J. W. D. S.

− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 580w

+ − =N Y Times= p19 O 24 ’20 300w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

=Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 300w

=TRACY, LOUIS.= Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. $1.90 Clode, E. J.

20–2642

“When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get mixed up with a murder. It was a series of accidents which caused him to be at a spot from which he could see a certain portion of the beautiful old Elizabethan mansion misnamed ‘The towers’ at the moment when Mortimer Fenley, banker, fell, ‘shot dead on his own doorstep.’ Mr Fenley’s elder son, Hilton, telephoned to Scotland Yard, and that was how the two detectives, known to their colleagues as the ‘Big ‘un’ and the ‘Little ‘un’ came to the assistance of the local police, one of whom had already, and quite without suspecting the fact, had an extremely important share in the development of events which was to bring about the solution of a most involved and puzzling mystery.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

“The usual mystery story written with charm of style, satisfying humor and a wealth of allusion pertinent to both literature and life.”

+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w

“The story is well written, it moves quickly, and its characters are real people, not the puppets who so often figure in tales of this kind, the two detectives being especially well done.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 400w

“The outstanding feature of Louis Tracy’s ‘Strange case of Mortimer Fenley’ is the absence of blood and ghastliness, of grimy alleys and sordid back rooms. Mystery there is, in plenty, and excitement.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 97:603 F 21 ’20 350w

=TRAIN, ARTHUR CHENEY.= Tutt and Mr Tutt. *$1.75 Scribner

20–6289

“The nine stories in this volume deal with the affairs of the firm of Tutt & Tutt (the members are not related), the senior partner of which is always addressed deferentially by his colleague as Mr Tutt. It is Mr Tutt who tries the cases, Tutt who does the work of preparing them; and to the unfriendly eye their activities might seem those of shysters if they were not devoted, as a rule, to the worthy object of protecting the poor and friendless against the stupidities and brutalities of the law and some of those who practice it. The hero of the book is Mr Tutt, who in the first story has a frame like Lincoln’s, and by the end of the book has progressed so far that his face looks like Lincoln’s. The villain, it must be confessed, is the law itself.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“The best of the nine are very good, and all of them are ornamented by entertaining comments on the philosophy of the law and justice.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 280w

“The stories are very human. Outwardly, Mr Tutt is a dry-as-dust attorney; but association discloses in him a broad vein of humanity which makes his many-sided character a bottomless well of delight. It is one of Mr Train’s most entertaining books.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 450w

=TRAVEL= stories; retold from St Nicholas. il *$1.25 (3½c) Century 910.8

20–16861

Sixteen descriptive articles have been selected from St Nicholas for this volume. Among them are: The Grand canyon of Arizona, by William Haskell Simpson; In rainbow-land, by Amy Sutherland; Traveling in India, by Mabel Albert Spicer; Where the sunsets of all the yesterdays are found, by Olin D. Wheeler; Firecrackers, by Erick Pomeroy; Curious clocks, by Charles A. Brassler; Motoring through the golden age, by Albert Bigelow Paine; Lost Rheims, by Louise Eugenie Prickett; Out in the big-game country, by Clarence H. Rowe. There are five illustrations.

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“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:79 N ’20

“An entertaining, informative volume.”

+ =Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 40w

=TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON).= Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane

20–7528

All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father. Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.

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“The tale is clever and readable.”

+ =Ath= p63 Ja 9 ’20 100w

“The novel is a long and fairly interesting one, but it gives the impression that the author has gathered a great deal of commonplace material before she begins and pours it into the pages through a hopper. Readable as the book is, it is singularly lacking in literary grace.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 550w

“The story is intense and written in the same brilliant style that characterized Miss Tremayne’s previous story, ‘The auction mart.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 240w

“The interest of the book lies in the slow revelation of the character of Echo. It is a tribute to the author that the reader finds his impatience with Echo gradually changing to sympathy; it is as if he encountered her in real life and found that he liked her better as he knew her more intimately.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p673 N 20 ’19 500w

=TRENCH, HERBERT.= Napoleon; a play. *$2 Oxford 822

19–12898

“‘You are the eddy—they are the tide’, says Mrs Wickham to Napoleon over the body of her dead son. The tide of humanity sweeps onward, and the Napoleonic selfishnesses and individualisms that run counter to it are no more than eddies swirling back against the current, soon to be straightened out again by the irresistible onrush. Geoffrey Wickham is the apostle of humanity, whose aim it is to make Napoleon see the unreasonableness of his attitude. His plan is to kidnap Napoleon from Boulogne—it is the year of the threatened invasion of England—to take him out to sea, and there, in solitude, to persuade him into reason. The plot of the play, which is full of dramatic situations, is the story of his failure and death.”—Ath

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“Mr Trench uses prose as his medium except in the critical scene between Wickham and Napoleon, where he rises to a fine and rather Browning-like blank verse.”

+ =Ath= p477 Je 13 ’19 150w

“Now here is at least a play. It has argument, dignity, eloquence and dramatic movement; it is based upon a real conflict of ideas, in any case they scarcely affect the whole. The whole work is disciplined; there is rhetoric, where rhetoric should be; and where dispassionate prose should be, there is dispassionate prose. It does honour to English literature; and when we learn that it has been played for one hundred nights with success, we shall believe that the English public has begun to do honour to itself.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p584 Jl 11 ’19 1450w

=Brooklyn= 12:88 F ’20 30w

“Mr Trench’s play is worth all his poems twice over. It is one of the few real fruits of the war.” Mark Van Doren

+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 480w

“The play has faults. It is unwieldy in construction, the threads are not always connected and the writing is at times over-elaborated. But these defects cannot outweigh its poetic quality, its power of characterization, and its intense drama. The scenes in Napoleon’s room at Boulogne and those in Wickham’s boat are particularly noteworthy. It would be interesting to see how it would stand the test of production.”

+ − =Spec= 123:344 S 13 ’19 700w

“Surely this play is not merely to be read, but to be seen. But every character is clear in outline, awaiting embodiment, demanding presentment. Its characters are never mere puppets ... not even Napoleon who must by now be more disgustedly weary of his earthly immortality than any denizen of the underworld. He, at any rate should return thanks to Mr Trench for this just, urbane and pitiless rehabilitation.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Je 19 ’19 1700w

=TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, and WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS=, eds. Colonial prose and poetry. il *$2.50 Crowell 810.8

The present volume is a reprint on thin paper and in one volume of an earlier three-volume set under the titles: The transplanting of culture (1607–1650); The beginnings of Americanism (1650–1710); The growth of the national spirit (1710–1775). The object of the anthology is to give the critic of literature an opportunity “to study the effects of environment upon the literary powers and products of a transplanted race.” (Introd.)

=TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY.= Lord Grey of the Reform bill; being the life of Charles, 2d Earl Grey, 1764–1845. il *$7 (*21s) Longmans

20–7584

“It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced the late Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr George Trevelyan. The Lord Grey who passed the reform bill of 1832 has always been an enigma to later generations. His political career was like a drama in which the hero holds the stage in the first act and has a brief and effective

## scene in the second act, but then is seen no more till the fifth act.

Entering Parliament in 1787, when he was twenty-three, he attached himself to Fox, and made himself notorious by founding the Society of the friends of the people and by moving annual resolutions in favour of parliamentary reform. He succeeded to his father’s peerage in November, 1807, and felt that his career was ended. Three-and-twenty years had passed when all at once England discovered that the retired statesman was, like Cincinnatus, the one man who could extricate her from a dangerous situation. Lord Grey tore himself from his country pleasures, took command of a mixed and quarrelsome team of Whigs, radicals, and Canningites, and set himself to achieve parliamentary reform with such skill and determination as few ministers have ever displayed.”—Spec

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“The proportion of the text of 369 pages bearing directly upon Grey is too slight to give unity to the whole, and too scattered for focusing into any but a vague image. This is what Mr Trevelyan’s volume really is: an indictment of Tory administration during the era in which Grey lived—an indictment conceived in the unmeasured violence of a political antagonist.” C. E. Fryer

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:90 O ’20 760w

“It is a fascinating story, excellently told, and even the reader who knows little of English political history will find it interesting on account of the light and hope that it sheds on modern conditions.” A. G. Porritt

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:733 N ’20 560w

“Truly admirable book.” Ll. S.

+ =Ath= p443 Ap 2 ’20 1500w

“As a biographer, though not concealing Grey’s failings, he is in sympathy with his subject, while as regards politics his zealous advocacy of the virtues of the Whigs and his condemnation of their opponents occasionally, and especially in the earlier part of his work, outrun his discretion.” W: Hunt

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:457 Jl ’20 2150w

+ =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 450w

“Mr Trevelyan belongs to a great tradition; and he worthily maintains the dignity of a literary ancestry of which Macaulay is only the most eminent figure. Known wherever literature is cherished for his own superb study of Garibaldi, his ‘Life of John Bright’ showed admirably that he was not less competent to illustrate the history of England. This latest work is not a whit less excellent.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 2200w

“Mr Trevelyan’s biography is so excellent in every way, so thoroughgoing in its preparatory studies, so familiar with the epoch, so just in its appraisements and so interestingly written that it is well worth waiting for.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Je 27 ’20 900w

=Outlook= 125:466 Jl 7 ’20 2750w

“Mr Trevelyan has put us heavily in his debt by so agreeably presenting a character about whom too little has been known in the past. Mere personal intimacies are subordinated to historical perspective, and we gain a shrewd insight of a psychology under the stress of problems not unlike those now confronting the world.”

+ =Review= 3:250 S 22 ’20 2450w

“While we refuse to admire Mr Trevelyan’s hero, we have nothing but praise for Mr Trevelyan. The note of urbanity is never absent from his writing; his style is free from the exuberance, the piling up of effects by antitheses and adjectives, and the lack of humour, which mar the earlier books of his distinguished father.”

+ =Sat R= 129:304 Mr 27 ’20 1300w

“The author, except in his occasional Whiggish outbursts, writes as a sober historian and states the facts fairly.”

+ =Spec= 124:423 Mr 27 ’20 1700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 20 ’20 1050w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p193 Mr 25 ’20)

“The biography is an excellent history of the time and one that repays reading for its analogies with the present.” G: F. Whicher

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 830w

“Within its own limits and for its own public the work could not be better done, and will confirm and establish its author’s reputation as a biographer and historian. It is brilliantly written, and the right reader, especially the lover of English political history, will not willingly lay it down till he has drunk his cup of pleasure to the last drop. It is full, too, of interesting judgments on matters which only incidentally come within its scope.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p193 Mr 25 ’20 3200w

=TREVELYAN, JANET PENROSE (WARD) (MRS GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN).= Short history of the Italian people, from the barbarian invasions to the attainment of unity. il *$5 Putnam 945

20–6767

The writer was impressed with the need of a short history of Italy while giving a series of lantern lectures on Italian history to London school children in 1902. The present volume, which the author modestly calls a “summary” is the result “of a deep and growing love for the subject, of many wanderings in the bypaths of Italy, and of an inherited affection for her present population.” (Preface) She disclaims having made any original research, studied the archives, or made new discoveries. “But I have endeavoured, by using the work already done on each period by Italian, British, French, and German scholars, and by illuminating it with the sayings of contemporary writers, to present a narrative as near the truth as it was possible for me to make it.” (Preface) Partial contents: Italy in the century preceding the barbarian invasions (284–395); The barbarian invasions (395–476); The beginnings of the middle ages (800–1002); The rise of the cities, and their conflict with Frederick Barbarossa (1100–1183); Rome and the papacy during the fourteenth century (1305–1389); Italy in the sixteenth century; Napoleon’s first conquest of Italy (1792–1799); The years of revolution (1846–1849); The completion of Italian unity (1860–1870); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. There are twenty-four illustrations and six maps.

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“Mrs Trevelyan has wrestled with the difficulties of her subject with marked success. She has a thorough grasp of essentials and a due sense of proportion which have enabled her to produce an admirably balanced, well-arranged book, while she writes in a way that is sure to make it widely read.” L. C.-M.

+ =Ath= p237 Ag 20 ’20 1050w

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

“The chapters are well arranged and in all but the spirit of the presentation of the material, satisfactory.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:687 F ’21 130w

“As is the case with all English histories of Italy, the least satisfactory part of the book is the ‘Epilogue,’ which treats of the fifty years since 1870.” W. M.

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:628 O ’20 370w

=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 40w

“The author failed to grasp, or rather utilize, the proper hypothesis—to write the story of the communities as influenced by individuals and extract from that story not what was merely entertaining, but what permanently influenced the future.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 22 ’20 1850w

“As regards political history the volume is valuable, but its author does not sufficiently emphasize Italy’s glory in her men of art, literature, science, and religion.”

+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 200w

“Popular histories of Italy in English are not many. This one is likely to be recognized very soon as among the best.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 70w

“Mrs Trevelyan has accomplished a feat which we should have deemed hardly possible, in view of the fascinating complexity of the subject. Her book is intensely interesting, and we commend it heartily.”

+ =Spec= 125:180 Ag 7 ’20 1250w

“It might be suggested that she is apt to overrate the capacity of her reader to grasp from a few words the summaries and the conclusions that have been formed by the writer after long and extended study and reflexion. Mrs Trevelyan has every right to assume that her fresh, lively, and sympathetic appreciation cannot be superfluous.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 Jl 8 ’20 1600w

=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis: its history, theory and practice. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 130

A popular treatment of psychoanalysis. The author has attempted “to sum up in a concise form the views of the greatest American and foreign analysts which at present are scattered in hundreds of books, pamphlets and magazine articles.” (Preface) The author is not an unqualified Freudian, holding that Jung, Adler and others have contributed much of value to the new science. Among the chapter titles are: The history of psychoanalytic research; The unconscious and the urges; Night dreams and day dreams; Symbols, the language of the dream; The dreams of the human race; The psychology of everyday

## actions; Feminism and radicalism; The psychology of wit; The artistic

temperament; The psychoanalytic treatment; The new ethics. There is a glossary of terms used, and a bibliography, but the book lacks an index.

* * * * *

“This book is more valuable than the usual popular exposition of psychoanalysis. Clearly written.”

+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20

“The present book is by no means a good fulfillment of its avowedly popular purpose. A Freudian critic might say that the disorderly arrangement of its material reveals a mental disturbance of a most alarming character. That much of the subject matter is extremely illuminating goes without saying, but the author constantly betrays, as do nearly all writers upon this subject, an astonishingly uncritical habit of mind in the interpretation of specific cases analyzed.” C. M. S.

− + =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 440w

“In a field that has developed a considerable wealth of literature, this book of Tridon’s is a distinct and welcome contribution to the subject.” W: J. Fielding

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 650w

“The volume is wholly a compilation and done without display of literary skill or apparent intimacy with the subject. Any one who wishes to get a comprehensive synopsis of the position of psychoanalysis today may get it with greater readiness and satisfaction from ‘Psychoanalysis and its place in life’ by Miss M. K. Bradby, than from the book in question.” Joseph Collins

− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 1250w

“Dr Tridon has carried out his purpose of furnishing in brief compass a survey of the large bearings upon the affairs of mind, normal and abnormal, which underlie the practice of psycho-analysis. But this is not the long awaited and still awaited book which will give the intelligent and critical public some satisfactory account of the animus and the technique and the background of the Freudian system. Dr Tridon tells us far too much of the several schisms and divergences of Freud and his followers.”

+ − =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 850w

“There is nothing original in it except some of Mr Tridon’s opinions, which are not impressive.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 160w

“He is an industrious disciple and sets his matter out lucidly and uncritically. He will give the intelligent reader some appreciation both of the value of psychoanalytic work and (though unconsciously) of some of the extravagances of psychoanalytic enthusiasts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 280w

=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis and behavior. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 130

This, the author’s second book on psychoanalysis, “is an attempt at interpreting human conduct from the psychoanalytical point of view.” Contents: The organism; Problems of childhood; Progress and regressions; Sleep and dreams; Problems of sex; The psychoanalytic treatment; The four schools of psychoanalysis; Index. Bibliographical notes follow the chapters.

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“A rather useful aspect of the book is the chapter distinguishing the four schools of psychoanalysis headed respectively by Freud, Jung, Adler, and Kempf.”

+ − =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 40w

“Mr Tridon’s second volume, ‘Psychoanalysis and behavior,’ is far more meritorious than the first. It shows that he has examined psychoanalytic literature and that he is able to percolate it through his conscious mind with much ease and some grace.” Joseph Collins

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 520w

=TRINE, GRACE STEELE (HYDE) (MRS RALPH WALDO TRINE)=, comp. Dreams and voices; songs of mother, father and child. $2 Womans press 821.08

It is the aim of this anthology of contemporary poetry “to present some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in recent years, not forgetting to include several that deal also with the love of father and child.” (Foreword) It is a de luxe edition with a frontispiece in color by Clinton Brown.

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“The fact that most of the material is of quite recent creation gives the volume an interest not shared by older anthologies of the same character.”

+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 120w

“There is necessarily much sentimentality, much vatic utterance, much capitalization and saccharinity. De la Mare’s ‘Rachel’ is a relief from some of it, tender without being ‘sweet.’”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 220w

=TROUBETZKOY, AMÉLIE (RIVES) princess.= As the wind blew. *$1.75 Stokes 811

20–17896

Some of the poems in this collection are reprinted from other sources but many appear in print for the first time. The collection opens with a memorial poem to Adair Archer and the grouping of the contents is under the headings: Rhymes and rhythms; Balkan songs; The wonderful child; Of Babylon; Fantasia; Autumn and winter.

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“The technique of poetry is vividly manifest in the present volume of poems, as well as some ingenuity and warm imagination; but the dramatic lucidity of emotion is still absent.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 200w

=TUCKER, IRWIN ST JOHN.= History of imperialism. *$2.25 Rand school of social science 321.03

“There is a straight line of descent from the throne of Menes to the chair of Wilson; a straight course of empire from that far off day when Upper and Lower Egypt were united beneath the crown of the first empire, to the day when the expanding credits of America forced her imperial merchants to create an imperial figurehead. Our symptoms of imperialism are identical with those which all budding empires have displayed.” (Foreword) For a better understanding of imperialism the book takes up the study of the separate nations from earliest history both before and after the great spotlight of imperial power picked them out for the stage of some particular act. In conclusion the author points out the two forces that are now struggling in our political structure to head us either towards an empire or an industrial republic. The book falls into two parts: ancient and modern imperialism. Part 1 contains: The book of Egypt—of Babylon—of Persia—of Greece—of Rome—of Nicea; part 2: The book of Islam—of France—of Germany—of Spain; The strife of the Eagles; The book of England—of India—of America.

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“Throughout the work there are numerous excerpts from ancient documents which are of absorbing interest and which throw a stream of light into many dark corners. The style, too, is a departure from the customary method of dealing with economic subjects. There is only one defect in the making of the book that we note. There is no index.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ja 2 ’21 1050w

=TUELL, HARRIET EMILY.= Study of nations; an experiment in social education. (Riverside educational monographs) *80c Houghton 909

20–5596

This is a plea that we substitute for our old “dry as dust” method of teaching history “an elementary study of nationality.” In a high school course such as this book proposes, “each nation is carefully considered by itself, that pupils may gain a definite impression of its individual characteristics. First it is viewed as it appears today; then its development is briefly traced. After this historic background has been sketched in, an attempt is made to evaluate the peculiar gifts of the country and its people to the sum of modern civilization.” (Preface) This is a pioneer book, for the use of teachers, and, as such, the main part of it is devoted to helpfully suggestive material, outlines, and comments upon the following nations: France, England, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austro-Hungary, Turkey and the Balkan states, China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands (“a nation in the making”). The book includes a complete bibliographical list, and a connected outline of all the chapters. The chapters on China and Japan were contributed by Dr K. S. Latourette. Dr Tuell is the head of the department of history, Somerville high school, Massachusetts.

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=Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20

“Books of this sort are undoubtedly useful to teachers who have access to well-equipped libraries and are themselves trained to get the materials out of these libraries, but the movement which Miss Tuell represents will hardly be successful until someone has prepared in detail and in a form that can be presented to children the materials that she has gone over in outline. The book is in this sense a first step in the direction of actual school use of this sort of material.”

+ − =El School J= 20:547 Mr ’20 380w

=School R= 28:312 Ap ’20 380w

=TUOHY, FERDINAND.=[2] Secret corps. *$2 Seltzer 940.485

(Eng ed 20–11008)

“Captain Tuohy deals with all the methods of espionage and counter-espionage practised during the war, enlivening his exposition here and there with anecdotes. He explains incidentally the value of seemingly harmless military details to an alert enemy and thus justifies the censorship. He declares that our own system proved highly efficient and that our French allies had, after February, 1916, to implore the assistance of our secret service in Germany as all their own agents had been captured. The British system was based on the principle that each agent should know and be known to his chief alone.”—Spec

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“‘The secret corps’ is thrilling in its every paragraph, and, speaking personally, it is the first book of the war we have enjoyed for two years.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 170w

“This volume has value unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any other that has dealt with the same material.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 30 ’21 420w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 340w

=Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 160w

=TURNER, EDWARD RAYMOND.= Europe, 1789–1920. *$3.50 Doubleday 940.2

20–17882

The raison d’être of the book is the alteration in historical perspective wrought by the last few years which makes the epoch since 1789 “the most important and interesting in the history of mankind. It began with a revolution whose effects are not yet all measured; it ended with another whose consequences can scarcely yet even be guessed at.” (Preface) During this period immense changes took place in the relations of people with each other, with their governments, with capitalists and employers, in the attitude of people toward the problems of the world in which they lived, and in their habits of thought. The book falls into two parts: 1789–1871; and 1871–1920. The outstanding points of part one are the old Europe before, during and after the French revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the rise of Prussia after 1870 and the condition of Russia during the period. Part two begins with the military triumphs of Germany between 1864–1871, its subsequent development and that of the other great powers, and treats of events before and during the great war. There are numerous maps, a bibliography at the end of each chapter, an appendix and an index.

* * * * *

“About the completest single volume history of Europe covering the years between the two most epochal events in her experience. Excellent historical work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 300w

“It is naïve, sincere, and, if the English is sometimes colloquial, one has no difficulty in understanding what the author means. It is a

## book intended to be read by the person of average cultivation, and not

very much instruction—and judged from that point of view the author’s task is very well done.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p5 D 19 ’20 2700w

“In style and method the latter half of the book is somewhat like those editorial summaries of current events contained in some of the best modern journals. It is concise, considered, rather neutral, but useful for exactly the purpose for which it was designed. The book’s value lies not so much in the backward glimpses of the past from the present point of view as in the light thrown forward on the war and upon our present state by the course of events since 1879.”

+ =No Am= 213:138 Ja ’21 750w

=TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON.= Frontier in American history. *$2.50 Holt 973

20–18058

Professor Turner’s essay on “The significance of the frontier in American history” was read at a meeting of the American historical association in Chicago in 1893 and has had a profound influence on American historical thinking and writing. It is to be found in the Proceedings of the State historical society of Wisconsin for 1893, and in the Report of the American historical association for the same year and is reprinted here together with other papers bearing on the same theme. A statement of his thesis may be taken from “The West and American ideals”: “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.” The other papers are: The first official frontier of the Massachusetts bay; The old West; The middle West; The Ohio valley in American history; The significance of the Mississippi valley in American history; The problem of the West; Dominant forces in western life; Contributions of the West to American democracy; Pioneer ideals and the state university; Social forces in American history; Middle western pioneer democracy.

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“Interesting to students or general readers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 880w

+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 720w

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w

“The high significance of this work has long been recognized by writers on American history; but if the influence of Mr Turner were to be estimated on the basis of his published work alone, it would be accounted far less than it has in fact been.” Carl Becker

+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 1050w

“Though the chapters in this book are essays on aspects of frontier history and written at different times, they might well have been written within a few months. The book contains a fund of information, clearly reasoned, significantly and concisely expressed. It is readable, and it is suggestive.” C. L. Skinner

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 4 ’20 800w

=N Y Times= p10 N 7 ’20 1500w

“Are we hypercritical in thinking that essays of such pith and moment demand a better format?”

+ − =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 60w

“The present volume sets forth in the clearest possible manner the view of American expansion which has inspired and illuminated all of Professor Turner’s work from the beginning. Among all American historians no one has so fully caught the meaning of the frontier in our national development.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 200w

“As a treatise, Prof. Turner’s book loses something from being a compilation of articles and addresses, but it makes an excellent general presentation of a subject which is insufficiently understood by the average American, yet is so fascinating that any reader will be thankful to have it brought to his attention.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1050w

“The book is highly suggestive to one who wishes to understand the American attitude toward social problems and the course which social work has taken in America.” Lilian Brandt

+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 200w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 200w

=TURNER, GEORGE KIBBE.= Hagar’s hoard. *$2.25 (2c) Knopf

20–17178

The story describes a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878 in all its weirdness and horror. In a large brick house lived an old man, Athiel Hagar, with his daughter and adopted nephew. The man is a miser and many are the stories current among the negroes about the fabulous sums he has hoarded in his house. His property is his obsession which keeps him rooted in the house when fleeing from the fever is the only sane thing to do. At last he succumbs to the enemy and in his last death agony accidentally pulls the cord which brings his treasure down upon him, burying the dead man under it.

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=Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“The plot of ‘Hagar’s hoard’ is unconvincing as regards its chief motive. Then, too, the characters are sadly stock-in-trade. Even the negroes are grossly machine-made and lack warmth and conviction, and the author certainly has overlooked a fine opportunity to add color and the throb of life to a fairly interesting tale.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 320w

“Mr Turner has unfortunately made a full-length novel out of what should have been a long short story, or at most, a novelette. The plot is of the very slightest. The merit of the book lies in its excellent description of the fever-stricken town, but excellent as this is it becomes wearisome when repeated again and again.”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 700w

=TURNER, JOHN HASTINGS.= Place in the world. *$1.75 Scribner

20–3578

“The heroine of ‘A place in the world,’ Iris Iranova, is an illegitimate and temperamental young woman of about twenty-five. Married to an over-amiable Russian, she lost her temper and stuck a knife into him. This inconsiderate action made it necessary for her to leave Russia and come to England, where she is living very comfortably when the book opens. Following a whim, she decides to settle for a time in an English suburb, and it is with her relations with the persons she meets there that the novel is principally concerned. Among these persons two are of especial importance—a really charming old clergyman, broad-minded, sympathetic and possessed of a keen and abundant sense of humor, and Henry Cumbers, an apparently fussy and insignificant little man who, in time of stress and sorrow, proves that he has splendid stuff in him.”—N Y Times

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“Mr Turner has a clever pen, and the fluttering of the dovecotes caused by Iris’s unconventionality gives him scope for a number of incisive character-sketches. Mr Turner is to be congratulated on the keenness of his observation as well as the liveliness of his style.”

+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 100w

“Fairly amusing.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 300w

“Mr Turner has written a charming novel, fresh and vivid in dialogue, with characters that live in every pulse and gesture.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1000w

“Witty comedy.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 100w

“The plot of the tale is extremely slight and at times the novel drags badly, but the style is often agreeable and the characters of Henry Cumbers and of the Rev. John Heslop are very well drawn indeed.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 300w

“Mr Turner’s ‘Simple souls’ was amusing; this novel goes deeper. It is fine workmanship as to its writing, and in its essence it makes for soundheartedness and human tolerance.”

+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 60w

“The especial merit of the book is the Rev. John Heslop, a character any writer might have been proud to invent.”

+ =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 124:354 Mr 13 ’20 40w

“Mr Turner’s fiction challenges comparison with that of Mr Locke, not because he imitates the latter’s method, but chiefly because his work falls within the same general field of whimsical personalities, kindly humor, and pleasing romance so long cultivated by Mr Locke. The characters charm and delight and provide the zest to an unusually entertaining story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 580w

=TURNER, JOHN KENNETH.= Hands off Mexico. pa 35c Rand school of social science 327

20–3857

This pamphlet is devoted to an exposition of the motives that lie back of intervention propaganda, and concludes with a plea to the American people to make common cause with the people of Mexico against the interests that are a menace to both. In proposing his solution the author says, “In the cause of the Mexican ‘problem’ is found its solution. As our meddling has been a decisive factor in creating and prolonging the disorder, and in subjecting Americans to danger, so an opposite policy would tend to produce the opposite result. We must stop threatening Mexico, stop invading Mexico, stop embargoing Mexico, enter into a fair agreement for policing the border, keep a few of our fine promises, make a fair trial of treating our neighbor as an equal.”

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“The author of this brochure, which as a plea for the rights of the Mexican people is fundamentally admirable and excellent, employs a great deal of the hammer-and-tongs method of his previous volume, ‘Barbarous Mexico.’ Nevertheless the booklet is a timely summary of information concerning the facts of the controversy.” G. B. Winton

+ − =Survey= 44:311 My 29 ’20 320w

=TURNER, W. J.= Dark wind. *$2 Dutton 821

20–3700

“‘The dark wind’ has been most cordially received in London and is especially interesting to students of poetry because it combines much of the colorcraft of the imagists with the melodies of the Georgians. Indeed, none of the young English poets has given us verse in which sense impressionism plays a more important part than it plays here.” (N Y Times) “Not the least interesting peculiarity of Mr Turner’s art is that he has made no startling departures into irregular verse forms. Nor does Mr Turner seek to startle by the choice of bizarre subjects. He writes on Haystacks and Sunflowers and Hollyhocks and Aeroplanes and Recollecting a visit.” (Bookm)

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“There is no careless rapture in any of his verse: it has the studious rigidity of a cultivated and audacious craftsmanship, but with the magic of genuine inspiration.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 51:456 Je ’20 800w

“One might name such poems as In the caves of Auvergne, The search for the nightingale, The sky-sent death and Magic, which not only show Mr Turner at his best poetically but at his subtlest allegorically.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 600w

“Mr Turner possesses, simultaneously with the knack of astonishing, the knack of cloying and blurring. He is intoxicated with exotic masses and meanings. He has visual genius; his images expand in the mind’s eye. Yet, once he has created a scene, he does nothing with it. He has not the firmness to finish what he gloriously begins.” M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w

+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 200w

“Turner’s ‘The dark wind’ is first of all a book of color and beautiful rhythms. He possesses the virtue of flinging lovely pictures before the reader, not the hard emphasized colors that cry from Miss Amy Lowell’s efforts, but a soft yet glittering mingling of hues that is warm with sunlight and harmonious with spring and autumn.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 700w

=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Treasure mountain. il *$1.75 (3c) Century

20–16341

This story for girls has a picturesque setting in the southern mountains. Page Ruffin, the young heroine, is helped out of a dangerous situation by a mountain boy who gives his name as Harson Ruffyan. She is struck with the likeness to her own name and her teasing companions see a facial resemblance as well. Page’s father suspects a real relationship but he is angrily turned away by Mac Ruffyan, who refuses to recognize the kinship. On another occasion Page is lost on the mountain and is rescued by Mac Ruffyan and taken to his cabin home. Here she sees her possible cousin in a new light and becomes his champion. In the meantime her father has been investigating family history to learn the secret of the relationship. A second mystery of the story, which leads to a still more thrilling adventure and rescue, is concerned with a cave, buried treasure and a ghost. Incidentally the author introduces the lesson of wild flower preservation.

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“Will interest girls from ten to fifteen.”

+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21

Reviewed by A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w

“It would be worth while to put up with the disagreeable little heroine if young folks could learn from this to enjoy wild-flowers in their native setting.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w

“A real story with plenty of action and thrills.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 O 24 ’20 140w

“Here is that rarity, a good story for girls.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 120w

=TUSSAUD, JOHN THEODORE.= Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. il *$5 Doran 791

20–27479

The story of the famous wax works, established in Paris during the revolution and later brought to London, written by one of the great-grandsons of the founder, the present proprietor of the exhibition. Madame Tussaud, altho a young girl at the time of the revolution, was already famed as a modeler in wax and had been a favorite at court. She was conscripted and compelled to model the guillotined heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marat murdered in his bath, and other horrors, a number of which are reproduced in the illustrations. The story is brought down to the present day, describing many of the recent additions, with illustrations. Hilaire Belloc has written an introduction and the book is indexed.

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=Ath= p109 Ja 23 ’20 1650w

+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

“The amazing feature of the book is, however, the manner in which its author has made so intrinsically interesting and romantic a theme dull and commonplace. It is evident that he possesses absolutely no qualifications for his task. He is simply adept at the compilation of a scrap-book. Yet his subject is so fascinating that it is better to have his account of Madame Tussaud’s life and work than none at all.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1450w

+ =Cath World= 112:686 F ’21 250w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 130w

“‘Romance’ is possibly a strong word for this book, and is applicable only where some story connected with a character in the collection is told. Sometimes this takes Mr Tussaud far afield. But as a collection of anecdotes it ranks almost with Siboutie’s ‘Souvenirs of a Parisian.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 31 ’20 1700w

“Mr Tussaud has appreciated the value of his materials both from the historic point of view and from the viewpoint of human interest. His narrative, like his wax figures, simply presents facts of undeniable interest. But it is the pictures that make the book unique.”

+ =No Am= 213:287 F ’21 520w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 80w

“The book is often pleasantly gruesome.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 8 ’20 780w

=TUTTLE, W. C.= Reddy Brant: his adventures. il *$1.75 (5c) Century

20–18257

A series of short stories reprinted from Boy’s Life. The hero is fourteen-year-old Reddy Brant, a young vagrant who wanders into the cattle country of the far West. His adventures are many and exciting and aided by his native wit and courage, with the occasional help of coincidence, he acts as both agent of justice and angel of mercy. The titles are: A rooting tooter; The go-getters; The clean-up kid; A sage-brush Santa Claus; The jump of a forty-five; Reddy’s muzzle-loader; A bunkie of the buckaroos; Reddy Brant—thinker; When Reddy wondered why; Good-night, knight; Three wise men and a star.

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“There is a genuine flavor of old-time American humor in the telling, and an unusual spirit of good fellowship.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 80w

“There are more adventures to the square inch in this book than any other that has come to hand since ‘The three musketeers.’ The manner of telling is swift, humorous, breezy. Reddy is a find.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 90w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 40w

=TWEEDALE, CHARLES L.= Man’s survival after death: or, The other side of life in the light of Scripture, human experience, and modern research. *$6 Dutton 218

“The researches made of late years to determine some proof of existence, especially bodily existence after death, have been mainly based upon science applied to psychical intuition and evidence. This method is one elimination, discarding all the agents and influences that might spring from irrational and abnormal factors in human experience, and tracking what remained of evidence as proof of communication with identities translated to a life beyond the grave. Mr Tweedale in this work seeks to prove a similar fact but his evidence has its origin in faith, and faith receives its confirmation in the doctrines of Scripture. Mankind in general, he believes, holds the germ of this faith but fails to make it an active conviction by reason of insufficient knowledge of the realities supporting that faith. On his part Mr Tweedale rejects psychic phenomena as the theory whereby to command the knowledge of survival, though he does not hesitate to refine upon its evidence to prove his own convictions of faith.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 310w

“No such vast array of evidence, consisting of well-authenticated occurrences, has ever before been brought together in one volume. Not only this vast survey of the entire field of psychic phenomena, with admirable presentation in its relation to man’s religious nature and spiritual development, but there is added the clear explanations and lofty thought of Mr Tweedale.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 600w

=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Beautiful Mrs Davenant. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes

20–15067

There are two mysteries in this story, that concerning the past of the beautiful Mrs Davenant and the mystery of Lake House, which Letty Thorne senses on first coming there to stay with her uncle. In the solution of the second the secret of the first is also revealed. It is revealed to the reader and to one other person in the story, but Mrs Davenant, feeling that there is that in her life which forbids remarriage says no to the man who loves her and keeps her own confidence. A minor love story develops between the vicar and Mrs Davenant’s friend Agnes Howard, and to this affair as well as to the love story of Letty there is a happy ending.

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“The story is not very probable, but it is entertaining and cleverly handled. It belongs to a rather old-fashioned type of romance, but it is treated in a modern way.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 300w

“A very good mystery story.”

+ =Sat R= 129:545 Je 12 ’20 60w

“If this ‘novel of love and mystery’ is somewhat crudely melodramatic and makes considerable demands on the improbable, Mrs Tweedale at least gives her readers plenty of incident.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 70w

=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Ghosts I have seen, and other psychic experiences. *$2 (2c) Stokes 133

19–19376

Supernatural experiences of a lifetime are recorded here. The author has the convictions of the theosophist, and in these pages there are occasionally brief essays on reincarnation, spiritualism, the “other side.” Unlike most current spiritualistic books, there is here no argument on alleged “irrefutable evidence.” The author is a psychic, has seen these things, we may believe or not. At any rate, reading at midnight, in a dimly lit house alone, we cannot remain indifferent. Some of the titles are: “Silk dress” and “rumpus”; The ghost of Prince Charlie; The invisible hands; Peacock’s feathers—the skeleton hand at Monte Carlo; I commit murder; The angel of Lourdes; “The new Jeanne d’Arc”; Auras. An interesting picture of Madame Blavatsky (in the flesh) is presented in this book.

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=Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

+ =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 120w

“This book introduces the reader not only to many interesting visitors from the world beyond mortal ken but to a very interesting human being as well. For the author’s own sake, it is well worth reading.” Cornelia Van Pelt

+ =Pub W= 97:611 F 21 ’20 360w

=Review= 2:183 F 21 ’20 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 700w

=TYRRELL, GEORGE.= Letters *$7 Dutton

(Eng ed 21–197)

“‘George Tyrrell’s letters,’ selected and edited by Miss M. D. Petre, author of the ‘Life of George Tyrrell,’ will bring the opportunity of a more familiar acquaintance to the many Americans who have been interested in the well-known Irishman’s life and work. Modernism claimed great sacrifices and the labor of some years; but it was not all his life. And in this selection of letters it has been the intention to show him in his dealings with widely moral and undenominationally spiritual issues, to show him also in his lighter moments, when he spoke true words in jest, or hid his meaning under a veil of persiflage.”—Springf’d Republican

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“So long as there are Christians of even a simple type, Tyrrell will be read, because of his instinct for the things of Christ. His cruel ironies and his flaming resentments, his rash speculations and his tottering syntheses may all be buried in his grave.”

+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 7 ’21 840w

=Boston Transcript= p7 N 6 ’20 500w

“These highly interesting letters have been published, as we are told, with the view of showing Tyrrell in ‘his lighter and brighter, as in his sadder and graver moods.’ We must confess to finding him sometimes equally depressing in both. His humour has a tinge of that professional flippancy (as lay-people esteem it) which seems common to clergymen of every denomination. The ‘letters of advice’ included in this collection show us Father Tyrrell at the best, wise, comforting, sympathetic, with no thought but the welfare of his correspondents.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:519 Je 5 ’20 1000w

“Miss Petre has done well to publish this selection from his correspondence. He was a many-sided man, and his letters reflect his many-sidedness.”

+ =Spec= 124:695 My 22 ’20 1350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 450w

“Miss Maud Petre has shown good judgment in issuing this collection of George Tyrrell’s letters as a supplement to his ‘Autobiography and life.’ It is plain that Tyrrell was a born correspondent. He expresses himself with more ease in a letter than in a volume. And he would, we think, have spared both himself and his church much trouble had he written more letters and published fewer books.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p253 Ap 22 ’20 900w

=TYRRELL, ROSS.= Pathway of adventure. *$1.90 (2c) Knopf

20–8517

Stuart Wayne, writer of detective stories, finds himself involved in a genuine plot. He picks up a note dropped by a girl in a passing taxi and it starts him on the road of adventure and mystery. It is an appeal for help from a girl held imprisoned in an abandoned house in the Chicago suburbs. Through a lucky chance he gains entrance to the house and talks to the girl, Zaida Grayson, but his presence is discovered, with all but fatal consequences to himself, and the gang of crooks, with their fair prisoner, eludes him. But he has learned enough of her story to gain a clue and to connect it with the sudden death of Patrick Cullom, the iron king, whose young granddaughter is to inherit his wealth. With the aid of the secret service the band of kidnappers and murderers are brought to justice and by his own devotion and daring he wins the girl.

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“Any lover of this type of tale must have discovered here [in the Borzoi books] a number of excellent examples, of which ‘The pathway of adventure’ is by no means the least successful.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 170w

=N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w

“Events follow familiar lines, but with just enough variation to sustain the interest as incident follows incident.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 160w

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=ULLMAN, ALBERT EDWARD.= “Line’s busy.” il *$1 (4½c) Stokes 817

Goldie is the telephone operator in a large hotel and she tells her story in slangy letters to her pal Myrtle. Events in which she takes a share from her switchboard reveal her as a girl “always there with the helping hand, no matter how much it’s been lacerated in the past.” In

## particular the love affairs of her patrons and co-workers interest

her, and she straightens out several tangles, and finally, her own love story develops happily.

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“A love story that is both clever and jolly is so rare nowadays that one seizes with avidity upon the romance of little Goldie.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 200w

“Mr Ullman deserves full credit for a lot of ‘good lines.’ The wit of Goldie’s letters is catchy and largely original—not current vaudeville wheezes warmed over. We wish there was more of it and less of the ‘good-old-ham-and-eggs,’ ‘man-from-home’ brand of philosophy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 500w

=UNCENSORED= letters of a canteen girl. *$2 (3c) Holt 940.48

20–14006

These letters were “scratched down on odds and ends of writing paper, in a rare spare moment at the canteen; at night, at my billet, by candle-light, in the mornings, perched in front of Madame’s fire-place.... Why were they never sent? Simply because all letters mailed from France in those days, must of course pass under the eyes of the censor.” (Foreword) They contain everything that happened generously interspersed with the conversations of the doughboys. Contents: Company A; The doughboys; The front; The artillery; The engineers; The ordnance; The French; Pioneers, M. P.’s and others.

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“Rather more tempting to the jaded war appetite than most personal narratives because of the fresh frankness which anonymity permits. Will be liked better later on.”

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 220w

“So piquant and fine-humored are the observations and revelations that one regrets that the book is anonymous. The publishers’ claim, that this ‘gives the human side of soldiering as no book yet published has done,’ does not seem extravagant.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 270w

=UNDERHILL, EVELYN (MRS STUART MOORE).= Jacopone da Todi; poet and mystic—1228–1306; a spiritual biography. *$6 Dutton

20–4482

“Jacopone da Todi, that remarkable Italian mystical poet, was born soon after the death of St Francis of Assisi, about 1228 or 1230, while Dante was yet in the prime of his manhood. Living in the world until he was forty, a shrewd lawyer, a man of vivid temperament, of wide culture and refined tastes, he received at that age his first religious call. For the next ten years he wandered about as a missionary hermit and in 1278, being then about fifty, he became a Franciscan lay brother. Miss Underhill’s book is divided into two parts of about equal length. The first is devoted to Jacopone’s life, set in its proper historical environment. In the remaining part of the

## book Miss Underhill gives us a chronological selection from his

mystical poems, so well known as the Laude, accompanied in the fellow page by an English translation (also into poetry) by Mrs Theodore Beck.”—Cath World

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“Miss Underhill has a fine flow of language, a nice choice of adjectives, and a thorough, if somewhat undiscriminating, knowledge of the literature of her subject. Altogether her book is well done in its way, and it is not the slightest use wishing, as we do, that it had been done in another.” R. S.

+ − =Ath= p636 My 14 ’20 760w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 1500w

+ =Cath World= 111:819 S ’20 620w

“The biographer’s comprehension of the worldly accomplishments of her subject and her equal insight into his spiritual attainments, is strikingly the counterpart of that two-sidedness which she emphasizes in the man himself. The bibliography apart from its immediate value as indicating the sources of the present work, will be of service to those interested in the whole subject of Christian mysticism.” Marianne Moore

+ =Dial= 70:82 Ja ’21 1650w

“When the romantic personality falls into the hands of the scholar there is necessarily something of glamour and delight lost. This is what has happened in this austerely spiritual biography of Evelyn Underhill.” L. C. Willcox

+ − =N Y Times= 25:169 Ap 11 ’20 1200w

“Friar Jacopone was a poet of extraordinary power, and the fire, ease, and accomplishment of his rather erotic mystic poems are astonishing.”

+ =Spec= 124:426 Mr 27 ’20 1450w

“The materials are rather flimsy for the construction of a biography. We cannot agree with Miss Underhill that Jacopone was a great poet. Intense religious feeling, vividly and forcibly expressed, does not of itself constitute poetry, and beyond such expression Jacopone does not often rise.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p229 Ap 15 ’20 4100w

=UNDERHILL, RUTH MURRAY.= White moth. *$2 Moffat

20–20002

“Miss Underhill has converted the old fable of the ant and the grasshopper into a very modern romance which she calls ‘The white moth.’ Hilda Plaistead is the earnest plodder, Guy Nearing the gay and irresponsible hero, and the setting is the town of Cato. The two have a childhood engagement, become widely separated, and in the final chapter again discover that they were always meant for each other, but it is only after Guy has learned the folly of being jack of all trades and master of none.”—N Y Evening Post

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“We can scarcely claim for Miss Underhill’s story either originality of substance or of treatment. What she does accomplish is an exceedingly readable and very human story, which possesses certain scenes of quiet and insistent realism.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 5 ’21 250w

“High school days are described as well as in Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen.’ The characters are all well drawn. However, the true merit of the book is in taking some new aspects of life, such as the business rivalry between man and woman or the problems of factory management and using them to construct a good old-fashioned romance which holds the attention from start to finish.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 140w

“It is a real romance and has a charming atmosphere.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w

=UNSEEN= doctor. *$1.75 (5c) Holt 134

20–15457

The book is one of the Psychic series and describes the cure of a case of illness of fifteen years’ standing in the course of a year and eight months by an invisible spirit doctor. It contains a preface by J. Arthur Hill, testimonials by several personal friends of the patient and a report by the physician long in charge of the case in the flesh. The contents are: A chance paragraph; A chain of coincidences; The first interview; A further surprise; The invisible hand; Experiences and experiments; Fellow-lodgers; Royal progress; Learning to walk; “My little girl”; Six months later; Comments and criticisms; Appendix and index. The book was published in England as “One thing I know, or, The power of the unseen.”

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“‘The unseen doctor’ is as respectable a book of psychic experiences as has come to the public. There is no doubt that it is a record of real experiences. But, respectable as the book is, it still leaves open the eternal question, ‘Why should spirit doctors cling to the earth, and why have they no concerns of their own?’”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 320w

“As a ‘psychic’ tale the book is futile and foolish, indeed, rather fertile in folly.”

− =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 230w

“There is nothing fantastic in the story, and it is told with such convincing truth that the reader seems to have no choice save to accept it on its face value.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 330w

=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern American poetry. *$1.40 Harcourt 811.08

20–1516

“In his anthology, ‘Modern American poetry’ Louis Untermeyer has selected 132 poems by 80 authors, arranged them effectively, with brief notices for each writer and handy indices. Old favorites are here; ‘Little boy blue’ rubs shoulders with ‘The purple cow,’ and ‘When the frost is on the punkin’ with ‘A stein song.’ Franklin P. Adams, Oliver Herford, and Carolyn Wells are represented.”—Springf’d Republican

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“All the best recent things are here.” H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 70w

“This verse is remarkable for vigor and energy, form being sacrificed for content. An interesting feature is the group of seven poems on Lincoln by seven different poets.”

+ =Cleveland= p41 Ap ’20 60w

“Though it too often misses the authentic current, is too often led away into stagnant marshes, it is perhaps as good a map as we yet possess. The editor is a better conversationalist than guide.”

+ − =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 60w

=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w

“It is a comprehensive and unusually satisfying collection.”

+ =Ind= 104:64 O 9 ’20 130w

Reviewed by R. P. Utter

=Nation= 110:237 F 21 ’20 420w

“The present reviewer’s quarrel with Louis Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry’ is not so much because of its selections and omissions—both often very wise ones—as because of Untermeyer’s attitude of mind in his introduction. It is the typical attitude of the poets of our present little ‘renaissance,’ and perhaps one should hardly quarrel with it, but smile at it. You would suppose poetry that was honest, fresh, contemporary, had never been written before.” W. P. Eaton

− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 18 ’20 1000w

“If there be any critic in the country who ought not to make a schoolbook, that critic is Louis Untermeyer. He is much too brilliantly individual and his likes and dislikes are too pronounced. It is a book of verse that young people probably will like, if they like verse at all. Many of the selections included are humorous.... A good professor would make a better anthology for use in schools.” Marguerite Wilkinson

− + =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 480w

+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w

“The criticism may be raised that Mr Untermeyer has been too generous to the ultra-moderns. But the selections of Carl Sandburg, John Gould Fletcher and Alfred Kreymborg are chosen with discrimination, and serve to accomplish the editor’s purpose.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 26 ’20 300w

+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w

“This book is a delightful one to read; it has a distinct individuality, and if Mr Untermeyer, in avoiding the beaten track, does not always publish the finest work of his poets, he recovers many a line that has been undeservedly forgotten.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w

=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern British poetry. *$2 Harcourt 821.08

20–13991

A companion volume to Mr Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry.’ Over seventy-five poets are represented, ranging from Thomas Hardy, born in 1840, to Robert Graves, born in 1895. Among the others are Alice Meynell, William Watson, Francis Thompson, A. E. Housman, Ernest Dowson, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, W. W. Gibson, John Masefield, Ralph Hodgson, Harold Monro, John Drinkwater, Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Ledwidge, Irene Rutherford McLeod, Richard Aldington, Robert Nichols and Charles H. Sorley. In an introduction the editor discusses the new influences and tendencies.

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=Booklist= 17:23 O ’20

=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w

“A few months ago saw the birth of Mr Untermeyer’s book of ‘Modern American poetry,’ a work remarkable as showing the wide variety of theme and treatment which is at least one characteristic trait of American poetry today. Now Mr Untermeyer, for some obscure reason, essays the same feat with ‘Modern British poetry.’ And the result is conspicuously a failure.” J: G. Fletcher

− =Freeman= 2:116 O 13 ’20 1100w

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 50w

“The disproportionate amount of space allotted to the various poets gives a false emphasis: Mr Hardy, Mr Bridges and Mr Russell have each less than three pages, while Mr Chesterton has nine and Mr Kipling and Mr Noyes (Mr Noyes!) twelve each. The anthologist is tolerant of many schools; but his eye is more on the present than on the immediate past.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 800w

“Aside from the small flecks the book presents itself as an admirable attempt and one that, through its delightful snapshots of the poets prefixed to each writer’s work, should inveigle readers into a closer scrutiny of British verse.”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 490w

“The editor’s taste is sensitive, and his curious bitterness towards the Victorians, which is the main drawback to his liberality, does not greatly affect the catholicity of the work.”

+ =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 280w

+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w

=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS.= New Adam. *$1.75 Harcourt 811

20–16871

As an introduction to this book of poems Mr Untermeyer reprints “A note on the poetry of love” from the New Republic. He comments on the artificiality of the love poetry of the preceding age and notes that in our day there is a tendency to return “to the upright vigor, the wide and healthy curiosity” of our earlier ancestors, the Elizabethans. Among the poems of the book are: The new Adam, Hands, Asleep, Summer storm, A marriage, Wrangle, Equals, Supplication, The eternal masculine, Windy days, The embarrassed amorist, Words for a jig, Disillusion, The prodigal.

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“There is nothing about love or woman in this collection, except it be in the verses called ‘The wise woman,’ that is new in love poetry, and there is many a mood and theme that has been both artistically and emotionally better expressed by any number of poets in the past ‘two centuries.’” W: S. Braithwaite

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1000w

Reviewed by Babette Deutsch

=Dial= 70:89 Ja ’21 380w

“There is in this recent work of Mr Untermeyer’s a note that is singular in American poetry. It shows a writer who has become curious about the soul.” H. S. Gorman

+ =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 320w

“Mr Untermeyer is casual, as he promised, and flippant, and frank, and dutifully vulgar; but seldom is his effect other than that of an agile pen tracing a facile passion.”

− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 160w

“Neither the rhapsodic nor the mocking quality, however, gives the substance of Untermeyer’s work. The roots of his power lie deeper. Upright vigor, wide and healthy curiosity describe his own work excellently.” Babette Deutsch

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 860w

“One of Mr Untermeyer’s most marked traits is a delightful whimsicality. It crops up again and again throughout the volume, for, strangely enough, this book, which purports to be so revealing, is really extremely reticent. But a dissatisfaction obtrudes itself. Why, oh why, has Mr Untermeyer, master of so many differing forms, chosen to follow Heine in his tight little rhythms and mathematically cut stanzas? In Mr Untermeyer’s case, the effect is not exactly what I imagine he hopes.” Amy Lowell

+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 10 ’20 3500w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 70w

=USHER, ABBOTT PAYSON.= Introduction to the industrial history of England. il *$2.50 Houghton 330.942

20–5634

The book is a narrative of all the historical facts in the industrial development from the earliest beginnings to the present time, which presumably explains the word introduction in the title. The ground covered is shown in the contents: Forms of industrial organization; The rise of the crafts in antiquity; Crafts and craft gilds in medieval France; The population of England: 1086–1700; Village and manor; The traders and the towns; The development of gilds in England; The woolen industries: 1450–1750; The enclosure movement and land reform; The industrial revolution; The East India company and the vested interests; The new cotton industry; The reorganization of the metal trades; The rise of the modern factory system; The rise of collective bargaining; The protection of health and welfare by the state; The development of the railway; The government and the railways; Combinations and monopolies; Incomes, wages, and social unrest; Selected references; Index, maps, figures, and graphs.

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“His exposition is generally clear. The balance of general statement and of particular fact is in most chapters good. The author is usually a trustworthy guide. The most serious weakness of the work, when it is appraised as a manual for college undergraduates, lies in its plan rather than in its execution. I think, however, that few teachers who examine the book will dissent from the conclusion that it would be greatly improved if a large part, almost one third of the whole, were cut out, and if the space saved were used for the consideration of the topics now omitted.” Clive Day

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:572 S ’20 1050w

“The facts are presented with scholarly care, but the style is not too technical.”

+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 490w

“Marked by scholarliness and originality.”

+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 10w

“English industrialism, is, primarily, a consequence of certain philosophic ideas, but the author fails to comprehend this major fact, not from any lack of knowledge of the complexities of economic organization, but rather, one surmises because such intricacies are too much for him. He has not seen the wood for the trees, and he fears generalizations—except the one implied throughout the book, that there are no generalizations possible.” R. W.

− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 980w

“The book shows throughout the discriminatory use of the latest available results of research and much painstaking original work. The controversial treatment, the careful qualification in discussion, as well as occasional heaviness in style, make the book unsuited for an undergraduate text.”

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:520 Je ’20 500w

+ − =New Repub= 23:341 Ag 18 ’20 1650w

“It is encyclopædic in its character and is much more full in dealing with the mechanical aspects and the mechanical development of industry than with the history of the men, women, and children who have been engaged in the industries of England. In this respect it is a disappointing book.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 170w

“It is no small task to formulate a general text-book covering so enormous a field and involving many disputatious matters. Professor Usher has, however, accomplished this with skill. Some of his chapters are inadequate. In his discussion of land reform and the inclosure movement, for example, the plight of the evicted peasant farmers seems to be poorly understood. A similar criticism of a narrowness of sympathy, or at any rate of an inadequacy of understanding, might be directed against the final chapter. Professor Usher has a very thin knowledge of the British labor situation today.” W. L. C.

+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 300w

=USHER, ROLAND GREENE.= Story of the great war. il *$2.50 Macmillan 940.3

19–19080

“Professor Usher begins his story with the assassination of the Archduke of Austria; but he shows beyond doubt that the war really began months before this event. The German attitude in 1914 is described; the reports of spies concerning the French and the Russian preparedness and the British reluctance to enter into war. With these preliminaries, which include the first five chapters of his book, Professor Usher begins his narrative with the story of the campaign on Paris and the wonderful strategy displayed by General Joffre, followed by the aggressiveness of Foch.... He traces the work of Hindenburg; the entrance of the British and the Italians into the struggle; the submarine campaign and the incident of the Lusitania; ... the German offensive of 1918; the entrance of America into the war; Chateau-Thierry and the surprising fighting qualities of the American soldier; St Mihiel, the crumbling of the German line; and the final crash and fall.”—Boston Transcript

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“Many of the illustrations, taken from newspapers published in the most acute moments of the war, are full of extreme feeling. The book, therefore, does not tend to form cool and restrained views of the world war. Probably the author did not wish to form such views. Its strong point is in its large amount of information presented clearly and directly.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:136 O ’20 300w

“It is distinctive for the clearness of statement, an interpretation rather than a catalogue of events. May be read with interest by upper grade pupils or grown-ups. Good illustrations and maps.”

+ =Booklist= 16:165 F ’20

“Professor Usher’s story is told with wonderful vigor, great picturesqueness and with a rare comprehension of causes and of effects. His final brief discussion of the query, ‘Who won the war?’ is illuminating and beyond doubt thoroughly correct in its findings.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 550w

“It was to be expected that what was written under the stress of war should partake largely of the character of propaganda, but the war is now a matter of history and we have a right to expect that historical students will try to assume a more judicial attitude toward the events of the past few years. The chief objection to Mr Usher’s work is that its viewpoint is that of 1917.” L. M. L.

− + =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:76 Je ’20 330w

“It is a serious handicap to American history that much of it is now written to meet the needs of the immature mind, that is, for the college audience. Professor Usher has composed a ‘story of the war’ in which the bright boy will find just what he wants, but in which the thoughtful man can grasp little to satisfy him.” Preserved Smith

− + =Nation= 110:302 Mr 6 ’20 220w

“This history is terse, clear, and well proportioned. It will serve satisfactorily as a ready reference book and for schools, and will help in reading the more elaborate histories that will later appear.”

+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 40w

“The volume is attractively illustrated.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 100w

+ =School R= 28:315 Ap ’20 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w

V

=VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY.= Whitewash. *$1.90 (1c) Doran

20–7763

The past, the present, and the future are represented in this story, and, as must be expected, clash. Lady Selina Chandos, widow of the Squire of Upworthy, writes with a quill and carries on her husband’s work along his lines. Consequently the picturesque village of Upworthy is in a state of decay, and sickness and death lurk between the rotten floors and leaking thatched roofs. Her daughter Cicely has been at school and her chum there was Tiddy, the very incarnation of modernity and daring feminism. Also the old parish doctor, owing to conditions in the village, is obliged to take on a partner in the person of young Dr Grimshaw. Lady Selina’s nearest neighbor is Lord Wilverley, an up-to-date landlord. Of course there is trouble and not until Lord Selina’s son, Brian, is dead in France, the village in revolt, the manor house in ashes, and Cicely has jilted Lord Wilverley and declared her love for Grimshaw, does Lady Selina realize that whitewashing time is over and a new day has dawned.

* * * * *

“A trenchant indictment of obsolete systems of estate-management.”

+ =Ath= p464 Ap 2 ’20 100w

“In spite of its sociological theme, a well told story untainted by preachiness.”

+ =Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20

“All this seems very serious, and somewhat in the nature of a social and political tract for the times, but the discussion of conditions in the village of Upworthy and on the Chandos estate are so closely interwoven into the story that they are made much more effective than if they were direct propaganda. The love element in the story is ingenious.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 1400w

“The story is mediocre in characterization but rich in the dramatic portrayal of a wealth of incident.”

+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w

“It is pleasant, leisurely writing with some excellent character drawing.”

+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 180w

“In a characteristic English country home the old and the new order strive for supremacy in Mr Vachell’s new novel. And the story through which he portrays the conflict between them is a fine piece of workmanship, telling a real story—which so much English fiction does not—and having a compact framework and an ample supply of interesting and illuminating incident.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 550w

“The novel is capital both for its entertainment and its picture of old and new English society.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w

“The dénoûement is ingeniously contrived, with a good curtain, and throughout there is no lack of animated and appropriate, if undistinguished, dialogue. Yet the book leaves us with far less sympathy for the representatives of either régime than Mr Galsworthy’s more serious studies of patricians and rebels.”

+ − =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 420w

“Mr Vachell invariably writes in an optimistic vein and with due sense of the humorous and romantic possibilities of a situation. But the serious under-current is always visible beneath the sun-tipped waves of the author’s light mood.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 800w

“It is the sudden confrontations, the changes of fortune and the impact of fate against fate that go to make the book, and they make it in spite of Mr Vachell’s deficient insight into character. The dialogue is clever, amusing, enterprising; but it does not seem to be just exactly what the given person must have said on the given occasion. Mr Vachell supplies a good plot, and the plot is nine-tenths of the novel.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 350w

=VALLANCE, AYMER.=[2] Old crosses and lychgates. il *$7.50 Scribner 718

(Eng ed 20–18244)

“Mr Vallance sees in the erection of crosses a suitable way to memorialize England’s dead in the great war. ‘It is hoped,’ he says, ‘that it might prove useful to gather together a collection of examples of old crosses and lychgates, as affording the most appropriate form of monuments for reproduction or adaptation to the needs of the present.’ In his historical and descriptive studies of the crosses to be found in England and Wales, except for some unclassified varieties, Mr Vallance classifies them under five types to which he devotes a chapter each. They are the monolith crosses, the shaft-on-steps type, the spire-shaped or Eleanor crosses, preaching and market crosses.”—Boston Transcript

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“The volume is richly illustrated in lithograph of over two hundred crosses and lychgates with many plans and details in line, making with the documentary and historical and descriptive text a fascinatingly instructive work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 1250w

+ =Sat R= 130:96 Jl 31 ’19 820w

“Mr Vallance surveys his field both widely and closely, and we find but few occasions of criticism.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p343 Je 3 ’20 1100w

=VANCE, LOUIS JOSEPH.= Dark mirror. il *$1.75 Doubleday

20–5778

“Priscilla Main, the heroine, is subject from childhood to strangely realistic dreams. She is a wealthy young society woman and artist; but in the dreams she assumes another personality and moves in an unfamiliar environment. In the dream existence she associates with denizens of the underworld in ‘the street of strange faces,’ and is known as ‘Red Carnahan’s girl.’ She is loved by Mario, who belongs to another world, but dwells in the lawbreakers’ region of the city, and who wants to remove her from those unwholesome surroundings. Priscilla grows to love this man of her dreams. The dreams become so vivid and distressing that the girl seeks the aid of a psychoanalyst who loves her, and who undertakes to solve the mystery of her wandering ego. The mental experimentalist gradually is able to harmonize dreams with reality and startling data from the realm of psychology are brought to light.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Plausible though slightly overdrawn. The end is unexpected and also fresh.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 250w

=VANDERLIP, FRANK ARTHUR.= What happened to Europe. *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 940.314

20–8050

For the second edition of this work Mr Vanderlip has written a new preface of twenty-one pages in which he analyzes the financial and economic development in Europe in the ten months following the writing of his book. “On the whole,” he says, “the events which have since occurred have been in harmony with the broad analysis made last May [1919].” He believes that America has missed a great opportunity and thinks that there is now little that we can do. “Our first task now is to put our own house in order.” Descriptive note with critical excerpts for the first edition will be found in the Annual for 1919.

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=N Y Times= p17 Ag 15 ’20 460w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 140w

=VAN DIEREN, BERNARD.=[2] Epstein. il *$12.50 (26c) Lane 735

Jacob Epstein, whose genius the author of this volume compares to that of Rembrandt, is said to be one of the greatest living sculptors. He belongs to that order of original creative minds “who have made the world, made humanity what it is in its best aspects. Human achievement is their work, human thought takes its foundation from what they have recognized and revealed, and the sum total of knowledge progresses by cumulative effect from one of such masters to the next one.” As it is the author’s opinion that words can not help in the appreciation of an art that does not speak to the spectator in its own language, the observations of the book are chiefly devoted to the problems of appreciation and understanding of art in general. The book contains fifty reproductions in collotype of the sculptor’s work.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 330w

“The reproductions are beautiful in the profoundest sense. The volume is an accessible enrichment to the world of art.”

+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 120w

“In spite of a treatise as heavy-handed as any ever inflicted by pretentious and empty shoptalk the illustrations of the sculptor’s art still interest and entrance. It is characteristically absurd that a public which does not buy a sculptor’s work should purchase a comparatively expensive book about him in which none of his spirit lives and which, while it contains his apotheosis as a divinity, contains still more the apotheosis of up-to-date studio and café commonplace.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p7 D 4 ’20 1200w

=N Y Times= p9 D 26 ’20 340w

“If we gather anything from it all, it is a general impression that most people who interest themselves in the arts are fools, and that Mr Van Dieren has tried to say so in a hundred and thirty pages with a persistent implication that he is not one of them. As for Mr Epstein, if we wish to add to our knowledge of him, we must look at the fifty plates considerately separated from the text at the end of the book.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p349 Je 3 ’20 1550w

=VAN DOREN, MARK.= Poetry of John Dryden. *$3 Harcourt 821

20–19675

“This is an effort to brighten the most neglected side of the greatest neglected English poet. There is some novelty, I hope, in a treatment on an extended and more or less enthusiastic scale of Dryden’s non-dramatic verse as a body, with attention to the celebrator, the satirist, the journalist, the singer, and the story-teller all together.” (Preface) The contents are: The making of the poet; False lights; The true fire; The occasional poet; The journalist in verse; The lyric poet; The narrative poet; Reputation; conclusion; Appendix; Index.

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“His study of a great poet and a great dramatist is a singular mingling of contradictions and it is hardly necessary as an introduction to a poet who needs no introduction.” E. F. Edgett

− =Boston Transcript= p1 D 18 ’20 1800w

“Mr Van Doren has read his English poetry devouringly up to Dryden and down from him, with the purpose of showing from whom the poet received each genre, what he did to each, and what it became in the hands of his successors. By letting in these sidelights skilfully and relevantly, he manages, without clogging his exposition, to make his discussion of Dryden a compendious history of poetic form. The effect upon the reader is, as I can testify, almost riotously stimulating.” S. P. Sherman

+ =Nation= 111:619 D 1 ’20 1600w

“Our debt to America in the matter of criticism and true scholarship applied to English literature grows greater year by year. An admirable example of the thoroughness, nay, of the exhaustive quality of American criticism, even when it is most sympathetic and least pedantic, is to be found in this delightful study of John Dryden. The present writer must confess to a personal interest in Mr Van Doren’s book because it happens that the American critic’s judgment, not merely in the whole, but in the parts, agrees in an uncanny way with his own.”

+ =Spec= 125:739 D 4 ’20 1600w

=VAN DYKE, JOHN CHARLES.= Grand canyon of the Colorado; recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. il *$2 Scribner 917.91

20–4459

“The book of the northern rim [of the Grand canyon] has yet to be written, but Professor Van Dyke has studied the scenery from the southern side and in his recently published book ‘The Grand canyon of the Colorado,’ gives us a popular account of the geology of the region. He protests against the naming of the great temples and buttes of the canyon after the gods of India. The views from a number of the southern points are described and details are given of the principal trails to the river. Reference is made to the animals, birds, and trees, and to the discoverers and prehistoric inhabitants of the canyon.”—Bookm

* * * * *

“Will delight readers, especially those of a slight scientific bent, who are not traveling.”

+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20

Reviewed by Le Roy Jeffers

+ =Bookm= 51:360 My ’20 900w

“The most complete, picturesque and satisfactory account of the Grand canyon that we have.”

+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 80w

“Written with all his graceful style and imagery, it may be called a literary guidebook of a superior kind. About half the book is devoted to the rock structure of this geologist’s paradise, and as these pages have not only been carefully prepared by the author but have been read in proof by Mr Ransome, of the Geological survey, they may be accepted as accurate.” F: S. Dellenbaugh

+ =Nation= 110:771 Je 5 ’20 400w

“It is a good book for a pleasant afternoon. Mr Van Dyke does not philosophize or preach or rub in his colors so intensely that he forces you to yawn. There are none of the clichés of the improving book here.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:284 My 30 ’20 200w

“Here is an exceptionally good book about the Grand canyon.”

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 2 ’20 220w

=VAN DYKE, TERTIUS.= Songs of seeking and finding. *$1.50 Scribner 811

20–6369

“It would have been rather disappointing if the music of many little (and unpronounceable) rivers, spilled down his boyhood years, had not left song in the heart of the master of Avalon’s son. So it is not at all surprising to discover that ‘Songs of seeking and finding’ is a book of very pleasant and profitable verse. The strong, virile faith behind the poems—their wholesome Christianity—impresses the reader more than the polish of their lines. Mr Van Dyke pleads for real values of life and real religion.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Tertius Van Dyke writes poetry in the manner of his father, but not quite so well.”

+ − =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 50w

“The best things in the book seem to me to be ‘The war-makers,’ because there is a bit of good healthy rage in it, and ‘A minister learns about life,’ because it has a good idea in it and ends at just the right moment.” M. Wilkinson

+ − =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 300w

“Mr Van Dyke is more successful in poems thus reflective than in his lyrics, though in them the same forceful spirit is unmistakable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Je 8 ’20 310w

=VANE, DEREK.= Ferrybridge mystery. *$2 Moffat

20–17412

“A suburb of London is the scene of Derek Vane’s story. Basil Monck, a member of the London stock exchange, whose antecedents are unknown to his most intimate acquaintances, is found shot dead in his home. There is not the slightest clue to the identity of the murderer, but there are many people who might logically be suspected of the crime. Monck had more enemies than friends; he was generally known to have used his fascinating personality unscrupulously in his dealings with women, and more than one man blamed him for the loss of a fortune. Motives for the murder are plentiful and every man or woman who had cause to hate Monck falls naturally under suspicion.”—N Y Times

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“It is a pleasure occasionally to find one story of the kind which justifies the publisher’s contention. The latest book by Miss Derek Vane is a worthy example. It is above the average of its kind.” C. H. O.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 540w

“In choosing the character upon whom to settle responsibility for Monck’s death, the author has displayed a courage and an originality that may react against the popularity of her story.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 19 ’20 370w

=VANE, GEORGE (VISCONDE DE SARMENTO).= Waters of strife. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

20–12603

Beginning before the war in England we get a glimpse of the pre-war intrigues carried on by a German count, exiled in England, and his accomplices. But the greater part of the story transpires on Belgian soil in war-time showing up the ruthlessness of the Germans, and the indignities to which the Belgians were subjected. The heroism of an American boy and girl of Belgian descent furnish most of the thrills, and some fine friendships among the English aristocracy and the middle-class are depicted.

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“The story is full of vigor and coloring befitting the day and scene in which it is laid.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 160w

“The book is very badly constructed and the character drawing amateurish, but the account of Aline’s experiences in Belgium is interesting and occasionally dramatic.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 450w

“The book has some good episodes, but in the ordinary way it is difficult to work up much excitement, principally because the heroes and scoundrels alike ignore probabilities.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 130w

=VAN LOON, HENDRIK WILLEM.=[2] Ancient man. il *$3 Boni & Liveright 571

“‘Ancient man’ is to be the first of a series of nine history books in story form, which ‘will explore the intricate wilderness of the bygone ages’ and in summing up ‘try to show where the human race has lived up to its highest possible achievements and wherein it has failed to rise above the status of the earliest cavemen.’ (Ind) “It begins about fifty thousand years ago with a broad sketch of prehistoric man, struggling against elemental nature. It skips to the Nile and comes on down the ages to the Phoenecians.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

“The text is terse, up to date, and thoroughly interesting.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 110w

“The famous historian undertook this task for his own boys, eight and twelve years old, and he has sensed unfailingly the way to stimulate the interest and satisfy the curiosity of youngsters of about that age.”

+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 250w

“Absorbingly interesting. This is the way to tell history to children—and to the rest of us.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 130w

=VANSITTART, ROBERT GILBERT.= Singing caravan; a Sufi tale. *$2 Doran 821

(Eng ed 19–14218)

The device of the pilgrimage, with alternating narrative and song, is put to new uses by this young English poet. For the end of the matter is not mere entertainment by the way, but philosophical discussion, in which the views of the watchmen, the merchant, the scholar, the sheikh, the sceptic, and even the camel, are represented.

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“‘The singing caravan’ hammers mysticism into clean, efficient verse, which in its ease and correctness, displays the immense technical equipment of the recent English poets; but his subject matter shows the lack of freshness and homeliness that handicaps the Georgian poets as a group in comparison with their American rivals.”

+ − =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 50w

“Eastern mysticism and the imagery of the caravan form the vehicle by which Mr Vansittart conveys his mind upon final things; but there is no affectation of the Orient in his thought, and even his words are straightforward and plain; he has Schubert’s knack of turning common phrases into bewitching melody.”

+ =Spec= 123:118 Jl 26 ’19 50w

“The charm of Persian landscape, the wealth of Persian poetry have been woven into these tales, and they may be read just as profitably for the pictures they paint as for the lessons they teach.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 150w

“‘The singing caravan’ is ‘a tale of Persian mystics,’ and with the Persian mystics we are few of us on intimate terms. But its rich and clear colouring, innocent of purple patchwork, though ‘local,’ may none the less charm the untravelled; and the poem may be enjoyed either for its landscape and characters, its allegory, its remarkable craftsmanship, or for the sake of the mind and spirit which are revealed in it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p447 Ag 21 ’19 1000w

=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= In the garret. *$2 (3c) Knopf 780.4

20–926

From the garret of his memory the author produces many things, scrutinizes them whimsically and chats about them at random. The things are authors and books and music and people he has met. Contents: Variations on a theme by Havelock Ellis; A note on Philip Thicknesse; The folk-songs of Iowa; Isaac Albéniz; The holy jumpers; On the relative difficulties of depicting heaven and hell in music; Sir Arthur Sullivan; On the rewriting of masterpieces; Oscar Hammerstein: an epitaph; La tigresse; In the theatres of the purlieus: Mimi Aguglia as Salome, Farfariello, The negro theatre, The Yiddish theatre, The Spanish theatre.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p257 F 20 ’20 80w

+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20

“He has a magnificent way of being unimportant. His touch is light and artistic. His culture is Hunekeresque. His scholarship is musicianly, sometimes jazzy.” Mary Terrill

+ =Bookm= 51:193 Ap ’20 350w

+ =New Repub= 22:161 Mr 31 ’20 80w

“The author does himself injustice by opening with the least attractive essay in the book, though it shows the most erudition.... It is when he surveys the American scene that we go all the way with Mr Van Vechten.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 5 ’20 800w

=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= Tiger in the house. il *$5 Knopf 636.8

“I have written, how skilfully I cannot tell, on the manners and customs of the cat, his graces and calineries, the history of his subjugation of humankind. Through all the ages, even during the dark epoch of witchcraft and persecution, puss has maintained his supremacy, continued to breed and multiply, defying, when convenient, the laws of God and man, now our friend, now our enemy, now wild, now tame, the pet of the hearth or the tiger of the heath, but always free, always independent, always an anarchist who insists upon his rights, whatever the cost. The cat never forms soviets; he works alone.” (Apotheosis) The illustrations are many and beautiful. There is an exhaustive bibliography and an index and the contents are: By way of correcting a popular prejudice; Treating of traits; Ailurophobes and other cat-haters; The cat and the occult; The cat in folklore; The cat and the law; The cat in the theatre; The cat in music; The cat in art; The cat in fiction; The cat and the poet; Literary men who have loved cats; Apotheosis.

* * * * *

“The book is a revelation concerning the more or less important part which cats have played in history and literature.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 160w

“The suggestive ingenuity of its title is matched by the far-reaching skill with which he has amassed and arrayed his facts so as to make them into a continuous story that blends both fact and the imagination.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 11 ’20 1600w

“Mr Van Vechten is less fortunate in his choice of pictures than in his text.” J. W. Krutch

+ =Nation= 112:sup243 F 9 ’21 780w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 150w

=VAN VORST, MARIE.= Fairfax and his pride. *$1.75 Small

20–4010

“Miss Van Vorst’s narrative is the story of the struggles of Antony Fairfax to gain distinction as a sculptor. He is largely self-taught, but soon after coming to New York in 1880, at the age of twenty-three, we find him perfecting an epoch-making piece of modeling in the studio of a famous sculptor. The latter steals the credit for Fairfax’s work, and starts the young man on the career which threatens to snuff out his ambition and great talents. It is after this mischance that Fairfax becomes successively fireman and engineer for the New York Central. His railroad service ends abruptly with the receipt of a small inheritance from an admirer. This takes him to Paris, where he establishes his fame, experiences a brief romance, and finally has the satisfaction of confounding the man who stole the early fruits of his genius.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Not as interesting as ‘Big Tremaine’ and will not be as popular.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

“It is safe to say that no American novel of the season so far surpasses the quality of ‘Fairfax and his pride.’ It tells a story that takes you astray and brings you back to the main current of events with surprising interest. The characters are all well drawn. We close the book with the consciousness that here is a real American novelist.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1550w

=N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 320w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 160w

“The young sculptor and his difficulties do not produce a very lively impression. Miss Van Vorst never brings her readers into intimate touch with him, and the short, jerky chapters are irritating in their effects.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 550w

=VAN WESEP, HENDRIKUS BOEVE.= Control of ideals. *$2 (5c) Knopf 171

20–18312

This “contribution to the study of ethics” (Sub-title) is concerned primarily with the problem of war prevention. The author holds that man is more an imaginative than a rational animal and apt to mistake his imaginative world for the world of reality. By learning to control our ideals we learn to distinguish between an ideal and a fixed idea and to live by rather than die for them. The book takes up in turn the origin, nature, and function of human ideals and the supreme worth of the individual and of human life. Contents: Variety of ideals; Attitude toward ideals; Assimilation of ideals; The survival of ideals; Nations; Development of self-consciousness; Society versus the individual; Utopianism; Democracy; Tolerance; Harmony; Symbiosis; Atomism; Functions of ideals; Moral courage; Index.

* * * * *

“Scholarly but written for the layman.”

+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“His optimism seems a little too easy for a disillusioned civilization, but at least he is intelligible, a great recommendation for any one educated among the fogs of metaphysics.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 70w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w

=VAST, HENRI.= Little history of the great war. il *$2 Holt 940.3

20–20075

A short history of the war, translated from the French by Raymond Weeks of Columbia university. Contents: The German race—pangermanism; The environment—William II and Europe (1900–1914); The critical moment—responsibility for the war; The sudden attack—battle of the Marne; Eastern front—Serbia and Russia (1914–1916); Distant theaters of war—in the Orient—on the sea and in the colonies; The Italian effort—the army of Saloniki; Retrospective preparation (1915–1916); The ruin of Russia (1916–1918); American aid; Peace offensives; Victory—capitulation of Germany. There are twenty-seven maps, but no index.

* * * * *

“A wonderfully compact story of the war, composed with characteristic French clarity.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w

=VAUGHAN, WALTER.=[2] Life and work of Sir William Van Horne. il *$5 Century

20–20625

The life of Sir William Van Horne is something of a romance, he having made his way from a poor boy in Illinois to an English peerage. He gained his fame and his fortune as a builder of railroads of which the Canadian Pacific was his greatest achievement. With his natural abilities, says his biographer, he would have achieved greatness in any field; as a military commander, as an engineer or architect, as a painter or in the natural sciences. The book has several maps, illustrations and an index.

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“The chief merit of the book is its really vivid picture of a striking personality.” Allan Nevins

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 29 ’21 1250w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 100w

=VEBLEN, THORSTEIN B.= Place of science in modern civilization, and other essays. *$3 Huebsch 330.4

20–6953

“The assumptions of the existing economic order are studied in Thorstein Veblen’s latest book, ‘The place of science in modern civilization.’ This is a carefully selected series of papers published in economic journals during the past twenty years, and sums up the principles of an economic attitude so popular among modern economists that it has been entitled ‘Veblenism.’”—Springf’d Republican

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“If these old essays are valuable, in the face of all that their author has since contributed, it is because of their emphasis upon the spirit of his work; because, as much as anything he has done, they show the impulse and intention of his scholarship. There are here, as elsewhere, passages that rouse impatience because of the author’s very carelessness of pragmatism.” Babette Deutsch

+ − =Dial= 69:79 Jl ’20 1250w

“There are serious difficulties in the way of a ‘scientific’ treatment of economics, over which Mr Veblen does not help us, and many of which he does not see. A keen critic, he is not a close or clear thinker; destructively valuable, we can hardly follow him as a constructive leader.” F. H. Knight

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:518 Je ’20 1100w

“The book is a rich contribution to economic and social literature, and is, in a way, Mr Veblen at his scientific best.” H. A. Overstreet

+ =Nation= 111:250 Ag 28 ’20 500w

“Nowhere in them is there any indication of that subtle wit, the telling thrust, the finely pointed characterization that rewarded the hours of toil through his other writings. While our author’s standing as a humanist is enhanced by the essays, his reputation as an economist will not be.” N. W. Wilensky

− + =N Y Call= p10 My 16 ’20 1050w

“One cannot help wondering whether Mr Veblen himself knows what an excellent literary quality his writings have, and what a boon to the jaded reader is the absence in his work of certain conventional literary virtues—solemnity, geniality, sonority, and the like.”

+ − =No Am= 211:424 Mr ’20 1350w

“The position of Mr Veblen is so deserving of attention that one must regard his involved style and ponderous vocabulary as a misfortune.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 18 ’20 580w

“Several of them are on academically important topics which, nevertheless, the more general public that has become interested in the author’s theories can afford to skip. Others deal with fundamental issues which the layman should try to understand. Among these we would class the three papers on the preconceptions of economic science which demonstrate the shifts in the boundaries of that science, and especially the newer emphasis on its human aspects.”

+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 150w

=VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST.= Port Allington stories, and others. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–21335

A volume of short stories by an English author who was killed in the war, issued now as he had prepared them for publication, with a preface by his wife. Some of them had appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Contents: “This is Tommy”; The greatness of Mr Watherstone; The outrage at Port Allington; The offense of Stephen Danesford; Soaring spirits; The bad Samaritan; The sunk elephant; The adventure of the Persian prince; The smoke on the stairs; On the raft; Madame Bluebird; The missing princess; A night’s adventure; The maze.

* * * * *

“Deftness of phrasing, and a sense of character and of the social ironies mark a volume of tales whose sarcasm is never bitter and whose laughter is always good-natured.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 310w

“Nowhere except in Mrs Wharton’s matchless ‘Xingu,’ and possibly in Mr Benson’s current ‘Queen Lucia,’ have the humors of feminine club-made culture been more amusingly displayed.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 300w

=VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST.= War poems, and other verses. *$1.50 Doran 821

20–20444

Edmund Gosse in his introduction gives a biographical sketch of the author, an Englishman of French descent who, altho past military age, enlisted at the beginning of the war and was killed in 1917. Among the war poems are England and the sea, The call; The Indian army; A legend of the fleet; To the United States; Christmas, 1914; To Canada; Before the assault. These are followed by a small group of “other verses” on such themes as The July garden, Friendship, To an English sheep-dog. The volume was published in England in the fall of 1917.

* * * * *

+ =Lit D= p33 F 16 ’18 100w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 250w

“In Lieutenant Vernède’s unhesitating and uncompromising verse the man sustains the poet, but the poet merits that support.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w

=R of Rs= 57:333 Mr ’18 230w

“Some of the finest poems that have come from the trenches. They are instinct with an exalted patriotism.”

+ =Spec= 120:14 Ja 5 ’18 320w

=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.=[2] Islands and their mysteries. il *$1.75 Duffield 551.42

20–20916

The author offers this volume as a companion to “The ocean and its mysteries.” It explains in a non-technical manner how islands are formed, how they resemble or differ from one another, how they become covered with vegetation, and are inhabited by animal life and many other puzzling and interesting features of islands and insular life. Imaginary trips to imaginary islands of various types hold the young reader’s attention. Contents: The romance of islands; Islands and islands; Volcanic islands; Coral islands and other islands; Island life; Island vegetation; A ramble on a lake island; An island in the sea; Exploring an island in a tropical river; A visit to an island in tropical seas; The island of salt; The island of pearls; When people dwell in a volcano; Islands of the frozen seas. There are illustrations.

* * * * *

“The story is an extremely fascinating one and although designed undoubtedly for the reading of adults, cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive to boys and girls in their teens, whose minds are beginning to expand and to reason and inquire into the causes of things.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 330w

“Always he retains a human viewpoint, so that his book reflects the wonder and mystery of life instead of degenerating into a mere scientific treatise.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 Ja 8 ’21 480w

+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 80w

“Although the style, which smacks somewhat of the elementary geography, grows a bit monotonous at times, he leaves one wishing for more.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 28 ’21 200w

=VESTAL, SAMUEL CURTIS.= Maintenance of peace. *$5 (2c) Putnam 341

20–9987

“The foundations of domestic and international peace as deduced from a study of the history of nations.” (Sub-title) At the hands of history, going as far back as ancient Assyria, the author endeavors to prove that peace can only be secured on a basis of militarism and preparedness and on a “balance of power” rather than on a world confederacy or a league of nations. Sea power ought naturally to belong to the nation weakest in land power, in order that the balance of power may be maintained and “freedom of the seas” can be little more than a phrase. Of pacifism he will have none for it teaches “a spiritless doctrine of cowardice.” Preparedness is as necessary for the maintenance of domestic peace as of peace between nations. A

## partial list of the contents is: The domestic peace of nations; The

integration of nations; World federation; The balance of power; Early history of the balance of power; The thirty years’ war; Part taken by England in maintaining the balance of power since the treaty of Utrecht; Lessons that should be drawn from attempts to overthrow the balance of power and establish world empires; The Holy alliance; Arbitration as a panacea for war; Neutralization of small states; Disarmament; Germany prepares for world conquest; Growth of pacifism outside of Germany; Index.

* * * * *

“Many new ideas are broached in this thoughtful volume, which is worthy of the close study of statesman and militarist.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w

=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 20w

=VILLARS, MEG.= Broken laugh. *$2 (1c) McBride

The heroine, a very simple and trusting little English girl, who answers to the name of Kissy-Girl, is betrayed at the age of seventeen and goes to London alone to await the birth of her child. A chance clue from a newspaper sends her to Paris in search of the man and she is there decoyed into a house of ill fame. Refusing to become one of the professional inmates she is allowed to remain as a servant. In this capacity she meets Jim Crighton, an Englishman who falls in love with her and takes her to Brussels. He has made up his mind to marry her when the war breaks out. He enlists and succeeds to a title. His intention to marry Kissy remains, but a German bomb puts an end to everything.

* * * * *

“If she had been content to develop her whole story in the milieu she knows best, she would probably have produced a really effective narrative.”

+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 60w

“A novel of more than usual literary excellence. The reader’s sympathy with this story will depend almost entirely upon his conception of the importance of conventionally fixed morality.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 N 7 ’20 470w

“Like much latter-day fiction, this work has numerous touches of interest and reality; but, as a whole, gives an effect of weakness.”

− + =Sat R= 129:193 F 21 ’20 230w

“Such a tale might be sensational, but, in Miss Villars’s telling, it is delicate.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 420w

“Obviously the war should not have been allowed to intrude; it spoils everything. But one day she may write a book as good from cover to cover as the first hundred pages of ‘The broken laugh.’”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 480w

=VILLIERS, FREDERIC=, il. Days of glory. il *$5 Doran 940.49

20–4792

“The sketch book of a veteran correspondent at the front.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of a series of fifty full-page illustrations showing scenes at the front, each accompanied by brief descriptive comment. Philip Gibbs contributes an introduction, “A salute to Frederic Villiers.”

* * * * *

“A well made book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:277 My ’20

“It is worth whole tomes of verbal description. The pictures are vivid and accurate.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 560w

“Villiers represents the type of the old-guard war correspondent at its best. The sketches in ‘Days of glory’ have no special artistic merit. They look very old fashioned beside the modern methods of Nevinson and Nash. In character they are topographical, anecdotal, documentary. There is no doubt that they possess a certain historical significance.”

+ =Nation= 111:785 D 29 ’20 250w

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w

“The artistic merit of Mr Villiers’s work consists not merely in the personal element wrought into the pictures as contrasted with the mechanical work of a camera, but also in the fact that here are pictures at which no camera had a chance in 1914–15, and the other pictures which no camera could have furnished with all the license in the world.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 26 ’20 360w

=VILLIERS, FREDERIC.= Villiers, his five decades of adventure. 2v il *$6 (7½c) Harper

20–20650

Two volumes devoted to the life of a veteran war correspondent and artist. He was born in 1851, in England, and his first association with wars came in 1870 when he went over to Paris to pick up material for a panorama of the Franco-Prussian war. The next adventure that offered was the war between Serbia and Turkey in 1876, and others followed, taking him to every part of the earth, down to the great war. The volumes are illustrated.

* * * * *

“These tales of five decades of adventure must be placed among the greatest of autobiographies.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 750w

“Here between covers are the dramatic figures and the stirring events of two and a half generations presented by a writer trained throughout a lifetime in the art of bringing out all the high lights and shades of dramatic contrasts.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 D 12 ’20 2600w

“With long practice in telling the public what it wanted to know, it might go without saying that this autobiography is chatty and interesting from start to finish.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 21 ’21 520w

=VINCENT, FLORENCE SMITH.= Peter’s adventures in Meadowland. il *$2 Stokes

20–18753

A nature-fairy story for children. Peter is a little boy who has no playmates. For saving the life of an oak tree that his father had wanted to cut down, he is rewarded with the friendship of all the living things. He not only learns their language, he is able at will to make himself smaller and smaller until he meets butterflies and grasshoppers and crickets on equal terms. He can enter their houses, climb up spider web ladders and ride on a butterfly’s back. So he learns of their ways, and finds out that they are just as wise, and sometimes wiser, than humans.

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).= Growing up. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–12378

“This book is concerned solely and entirely with the growing up of a small family of children and the trials, perplexities and mooted questions which the parents of those children faced every day of their lives in their effort to do the right thing by their offspring.” (N Y Times) “Very likely many who start this book will be impressed with a sense of familiarity since Tom and Alice Marcey and their three children have already seen the light some years ago in the pages of a magazine, but we must know Robert and Sara and Jamie in book form to fully appreciate them.” (Boston Transcript)

* * * * *

“Will delight all modern troubled parents and other grownups.”

+ =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

“One of the most interesting characteristics of the book is the breadth of its appeal. The children are so natural, their parents are so natural, that it seems impossible that anyone could fail to find something attractive in their story.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 450w

“The tale presents a more or less deft but quite obvious mixture of pedagogy and feminism, in an ample solution of juvenile prattle and misdemeanour. The whole, however, is so well spiced with humour and sweetened with domestic sentiment that (to quote the publisher’s tribute) ‘the tired business man and the weary housewife will find a real release in reading it.’” H. S. H.

+ =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 580w

“Her humor is fresh and rich and delicate. One may quite forget her psychological implications and yield to the mirth and human charm of her story and her people.”

+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 440w

“Mrs Vorse’s story, though backed by sound psychology and keen observation, is yet light fiction. Its merit is rather in the contribution it makes to the growing volume of child thought, to the explanation of such pieces as ‘The young visiters’ than in the intrinsic value of either the tale or the style.” Henrietta Malkiel

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 500w

“It is a most engaging book. The freshness, the humor and the spontaneity that characterized Mrs Vorse’s former novel are equally manifest here, along with a deeper purpose and a greater significance.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 4 ’20 820w

“Every one who enjoyed ‘The Prestons’ will be glad to read ‘Growing up.’”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“This story is as delightful as ‘The Prestons,’ and that is saying much for it. The author has an uncanny understanding of children and the problems that they offer to conscientious parents.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 500w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 40w

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).=[2] Men and steel. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 331.89

After a graphic description of the power of iron and of how coal, iron and steel rule our civilization, of the great machines in the mills to which man is but a negligible adjunct, of the mill towns—the slummiest and the comparatively decent—all with the common motive: “Man is puny; Industry great”—the author gives the history of the great steel strike which she has personally followed up and observed in detail. The book falls into four parts: Strike background; The steel strike; Silence; The dying strike.

* * * * *

“Skillfully written the book is, but it proves next to nothing, for throughout the author uses the individual’s story (easy to find among several hundred thousand people) to prove broad truths.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 170w

“It is a beautiful and a terrible book, because like a true work of art it embodies the elemental beauty and terror of life.”

+ =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 780w

“This book of Mary Vorse’s is a thrilling and a perfectly sane and down-on-the-ground contribution to the history of that historic steel strike of last winter. It is a book really of stories—of stories of men and of women and of children and of homes.” W: Hard

+ =New Repub= 25:51 D 8 ’20 1000w

“At the beginning of