Chapter 1
) The author shows his readers not only the scenic but also the historic Severn and conducts him from its cradle in Plinlimmon to Gloucester with sixteen color plates to mark the way. There is no index.
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“The author tells the story in ample detail and with full knowledge.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
“In brief, this is a most entertaining volume. The coloured plates do not add much to its attractions.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Bradley has a mingled zest for scenery, for history, and for the humours and graces of life, which makes him one of the best of all-around companions on such a series of excursions, either afoot or in an armchair.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p209 Ap 1 ’20 950w
=BRADLEY, GLENN DANFORD.= Story of the Santa Fe. (Frontiers of America) il *$3 Badger, R: G. 656
20–6283
“The [story of the] railroad known as the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe describes the beginnings and development of one of the most extensive of American railroad systems. Projected by the vision of Cyrus K. Holliday, and developed by the energy and financial support of other farseeing Americans, this railroad was built to develop the business which was originally conducted in primitive fashion from the Missouri river across the Kansas prairies and through the mountains to the old mining centre, Santa Fe. It is an account of what real men by the exercise of push and profanity have been able to accomplish, even in the face of tremendous obstacles and hindrances, both natural and those presented by the devilish ingenuity of man.”—Boston Transcript
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“The story as written by Mr Bradley is very complete. The author has done his work very well.” J. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 800w
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w
=BRADLEY, MRS MARY (HASTINGS).= Fortieth door. *$1.75 (2c) Appleton
20–2264
A romantic adventure story staged in Cairo, Jack Ryder, altho young and good to look at, has managed to evade the society of girls and devote himself wholly to the fascinations of Egyptian tombs. He is bored unspeakably at thought of the masked ball to which his compatriot, Jinny Jeffries, is dragging him. But at the ball he meets Aimée, the alluring veiled figure who is to lead him so far on the road to romance. It is only when the dance is over, his heart already well lost, that he learns that her attire is no picturesque disguise donned for an evening, that she is a high born Moslem escaped for a few mad moments from the haremlik. Fate and ancient custom are against him, but he learns by accident that Aimée is of French birth, and youth, daring and good luck conspire on his side to bring all to a happy end.
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=Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20
“Here is a ‘romantic incident’ carried through from start to finish without a false note, though some of the harmony toward the end is, as is were, a trifle close.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:583 Jl ’20 220w
“Mrs Bradley transports us to the realms of romance. We realize that we are not moving among scenes of reality, but we do not greatly care.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 160w
“The story is well thought out and interesting. And it has the merit of being smoothly written and vividly as well.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:120 Mr 14 ’20 60w
“Cleverly told with plot of interest and original details well sustained throughout.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 7 ’20 280w
“A good adventure story.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 90w
=BRADLEY-BIRT, FRANCIS BRADLEY.= Bengal fairy tales. il *$5 (7½c) Lane 398.2
20–22478
These fairy tales have been collected by the author from the natives of Bengal by word of mouth. They breathe the spirit of the East and are unlike any of western tales, as are also the six full-page illustrations in color by Abanindranath Tagore. The contents are in three parts, the first of which consists of the stories told by Bhabaghuray, the traveller.
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“The really ideal illustrator of this kind of literature is, of course, the artist who is himself a product of the land which has given birth to it, and from this point of view the book illustrated by Mr Tagore is of special interest.”
+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w
=BRADY, LORETTA ELLEN.= Green forest fairy book. il *$2 (4c) Little
20–18407
A book of new fairy tales into which the author has put much of the true fairy-land atmosphere. Some of the titles are: Dame Grumble and her curious apple tree: A tale of the Northland kingdom; The little tree that never grew up; The tale of Punchinello; The strange tale of the brown bear. The illustrations are by Alice B. Preston.
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+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 70w
=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Anthology of magazine verse for 1919; and Year book of American poetry. *$2.25 Small 811.08
Mr Braithwaite who omits from this annual volume his usual critical introductory essay takes occasion to call attention to Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “The valley of the shadow,” as a poem demanding careful attention and study. Other notable poems are Leonora Speyer’s “The queen bee flies,” Sara Teasdale’s “August moonrise,” Vachel Lindsay’s “The empire of China is crumbling down,” Lola Ridge’s “The everlasting return”; also poems by Witter Bynner, Scudder Middleton, Edna St Vincent Millay, Louis Untermeyer, Maxwell Bodenheim, Amy Lowell, and others.
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+ =Booklist= 16:194 Mr ’20
Reviewed by H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 50w
“Taken as a whole, the ‘Anthology of magazine verse for 1919’ possesses distinct merit as a collection of contemporary verse. As a stepping-stone in the steady advance of American poetry it is even more interesting.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 14 ’20 1700w
“All in all the anthology is valuable not only as literature, but as a barometer of the spirit of the times.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w
“There is poetry here of a grade we like to boast of being able to find every day in the magazines, that of Conrad Aiken, Sara Teasdale, Clement Wood, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and sundry others. There is singing here that is something more than verse, and there is verse that is something less than poetry.” R. P. Utter
+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 100w
“The year book is, if anything, more representative and satisfactory than its predecessors. The critical material at the back is more restrained than hitherto, and gains thereby. For those who wish to keep up with the best of the new poetry, the book is indispensable.” C. W.
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 400w
“Critics have often told Mr Braithwaite that his collections of magazine verse can never have the highest value because the best American poetry is not published in magazines. This year, at any rate, that would seem to be untrue. It is doubtful whether anything better than Edwin Arlington Robinson’s ‘Valley of the shadow’ has been published in any of the books of the year.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 360w
“Mr Braithwaite’s annual ‘Anthology of magazine verse’ improves from year to year. The present volume is no exception to this rule.
## Particularly to be commended is the elimination of Mr Braithwaite’s
usual attempt at rating the verse of the year according to merit.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 100w
“Mr Braithwaite has done his work with knowledge, with discernment, and with a liberality which sometimes compromises his discernment.”
+ − =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 300w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 9 ’20 750w
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
“He is too generous in his appreciation, including much that is excellent but not significant. As with every anthology, we quarrel with the selections. Though the book would gain by omissions, the general level is a high one.” E: B. Reed
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w
=BRAITHWAITE, WILLIAM STANLEY BEAUMONT=, ed. Book of modern British verse. *$2 Small 821.08
20–1984
“A collection intended to acquaint American readers with contemporary British verse in the period which ‘began with an assault upon reality and a shock of symbols’ to be disturbed and perhaps re-directed by the forces of war.” (Booklist) “John Masefield’s ‘August, 1914,’ is included, and G. K. Chesterton’s booming ‘Lepanto,’ also favorite poems by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Walter de la Mare, J. C. Squires, Ralph Hodgson, Joseph Campbell, James Stephens, Thomas MacDonald and many others. William Butler Yeats, probably the greatest of all living makers of lyrics, is not represented. But it is generally understood that his work seldom appears in anthologies.” (N Y Times)
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+ =Booklist= 16:195 Mr ’20
“It has Masefield’s ‘Biography,’ ‘August, 1914,’ and ‘Cargoes’; Belloc’s ‘South country’; Brooke’s five splendid sonnets; Julian Grenfell’s ‘Into battle’—finest of all the ‘war poems’; de la Mare’s ‘The listeners.’ And these are only a few of the memorable things included.” H: A. Lappin
+ − =Bookm= 51:211 Ap ’20 700w
“Due to something more incomprehensible than his taste he has failed signally. ‘The book of modern British verse’ begins as a misnomer; it ends as a misrepresentation.” L: Untermeyer
− =Freeman= 1:69 Mr 31 ’20 1100w
“It exhibits the period fairly enough without characterizing it, and with this book as with other anthologies, even the best, the critical reader will miss old friends and make new ones.” R. P. Utter
+ − =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 80w
“A pleasant and interesting little book. Mr Braithwaite has over-emphasized the importance of Cicely Fox Smith’s verse.... Nor do the ‘Songs from the evil wood’ represent Lord Dunsany’s poetic talent as well as would a passage from his imaginative and often beautiful prose.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ − =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 160w
“The sheer beauty and spontaneity of these poems must surprise pleasantly those who have believed this period of social unrest and of war incapable of producing art of the highest order.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w
=BRAND, MAX.= Trailin’! *$1.75 (3c) Putnam
20–6637
A wild-west story that opens in Madison Square garden, where Anthony Woodbury accepts a challenge and rides a man-killing horse. Shortly after, the man Anthony has always regarded as his father is killed and Anthony goes West to follow the trail of the slayer and learn the secret of his birth. With the foolhardiness of a tenderfoot he takes unrealized risks, but his skill and daring always carry him through, and he is successful too in winning a western bride.
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“The story undeniably grips.”
+ =Ath= p118 My 28 ’20 100w
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
=BRANOM, MENDEL EVERETT.= Project method in education. (Library of educational methods) *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 371.3
19–15249
In his first chapter on “The nature of the project method,” the author discusses the term “project” and the different meanings assigned to it, saying, “There is no fundamental difference of opinion concerning the meaning of the word, but the difference lies in the degree of elasticity that should be permitted. In every case a unit of purposeful, intellectualized activity is involved.” The chapters that follow take up: The evolution of the project as an educational concept; The relation of the project method to instincts; The social basis for the project method; The significance of motivation; Teaching by projects; Learning by projects; The project-question; The project-exercise; The project-problem; Manual or physical projects; Mental projects not involving manual activity; The project method in history; The project method in geography; The reorganization of the course of study; The preparation of the teacher. There are twelve pages of references and an index.
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“A valuable discussion of the project method.”
+ =Cleveland= p19 F ’20 20w
“The author sets forth in clear terms one of the existing needs in education, namely, to get away from the ‘bookish, theoretical education of former days.’ There are times, however, when his distinctions are not exactly clear to the reader.”
+ − =School R= 28:234 Mr ’20 900w
=BRASOL, BORIS L.= Socialism vs. civilization. *$2 Scribner 335
20–4141
As indicated by the title, the object of the book is to prove that socialism is the most dangerous enemy to civilization and that socialist agitation “threatens to ruin not only the existing order but also every attempt to improve it and to insure social progress and general prosperity.” The author claims to be a close student of Marx whose economic and social theories he attempts to explain and to refute. Professor Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard university writes an introduction, and the contents are: Modern socialism—its theories and aims; Criticism of the Marx theory; The great socialistic experiment in Russia; Socialist explanations of the failure in Russia; Socialistic agitation in Europe and America; Social revolution or social reconstruction.
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“Mr Brasol’s book gives a just though not a neutral estimate of the character and aims of modern socialism.” J. E. LeRossignol
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:624 S ’20 800w
“Brasol’s treatise is a valuable criticism of radical socialism, it fails to meet in a convincing way, the issue as raised by Laidler, Spargo, Vandervelde, Rauschenbusch and others, although the constructive proposals given in the last chapter might to some extent at least mitigate the admitted evils of the present system.” L. M. Bristol
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:520 Ag ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:260 My ’20
“He makes out his case by infinite omissions, by a near-sightedness that throws the whole subject out of proportion, and by a plentiful use of epithets like ‘soap-box agitator’ and ‘parlour Bolshevist’; and his constructive suggestions are of an incredible banality.”
− =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 240w
− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w
“The chief moral to be drawn from the volume is that he wastes his time who tries to interpret present-day social movements without being at least sympathetic with the spirit of social unrest and demand for change.” H: P. Fairchild
− =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“His book is full of ammunition for those who feel a call to oppose propaganda to propaganda, and of reassurance to those who consider the facts disquieting.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 920w
=Outlook= 125:124 My 19 ’20 650w
“In offering opinion on his book a sharp distinction should be drawn between the first four chapters and the last two; the book would be twice as good with the last two eliminated.”
+ − =Review= 2:491 My 8 ’20 380w
“While it cannot be recommended to the opponent of socialism as an altogether reliable armory of arguments, the book, nevertheless, often hits the nail and should prove stimulating and useful to the convinced Socialist and the impartial student.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 200w
=BREARLEY, HARRY CHASE.= Time telling through the ages. il *$3 Doubleday 529
20–1749
“When the Ingersolls of watchmaking fame desired to celebrate the quarter-century of their experience in that industry, a book relating the evolution of time-keeping devices was adopted as a fitting memorial and as an anniversary contribution to horological art and science. The anniversary occurred in war time and the book had to wait until the establishment of peace. It is a handsomely illustrated volume, ‘Time telling through the ages,’ and bears the name of Henry C. Brearley as author, although credit is given Miss Katherine Morrissey Dodge for the research work necessary. The book relates the development then of watchmaking in England, France, Switzerland and America, past the days of the guilds and of handmade watches to the era of machine made standard parts at a price within the reach of everybody. Among the illustrations are many photographs of rare and curious old watches in the museums of the world. There is also included as an appendix forty-two pages of encyclopedic dictionary, defining and often illustrating all the terms pertaining to watchmaking and all the names of people identified through the ages with the progress and perfecting of the art.”—Springf’d Republican
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+ =N Y Times= p23 Je 27 ’20 720w
“Most ingenious compilation. The illustrations are numerous and interesting.”
+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 200w
=St Louis= 18:243 O ’20 50w
“The story is interesting and valuable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 550w
=BREASTED, JAMES HENRY, and ROBINSON, JAMES HARVEY.= History of Europe, ancient and medieval. il $1.92 Ginn 940
20–5789
A work based on the authors’ “Outlines of European history.” “Chapters 1–20 have been completely rewritten, simplified, and condensed; and more space has been given to Roman history and less to that of the ancient Orient.... As for the rest of the work, much condensation has been effected and the details of presentation have been reconsidered from beginning to end.” (Preface) The bibliographies have also been revised. Part 1 of the book, Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome, is by Professor Breasted. Part 2, Europe from the break-up of the Roman empire to the French revolution, is by Professor Robinson.
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=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21
“The writer sees no reason why the book should not meet with immediate success, for it is without question one of the best in a somewhat barren field.”
+ =School R= 28:475 Je ’20 250w
=BREBNER, PERCY JAMES (CHRISTIAN LYS, pseud.).= Ivory disc (Eng title, Gate of temptation). *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield
20–10366
Dr Bruce Oliver had, until nearly his fortieth year, found women only an interesting study, and had not regarded them sentimentally. But when Estelle Bocara came into his life, his heart awakened. She felt and responded to his love, but she was already married to an eastern professor and mystic. As their acquaintance grew and their intimacy developed, Dr Oliver found Estelle at times to be under the strange mesmeric power of her husband, when she committed crimes of which she had no knowledge. Thinking her mental condition due to physical injury received in her childhood, Dr Oliver performed a successful operation on her brain. In an effort to complete the cure, Oliver put himself in Bocara’s power, with almost disastrous results. Fortunately for him, another victim of Bocara’s cruelty freed them both, and the obstacle to marriage with Estelle was removed. The ivory disk of the title is the amulet, the gift of Estelle which Oliver believes saved him from death.
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“To become an adept in the craft of storytelling sometimes means advancement in literary style; had it been so in Mr Brebner’s case he would not have opened one of his chapter-sections with such a passage as ‘The crisp air of the morning had not yet let go of the world.’”
+ − =Ath= p750 Je 4 ’20 160w
“‘The ivory disc’ will furnish the reader with a harmless kind of diversion and will make no extortionate demands either upon his attention or upon his intellect.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 360w
“The book can be recommended to lovers of sensation and cheap sentimental versions of occultism.”
− =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 90w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w
“A distressing story. Apparently the author wants to make our flesh creep. But, somehow, he does not.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 110w
=BRERETON, FREDERICK SADLIER.= Great war and the R. A. M. C. *$6 Dutton 940.475
(Eng ed 20–285)
“‘The great war and the R. A. M. C. takes up the work of the Royal army medical corps on the western front during the first months of the war and relates with full detail the whole story of its efforts, failures and achievements, with especial reference to the service of its field ambulances.” Springf’d Republican
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+ =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 120w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 50w
“His succinct accounts of the various actions and manœuvres are just sufficient to support the main thread of the story without diverting the interest from it.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p4 Ja 1 ’20 1400w
=BRIDGE, SIR FREDERICK.= Westminster pilgrim. il *$8 Gray, H. W.
19–14604
“This bulky but entertaining book recounts a great deal more than the story of a pilgrimage to Westminster. It might excusably claim to be the history of the Abbey itself during the last half-century—coronations, funerals, choral functions, musical services, etc., having all the prominence that the organist would naturally consider their due. First and foremost, it is an autobiography of the chatty gossipy order; the life-story of a singularly busy musician who rose from the ranks, who came into contact with many of the leading men of his time, and who by his own showing never lost an opportunity for profiting by his talents or his peculiar fund of ready wit and jocularity. But in addition to this it deals now and again with serious musical topics, more
## particularly, of course, those which have come within the orbit of
the author’s own wide professional experience.”—Sat R
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“On the whole, however, the book suffers from those very excellences which make Sir Frederick so eminently suited to his office.”
+ − =Ath= p396 My 30 ’19 600w
=Brooklyn= 12:67 Ja ’20 40w
“The Illustrations are of exceptional interest, and the whole book is excellently got up.”
+ =Sat R= 127:508 My 24 ’19 1200w
“The emeritus-organist of Westminster has led a full and successful life, and the record of his professional activities makes excellent reading, for Sir Frederick Bridge is an admirable raconteur.”
+ =Spec= 122:665 My 24 ’19 1350w
“He records meetings with a few great men outside his profession—Dickens, Tennyson, Browning; but it seems that the organist of the Abbey is most likely to meet great men at their funerals. His friends who were not great in the worldly sense are much more entertaining.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 My 1 ’19 1100w
=BRIDGE, NORMAN.= Marching years. il *$2.50 (3c) Duffield
20–18955
The above title is given to the autobiography of a noted physician of New England origin, the eighth generation in direct descent of Deacon John Bridge, to whom a bronze statue has been erected near Harvard university. Dr Bridge was graduated from the Chicago Medical college, served on the teaching staff of Rush Medical college for two decades and is the author of many publications on medical subjects, a list of which is appended to the text.
=BRIDGES, ROBERT.= October. *$1.50 Knopf 821
“‘October, and other poems’ does not bring anything particularly new to bear on Mr Bridges’s poetry. Its principal value is to show the poet laureate’s reactions to the war.” (N Y Times) “The best that we get is a quiet sound to arms in ‘Wake up, England,’ a tribute to victory in ‘Der tag: Nelson and Beatty,’ a ghostly dialogue between the victorious admirals of the past and present, some stanzas on ‘Britannia victrix,’ in the orthodox tradition of rehearsing the spirit of England’s greatness, some tributes to personal friends who were lost in the war, laurel-verse for the great soldier Lord Kitchener, sonnets to America in joining the fight for liberty, praise for the dominions for throwing in their lot with the mother of the brood, and other such occasional verses.” (Boston Transcript)
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“The disappointment, if we may call it disappointment, of this small
## book is that so much of its room is taken up by poems of a more or
less official inspiration. Nothing he writes, be the occasion never so official or the inspiration tenuous, is marred by a touch of shoddy; the dignity of poetry is safe in his hands. This dignity has no pomposity. It is only a name for the austerity and candour that mark the true artist.”
+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 640w
Reviewed by S: Roth
+ =Bookm= 52:361 D ’20 160w
Reviewed by W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 1150w
“The collection is hardly representative of Mr Bridges’ best work, but at its least, it is good verse.”
+ =Dial= 69:664 D ’20 80w
“Mr Bridges was created to do small things in poetry, and to do them very well.”
+ =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“The one drawback to Mr Bridges’s poetry is a lack of fire. It all seems conscious, coldly worked out to a well-defined formula. He carves carefully and with meticulous skill the clever cameos which he offers the public.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= p13 Ag 29 ’20 950w
“The name ‘October’ which the poet laureate has given to his new book of poems is exceedingly appropriate. There is the perfection and completion of autumn about them, the sense of something rounded and finished, a matured and considered beauty.”
+ =Spec= 124:557 Ap 24 ’20 320w
=BRIDGES, VICTOR.= Cruise of the “Scandal,” and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
A volume of short stories by an English writer who introduces them with graceful apologies to “the countrymen of Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry.” Mr Bridges is author also of “The lady from Long Acre” and the stories are written in the light-hearted manner of that novel. Among the fifteen titles are: The cruise of the “Scandal”; The man with the chin; Tony and his conscience; With the conquering turkey; A bit of Old Chelsea; Full-back for England; The bronze-haired girl; His reverence.
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“A cluster of very delightful short stories.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 400w
“Here is an English author who is satirical, keenly observant and above all humorous.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 60w
“Most of the tales are amusing, the author’s style is light and readable, and several of the stories reflect pleasantly the easy-going existence of the well-to-do young English bachelor as it was before the war.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 450w
“The short story which gives this book its title is charming and gay. Some of the others are flippant or rummy.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 20w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 200w
=BRIGGS, THOMAS HENRY.= Junior high school. (Riverside textbooks in education) *$2 Houghton 373
20–13790
A work by a professor of education, Teachers college, Columbia university. “The purpose of the book is to present the facts, so far as they can be ascertained, concerning the newly established junior high schools, or intermediate schools, and at the same time to set forth a constructive program for the reorganization if it is to be educationally effective.” (Preface) The author states that he has visited personally more than sixty junior high schools, that he has supplemented the information thus obtained by a study of the literature of the subject, by questionnaire returns, conferences and correspondence. He has also acted as educational advisor of the Speyer experimental junior high school in New York. Contents: The need of reorganization of schools; The development of the junior high school; Claims and objections; Organization; Special functions of the junior high school; Curricula and courses of study; Methods of teaching; Teachers and salaries; The administration of the schedule and of class units; Social organization and control; Buildings and grounds; Costs; Results; In conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 260w
“The book will serve a moderately useful purpose as a textbook for classes of beginners who need to be taught some definition of the movement, but will probably do little to influence practice in the present or the future.”
+ − =El School J= 21:70 S ’20 600w
=BRIGHAM, ALBERT PERRY.= Cape Cod and the Old Colony. il *$3.50 (6c) Putnam 974.4
20–14826
The book considers the Cape in its entirety: geologically, geographically, and historically. We are told of its relation to the glacial invasion, of its changing shoreline, due to the corroding and depositing force of the waves, and “how the first colonists and those who followed them have adjusted themselves to the mobile conditions of nature and of man.” (Preface) Contents: The Pilgrims around the bay; The origin of the Cape; The changing shoreline; Old Colony names and towns; On the land; The harvest of the waters; Roads and waterways; Three centuries of population; The environment of the sea; illustrations, index and maps.
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“Clear, informative, and without distinction of style. Good photographs and charts.”
+ =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
“It is sort of glorified geography, with a good deal that is both interesting and instructive.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 50w
“One thing at least is certain—he has presented science in a garb that does not repel the layman, and that in itself is always in the nature of an achievement.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 260w
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 60w
+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 120w
=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Marbeck inn. *$1.75 (2c) Little
20–3713
Sam Branstone’s cradle had stood in a laborer’s cottage. Through a deed of heroism in his boyhood he secured a grammar school education and his face was set towards success. A loveless marriage to an extravagant woman emphasizes the necessity for money. The means he employs for getting it are not of the highest. To business he adds politics and the ambition for power. Then in the capacity of his secretary, comes Effie, the woman of beauty and charm and a talent for self-sacrifice. She loves Sam and resolves to sacrifice herself for him by putting the beauty, that has never found a place there, into his life. During a week at Marbeck inn together, she changes his outlook and as he sinks in the social scale he rises spiritually.
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=Ath= p573 Ap 30 ’20 850w
“A book full of clever detail but somehow without any final whereabouts. For myself, I am unable to like or believe much in either Sam or his Effie, and can’t feel that I ought to have been bothered with them, despite the craftsmanship of their sponsor.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 150w
“‘The Marbeck inn’ is, as far as we know, Mr Brighouse’s first novel. In it may be found certain of the characteristics discoverable in all his plays, a shrewd knowledge of and a censorious attitude towards the life and the people of his own section of England, and a contempt for the ruling powers of both city and nation. The basis of Mr Brighouse’s art, both as dramatist and novelist, is character.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 1550w
“The unregenerate Sam and his world have a magnificent solidity and lifelikeness. His formidable and admirable mother, his moral slattern of a wife, the Rev. Peter Struggles, George Chapple, and even Mr Alderman Verity—these people are authentic, vivid, and memorable.”
+ − =Nation= 110:393 Mr 20 ’20 380w
“As a study of certain phases of life in and about Manchester, this English author’s new book is to be commended for its faithfulness. That the story is decidedly sordid in tone may be the consequence of its environment. Certainly there are few pleasant people among its characters.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 340w
“The action of the story is rapid and free. It has a dash that savors somehow of the movies, and the characters are perhaps equally moviesque—bold in outline without much delicacy of shading. One feels that one has to take the author’s word for their third dimension—all except Anne, the watchful mother, and Peter Struggles, loved pastor of St Mary’s.” Marguerite Fellows
+ =Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 260w
“One agrees with the author that Sam is worth staying with until the moment arrives when he is to discover that he has a soul. On the other hand, exception will be taken to Mr Brighouse’s method of showing Sam his soul.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 100w
=BRIGHOUSE, HAROLD.= Three Lancashire plays. $2.50 French, S. 822
20–13324
“The first of the three plays, ‘The game,’ proposes to be about football. The true subject of the play is parents and children. The daughter of the ‘gentleman’ rebels against her father and wants to marry the footballer; the footballer clings to his stern old mother and will not marry the girl unless he may keep his mother. And naturally the girl realizes that that would never ‘work’ and gives up her lover. ‘The northerners’ is a play about the introduction of machine-looms and the new tyranny of the masters of labour in the Lancashire of 1820. ‘Zack’ is a character comedy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“The first two plays in the volume are hardly adaptable to use in America, but ‘Zack’ will be a valuable addition to the repertory of amateur groups.”
+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 170w
“His plots are neither simple and exact, nor, on the other hand, marvels of good carpentry. They are either too weak or too strong, invertebrate or too dependent on situation. But ... we have here three plays in which Brighouse’s keen sense of good stage-humour, and his knack for observing character are applied to a people and a life that he could know honestly at first hand.” K. M.
+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 650w
“Mr Brighouse’s touch and temper are equally uncertain. In ‘The northerners’ his action is ingenious in the bad and artificial sense, and flares into the noisiest melodrama in the last act. ‘The game’ is a far sounder and less pretentious play than ‘The northerners’; ‘Zack’ is negligible.” Ludwig Lewisohn
− + =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 200w
“‘The game’ is, perhaps, a trifle too local, with an appeal to a more specialized audience whose chief interest lies in the fair play of organized sport. It is a relief to discover in the last play, ‘Zack,’ amusement for its own sake.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 580w
“As for ‘Zack,’ it cries out for acting. But the dialogue and the situations go for little in print.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p121 F 19 ’20 900w
“All show a sense of the theatre, good situations, lively talk (and, one might exclaim, ‘What more could you ask, in Heaven’s name?’), but for all this they are at best but commonplace.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:350 O ’20 140w
=BRINKLEY, FRANK, and KIKUCHI, DAIROKU.= History of the Japanese people. il *$4.50 Doran 952
This history dates from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era and has been compiled with the collaboration of Baron Kikuchi who also contributes the foreword. He claims that among the many books on Japan there has not yet been a history of Japan so essential to the proper understanding of Japanese problems. Besides that part of the contents devoted especially to dynastic and political history there are chapters on: The historiographer’s art in old Japan; Japanese mythology; Rationalization; Origin of the Japanese nation; Language and physical characteristics; Manners and customs in remote antiquity; The capital and the provinces; Recovery of administrative authority by the throne; Manners and customs of the Heian epoch; Art, religion, literature, customs, and commerce in the Kamakura period; Foreign intercourse, literature, art, religion, manners, and customs in the Muromachi epoch; Christianity in Japan; Revival of the Shintō cult; Wars with China and Russia. The appendix contains: The constitution of Japan; The Anglo-Japanese agreement, 1905; and the Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905. There is a list of Japanese works consulted; an index; 150 illustrations engraved on wood by Japanese artists; half-tone plates and maps.
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+ =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 21 ’20 460w
=BRINTON, REGINALD SEYMOUR.= Carpets. $1 Pitman 677
20–14784
This volume of Pitman’s Common commodities and industries series comprises the following chapters: History; Materials; Dyeing; Hand-made carpets; Brussels; Wilton; Axminster; Chenille; Tapestry; Ingrain; Design and colour; Statistics; Employers and employed; Conclusion. There are thirty illustrations and an index.
=BROOKE, STOPFORD AUGUSTUS.= Naturalism in English poetry. *$3 Dutton 821.09
20–20661
“These studies deal with that reaction from artificial and conventional poetry of the eighteenth century which began with Thomson, grew through a transition period of some fifty years (1730–1780) into the ‘naturalistic’ poetry of Burns and Cowper, reached its height with Wordsworth, and died with Shelly, Keats, and Byron. They are based on the Ms. of a course of lectures delivered by the late Stopford Brooke at University college, London, in 1902. The later chapters of the book are also printed from Mss., except two, which appeared after the author’s death in the Hibbert Journal.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“There was, perhaps, no great originality in Stopford Brooke’s criticism; and in reading his particular book one sighs occasionally for a page or two of precise discussion of the keyword in the title. On the other hand it has the redeeming salt of a genuine humanity, an enthusiasm which, if it attaches sometimes to what seems to us only diluted poetry, is in the main convincing—a book, in short, which can be read with pleasure rather than exhilaration, and which, considered as lectures delivered to a university audience, is admirable.”
+ − =Ath= p792 Je 18 ’20 600w
“Mr Brooke’s book is one that should be widely read, for it gives new life to these men [Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron].” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 400w
“While Stopford Brooke has written good criticism, he has not written great criticism; for a criticism which, while dealing with human values, does not really seek for the larger reconciling ideas, and which always in a pinch leans toward a theological standard cannot be called great.”
+ − =No Am= 213:284 F ’21 1300w
“Though the present work penetrates deeply into the spirit that animated the naturalistic poets, it is marred by the use of many outworn phrases, examples of tautology, and an irritating loquacity that might be forgiven in a lecturer, but cannot be condoned in the printed page.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:141 Ag 14 ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 27 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 70w
=BROOKS, ALFRED MANSFIELD.= From Holbein to Whistler; notes on drawing and engraving. il *$7.50 Yale univ. press 767
20–15784
“Starting with the ‘Beginnings of line engraving in Italy,’ Mr Brooks comments on the line engraving and wood in the North, talks upon the work of such men as Mantegna, Marcantonio, Raimondi, Lucas of Leyden, Durer and Holbein; gives an account of the theory and progress of etching through Rembrandt, Van Dyck to Claude Lorraine; mezzotint engraving as exemplified by Claude Lorraine and Richard Earlom, and concludes on the famous collection of engravings and designs by Turner known as ‘The liber studiorum.’ The volume is illustrated in both line and shadow, with reproductions of the famous drawings of the artists dealt with.”—Boston Transcript
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“Ease and dignity mark the style.”
+ =Booklist= 17:59 N ’20
=Boston Transcript= p5 S 4 ’20 470w
“If the reader may occasionally prefer a different path from the one taken by Mr Brooks, that is in measure a matter of personal predilection. The same may be said of the choice of prints for discussion. However, in the end the book stimulates, and exhibits good common sense.”
+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 450w
“On the whole, it is an interesting and instructive book, a little verbose, but full of shrewd observations and sound though unoriginal generalities. It is neither sufficiently concise nor sufficiently ample for very general use; however, the patient reader will be amply repaid for the reading.” R: Bassett
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 580w
=BROOKS, CHARLES STEPHEN.= Luca Sarto. il *$1.75 (2c) Century
20–3883
Fourteen hundred and seventy-one is the time of this story of adventure and romance, as told by the hero, Luca Sarto, in the first person. Here is his own outline of the events: “We shall see, when all is done, how a man fled wisely from his enemies, the Orsini; how he came to France; how later, in good time, he wooed and kissed a lady; how, after a night that was candled by stars and danger, the morning sun was witness to their betrothal. I end with priest and blessing. No need of candle then.”
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+ =Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
“Remarkable for the fidelity with which the author preserves the atmosphere of the middle ages.”
+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 60w
“From the confinement and necessary limitations of the essay-form, Mr Brooks has emerged with much credit, to give us a glorious adventure bubbling with spirits, and plausible withal.” R. D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= Mr 13 ’20 800w
“Full of intrigue and action, and related in a quaint phraseology full of color and metaphor.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 110w
“It has the sparkle of brightly burnished armour and a pulse-quickening pace. The manner of the telling is not without a touch of swagger, spiced with the salt flavour of the modern point-of-view, humorous and whimsical.”
+ =Dial= 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The book, a first novel, is an entertaining historical romance cleverly written and contains plenty of intrigue and adventure combined with a pretty love story.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 320w
“His adventures in France are told with dash, and the style smacks truly of the manner of the fifteenth century.”
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“A spirited and amusing if not inspired narrative of adventure-cum-politics.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =Review= 2:463 My 1 ’20 640w
“The story is well written, in a fresh and stimulating romantic spirit, and should appeal to those with a weakness for historical novels that do not contain too much history.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 450w
=BROOKS, JOHN GRAHAM.= Labor’s challenge to the social order; democracy its own critic and educator. *$2.75 (2c) Macmillan 331
20–8263
“The problem here submitted is a study of power rapidly and in part accidentally acquired by labor. More especially it is a study of what labor is to do with its new mastership, what fitness it possesses for the work it would take in hand and how, meantime, other classes are to play their part.” (