Chapter 1
) The author holds that the war has precipitated this new power of labor, which in normal times would have developed more slowly and carried with it its own discipline, and that now its education will be more costly both for itself and the public. He also holds that for capital the day of “the lone hand” has closed and that the lesson for both capital and labor to learn is to unite their forces in cooperative effort. A partial list of the contents is: “A new society”; World lessons; The struggle at its worst; The Inner revolution; Lessons from the communists; Socialism; Government ownership; Industrial democracy at its best; The employers’ case against the union; The new “profit-sharing”; Syndicalism; The new guild; Index.
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“It is a stimulating and penetrating appreciation of the latest developments in the labor field on the background of Mr Brooks’s forty years’ study of the upward movement of wage-earners throughout the world. Like his other books, it is a human document rather than a dogmatic treatise.” H: R. Seager
+ =Am Econ= R 10:602 S ’20 1000w
“The volume is fully up to the author’s standard of writing, which means that it is accurate, good-tempered and interesting.”
+ =Am Pol Sci= R 14:739 N ’20 50w
“The very interesting illustrations cited throughout make this book not only earnest but really attractive reading on labor organization questions.”
+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20
“A clear account and discriminating criticism of the labor movement.”
+ =Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:535 N 10 ’20 480w
“His book is unquestionably the most mature, balanced and far-seeing analysis of recent months.” Ordway Tead
+ =New Repub= 25:208 Ja 12 ’21 410w
“With some blemishes here and there of involved or slipshod phrase, the book is to be warmly welcomed. No other man in America who deals with this subject draws from so ample a store of learning and experience. No other has at once the exactness and the scope of his information. No other writes with such uniform tolerance and breadth of view.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 720w
“His tolerance and his desire to understand and to interpret the world of labor fairly and humanly give distinction to his work.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 300w
=BROOKS, VAN WYCK.= Ordeal of Mark Twain. *$3 Dutton
20–8431
“This book is primarily a psychological study and yet it is full of biographical detail related to the career of Mark Twain, and supplements the biography written by Mr Paine. It should be stated, however, that Mr Brooks did not undertake this task in the spirit of a chronicler. He started, rather, with the aim of offering a logical explanation of Mark Twain’s well-known tendency to pessimism.” (R of Rs) “The main idea in the book is that Mark Twain’s career was a tragedy—a tragedy for himself and a tragedy for mankind. Everyman who does not live up to his highest possibilities is living in a state of sin. Mark Twain was, therefore, one of the chief of sinners, because his possibilities were so great and he fell so short. There were two villains in Mark Twain’s tragedy—his mother and his wife. His mother was more eager to have him good than to have him great; his wife wanted him to be a gentleman. Between them they tamed the lion and made him perform parlor tricks. This hypothesis is worked out by Mr Brooks.” (N Y Times)
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=Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
“Having set up his theory, everything in the humorist’s career is made to contribute to it in the most plausible, ingenious, and stimulating way; the book is so able and interesting that to read it is a delight. Yet, for me, as I strive to realize Mark Twain, remembering the man and reading the author to find the man, the result is not satisfactory, nor do I think Mr Brooks has penetrated to the heart of the secret. He has succumbed to the danger which always confronts the thesis-maker who has to subdue data so that they may buttress his belief.” R: Burton
* + − =Bookm= 52:333 Ja ’21 2900w
“Not only a subtle psychological study of one of the most prominent figures in the life of the past century, but also a valuable acquisition to the essay realm of American history.”
+ =Cath World= 112:255 N ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Dial= 69:293 S ’20 3150w
“This ‘Ordeal’ is so brilliant a book and comes so near the truth in its general outlines that it seems almost an excess of seriousness to point out certain excesses of seriousness into which Mr Brooks has been carried by his ardor for the dignity of the literary profession. But it should be pointed out that his criticism is very far from being disinterested. He means to bring an adequate indictment against the sort of society which discourages and represses a man of genius.” C. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1350w
“Unfortunately Van Wyck Brooks took Mark Twain’s humorously megalomaniac utterances for serious expressions of a megalomaniac soul, and, as it seems to me, utterly missed the most promising lead in his mountain of ore. But there were riches enough for his purpose, nevertheless.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Repub= 23:201 Jl 14 ’20 2350w
“Many books have been written about Mark Twain; but with the exception of Paine’s biography this work by Mr Van Wyck Brooks is the most important and the most essential. Whether one agrees with Mr Brooks’s thesis or not—and I do not—one must admire and one ought to profit by the noble and splendid purpose animating it. It is a call to every writer and to every man and woman not to sin against their own talents.” W: L. Phelps
+ − =N Y Times= p1 Je 27 ’20 2200w
“While Mr Brooks is in no sense an artist in words, he is a dramatic expositor, and he owns a thesis which attracts to its defense an inspiritingly large number of crisp facts and observations. His book will interest and serve even the unbeliever.”
+ − =Review= 3:108 Ag 4 ’20 1150w
“Mr Brooks seems to have adopted a thesis which he feels bound to support by ingenious and plausible argument. As a clever and brilliant application of critical methods to a literary career, the book has few equals in American literature.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 120w
“Although it is easy to dissent from Mr Brooks’s interpretation of Clemens’s biography, the book aims to provide something of the serious criticism which is so essential not only to American letters but to American culture. It is somewhat overtheorized and finespun. The ideas would be clearer if the book were more condensed in expression and data.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 5 ’20 490w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:114 Je ’20 60w
=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.=[2] Self-help in piano study. il *$1.50 Stokes 786
20–17977
The book is in two parts: Practical lessons in piano technic and Plain talks with piano teachers and students. It consists of reprinted matter from the Musical Observer and Musical America in the form of brief essays, many of them written in response to requests from teachers and students. Among the chapters of Part 1 are: The principles of piano playing; The beginner; Use of wrist and arms; Scale playing. Part 2 has talks on: On teaching; Laying the foundation; Points on technical training; Touch and tone, etc.
=BROWER, HARRIETTE MOORE.= Vocal mastery. il *$3 Stokes 784.9
20–19844
This book is composed of a number of talks with famous singers with a view to obtaining “their personal ideas concerning their art and its mastery, and, when possible, some inkling as to the methods by which they themselves have arrived at the goal.” Among those interviewed are Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, Amelita Galli-Curci, Giuseppe de Luca, Luisa Tetrazzini, Antonio Scotti, Reinald Werrenrath, and Sophie Braslau. A group entitled, With the master teachers, includes David Bispham, Oscar Saenger, Herbert Witherspoon, Yeatman Griffith, and J. H. Duval. Twenty photographs illustrate the book. Miss Brower is author also of “Piano mastery,” a book of similar purpose for pianists, and other books for musicians.
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+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
=BROWN, ABBIE FARWELL.= Heart of New England. *$1.50 Houghton 811
20–16517
This collection of poems is a tribute in verse to the Pilgrim tercentenary, taking the reader from the Pilgrim’s separation from old England, to the present generation’s reunion thru the war. The first group of poems deals entirely with New England and some of the poems are: Pilgrim mothers; Pirate treasure; Grandmother’s house; Grandmother’s garden; Pine music; The blazed trail. The second group contains war songs, among them: Peace—with a sword; From the canteen; Prayer for America. The book ends with The rock of liberty: a Pilgrim ode, 1620–1920.
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“Many who cannot find pleasure in more daring modern poets should find contentment in the work of Miss Brown. When much of today’s poetry is forgotten her verse will wait for him who wishes to know the true New England.” N. J. O’Conor
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 3400w
=BROWN, ALICE.= Homespun and gold. *$2 Macmillan
20–19504
“‘Homespun and gold’ is an appropriate title for Miss Alice Brown’s new collection of stories, considering the homely material she has used and the glint of hope that persists in an atmosphere of impending tragedy. The people and scenes are all of New England, and the situations deal with the suppressed desires, the thwarted hopes, and the hated sacrifices made lovable, of a people in whom the Puritan tradition is not entirely dead.” (Freeman) Contents: The wedding ring; Mary Felicia; A homespun wizardry; Red poppies; Ann Eliza; The return of father; The deserters; The house of the bride; A question of wills; A brush of paint; The path of stars; The widow’s third; White pebbles; Confessions; Up on the mountain.
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“Because they describe life rather than interpret it they fail to move one profoundly. The reader closes the book impressed with its sustained excellence; the sure touch of an experienced craftsman is apparent on every page, but it throws no clear light upon the enigma of human destiny.” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:285 D 1 ’20 240w
“Taken together, they form an interesting picture of New England village life. It is a picture far less grim than some others we have seen.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 850w
“They are humorous, human, and true.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w
“There is very little description in any of the stories—dialog is used almost wholly and this aids in the sharp differentiation of the characters. A homely idiom, fast becoming obsolete, adds to this effect.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w
=BROWN, ALICE.= Wind between the worlds. *$2 (2c) Macmillan
20–11071
In various ways the characters of this story are interested in the life hereafter and in communication with the dead; and the reactions on the living, when the quest becomes too ardent, constitute its moral. A bereaved mother, one of whose sons has been killed in the war, pins all her faith to automatic writing, in the hope of getting a message from him. Her relations with her husband become strained, her nerves threaten to give way. Her secretary, who practices the writing, has through it so lost her grip on the higher potentialities of life, that she no longer discriminates between genuine and fraudulent practices. A scientist has taken the matter up from the scientific side and from seeking communication with his dead wife has been led deeper and deeper into his investigations, and becomes almost crazed and totally irresponsible. For love of him his daughter surrounds herself with a fabric of lies from which only the love of an unusual, divining young man and her father’s death, extricate her. For the bereaved mother and her family the situation is saved by the penetrating wisdom of an old woman.
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“Written with characteristic deftness and charm.”
+ =Booklist= 17:30 O ’20
“In ‘The wind between the worlds’ Miss Brown has, despite the intricacy of her theme, sacrificed neither her story to her problem, nor her problem to her story. Devotees of the cult doubtless will not approve of it, for its hints at fraud will seem to them to be unjust, and it suggests little sympathy on the part of the novelist with the cause they have so near at heart. To others, however, it will appear as a sensible and skilfully imaginative exposition of a vital subject.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 1400w
=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w
=Lit D= p110 N 6 ’20 2700w
“If one can forget the shoddiness of the material there are several virtues that might be pointed out. The book will undoubtedly please disciples of the formula school of fiction.” H. S. G.
+ − =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 340w
“The ‘plot portion’ of the story is the weakest part of it. There are times when it seems manufactured. But the character drawing is admirable. That the novel is admirably written and the atmosphere of Boston, where the scene is laid, excellently reproduced, of course goes without saying.” L. M. Field
+ − =N Y Times= 25:15 Jl 11 ’20 1550w
“The love-plot is singular, but not convincing or quite well managed.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 150w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:234 S 15 ’20 360w
“Madame Brooke, the grandmother of the dead boy, is much the most interesting and unconventional character in the book, and in her the author depicts an exclusively American type.”
+ =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 50w
“The technique is admirable; but the breath of life is rarely present. The characters are intellectually conceived, the story is original, the psychology shows insight; there is capital description, reasonably good dialogue, situations both interesting and dramatic; the tale moves without faltering; and yet, the breath of life being absent for the most part, the story is unreal.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p701 O 28 ’20 340w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 120w
=BROWN, SIR ARTHUR WHITTEN, and BOTT, ALAN JOHN.= Flying the Atlantic in sixteen hours. il *$1.50 (4c) Stokes 629.1
20–8254
In this account of the prize-winner in the first competitive flight across the Atlantic, in a Vickers-Vimy machine. Sir Arthur Brown says: “We have realized that our flight was but a solitary fingerpost to the air-traffic—safe, comfortable and voluminous—that in a few years will pass above the Atlantic ocean.” The last three chapters of the book are devoted to a discussion of aircraft in commerce and transportation. Contents: Some preliminary events; St John’s; The start; Evening; Night; Morning; The arrival; Aftermath of arrival; The navigation of aircraft; The future of transatlantic flight; The air age; illustrations.
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=Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
“One leaves the book with the sensation of having been in the midst of remarkable accomplishment.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 900w
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 30w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 300w
=BROWN, DEMETRA (VAKA) (MRS KENNETH BROWN), and PHOUTRIDES, ARISTIDES=, trs. Modern Greek stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (3c) Duffield
20–26756
The book has a foreword by Demetra Vaka describing the emotional and intellectual history of the Greeks from the time they lost their independence to the Turks in 1453 to the present. Modern Greece, she says, owes her independence and inspiration to her poets and other writers and Mount Olympus, by becoming the stronghold of the outlaws and insurgents against Turkish rule, became in a new sense a sacred mountain. Of the authors of the eight stories selected for the volume, all but three are still living. The stories are: Sea; The sin of my mother; The god-father; Mangalos; Forgiveness; Angelica; A man’s death; The frightened soul; She that was homesick.
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=Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 380w
+ =Lit D= p92 N 20 ’20 1450w
“All these stories are pervaded with a fatalism, a sombreness, a prepossession unredeemed by that super-sight that we associate with the Greeks of old. If they are exact transcriptions of the instincts and beliefs of the Greek people of today they have far to go before the heights are reached.” B. D.
− =N Y Times= p9 Ag 22 ’20 950w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w
“Without awakening at any point intense curiosity or poignant interest they hold the attention by their sincerity, truth, simplicity, and an indefinable democratic and human tone. They are admirably translated in pure idiomatic English.”
+ =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 250w
“Charming tales. The stories are fascinating in their strange beauty.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 270w
“These stories are beautiful as literature; they are fascinating as documents of a people’s inner life.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:334 N 27 ’20 150w
=BROWN, EDNA ADELAIDE.= That affair at St Peter’s. il *$1.75 (4c) Lothrop
20–7761
This story is told by Preston Perrin, the junior warden of St Peter’s, a church in the suburban town of Hollywood. The tale has to do with the theft of St Peter’s communion plate between two morning services on a June Sunday. Various persons had access to the safe where the silver was kept, including Sophie Dennison, whom no one, least of all, Preston, could connect with such a crime, Thompson, the organist, Anna, a Girl’s friendly girl, and of course the rector. Fred Farrell. A detective is called in, but his conventional methods prove little. Finally, the silver is returned and the affair is explained very naturally and credibly, the whole excitement lasting less than a week.
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+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The book is old-fashioned, but—its mystery appearing early—will be finished if started.”
+ =Bookm= 52:174 O ’20 210w
“A very interesting and well written story. All characters are attractive and a spice of love-making, withal, completes the value of the work as a story of human interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 130w
=BROWN, EVERETT SOMERVILLE.= Constitutional history of the Louisiana purchase, 1803–1812. $2.50 Univ. of Cal. 973.4 A20–742
“The purpose of this monograph is to discuss the most important of the constitutional questions which arose as a consequence of the purchase of Louisiana, and to show how the statesmen and legislators in charge of affairs at that time interpreted the constitution in answering those questions. Much has been written on the Louisiana purchase but no connected narrative of its constitutional aspects has hitherto appeared.” (Preface) The author has confined his study principally to the lower part of the province, that organized as Orleans territory and afterwards admitted as the state of Louisiana. He has utilized much hitherto unpublished material. There is a bibliography of thirteen pages, in which this material, together with published works, is cited. An appendix reproduces the Senate debate on the Breckinridge bill in 1804, and the volume is indexed. It is published as volume 10 of the University of California publications in history, of which Herbert E. Bolton is editor.
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“Dr Brown has covered a wide range of manuscript and printed material, and handled it with a just sense of proportion and a keen scent for the significant. I do wish, however, that aspirants for the three magic letters would not be so oppressed by the solemnity of their quest as to neglect the light and humorous aspects of their subject.” S. E. Morison
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:143 O ’20 280w
“A careful and elaborate monograph.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:625 O ’20 80w
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 40w
=BROWN, GEORGE EDWARD=. Book of R. L. S.; works, travels, friends, and commentators. il *$2.50 (3c) Scribner
20–6150
A book of Stevenson miscellany, alphabetically arranged. “The chief aim of this book is to provide a commentary on his works as far as possible from Stevenson’s own standpoint by showing the circumstances in which they were written, their history in his hands, and his judgments on them.... The scheme of the volume also embraces references to members of his family, and to his more or less intimate friends as well as the places directly associated with his wandering life.” (Preface) The comments vary in length from brief paragraphs to several pages. Subjects covered more or less at length include the Appin murder, on which “Kidnapped” was based; “The black arrow”; Alan Breck; “Catriona”; Father Damien; Dedications; “Kidnapped”; Samoa; San Francisco; In the South seas; and “Treasure island”; and there are also notes on Barrie, Meredith, Kipling, Sidney Colvin, and others. The book has eight illustrations and is indexed.
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“The arrangement is handy for reference, and the information sufficiently attractive to repay one who dips into the book for pleasure.”
+ =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 50w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 17 ’20 1000w
“Raises the question of how long Stevenson will survive segmentation, mutilation for mottoes, and vivisection in calendars, without impairment of his literary vitality. This volume, fortunately, is a dictionary rather than a dissection.”
+ =Dial= 68:401 Mr ’20 70w
“Once you have braced yourself and plunged in, an encyclopedia is delightful reading and so is this ‘Book of R. L. S.’”
+ =Ind= 102:235 My 8 ’20 300w
“Unless some one does the same thing better, the book will stand; it need fear no rivalry, so far as ready reference is concerned, from more brilliant narratives. Minor shortcomings are offset by his general accuracy and good sense.”
+ − =Nation= 110:436 Ap 3 ’20 180w
“‘A book of R. L. S.’ is a good compendium of everything that is worth knowing in the life of Stevenson.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 900w
=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 120w
“Contains a valuable index.” D. K.
+ =St Louis= 18:66 Ap ’20 30w
“It seems a little odd to find all sorts of information about Stevenson, his friends, and critics arranged under alphabetical headings, as if he were a cookery book or a postal guide. We have at this date quite enough books about Stevenson, and we hope that this will be the last for some time to come.... While Mr Brown’s industry is remarkable, his criticism is not always of the kind we regard as useful.”
− + =Sat R= 128:610 D 27 ’19 1350w
“A pleasant and informing study. The arrangement which is so convenient for reference, interferes very little with the book’s readability.”
+ =Spec= 124:86 Ja 17 ’20 70w
“The reader is made to feel an intimate acquaintance with that very remarkable author and man.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 F 27 ’20 220w
“The book serves also as a bibliography, with notes of the values of first editions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 90w
=BROWN, IVOR JOHN CARNEGIE.=[2] Meaning of democracy. *$2 McClurg 321.8
(Eng ed 20–4617)
“The lecturer of Oxford tutorial classes attempts to show what democracy implies. He recognizes that the word has come to mean nothing. Having accepted the principle of equality, as the basis of a division of power, he proceeds to outline representative government. He finds in this inevitable delegation of power, three main problems; the demand for general education to make articulate public opinion, the machinery for translating this public opinion into practice and in the third place, the need of curbing those elected to office, so that they will not forget the source of their power.”—Boston Transcript
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“An excellent little book.”
+ =Ath= p303 Mr 5 ’20 520w
“Ivor Brown’s ‘The meaning of democracy’ warms the heart with the new vision of education—education where teacher and students meet as equals.” A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:499 F ’21 190w
=Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 140w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 360w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p116 F 19 ’20)
“It is more human, more readable, and more thought-provoking than nine out of ten of the treatises on the same general lines with which it has been our rather arduous privilege to grapple. This is because Mr Brown is neither very whole-hearted nor, happily, very consistent about his self-imposed task. The terrible series of definitions by which he is going to fathom the last recesses of the democratic idea loses itself, like certain eastern rivers, in the desert during the course of the first few chapters; and we can bear with the loss.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p116 F 19 ’20 1500w
=BROWN, NELSON COURTLANDT.= Forest products. il *$3.75 Wiley 674
19–15703
A book by the professor of forest utilization, New York state college of forestry. “Some idea of its scope may be obtained from such chapter headings as the following: Wood pulp and paper; Tanning materials; Veneers; Slack and tight cooperage; Naval stores; Wood distillation; Charcoal; Boxes; Cross ties; Poles and piling; Mine timber; Fuel; Shingles; Maple syrup and sugar; Rubber; Dye woods; Excelsior and cork. Under each topic the character and source of the raw material, the tree species involved, the processes of manufacture, the marketing, the utilization, and values are discussed. Whenever any attempts have been made toward standard specifications and grading of the products, these are given in considerable detail. Statistics of production in the United States or of importation from other lands are arranged in convenient tables, and still more important for the scientist is the bibliography which is appended to each chapter.” (Bot Gaz)
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=Booklist= 16:156 F ’20
“Attractive in appearance, well illustrated, and carefully organized.” G: D. Fuller
+ =Bot Gaz= 68:479 D ’19 220w
=BROWN, ROBERT NEAL RUDMOSE.= Spitsbergen. il *$5 Lippincott 919.8
20–7933
“This book, from the pen of a British explorer, meets the new demand for information about the mineral resources of this Arctic archipelago, and at the same time gives a good account of the history, exploration and animal and plant life of the country. The author discusses the three ways suggested for settling the political status of Spitsbergen—partition, international control by two or more nations, and annexation by one or other nation. He rejects the first two propositions as not feasible and concludes that the islands should be annexed by either Great Britain or Norway, the choice to be submitted to the League of nations and decided by a mandate to one or other of these powers.”—R of Rs
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“Dr Rudmose Brown is a geographer of repute with considerable scientific attainments, whose work in the Antarctic has won recognition, and in this volume he has given us a valuable, lively and most interesting account of the Spitsbergen archipelago. He writes with a restrained enthusiasm inspired by a genuine love of these wild regions which compels our interest.” L. C.-M.
+ =Ath= p1064 O 24 ’19 1250w
“Since the book was finished before the government of the country was settled it is slightly out of date in this, but is chiefly valuable for the details of history and economic resources.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
“The book states the problem clearly and contains numerous helpful maps and illustrations.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 60w
=R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 120w
“Dr Rudmose Brown gives a map showing the principal mining estates according to nationality, but no map showing the distribution of coal, and no geological map. This last seems a curious omission and certainly is a regrettable one. His book may be recommended to the general inquirer and especially to the tourists and health seekers.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:612 D 27 ’19 1300w
“An interesting and useful book.”
+ =Spec= 123:473 O 11 ’19 1450w
“This is one of those commendable volumes which entertains while it informs the reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p556 O 16 ’19 1000w
=BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE.=[2] History of Persian literature under Tartar dominion (A. D. 1265–1502). il *$14 Macmillan 891.5
21–509
“The literature of Persia has found a most able and enthusiastic interpreter in Professor Edward G. Browne, of the University of Cambridge, who has already published two exhaustive volumes entitled ‘A literary history of Persia,’ bringing the subject down to the middle of the thirteenth century. Now comes a third, covering the period from 1265 to 1502. It is practically a continuation, if not so in name and form, of the other two standard volumes.” (Nation) “The period dealt with begins immediately after the terrible Mongol invasion under Hulagu, includes the conquests of the redoubtable Tamerlane, and ends with the appearance of the great Shah Ismail, the founder of the Safawi dynasty, as the saviour of his country.” (Spec)
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“It must be confessed that it is not easy reading. He could hardly expect it to be a popular piece of literature. But what a glorious feast it provides! He has indeed performed a great and needed work in interpreting this fine people to modern readers.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 780w
“Takes its place by the side of the two earlier volumes as a masterpiece of sound scholarship and critical judgment.” A. V. W. Jackson
+ =Nation= 111:508 N 3 ’20 560w
“The volume, in short, is worthy of its distinguished author, and sheds a flood of light on an epoch with which even experts are unfamiliar.”
+ =Sat R= 130:359 O 30 ’20 720w
“His treatment of the subject is so direct and so clear that the general reader would never suspect that the ground traversed is mostly new ground, and that the sources both for the history and for the literature are for the most part contained in unpublished manuscripts.”
+ =Spec= 125:337 S 11 ’20 2300w
=BROWNE, ROBERT T.= Mystery of space. *$4 Dutton 114
19–18843
“It is Mr Browne’s belief that mankind has entered upon a new era in the development of intellect and that new powers of perception and understanding are unfolding in the most advanced members of the race. ‘The intellect’, he says, ‘has but one true divining rod, and that is mathematics,’ and he brings forward his mathematical evidence to prove his contention. He discusses also the genesis and nature of space, devotes a chapter to an exposition of the fourth dimension, another to discussion of non-Euclidian geometry and traces the growth of the notion of hyperspace.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Brooklyn= 12:112 Ap ’20 30w
“The greatest of all latter-day books on space. It is written by a mathematician, a mystic and a thinker, one who, endowed with a tremendous metaphysical imagination, never lets go any point of the threads of reality. Lucid and logical, with a pen that never falters, Mr Browne advances steadily from page to page upon the fortresses of science.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:119 Mr 14 20 1700w
“It is excessively irritating that writers on this subject either choose or are forced to employ a vocabulary and a style which are repellent to the reader, and to mix the significant and insignificant into an almost inextricable tangle. Careful and prolonged searching brings forth the fact that Mr Browne has a definite and interesting thesis.” L: T. More
+ − =Review= 2:133 F 7 ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 100w
“As offering to the reader very intelligible and significant, not to say impressive intimations and conceptions of that larger universe in which we live and move and have our being, and of which we are hardly aware, ‘The mystery of space’ presents an admirable idea, in its clear and well-considered resumé of facts.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 1150w
=BROWNRIGG, SIR DOUGLAS EGREMONT ROBERT.= Indiscretions of the naval censor. il *$2.50 (4c) Doran 940.45
20–7998
The author was chief censor at the British admiralty during the war. He writes of: The establishment of the naval censorship; How the news came of the battles of Coronel and the Falkland islands; Problems of publicity and propaganda; The battle of Jutland; The death of Lord Kitchener; Educating the public; Co-operation with other departments; Zeebrugge and the censorship; Authors, publishers and some others; Press men of allied countries; Visitors to the Grand fleet; Artists and the naval war; Censoring naval letters; Wireless and war news; Odds and ends; A censor’s “holidays”; Last days of the censorship. The illustrations are grouped at the end and there is an index.
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“Admiral Brownrigg has many amusing stories to tell as well as many momentous topics to discuss.”
+ =Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 80w
=Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
+ =Dial= 69:212 Ag ’20 50w
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 40w
“Anyone who expects Sir Douglas Brownrigg’s ‘Indiscretions of the naval censor’ to be indiscreet will be disappointed. Where the Admiral does become interesting is in his intimate account of life at that ramshackle building known as the British admiralty.”
+ − =Nation= 111:51 Jl 10 ’20 260w
“The grave question of the proper relation to be observed in time of war between the truth, the state, the public, and the press scarcely obtrudes its chilly presence into the warm stream of anecdote which courses through these pages.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 26:868 Mr 20 ’20 1100w
“The book is breezily written and as entertaining as it is genuinely informative.”
+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 440w
+ =R Of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 100w
“Admiral Brownrigg has command of a straightforward, telling style. His book is full of humour, good spirits, and the kind of information which only he is in a position to impart.”
+ =Sat R= 129:334 Ap 3 ’20 1150w
=Spec= 124:181 F 7 ’20 300w
=Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 220w
=BRUNNER, MRS ETHEL (HOUSTON).= Celia and her friends. *$1.25 Macmillan
“Seven short sketches of London society fill 150 small pages of ‘Celia and her friends’ in which Ethel Brunner presents a bright and benevolent heiress, attended most of the time by a clever bachelor, who fain would change his state and hers, and assisted in the various chapters by a supporting cast of more or less merit.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 50w
“As a picture of one phase of idle London life, there may be some interest, but it has been so much better done by other writers that it fails to impress one.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 280w
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w
“The dialog is full of repartee not overdone. The book isn’t meant to be deep; whimsical, frivolous, entertaining, would describe it better.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 140w
=BRUNNER, MRS ETHEL (HOUSTON).= Celia once again. *$1.80 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–5894)
“‘Celia once again’ is a collection of nine short stories—perhaps episodes is the better term, as there is no pretense of a fictional plot in any of them; they all relate to Celia and her interesting friends. According to Peter—Celia’s husband—she was ‘dangerously quick in making friends,’ she was anxious to make every penny she could for charity, and when she stationed herself in Piccadilly with her flag tray and a bundle of tickets for a picture to be raffled for, ‘Love’s awakening,’ it was small matter for wonder that her handsome face and becoming costume won for her a gratifying success. But her philanthropic effort was not without adventures; these the author recounts.”—N Y Times
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“The dialogue is often witty and every chapter sparkles with comment and whimsical philosophizing on people and affairs.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 380w
=BRYANT, MRS ALICE ELISABETH (CRANDELL)=, ed. Treasury of hero tales. (Treasury ser. for children) il *$1 (3½c) Crowell 398.2
20–15175
The stories retold for children in this volume are The Gorgon’s head; The apples of youth; The story of Siegfried; The coming of Sir Galahad; Rinaldo and Bayard; White-headed Zal; Beowulf and Grendel; How Cuchulain got his name; How Robin Hood met Little John.
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Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 50w
=BRYANT, MRS SOPHIE (WILLOCK).= Moral and religious education. (Modern educator’s lib.) *$1.90 (*6s) Longmans 377
(Eng ed E20–537)
“Some advocates of moral training in the schools believe that morality can best be taught through the development of religious faith and by direct appeal to self-respect, reason, sympathy, and common-sense. A book advocating this idea has just appeared. It deals with such general topics as self-liberation and self-realization, the moral ideal, the religious ideal, and the reasoned presentment of religious truth. A chapter is devoted to each of these topics.” (School R) “In the second division of the volume a large number of attractive examples are given of model lessons on moral topics. There are reviews of the lives and doings of great men and a concrete setting forth of social and personal virtues. The last part of the book attempts to furnish concrete material for religious instruction. The character of this fourth division of the book can be well illustrated by citing the general title of the section and the titles of certain of the chapters. The general title is The reasoned presentment of religious truths. Under this heading there are chapters on The young student’s need of a reasoned doctrine, God and the world, Man and his destiny, etc.” (El School J)
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“The book is an interesting and typical contribution to the field of endeavor which is at the present time commanding large attention in American institutions. It will undoubtedly be made use of as a reference book by teachers in the field of moral and religious education.”
+ =El School J= 20:716 My ’20 260w
“Generally speaking, the discussion is theoretical and abstract. In but a few cases does it touch problems of everyday life. For the American teacher, it seems to have little of value.”
− + =School R= 28:478 Je ’20 150w
=BRYAS, MADELEINE DE, comtesse, and BRYAS, JACQUELINE DE.= Frenchwoman’s impressions of America. il *$1.75 Century 917.3
20–9734
The comtesse and her sister came to America in 1918 on a lecture tour to speak in behalf of devastated France. While here their services were also enlisted to help in the third Liberty loan drive. They traveled from coast to coast in this double capacity and have here jointly recorded their experiences in characteristically vivacious French style. The book has an introduction by André Tardieu and the contents are: Paris bombarded; No submarines; New York “en guerre”; “Dry” Washington; American hospitality; Speaking for the third Liberty loan; Experiences in factories; Over the top; American generosity; Touring for devastated France; On a mission for the American government; “Proper” America; In the Middle West; St Louis; Our reception at Camp Dodge; No Indians and no cowboys; A dip in Saltair with Mormons; The Pacific coast; San Francisco; Puget Sound; Vers la France.
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+ =Booklist= 17:26 O ’20
=Freeman= 1:358 Je 23 ’20 300w
+ =Lit D= p105 S 18 ’20 1050w
“Their book is vivacious, sprightly, entertaining, incisive, shrewd, full of wit and humor, especially when the authors tell us about things which struck them as being particularly American.”
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 110w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 19 ’20 370w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 60w
=BRYCE, JAMES BRYCE, viscount.=[2] World history. (British academy. Annual Raleigh lecture, 1919) pa *90c Oxford 901
20–15226
“Lord Acton chose the idea of liberty as the central line around which to write a world history. In the present lecture Lord Bryce suggests another and perhaps more profitable clue—the notion of the gradual unification of mankind. This process he briefly traces through the centuries of history, showing how language, conquest, trade, religion and thought have helped to draw together the scattered tribes of primitive humanity into large groups. This process of convergence has, however, been accompanied by a process of divergence, for while individuals have been drawn into groups, the groups have tended to become profoundly separated. Lord Bryce concludes his lecture by a speculative prophecy of the future.”—Ath
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=Ath= p355 Mr 12 ’20 110w
+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 450w
=BRYHER, WINIFRED.= Development; a novel; preface by Amy Lowell. *$2 Macmillan
“‘Development’ is an essay in autobiography, a note-book rather than a novel, the fragmentary jottings of a child’s emotions, a child entirely centred on self and in her recollections deliberately isolating herself from other minds.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The record takes its subject from early childhood, beginning at four years old, through much travel around the Mediterranean, with sensuous absorption of the ‘warm South’; into two years of bleak school life, and a succeeding period of vague seeking after an undefined something that shall be life.” (N Y Evening Post)
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“This book is described as a novel; we should prefer to call it a warning.” K. M.
− =Ath= p144 Jl 30 ’20 840w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:341 Ja ’21 480w
“There is to be another volume called ‘Adventure,’ to follow this one of ‘Development.’ At least it seems quite certain that those of us who have experienced the spell of Nancy’s early days will not be likely to neglect the later volume.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 20 ’20 1200w
=Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 780w
“The chief complaint leveled against Miss Richardson’s sequence is that Miriam Henderson, however faithfully rendered, is not worth writing about. This cannot be said of Nancy. Inarticulate as she is, here is a personality of complicated power.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 25:270 Ja 26 ’21 950w
“It is patently sincere, and the author has an unusual feeling for words, a highly developed color sense, and intensity of feeling. But even here she is hunting not for the inevitable, right word but for the bizarre, the surprising. Nevertheless, the result is often felicitous and is saved from becoming burlesque, though sometimes by a narrow margin.” H. L. Pangborn
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 15 ’21 580w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:561 D 8 ’20 250w
“It has the value that truth and sincerity always give, but as a piece of literature it has more promise than achievement. Out of her experience and toil will some day come a notable, perhaps even a memorable book, but we cannot close the present review without a warning against the danger of too close a pre-occupation with the analysis of one’s own emotions. Breadth, stability, and intellectual strength are not to be found in this book; they can be gained only by the assiduous study of the external world.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:79 Jl 24 ’20 380w
+ =Spec= 125:781 D 11 ’20 460w
“The evident truth of much of what Miss Bryher tells us about Nancy does not save a good deal of ‘Development’ from being simply dull. These experiences set down in this way, are no more than the raw material for art, to be turned into something coherent and beautiful when a maturer experience can use them, when egotism has been touched with a tolerant humour, and people have ceased to be ‘baffling.’ They are notes on the artistic mind before it has left the stage of the grub, and grubs are never very pleasant.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p401 Je 24 ’20 640w
=BUCK, ALBERT HENRY.= Dawn of modern medicine. il *$7 Yale univ. press 610.9
20–15528
“‘The dawn of modern medicine’ gives a concise review of the progress of medical science from the early part of the eighteenth century until about 1860. Among the contents are a discussion of medicine in Germany and other European countries during the eighteenth century, brief biographical sketches of a number of physicians and surgeons who were leaders then, and a somewhat detailed description of workers in special departments of medicine and surgery. Several chapters deal with important European hospitals of that time and other organizations for the teaching of medicine.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Booklist= 17:56 N ’20
“Dr Buck is to be congratulated on his study of the history of medicine in the eighteenth and part of the nineteenth centuries. As a biographical study of the leaders of medicine the book is all too sketchy; in fact, many of these histories have been culled from standard medical histories.” E. P. Boas
+ − =Freeman= 2:283 D 1 ’20 1050w
“A loose and disorderly arrangement greatly lessens the usefulness of this stately volume. It confuses men of the highest importance and men of no importance at all. It presents a chaotic and unintelligible picture of the progress of the medical sciences during the period under review.” H. L. Mencken
− + =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 700w
“The work is of interest as an addition to general medical literature and because of the manner of treatment it will prove interesting and profitable to the ordinary reader.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 210w
=Survey= 45:27 O 2 ’20 130w
=BUCK, CHARLES NEVILLE.= Tempering. il *1.75 (1c) Doubleday
20–5772
A story of the Kentucky mountains spanning the years between the feud-ridden period of the late nineteenth century and the world war. One of Boone Wellver’s kinsmen is convicted for the murder of Goebel, the democratic nominee for governor, and young Boone swears vengeance to the death on the man whose false testimony convicted him. But Boone has already come under the influence of Victor McCalloway, a professional soldier, and McCalloway persuades him to wait till he is twenty-one. Boone is sent to school, falls in love with Anne Masters, learns a new code of manners and morals, but once comes dangerously near a return to his old gods and to keeping his old vow. He goes into politics and when the war comes enlists. He meets Anne, from whom he had been separated, and there is promise of happiness after the war.
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=Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“It is a compliment to Mr Buck’s literary skill that he makes mighty interesting reading of the story of his hero’s symbolical struggle. ‘The tempering’ will not suffer by comparison with any of John Fox’s novels of similar locale.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 550w
=BUCK, HOWARD SWAZEY.= Tempering. *$1 Yale univ. press 811
20–1675
This is the first volume in the Yale series of younger poets. This series “is designed to afford a publishing medium for the work of young men and women who have not yet secured a wide public recognition. It will include only such verse as seems to give the fairest promise for the future of American poetry.” Twelve of the war poems printed as part two were in 1918 awarded the annual prize in poetry offered at Yale university. Other poems are reprinted from the Nation, Contemporary Verse, Poetry Journal, Poetry, the Masses, and the Yale Literary Magazine.
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+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 450w
“A first book of verse wherein jubilant youthfulness, unwearied even in the poems of war experience, marches to gay pipes with a sweeping stride and an idealism unappalled.”
+ =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 30w
“There is such real artistic restraint and such moving sincerity in most of the battle and exile pieces that it is a pity that the poem of the return should border on vulgarity. Mr Buck has obviously not yet quite found himself, but he certainly has the stuff of real poetry in him.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p427 Jl 1 ’20 150w
=BUCK, SOLON JUSTUS.= Agrarian crusade: a chronicle of the farmer in politics. (Chronicles of America) il subs per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 329
20–4901
“The farmer in American politics is the theme treated by Mr Solon J. Buck in ‘The agrarian crusade,’ in which are related the rise and fall of the so-called Granger movement in the West, the greenback propaganda, the Farmers’ alliance, the organization of the Populist party and its surprising success in 1892, the silver issue, and more recently the growth of the Nonpartisan party in North Dakota and other states.”—R of Rs
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Reviewed by E. P. Oberholtzer
=Am Hist R= 26:147 O ’20 600w
“It is obviously a hurried piece of work, well enough written, but with a tendency to triteness and wordiness.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:390 D ’20 500w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 70w
=St Louis= 18:106 Je ’20 20w
=BUCKLE, GEORGE EARLE.= Life of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield. v 5–6 il ea *$6 Macmillan
The author of these two volumes is Monypenny’s successor. The work was extended in order to treat more fully of Disraeli’s management of the eastern question, the most outstanding feature of his administration. This was made possible, says the author, by the Russian revolution. “There can be now no reasons of international delicacy to prevent a full disclosure of Disraeli’s eastern policy.” Contents of volume 5: The Irish church, 1868; Defeat and resignation, 1868; Reserve in opposition, 1868–1871; Lothair, 1869–1870; The turn of the tide, 1872–1873; Bereavement, 1872–1873; Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield, 1873–1875; Power, 1874; Political success and physical failure, 1874; Social reform, 1874–1875; An imperial foreign policy, 1874–1875; Suez canal and royal title, 1875–1876; From the Commons to the Lords, 1876–1877; Appendix—an unfinished novel. Contents of volume 6: Reopening of the eastern question, 1875–1876; The Bulgarian atrocities, 1876; The Constantinople conference, 1876–1877; War and cabinet dissension, 1877; Conditional neutrality, 1877; Derby’s first resignation, 1877–1878; Final parting with Derby, 1878; Agreements with Russia and Turkey, 1878; The Congress of Berlin, 1878; The Afghan war, 1878; The Zulu war, 1879; Beaconsfield and the queen, 1874–1880; Last months of the government, 1879–1880; Dissolution and defeat, 1880; Endymion, 1880; The last year, 1880–1881; The man and his fame; Index to the six volumes.
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+ =Ath= p72 Jl 16 ’20 2000w
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The record is as revealing as anything in range of British biography.”
+ =Lit D= p90 N 20 ’20 1600w
“For, with all respect to the preceding volumes of this monumental biography, none of them, nor all of them together, compare in interest, in the present reviewer’s opinion, with these two. It may be said at the outset that Mr Buckle has done his work well. His narrative is full and free and flowing. It has a nice proportion between his own words and those of his hero, an entertaining alternation between the life and the letters—and not too much of the speeches—of his subject; an agreeable and readable style; a pleasing touch of humour; a sufficiency of anecdote and allusion. It is, in brief, an excellent piece of biographical writing.” W. C. Abbott
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 S 18 ’20 2000w
“If nothing is set down in malice, nothing is withheld through a mistaken sense of loyalty. Disraeli is painted in this full length portrait as he was. His faults and follies are revealed, as well as his amiable and outstanding ability.” Rollo Ogden
+ =N Y Times= p5 S 19 ’20 1900w
“This biography, too large for most American readers, will nevertheless be a necessity in every library, public or private, which aims to possess in completeness any dealing with the history of Europe during the nineteenth century.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 180w
“Undoubtedly one of the most important compilations for the student of nineteenth century English history.”
+ =Pratt= p31 O ’20 30w
Reviewed by R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 330w
“Mr Buckle’s work will stand comparison with Lord Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone,’ and that is the greatest possible praise.” Lindsay Rogers
+ =Review= 3:293 O 6 ’20 2300w
=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 150w
“Mr Buckle has concluded his task, and produced one of the greatest political biographies in the language. For the general reader the work is, of course, too long; and even the student of history might have dispensed with some of the letters and some of the extracts from speeches, which nearly always weary.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:562 Je 19 ’20 1200w
+ =Sat R= 129:587 Je 26 ’20 1750w
“Mr Buckle’s detailed narrative of Disraeli’s handling of the eastern question between 1876 and 1878, which is of course the main feature of his closing volumes, is full of interest and instruction for the present generation. Disraeli’s letters abound in good things, access to which is facilitated by an excellent index.”
+ =Spec= 124:829 Je 19 ’20 1850w
“On the whole, everybody who is not an extreme partisan will recognize the honesty, the lucidity and ability with which Mr Buckle has stated his case.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p373 Je 17 ’20 7000w
=BUCKROSE, J. E., pseud. (MRS ANNIE EDITH [FOSTER] JAMESON).= Young hearts. *$1.90 (1c) Doran
20–11074
Mr Thompson’s moving away from Wressle came as the direct result of his being dropped from the Urban District Council. Shorn of the privileges of public life, he felt that he couldn’t carry on as of yore, and so decided to take up farming in real earnest. He therefore bought a farm in Muckleby and moved his faintly protesting wife and daughters there. Once settled in the little village, he felt that he should use his influence for good, and so undertook to destroy old superstitions and to revive old country customs which were falling into disuse. His schemes for carrying these purposes out are the foundation of the story, although the romances of his daughters Helen and Maude have a large share in it as well.
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“Leisurely, will not be as well liked as some of her others.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“As usual with this author, her quiet manner covers and sustains a warm human interest; the environment is graphically pictured; the characters are drawn with an assured, vitalizing touch. That of the father, an unconscious egoist, is somewhat unduly elaborated, introducing matter that is superfluous, almost extraneous; and there is also an unwonted paucity of what Mrs Buckrose has taught us to expect eagerly, her unique, delightful humor.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:268 N ’20 130w
“Mildly, almost tepidly humorous in its pictures of English country life. The lady who writes under the name of J. E. Buckrose has given us better stories.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 50w
=BUDISH, JACOB M., and SOULE, GEORGE HENRY.= New unionism in the clothing industry. *$3 (4½c) Harcourt 331.87
20–15160
In defining their term “new unionism” the authors give a brief account of the changes that have taken place in unionism both in England and America from as far back as the “one big union” agitation in England in 1830 and point out that the present significant distinction between unions is between those “which are unconscious that their efforts tend toward a new social order and so adapt their strategy to the immediate situation” and those “which are conscious of their desire for a new order, and so base their strategy on more fundamental considerations.” The latter type is best exemplified by the unions of the clothing workers of America which in their breadth of sympathy and vision, their new ideal and new hope throw light both on the aspirations of British labor and on the present flux and unrest in the American labor movement. The book is an account of the struggles and the rise of the unions in the clothing industry. Contents: The new unionism; The clothing industry; The human element; The unions—their beginnings and growth; Decisive victories; Collective agreements; Philosophy, structure, and strategy; Education; Labor press and cooperatives; Textiles; The future; Bibliography, appendix and index.
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=Booklist= 17:50 N ’20
“Although the authors have no doubt tried to be impartial, the book is clearly the product of partisans rather than the work of unbiased observers. No mention is made of any of the short-comings of the newer unions, nor are the difficulties and perplexities of the employer in his contact with them dealt with (except in connection with seasonal idleness). The book is, however, an excellent one; the authors have a thorough knowledge of their subject and a broad outlook over the industrial problem.” A. M. Bing
+ − =Survey= 45:23 O 2 ’20 1200w
“Should find a place in the public library of every city with an industrial population as it undoubtedly points the way which union developments will take in the future.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 80w
=BUELL, RAYMOND LESLIE.= Contemporary French politics. *$3.50 Appleton 944.08
20–20938
The author calls attention to three sterling qualities in the French people which, in the elections of November 1919, steered them, contrary to the predictions of the “storm prophets,” clear of Bolshevism and the extreme socialist left. These qualities are: their attachment to property, their respect for authority, and their civic spirit. In the light of these he interprets the present political situation. The book has an introduction by Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes and the contents are: Party philosophies; Parties and parliament; The “Bloc” and the sacred union; Party realignments; Woman suffrage and the “R. P.”; The 1919 elections; The demand for a new constitution; Syndicalism: program and tactics; The press and the censorship; The bureaucracy and state socialism; A government by interests and experts; Regionalism; What the French peace terms might have been; The French conception of a league of nations; What France thought of American “idealism”; Appendices; Index.
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=Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
“Mr Buell’s book affords the beginning of sound knowledge concerning France because it treats of the larger—that is, the political—aspects of French life with some approach to completeness and without the sentiment that blurs outlines.”
+ =No Am= 213:282 F ’21 950w
=BULLARD, ARTHUR (ALBERT EDWARDS, pseud.).= Russian pendulum: autocracy—democracy—bolshevism. il *$2 Macmillan 947
19–15627
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
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“Though the material is not well organized and the observations not very profound, yet ‘The Russian pendulum’ is one of the very few good books in English on present day Russia.” F. A. Golder
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:356 My ’20 500w
“His suggestions for allied policy in the future are vague, but his detailed account of actual happenings in Russia makes this a very informative book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20
Reviewed by Harold Kellock
=Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w
“He shows himself well disposed, sympathetic, and fair-minded in every way. But he is not remarkable for the amount of his novel information or for comprehension of the forces at work, nor is he very clear-cut in his view of the means by which the desired readjustment is to be brought about. His best chapter is a survey of the mistakes of allied diplomacy in Russia. To his statement of remedies as well as to his other judgments, Mr Bullard is led more by his wishes than the facts.”
+ − =Nation= 110:268 F 28 ’20 420w
“In his own recommendations Mr Bullard is modest; he realizes that the problem is too dynamic for any program hard and fast in its details. But, for all that, Mr Bullard is hazy.” C. M.
+ − =New Repub= 21:361 F 18 ’20 1950w
“Much of it is valuable first-hand material for the student, and some of it, alas, can not be considered as entirely accurate or unbiased. Quite the most valuable feature of the volume is his opening chapter devoted to Lenin. The Siberian part is unworthy of the writer and appears to have been done under pressure to pad out an otherwise admirable book, a pressure which is also indicated by the faulty transliteration of Russian names.”
+ − =Review= 2:207 F 28 ’20 550w
=R of Rs= 61:107 Ja ’20 80w
“‘The Russian pendulum’ does not reveal any understanding of the forces back of the great change in Russia.” Alexander Trachtenberg
− =Socialist R= 8:250 Mr ’20 620w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 D 27 ’19 100w
“This is unquestionably one of the ablest books yet written dealing with revolutionary Russia. Not only in his comment on events, but in his treatment of the more fundamental aspects of the situation, he has, with vigorous and imaginative word, written a highly illuminating book.” Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:47 Ap 3 ’20 580w
=BULLARD, ARTHUR (ALBERT EDWARDS, pseud.).= Stranger. *$2 (2c) Macmillan
20–7920
The story takes the reader into an intellectual circle of lower New York, among social workers, literati and artists—America’s aspirations at their best. Into this circle is injected a Moslem—son of an American missionary couple in Turkey—born and brought up there, a convinced Mohammedan. This leads to comparisons between eastern and western life and religion, not always flattering to our western civilization. Some flaws are detected in the proud and secure foundations of our science and “efficiency.” The finest exponent of the latter and of feminism, Helen Cash, meets her Waterloo in the calm questioning eyes of this stranger. Frank Lockwood, the artist, sees in him the savior of his soul, and to Eunice Bender, the sick girl, he opens up heaven before she dies, through the spirituality of his love.
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=Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“We do not often happen upon so very good a story as this one, from every point of view.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1000w
+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 70w
“In brief, one feels that Mr Bullard, in attempting to be realistic, has achieved only a faithful narrative, based on ideas about which, on the whole, no one would wish to dispute.” L. M. R.
− + =Freeman= 3:286 D 1 ’20 160w
“As a character and a sympathetic intermediary between East and West, Mr Bullard’s ‘Stranger’ is picturesque and charming; as a guide and philosopher he is amiably sentimental and futile.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w
“As Mr Bullard has avoided the rocks of mere Menckenesque satire, so has he steered clear of the equally dangerous shallow pools of sentimentalism. He has not achieved a great book—there are few such in the world—but he has penetrated pretty nearly to the core of some of the counterfeits that time will break. His story is interesting, thoughtful, reasoned, suggestive.” S. C. C.
+ =New Repub= 24:25 S 1 ’20 1000w
“It is an idyll of a rare degree of loveliness, delicate as a flower, but without, one feels quite sure, a flower’s evanescence. Unusual and striking in conception, the book is no less unusual and striking in execution. A really worth-while novel, one which appeals both to the reader’s brains and to his emotions, is this.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1000w
“Both in its originality as to treatment and balance between character interest and suggestion of thought the novel is of substantial value.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 70w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:349 O 20 ’20 600w
“Altogether the special pleading of the book in favour of Morocco versus America should not be too readily believed in by the intelligent reader.”
− =Spec= 125:820 D 18 ’20 50w
“‘The stranger’ is a very appealing and unusual novel in the delicacy and vividness of its portraiture.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 30 ’20 580w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 120w
=BULLER, ARTHUR HENRY REGINALD.= Essays on wheat. il *$2.50 Macmillan 633.1
20–838
“The book contains chapters on: The early history of wheat-growing in Manitoba; Wheat in western Canada; The origin of Red Bobs and Kitchener; The wild wheat of Palestine. But the most important part of the book is the chapter on The discovery and introduction of Marquis wheat, perhaps the most productive variety of wheat in North America. The style is non-technical.” (Booklist) “The author is professor of botany in the University of Manitoba.” (Brooklyn)
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“The book should appeal not only to the student of economic history, and to botanists, but to the general reader who may wish to learn something of the great cereal crops of North America.” I: Lippincott.
+ =Am Econ R= 10:815 D ’20 450w
=Booklist= 16:225 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:99 Mr ’20 40w
“Prof. Buller’s ‘Essays on wheat’ are among the most interesting things we have seen for a long time. He is singularly fortunate in his subject, and he tells his story remarkably well, giving the wealth of detail, the figures, and the references needed by the man of science, without sacrificing interest or literary form.” E. J. Russell
+ =Nature= 105:224 Ap 22 ’20 1000w
+ =Spec= 124:870 Je 26 ’20 450w
“The volume is an excellent and timely addition to works dealing with the resources of North America.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w
=BULLOCK, EDNA DEAN=, comp. Selected articles on the employment of women. (Debaters’ handbook ser.) *$1.25 Wilson, H. W. 331.4
20–4722
A second edition of this handbook, first published in 1911, has been prepared by Julia E. Johnsen. New material has been included covering “the new outlook on the employment of women the rapidly changing phases growing out of women’s large part in war work, the larger opportunities, new and fairer standards of protective legislation,” and the bibliography has been revised and brought down to date.
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=Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 20w
“Valuable in presenting the subject from many angles.”
+ =Booklist= 16:286 My ’20
“Although the articles selected are interesting, well arranged and yield their significance easily to the lay student, they do not give the solid basis of fact which debaters ought to have. They dwell, however, on the most important questions for women workers.” E. K. Wells
+ − =Survey= 45:168 O 30 ’20 260w
=BULMAN, HARRISON FRANCIS.= Coal mining and the coal miner. il *$6 Macmillan 622.3
(Eng ed 20–11528)
“A comprehensive survey of the whole industry as it existed in normal times—the figures and statistics being confined for the most part to the period before the war, ending with 1913—by an experienced colliery manager and director of colliery companies. The book was written before the Coal commission, and Mr Bulman hopes that the normal picture he draws ‘may serve as a useful corrective to some erroneous ideas which have arisen from its proceedings.’ A chapter of seventy-nine pages very fully illustrated with plans and photographs is devoted to ‘Miners’ houses.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 50w
“We cannot say that his book is attractive in form or style, but it is at any rate an honest book and not misleading propaganda.”
+ − =Spec= 124:429 Mr 27 ’20 240w
“For those who are interested in the why of industrial troubles, this
## book can serve as a means of showing the gaps in the thinking of
colliery managers and how they do not comprehend the incoherency of the men who work.” Hugh Archibald
− =Survey= 45:167 O 30 ’20 620w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 90w
“His dispassionate, detailed, documented, and illustrated statement of facts is far more impressive and convincing than mere argument or assertion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w
=BULSTRODE, BEATRIX (MRS EDWARD MANICO GULL).= Tour in Mongolia. il *$5 (8½c) Stokes 915.1
What led this English lady, after an eighteen months’ stay in China, to travel in Mongolia was “the fascination of the unknown, a deep love of the picturesque and inherent desire to revert awhile to the primitive.” Also Mongolia was an opportunity of meeting with medievalism untouched. The trip took place in 1913 while Mongolia was at war with China and the author’s account is particularly instructive in her analysis of Mongol character. An introduction by David Fraser, Times correspondent in Peking, explains the political situation at the time of the tour. The book is indexed and profusely illustrated.
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“She can handle a pen to excellent effect.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p596 S 16 ’20 960w
=BUNAU-VARILLA, PHILIPPE.= Great adventure of Panama. *$1.75 Doubleday 986
20–5904
The object of the book is to show how the Panama canal enterprise was hedged about by criminal conspiracies on the part of Germany, both financially and politically, linking it intimately with the great war. The author claims to expose the mysterious threads of “the always-menacing ‘occult power of Germany’” which have long been visible to himself alone. Among the contents are: The occult power of Germany; The Boche conspiracy in Mexico (1861–63) preparing the provocation of 1870; The Boche conspiracy in France, (1888–92), to wreck the Panama canal, in order to create the depressed state of mind necessary for the premeditated aggression; Various traces of Boche intrigue in Bogota for defeating in 1903 the adoption of the Panama canal by the United States, etc.
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=Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
“The trouble with M. Bunau-Varilla’s method of argument in seeking to prove his contentions is that he considers a mere uncorroborated statement quite sufficient to prove anything that he wishes to prove.” T: R. Ybarra
− + =N Y Times= 25:158 Ap 4 ’20 1100w
“There is perhaps more rhetoric than evidence in certain parts of this narrative; yet it would not be surprising if evidence as yet uncovered should sometime confirm nearly all of the author’s opinions. Few fact stories, it may be said, tell so clearly as does this of M. Bunau-Varilla’s just how things were done and what motives actuated the doers.”
+ − =No Am= 212:285 Ag ’20 900w
=Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 300w
“It is not lightly to be dismissed because of the ebullient egotism with which it is written. The testimony of the chief actor in the drama is worth listening to.”
+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 1000w
=BUNKER, JOHN JOSEPH LEO.= Shining fields and dark towers. *$1.25 Lane 811
19–15769
This is the first volume of a poet from the Middle West who looks down from philosophic heights upon the din of battle, of traffic and travail with a sweet and mellow wisdom and an encompassing faith in a divine love. The contents in part are: Earth-music; The flute-player; To harsh judgment thinking itself wisdom; The splendid stranger; New York sketches; Ballade of faces fair; Love’s intendment; The great refusal; Quest and haven.
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“Though the section entitled ‘New York sketches,’ and the study called ‘Complainte d’amour,’ contain some of the cleverest and most interesting vers libre that the present reviewer has ever seen, Mr Bunker is no disciple of the new school. He is essentially in the great tradition, and it is in the familiar forms, the recognized types of English verse, that he does his most ample and satisfying work.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 50:373 N ’19 850w
“Not always with the same perfection of expression does he sing, but at the same time never does he fail to give, whatever the mood or theme may be, a significance to it that comes from his spiritual manner of approach and understanding. This peculiarly individual quality is as apparent in the four poems of the ‘New York sketches’ with their realistic background and outlines, as in the ‘Quest and haven,’ the memorial poem to Francis Thompson.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 F 7 ’20 1300w
“Mr Bunker has enjoyed and experimented with a wide range of poetry. Not the less for this has he remained captain of his poetic soul. His is a highly personal muse, tender and chastened, yet capable of merriment, with the far vision of the pure in heart. Lyrics such as ‘Revolution,’ ‘To harsh judgment thinking itself wisdom,’ or, in more playful vein, ‘Boons,’ are distinct additions to the sum of modern poetry.”
+ =Cath World= 110:403 D ’19 350w
“Mr Bunker is direct, fluent, enthusiastic, and harmless, with good impulses and ordinary vision.” M. V. D.
− + =Nation= 110:76 Ja 17 ’20 180w
“The book shows much promise, and nearly all of it has the real singing quality, although now and then, as happens sometimes with even the best of poets, either the author’s ear has failed him or his command of the technique of poetical expression has not been up to the mark. But these lapses are rare.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:62 F 1 ’20 360w
“Some day if this writer keeps on and has a real experience in life, he may become a poet. If all his work were as musical as the four stanzas on ‘Twilight’ criticism of his work would even now have to be modified.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ja 25 ’20 260w
“Mr Bunker is said to be ‘a modern of the moderns,’ but we prefer him in the more old-fashioned mood which inspires ‘Twilight’ and some of the other pieces in his book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 180w
=BURGESS, THORNTON WALDO.= Burgess animal book for children. il *$3 (4½c) Little 590
20–21007
A companion volume to the Burgess bird book. In the story Peter Rabbit goes to school to Mother Nature. He learns first about his own cousins, the marsh rabbit, the arctic hare, and others, and then about his friends the squirrels, and so on up through the animal kingdom to the deer, elk, bears and other large mammals. “There has been no attempt to describe or classify sub-species.... The purpose of this
## book is to acquaint the reader with the larger groups—orders,
families, and divisions of the latter, so that typical representatives may readily be recognized and their habits understood.” The pictures are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and there is an index.
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“‘The Burgess animal book’ ought to be given to every child in America as an introduction to the animal life of our continent. And there is not one of those children who won’t like it and absorb an untold amount of information from it.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 420w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 50w
“This book affords further evidence that Mr Burgess is doing a great deal toward making the boys and girls of today a generation of naturalists.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p72 N 21 ’20 170w
=BURGESS, WALTER H.= Pastor of the Pilgrims: a biography of John Robinson. il *$4 Harcourt
20–20311
This study of the life and times of John Robinson is based on original research. “Besides the identification of the early home and the parentage of John Robinson, these pages throw a little fresh light upon the Southworths and Carvers and others connected with the Pilgrim Father movement. Gervase Neville is identified, and the anonymous opponent of Robinson in one of his earliest controversies is named. The history of the obscure church in the western part of England is unfolded, and an attempt made to settle the vexed question of the identity of John Smith.” (Foreword) A partial list of the contents is: The birthplace and parentage of John Robinson; Religion in England in the days of Elizabeth and James; Separation from the Church of England—Robinson and Bernard—Gervase Neville—William Brewster; Religious refugees at Amsterdam; The Pilgrims at Leyden; Robinson’s plea for lay preaching; The sailing—Robinson’s letter of advice—Robert Cushman’s letter—the “Mayflower’s” voyage; The influence of Robinson on the thought and life of his age. There are illustrations, appendices, a chronological table of the writings of John Robinson and an index.
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“The volume shows wide study of the whole literature of contemporary separatism and of its opponents, and may be heartily commended not only as a biography of the Pilgrim pastor, but as a most readable and informing account of the separatist movement of his day not only for the specialist but for the general reader.”
+ =Am Hist R= 26:338 Ja ’21 400w
+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 120w
“Here is brave stuff, no doubt; unhappily nothing organic or even articulate has been made of it. With a little artistic sympathy, with even a touch or two of the quality which marks a man of letters, he might have made the portrait memorable.”
+ − =Review= 3:380 O 27 ’20 460w
“Taken as a whole, the volume is a good example of what can be accomplished, well-directed historical scholarship applied to a definite object.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 100w
“We could wish that the biography was less interrupted by digressions on side-issues, but Mr Burgess’s enthusiasm for his subject is wholly commendable.”
+ − =Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 220w
“It does not treat all phases of the separatist movement with equal thoroughness. It is deficient at times in method and proportion. But it is an earnest, honest work, in which, in spite of the author’s sympathy with Robinson, and a desire to claim for him as large a personal influence as possible little is written with any other object than telling the truth. Its deductions are moderate.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 90w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p432 Jl 8 ’20 1150w
=BURGESS, WARREN RANDOLPH.= Trends of school costs. (Education monographs) il $1 Russell Sage foundation 379
20–17519
“The study is based upon data included in the reports of the United States Commissioner of education, and covers the period from 1870 to 1918. By means of the ‘line of trends’ the writer presents a striking picture of the drift of annual expenditures for public education in the United States during the period noted, comparing this with a similar representation of the growth in pupil attendance. Noting the fact that teachers’ salaries and new buildings absorb four-fifths of all school expenditures for the year 1917–18, an analysis is made of the trends of teachers’ salaries since 1840, the salaries of rural and city teachers, both men and women, being considered separately. Interesting comparisons of these with the lines representing the trends of the cost of living and of the salaries of other workers are presented. Likewise, the tendencies with reference to costs of buildings are similarly shown. A special set of tables and graphs indicates the trends of such costs during the period from 1915–20. From the data presented the writer concludes that ‘to buy the same amount of educational service in 1920 as in 1915 it will be necessary to double the school budget.’ The closing chapter deals with the sources of income for school support.”—School R
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“Aside from the content, the method employed in the study will be of interest to students of education.”
+ =El School J= 21:235 N ’20 250w
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 70w
=School R= 28:710 N ’20 680w
=BURKE, KATHLEEN.= Little heroes of France. il *$1.75 (4c) Doubleday 940.344
20–17608
Twelve stories of deeds of heroism performed by French children during the war. The author was engaged in relief work and some of the children she knew personally. “Others she knew because all France loved and honored them. One of the stories, that of the Denisot children, was found in the diary of a German soldier.” (Introd.) Contents: André Lange and his wheelbarrow; Madeleine and André Daniau; Denise Cartier; Robert Felix; Louise Haumont; Louis and Marcelle Denisot; Baby Pierre; Gustave Daret; René Chautier; Etienne Chevrille; Emile Depres; Henriette Maubert. The book is illustrated by Paul Verrees and has an introduction by Alfred Holman.
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“Heroic, really true and full of action these will prove stirring tales and bring home the horrors of war to all boys and most girls.”
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
=Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 40w
“It is an incredibly stirring, beautiful little book, and it is one that every generous child will love. It is not alone for children, however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 90w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 D 4 ’20 50w
=BURKE, THOMAS.=[2] Song book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. *$1.25 Holt 811
20–22856
A book of poems in free verse viewing life through the oriental eyes of Quong Lee, shopkeeper in Limehouse, London’s Chinatown. Humor and philosophy mingle in the poems. Titles are: Of buying and selling; A nightpiece; Of a national cash register; Under a shining window; A song of little girls; At the feast of lanterns; Of worship and conduct.
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“Occasionally a banality, but light and poignant sentiment in abundance, with here and there a poem that sets vibrating the cords of sensibility.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:551 F ’21 100w
“Mr Burke triumphs so splendidly in these verses, as he did in his prose stories, that he deserves all the praise we can give him.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 22 ’20 1450w
“These vers libre pieces of ‘song’ present the personality of Chinatown, the quaint phrase and the cool temper with a reality which grows more and more vivid as one reads them through.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 N 25 ’20 60w
=BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE.= Tarzan the untamed. il *$1.90 McClurg
20–7515
“This new story tells what happened to Tarzan and his wife and the home he had made in British East Africa when war broke out in 1914 and a small detachment of black soldiers, commanded by German officers, marched past his farm and on to German headquarters. Tarzan was hurrying home from Nairobi, where he had heard of the outbreak of war when this happened, and when he reaches his farm he finds a scene of desolation, no one left alive upon his place. In grief and rage and hate he casts off the veneer of civilization and becomes the ape-man once more, while he ranges the country to find those who have killed his mate and mete to them the justice of the jungle. He finds them, but the result makes only the beginning of the story, which goes swiftly on through many complications.”—N Y Times
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“It runs on for some four hundred pages with no visible trace of style, little or no atmosphere or local color, and about as slim a foundation plot as has graced a novel for many a day.”
− =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 300w
“The story shows the same qualities that have marked the previous Tarzan stories—ingenuity and fertility of invention, combined with those crude and garish features that make the success of a popular moving picture play.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 430w
“Will doubtless thrill the crowd which loves the cinematograph, and cares nothing for common-sense, or coherence, compared with violent sensation and frequent killing.”
− =Sat R= 130:141 Ag 14 ’20 360w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w
=BURROUGHS, JOHN.= Accepting the universe. il *$2 (2c) Houghton 210
20–18062
“A series of sallies, excursions, into the world of semi-philosophical speculation,” the author calls this collection of essays, whose burden is “that this is the best possible world, and these people in it are the best possible people,” that “the universe is good,” and “the heart of nature is sound.” Among the longer essays are: Shall we accept the universe? The universal beneficence; The faith of a naturalist; The price of development; The problem of evil. Then follow two groups of short pieces under the headings: Horizon lines; and Soundings. The poet of the cosmos, in the last essay, is Walt Whitman.
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“The philosophizings will please many not too radical thinkers. Most people will prefer his bits on nature.”
+ =Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
=Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 180w
=Lit D= p101 N 6 ’20 1200w
“He is a naturalist; his vision is as broad as terrestrial time; he leads us over much geological and biological ground to the mind of man. But once confronted with that phenomenon, he is, like many a scientist, evasive; he is reduced to the merest academic platitudes.”
+ − =Nation= 112:89 Ja 19 ’21 840w
“Spirited and eloquent pages.” H. W. Boynton
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 31 ’20 1050w
“There will be many who will take issue with Mr Burroughs’s philosophy of God and nature, good and evil, life and death, but this will not disturb him. He has unquestionably brought the inexorable facts of existence to bear upon theories, creeds and beliefs, and has applied their lesson with unsparing frankness. The result is not in line with so-called orthodoxy, but none the less he has coined into words the unspoken expressions of many hearts.” H: L. West
+ − =N Y Times= p16 O 24 ’20 950w
“His philosophy is a mass of contradictions. Mr Burroughs in accepting the universe drops out from it its most important phenomena.”
− =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 300w
“Of flowers and birds and the simple life Mr Burroughs has something to say, his divagations on the universe leave us doubting. It would in fact be easy to point out a series of shocking inconsistencies into which he has been thrown by his ambitious attempt to combine a wise and wholesome life in nature with a metaphysical theory of natural evolution.”
− + =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 470w
=BURT, KATHARINE (NEWLIN) (MRS MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT).= Hidden Creek. il *$2 (2½c) Houghton
20–15343
When Sheila Arundel’s artist father dies and leaves her penniless, she counts herself fortunate to be befriended by Sylvester Hudson, who has come into her life thru a painting of her father’s he has just bought to decorate his western hotel. He takes her back with him to Millings, but the reception his family give her makes her eager to be independent and in gratitude to Hudson she consents to become a bar maid in his saloon. The only member of his family who treats her with respect is Dickie, the despised half-drunken son, in whom she discovers a soul akin to her own poetic nature. Her success in the saloon brings her popularity of a kind, but one particularly trying day, culminating in a brutal insult from her employer, determines her to get away and she seeks refuge with Miss Blake, a recluse living on Hidden Creek alone with her dogs and her peculiarities. From the horror that this experience brings, Cosme Hilliard, a hot-blooded young half-Spaniard, rescues her, and for a time it seems that he is to be her hero, but Dickie, whose character has been developing along with hers, altho in a different way, at length comes into his own.
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“‘Hidden Creek’ follows no beaten path; its plot is skillfully developed and the story is told with realism and with a sparkling wit.”
+ =N Y Times= p30 S 12 ’20 200w
“Will be welcomed by the reader with fondness for romance staged apart from the trodden paths of every day life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 200w
=BURT, KATHARINE (NEWLIN) (MRS MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT).= Red lady. *$1.75 (3c) Houghton
20–6709
A unique feature of this mystery story is that its principal characters, including both hero and villain, are women. Men play secondary parts. Three housekeepers have fled from the Pines when Janice Gale accepts the position. Her first intimation of something wrong comes with the signs of terror exhibited by her mistress’s young son at sight of her red hair. Then there are indications that the house is haunted. The child Robbie is frightened into convulsions and dies with a strand of red hair in his fingers. Janice next comes face to face with the ghost and finds her the counterpart of herself. Convinced that this is a real woman she sets herself to trace the mystery, braves great dangers, all but loses her life, escapes and wins the love of the young detective who has been regarding her as a criminal.
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“An exceptionally fine specimen, American in origin, of that popular genus colloquially known as the ‘shocker.’”
+ =Ath= p867 D 24 ’20 80w
“The mystery of it all is hard to penetrate but Mrs Burt at last finds a way out of the strange tangle and altogether writes a very good and very unusual story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 200w
“This story would be more attractive if the author were to make, say, her present ninth chapter her first. She could condense in that one chapter about all she has told us in the eight preceding and would thus spare the reader much boredom. And yet, considering how good are the final chapters, there is reason to believe that we have in Mrs Burt one of the well worth while writers of real mystery stories of the immediate future.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 650w
=BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS.= Songs and portraits. *$1.50 Scribner 811
20–8428
“A nature modestly reflective as well as emotionally alert is revealed in ‘Songs and portraits’ by Maxwell Struthers Burt. The poems reminiscent of the dead, in form and spirit not unlike those of Rupert Brooke, express the belief that ‘the dead know all.’ In ‘Fishing’ and ‘Marchen’ this Princeton poet paints gay and naive little small-boy pictures. He reasons rather bitterly against frantic fanatics and pudgy-fingered plutocrats.”—Springf’d Republican
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+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“Mr Burt’s ear and his learning are much indebted to Rupert Brooke—but it is a sorrowful thing to see anyone assume so easily all the palpable qualities of another. There are the same studied irrelevancies, the same feminine endings, the same delight in names. Mr Burt has imitated most of the many things we would like to forget in Rupert Brooke, including his glorification of war and death.” G. T.
− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 250w
“When at last he shall speak thoughts all his own, it is hoped that he will not have lost his really very lovely gift of expression, his round, elegant, springtime pregnancy and shapeliness of phrase.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w
“Although many of the poems seem unfinished, as if their maker had had the right poetic impulse but scant leisure, nevertheless there is a warmth and naturalness of utterance In all of them that will rejoice the hearts of those who are weary of strident or vapid artificialities.” Margaret Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 370w
“Mr Burt’s ‘Songs and portraits’ has real delicacies of a kind neither very usual nor very extraordinary. There are phrases of drooping grace; there are straying, sinuous rhythms; there is a desultory and hovering tenderness. Mr Burt’s very picturesqueness is rather mellow than picturesque.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 160w
=BURTON, ALEXANDER.= Public speaking made easy. (Made easy ser.) $1.25 (3c) Clode, E. J. 808.5
20–16872
In the introduction the author calls attention to the present-day tendency in the art of oratory which distinguishes it from the oratory of the past. “This is the cultivation of simplicity in form as opposed to that ornateness of phraseology which has been so characteristic of the most esteemed public utterances in former times.” The chapters following the Introduction are: Breathing; Pronunciation; The voice; Accessories of the voice; Direct training; Preparing a speech; The deeper training; Beecher’s Liverpool address; Lincoln’s oratory; A southern orator; The American system; Conclusion.
=BURTON, THEODORE ELIJAH.= Modern political tendencies and the effect of the war thereon. (Stafford Little lectures for 1919) *$1.25 Princeton univ. press 320.1
19–25948
“The president of the Merchants national bank of New York, former United States senator from Ohio, sees four dominant phases in the changing ideas of peoples and governments: the relation of governments to the governed; the relation of the governed each to the other; the relation of the central government to its constituent parts; and international relations.”—Booklist
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=Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 650w
“‘Modern political tendencies’ by Theodore E. Burton possibly sets the Stafford Little lectures at a higher level of open-mindedness than was reached by such earlier contributors as Grover Cleveland and Elihu Root; in fact it is marked by that tone of restrained liberalism which is coming to be a mark of our more important bank presidents, to the great amazement and confusion, no doubt, of their editorial satellites.”
+ =Dial= 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w
=BURY, GEORGE WYMAN.= Pan-Islam. *$2.25 Macmillan 297
20–5812
“‘“Pan-Islam” is an elementary handbook,’ explains the author, ‘not a text-book, still less an exhaustive treatise.’ It is a study of the Pan-Islamic problem on the political, social, religious, and many other sides, by one who served in the Hedjaz and Arabia during the war, but has also had a quarter of a century’s experience of Mohammedan countries and peoples. As a rule he abstains from political criticism.”—Ath
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“His remarks on aggressive missionary enterprise are sensible and illustrated by plenty of facts.”
+ =Ath= p61 Ja 9 ’20 80w
“The book is well written and full of interesting and valuable information. The long experience of the author and his manifest fairness make his opinions of more than ordinary importance.”
+ =Bib World= 54:429 Jl ’20 230w
+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
“The Carnegie peace commission should send the last chapter, A plea for tolerance, to every missionary organization.”
+ =Dial= 68:668 My ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 124:18 Ja 3 ’20 1250w
“He writes in a progressive spirit and very sympathetically toward the Moslem world. It is far better that his sentiments were expressed by an Englishman than by an American. The last chapter, a plea for toleration, is really a most admirable piece of writing.” I. C. Hannah
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p770 D 18 ’19 60w
“Mr Bury presents a fairly impartial view of Christian missions in the Near East, with their effect on Islam. It is a problem which he has studied at first hand, and he is studiously careful to express his views courteously. He is best when he is away from religious discussion, describing the Arab and the Turk as he knows them. Altogether Mr Bury’s book contains much that is entertaining; and although he has chosen too resonant a title for what might more reasonably be called essays, his expressed opinions are sensible and his matter readable.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p776 D 25 ’19 1000w
=BURY, JOHN BAGNELL.= Idea of progress. *$5.50 Macmillan 901
20–9233
“Prof. J. B. Bury’s new work is ‘The idea of progress: an inquiry into its origin and growth.’ The theme is developed under such chapter headings as: Some interpretations of universal history: Bodin and Leroy; Utility the end of knowledge: Bacon; The progress of knowledge: Fontenelle; The general progress of man: Abbe de Saint-Pierre; New conceptions of history: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot; The French revolution: Condorcet; The theory of progress in England; German speculation on progress; The search for a law of progress: Saint-Simon and Comte; and Progress in the light of evolution.”—Springf’d Republican
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“This is just the chief merit of Professor Bury’s book, that it discriminates with fine precision between what is essential to the modern conception of progress and what only superficially resembles it. His exposition of the significance of the idea of progress in the history of European civilization is so lucid that it leaves nothing to be desired.” Carl Becker
+ =Am Hist R= 26:77 O ’20 800w
=Ath= p791 Je 18 ’20 630w
“It is hardly necessary to say that the author carries out the historical inquiry with great width of learning and with a scrupulous desire to make a reasonable case even for those writers whose presentation has its weak or even its ridiculous points. His remarks are eminently judicious wherever they can be tested.” P. V. M. Benecke
+ − |=Eng Hist R= 35:581 O ’20 1650w
“An exceedingly clear and interesting account of the origin and growth of the idea of progress.” S. B. Fay
+ |=Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 520w
“Professor Bury’s work in clarity, accuracy, and fairness attains the high standard set by his previous historical volumes.”
+ =Spec= 124:795 Je 12 ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 17 ’20 90w
“It is a work of profound scholarship, sedate in tone and rational in spirit. It is unfortunate that Professor Bury did not carry his study beyond his self-imposed limitation which ended it with the time when progress became a current creed.” A. J. Todd
+ =Survey= 45:322 N 27 ’20 730w
“A sound piece of pioneer work, with its merits and limitations. Only his knowledge of the subject and its intrinsic interest have saved his book from falling into the class of those which are less often read than consulted. Professor Bury has condensed the results of his work with remarkable ease and brevity and always with fairness.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p357 Je 10 ’20 1700w
=BUSH, COLEMAN HALL.= Applied business law. *$1.28 Holt 347.7
20–5200
As the ordinary empirical methods of acquiring the essentials of business law and practice are “entirely too slow ... the purpose of this book is to eliminate the long term of apprenticeship, to give a wide range of experience to all who seek it, by presenting material, both law and facts, for application in constructive work.” (Statement of purpose) The book is in two parts: 1, Fundamental principles: Essentials of contracts; Agency; Service; Deposits, loans, and hiring of things; Carriage; Sales of goods; Partnership; Insurance; Negotiable paper; Real property; Business corporations. 2, How to write business papers: Simple contracts; Articles of agreement; Negotiable contracts; Contracts concerning land; Miscellaneous forms; Index.
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=School R= 28:476 Je ’20 250w
=BUTCHER, ALICE MARY (BRANDRETH) lady.= Memories of George Meredith. il *$1.60 (6c) Scribner
(Eng ed 20–6151)
This book of reminiscences begins delightfully, when the author was a girl of thirteen, with pebbles tossed against a bedroom window and an invitation to walk to the top of Box Hill to see the sun rise. It continues in the same vein of intimate, personal reminiscence to the day of Meredith’s death. There are pleasant glimpses of Shakespeare readings, of picnics, of Meredith’s family life, and of his friendships with young people, with quotations from letters and conversations.
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“Her reminiscences have a girlish naïveté which is far from unattractive. Her anecdotes and some of the letters he wrote to her and his whimsical and witty talk help to fill out pleasantly our mental portrait of Meredith.”
+ =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 100w
“She is to be congratulated on her heroic self-restraint. We enjoy here, we are made to feel, the cream of several volumes.” J. J. Daly
+ − =Bookm= 51:351 My ’20 820w
“Many details of Meredith’s family life are given by Lady Butcher in a wholly informal and fragmentary manner. Her style is frequently cloudy and repetitious, and she often spoils a good story by her clumsy way of telling it.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 1250w
=Cleveland= p51 My ’20 80w
“After reading Lady Butcher one needs to draw back a little with half-closed eyes to fit the various fragments together; but in a moment or two it will be seen that they merge quite rightly into the figure of the great man.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p765 D 18 ’19 900w
=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= How it feels to be fifty. *75c (18c) Houghton 814
20–8224
A genial essay reprinted from the American Magazine of December, 1919. Its substance is summed up in the concluding paragraph: “At twenty my life was a feverish adventure, at thirty it was a problem, at forty it was a labor, at fifty it is a joyful journey well begun.”
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+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 480w
=BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.= Swatty; a story of real boys. il *$1.90 (2c) Houghton
20–5587
Mr Butler goes back to his own boyhood for these stories. They are stories of boy life on the banks of the Mississippi and the book opens with a tale of the mighty river on one of its spring rampages. Swatty, Bony and George are “real boys” of the Huck Finn and Plupy Shute type. Altho the episodes are loosely woven together to make a continuous narrative, many of them are in effect short stories and some have been published as such in the American Magazine. Among the titles are: The big river; Mamie’s father; Scratch-cat; The haunted house; The red avengers; The ice goes out.
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“Better if read in parts, a few adventures at a time.”
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“Were it not for a lamentable lapse into sentimentality out of keeping with the rest of the book, ‘Swatty’ would be a worthy successor [to Huck Finn]. A boy like George would never in this wide world possess a grandmother addressed as ‘Ladylove,’ and if he did, he would be cut into small pieces before he would use so soft an appellation.” G. M. Purcell
+ − =Bookm= 51:473 Je ’20 470w
“Although the situations are somewhat hackneyed, the author has the knack of seeing things from a boy’s point of view and expressing them in a boy’s language.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 60w
“The humor of the book is broad and obvious rather than whimsical, but Mr Butler’s admirers will probably enjoy it.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:253 My 16 ’20 380w
“There will doubtless be a stampede for ‘Swatty’ in the children’s room of many a public library, altho Ellis Parker Butler in his subtitle does not commit himself as to whether this is a story for real boys, or merely about them. There is a choice morsel, for the girls, too, in the incident of the tailor’s fashion sheet.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:1001 Mr 20 ’20 140w
=BUTLER, SIR GEOFFREY GILBERT.= Handbook to the league of nations; with an introd. by Robert Cecil. *$1.75 Longmans 341.1
20–5652
“Sir Geoffrey has presented in skeleton outline the development of the league idea from the day of Grotius to the framing of the Paris covenant, passing over rapidly its earlier history and laying stress on the attempts at international organization represented by the Holy alliance and the Hague conferences. He has throughout emphasized the fact that on a concert and not on a balance of the Powers rested the best hope of realization of the ideals of the statesmen and thinkers who strove for the elimination of war, and he bases his faith in the efficacy of the newly formed league on its conformity to that principle. In addition to general discussion of the provisions of the covenant, Sir Geoffrey has added the text of the document with commentary upon its specific features.”—N Y Evening Post
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Reviewed by J. R. Towse
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 200w
=Spec= 124:215 F 14 ’20 50w
“Sir Geoffrey Butler’s book is of modest scope and plan, but it provides what has until now been lacking—a sober and succinct statement of historic process which we date from Grotius, and of which the covenant is but the latest phase.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 D 25 ’19 240w
=BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY.= Is America worth saving? *$2 (3c) Scribner 304
20–5743
These addresses on national problems and party policies have for their common theme the exposition and interpretation of the fundamental principles upon which the American government and American civil society is built. The real difficulty in solving all our present day problems by the light of these fundamental principles, the author claims, lies in their extreme simplicity. He looks upon socialism and similar movements as subversive of these principles, as the real enemies of the people, and as entirely destructive, and places his faith upon a “stalwart and patriotic Americanism.” Among the contents are: Is America worth saving? A programme of constructive progress; The real labor problem; A league of nations; Elihu Root, statesman; Problems of peace and after-peace; The making of a written constitution; Theodore Roosevelt, American; Faith and the war; Is American higher education improving? The colleges and the nation; Index.
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Reviewed by Everett Kimball
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:512 Ag ’20 490w
=Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
“Failing entirely to understand the play of actual economic forces in the production and distribution of income, it is natural that Dr Butler should conclude that strikes and industrial wars are simply the result of an ignorance of the true and complete harmony of interests between capital and labor. Dr Butler pleads for ‘cooperative individualism into a moral purpose.’ But we cannot help feeling that he has not got any intelligible grip upon this moral purpose, and therefore shows a feeble hold upon the very principle of individual liberty whose championship he assumes.” O. O.
− =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 1350w
“There are no compromises of principles in this book, and the author makes no concessions to those demands made through the cries of the herd. To all Americans who need a mental tonic today, and to all who feel that their confidence in law and the application of law to life needs strengthening, and to all who believe that this republic is not to drift at the mercy of every wind of doctrine, this very seminal volume belongs of right.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:203 Ap 25 ’20 3450w
+ =R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w
“Read aright, the book is a masterly and no doubt timely defence of American institutions and the principles underlying them.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p363 Je 10 ’20 1150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 40w
=BUXTON, NOEL EDWARD, and LEESE, C. LEONARD.= Balkan problems and European peace. *$1.75 Scribner 949.6
19–19084
“This book on Balkan political problems falls into three parts: (1) a history of pre-war European politics in the Balkans; (2) the policies pursued during the war by the Entente and Allied powers, with
## particular reference to Bulgaria; and (3) the probable future of the
Balkans.”—Ath
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Reviewed by Ferdinand Schevill
+ =Am Hist R= 25:747 Jl ’20 360w
“Clear and interesting little book. It displays considerable knowledge and the matter is well arranged.”
+ =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 60w
Reviewed by B. U. Burke
=Nation= 111:218 Ag 21 ’20 750w
=N Y Times= p19 O 10 ’20 70w
“Its value depends on the light it sheds on Bulgarian aspirations rather than on any impartial discussion of new material.” H. F. Armstrong
+ − =Review= 2:395 Ap 17 ’20 1200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 160w
=BYNNER, WITTER (EMANUEL MORGAN, pseud.).= Canticle of Pan and other poems. *$2 Knopf 811
20–9070
Among the poems of this book are the Canticle of praise, written in celebration of the ending of the war and presented at the Greek theater in Berkeley, California, in December, 1918, and the Canticle of Pan, delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa poem at the University of California in June, 1917, and the Canticle of Bacchus, also presented in California. Among the shorter poems are a number of translations from the Chinese. Titles of others are: Youth sings to the sea; The wild star; Vintage; Gipsying; Pittsburgh; A song in the grass; The swimmer; The desert; On leaving California; Away from California; Rain; Night; News of a soldier.
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=Booklist= 17:60 N ’20
“Witter Bynner, in his ‘A canticle of Pan,’ is more of a ventriloquist than a poet. He speaks in too many voices, and on too wide a range of topics to have achieved mastery in any manner or distinction in any style. Mr Bynner’s volume is singularly unauthentic: it is an anthology of imitations (none of them particularly effective) of most of the known manners of prosody.” R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:62 S ’20 700w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 12 ’19 500w
“In these canticles Mr Bynner has evolved a medium admirably suited for community expression, dealing with the large events of the world. In a sense these are experimental, and Mr Bynner, while giving them a certain poetic merit, has not made them distill his finest poetic spirit. His lyric note is, at its best, one of the purest among present-day poets.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 1150w
“What one has here in the end is Bynner, the man, rather than Bynner, the poet. He is a delightful man, clever and keen and kind. But he is too full of his message to be truly moving.” E. P.
+ − =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 120w
“Witter Bynner forfeits our respect at the outset by writing a canticle wherein he imagines Pan and the Christ child as friends; he continues to forfeit it by a vein of breezy, Vachel Lindsay-Stephen Graham optimism that runs through his book.” J: G. Fletcher
− =Freeman= 1:476 Jl 28 ’20 230w
“These canticles as well as some of the less ambitious poems are marred by an ethical idealism that is too self-conscious. Pan and Bacchus especially must not moralize. Their magic is their waywardness. The best poems in the book are the slighter ones, including the bits of translation from the Chinese, Japanese and Russian and the original poems in their spirit.” C. M. S.
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:283 N ’20 300w
+ =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 110w
“Mr Bynner’s latest volume proves, among other things, that there are limits beyond which Mr Bynner cannot be said to gain by experimentation. Not that he has a still, small voice; not that he is a little poet; but he is most himself and most happy when he is working in established, or at least in well knit, rhythms and moods. His publisher has produced him in a form that does both American poetry and American publishing handsome credit.” M. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 230w
“Witter Bynner’s new volume, ‘A canticle of Pan’ leaves one disturbed and aggrieved. He is undeniably such a really talented poet that one wonders why so much of his book leaps out of the mind much faster than it leaps in. It is apparent that the community masque idea is not a happy choice for Mr Bynner. It is in the shorter pieces in this book that Mr Bynner is at his best.” H. S. Gorman
+ − =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 450w
“A rather poorly balanced miscellany of poems. The volume is by no means representative of Mr Bynner’s excellence as a lyric poet. In comparatively few pieces in the present collection does he approach his highest standard of workmanship. A number of them are trivial in conception and detract substantially from the merit of the others.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 430w
=BYRNE, DONN.= Foolish matrons. *$1.90 (2c) Harper
20–18252
The heroines of the story are four: one wise and three foolish. The wise one was a great actress who married the big uncouth surgeon whom she loved, gave up her career and became his guardian angel and mother of his children. Georgia, pretty and frivolous, craved the excitement of gay New York. Married she was a vampire and finally drifted to the underworld. Sheila, the college graduate and newspaper woman, clever and heartless, dreamt of a career, married a poet for the glamor of it and drove him to drink with her coldness. Sappho, the model, frankly married for money, and posed as patroness of amateur artists. She became ashamed of her plain millionaire husband and thought to do better for herself but lost in the game.
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“There is enough material in ‘The foolish matrons’ for four novels; any one of the biographies which are told simultaneously would have made a book by itself—a book representing with true artistry a segment of life.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 600w
“The tale has vivid elements: it is overdrawn, but possesses dramatic intensity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 150w
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=CABELL, JAMES BRANCH.=[2] Domnei; a comedy of woman-worship. *$2 McBride
20–20192
A revised edition of “The soul of Melicent,” published in 1913, with a new introduction by Joseph Hergesheimer. For note on the story see Annual for 1914.
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“Cabell has won indisputably the position of being one of our few distinguished men of letters. He is not for every reader, but one can scarcely picture his desiring this doubtful honor. He writes for his own discriminating audience, and for them he cannot write enough. He creates a taste which it is difficult to satisfy with lesser delights. ‘Domnei’ carries a significance and an atmosphere of its own.” D. L. Mann
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 8 ’21 1100w
“It is a subtle story, but not a convincing story.... And ‘Domnei’ is an entertaining story—a story to be read at one sitting—with colour and marvel and high-sounding words. It has the outline of a narrative poem, and I, for one, feel that it is a pity that Mr Cabell did not turn his prose into verse.” Padraic Colum
+ − =Freeman= 2:404 Ja 5 ’21 650w
“The thing that makes ‘Domnei’ stand out above most fables of chivalrous romance is not the clear and sympathetic character portrayal, nor the flowing, beautiful English, nor is it the great wealth of mediaeval lore, which Mr Cabell undoubtedly possesses to an exceptional degree. The greatness of ‘Domnei’ lies in the fact that every detail, historical, narrative, or constructive, falls into place with consummate art, bringing to us of these later and hurried days a spiritual interpretation of the knight’s quest for divine beauty.” H. W. M.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 400w
=CABOT, WILLIAM BROOKS.=[2] Labrador. il *$3 Small 971.9
“‘Labrador’ is an account of half a dozen expeditions into the interior of that country which the author has made since 1904. From it the reader obtains an impression of what life is like in that elemental land, barren and sentineled off its coast by age-old icebergs. The country is one of the oldest primal faces of the globe, and Mr Cabot believes it may have been the cradle of the human race. Its only products are fur and fish, and, as the fur is failing, Labrador will doubtless remain a little-known land. ‘Over this great territory,’ writes the author, ‘the people still wander at will, knowing no alien restraint, no law but their own. The unwritten code of the lodge and open, the ancient beliefs still prevail.”—N Y Times
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“The lovers of nature study and of travel and adventure will find much of interest in this carefully written book. Mr Cabot writes with enthusiasm as well as with rare intelligence.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 540w
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 2 ’21 280w
=CADMUS and HARMONIA, pseuds.= Island of sheep. *$1.50 (5c) Houghton
20–7649
In an English country house, on the eve of a house party, the host and hostess are much distressed about the future. The party is about equally composed of optimists and pessimists and they are all more or less liberal. It consists of the minister of the parish, a highland landowner, a labor ex-member of Parliament, the wife of a former Liberal minister, a progressive journalist and his wife, an American woman resident in England, a lady given to good works, a conservative, a liberal lawyer, a grenadier of the guards; a lieutenant of the United States army, a labor leader, an imperialist, a French general, a coalition member of parliament, an American politician and a captain of industry. They discuss the future and reconstruction from all points of view, of which the most satisfactory in the end seems to be that of the ex-labor member of Parliament. It at least moves the minister to relate the old saga of Balder, the life-giver, and his expected return to earth after the twilight of Walhalla has made an end to the old gods.
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“The quickness of the argument, the mental agility of some of the talkers and the interesting character touches give a delightful lightness to this presentation of serious problems.”
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“Rolls the present world unrest up into a cheerful and conservative package, with the strings tied a bit too neatly.”
− =Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 70w
“As a matter of fact, characterization is the authors’ weakest point. Their style is too fluent, too uniform. Opinions are well contrasted, but the individualities of the speakers are lost in the monotony, in the rhythm and vocabulary of their utterance.” R. F. A. H.
+ − =New Repub= 24:222 O 27 ’20 700w
“It is rather hard for an American to account for the admiration which the book is said to have won in England. There is not, as a rule, anything particularly novel in the content or exceptionally striking in the form.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 430w
“When the reader finishes it, he may be inclined to think first, that although done by a master hand, it is a rather slight contribution to the great post-war discussion. But the more he thinks about it the more the reader begins to perceive that ‘The island of sheep’ is a microcosm of the present mental and physical state of the world, certainly of the English-speaking world.”
+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 900w
“The reader will thank us for letting him discover for himself the rare charm of this book. Passion is excluded, though there is plenty of idealism, and an abundance of hard, shrewd wit. National characteristics are exceedingly well portrayed. There is here a fineness akin to a forgotten art.”
+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 1250w
“Most of our readers, faced with this list [of characters] in the abstract, will be inclined to turn from the book with a ‘Lord ‘a mercy!’ or ‘Heaven save us!’ If they do they will be quite wrong, for, in spite of the soundness of the argument, the book is a light one, and full of very pleasant relief, which we must not call comic, but which has the same effect as the old stage artifice.”
+ =Spec= 123:616 N 8 ’19 2200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 29 ’20 280w
=CAINE, WILLIAM.= Strangeness of Noel Carton. *$2 (3c) Putnam
20–11497
This is not exactly a story within a story but rather two stories so interwoven and fused that in the end they are not distinguishable apart. They are both written in the first person by Noel Carton and one is his journal and the other the novel he writes because his wife has said he couldn’t do it. This wife he hates for her crudity and smallness, altho he has sold himself to her for the home and comforts she gives him. In his novel he unconsciously portrays himself and his wife Josephine as his main characters, Nigel and Jocelyn. As he becomes absorbed in his plot, and as he takes more and more powerful drugs in his fight against insomnia, it is increasingly difficult for him to distinguish between the real of his life and the unreal of his fancy. The climax comes when his hallucinations give way to madness, and the tragedy of his novel is carried out in real life.
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“The fastidious reader will be inclined to put this volume aside after the first few pages, but if he can persevere he may very quickly realize that the vulgarity of the author’s manner is deliberate, and very effective and moving. It is paying a great compliment to Mr Caine to say that no one who does not read this remarkably plausible tale from cover to cover could believe it.”
+ =Ath= p846 Je 25 ’20 180w
“In a unique combination of diary and straight novelistic construction, Mr Caine has done something for the novel which one Reizenstein once did for the stage in ‘On trial’—he has found a new form.”
+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 220w
=Lit D= p92 O 9 ’20 2800w
“The book is original and exceedingly well done.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 200w
“From the moment you meet Noel Carton, his wife, and his situation you are deeply interested in all three. You don’t like him nor yet his wife, but he is a vivid, actual creature, and he makes every one, perhaps we might better say everything, he touches, vivid and compelling.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 5 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 100w
“Not every reader is likely to enjoy this grim mixture of realism and fantasy, but it is impossible to deny the power with which it is written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p353 Je 3 ’20 180w
=CALDWELL, WALLACE EVERETT.= Hellenic conceptions of peace. pa *$1.25 Longmans 172.4
19–18236
“An historical study of the subject, beginning with the epic age and coming down to the fourth century B.C. Issued as one of the Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law.” (Brooklyn) “What Mr Caldwell has done is to restate what the Greek poets, historians, orators, and political leaders have said and written about the desirability of peace. For that was their theme, that peace was desirable and war was destructive. He has also traced for us, in the tumultuous course of Greek history, the attempts to preserve the peace and the causes of their failure.” (Nation)
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“This is an interesting study written by a man well grounded in Greek history. Our main criticism is that Dr Caldwell has not kept his aim steadily enough in view. In fact, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that there has been a certain shifting of aim as the work proceeds. The concluding chapter is the most valuable part of the book.” W. S. Ferguson
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:313 Ja ’20 450w
=Brooklyn= 12:60 Ja ’20 30w
“There is much in Dr Caldwell’s record that has special pertinency to these times.”
+ =Nation= 109:804 D 20 ’19 250w
“Certain problems appear very modern especially the conflict of Athens and Sparta regarding the implications of ‘freedom,’ and the inability of Greece to form a permanent league of free states, in spite of religious and commercial incentives to unity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 5 ’19 180w
=CALKINS, RAYMOND, and PEABODY, FRANCIS GREENWOOD.= Substitutes for the saloon. *$1.75 Houghton 178
20–1362
“To the study which he made for the famous Committee of fifty twenty years ago and which has been the standard volume on the subject during that entire period, Dr Calkins now adds a new introduction and a series of appendices supplementing carefully chosen points in a way to bring the whole discussion of the saloon substitute up to date and to make of the volume a handbook for those who wish to engage in this form of social service and to learn something of the body of experience which has been built up for a half century. The book is
## particularly illuminating in setting up the workingmen’s club or
whatever one cares to call it, against the perspective of neighborhood, class, race, religion, politics, age, habits and other factors which condition its success or involve its failure. In the long run, it seems clear, the ‘substitute’ must be almost purely democratic or else commercial in management, and it must be of spontaneous growth or at any rate seem to be.”—Survey
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“Interesting to leaders of men and boys of the working class.”
+ =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Ap 10 ’20 300w
=Survey= 43:471 Ja 24 ’20 650w
=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Dardanelles. *$5 (3½c) Houghton 940.42
20–4693
The book belongs to the Campaigns and their lessons series. The author considers the contest in the Dardanelles as a campaign by itself which was affected by events elsewhere only in so far as these diverted much needed military and naval resources. The work is designed to be a study of certain phases of the campaign rather than a formal record of its course, many of the problems discussed admitting of considerable diversity of opinion. Thus the naval attempt to force the Straits without military aid, the famous landing on the shores of the Gallipoli peninsula on the 25th of April, and the successful evacuation of the sea-girt patch of Turkish territory are discussed at length, but some of the principal combats are dismissed briefly because their story suggests no special lessons.
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“The book needs an index.”
+ − =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 90w
+ =Booklist= 16:287 My ’20
“It cannot fail to be of the utmost value, as a document of the war, which will increase in value as the years pass.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 18 ’20 750w
“The story is told with the accuracy and straightforward impartiality that might be expected. After the accounts of each main event, whether success or failure, General Callwell adds a passage of ‘Comment,’ criticizing that action and pointing out where the causes of success or failure lay. To all military students and to all who, like myself, are intimately acquainted with the campaign, these comments will naturally be the most valuable and interesting parts of the volume.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:648 F 7 ’20 1100w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 100w
“General Callwell’s valuable study of the Dardanelles campaign, from a military standpoint, appears opportunely as the complement of the Dardanelles commission’s report on the conduct of the operations.”
+ =Spec= 123:729 N 29 ’19 1400w
“This is an excellent addition to the ‘Campaigns and their lessons’ series. The one criticism that we have to make of it is the inadequacy of the maps. There are certain phases of the campaign, notably the attacks at Anzac and Suvla in August, 1915, which it is impossible to follow clearly without large and clear maps.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p724 D 11 ’19 850w
=CALLWELL, SIR CHARLES EDWARD.= Life of Sir Stanley Maude, lieutenant-general. il *$6 Houghton
(Eng ed 20–14053)
“This official biography of the conqueror of Bagdad, who died during the fourth year of the war, was written by the British Director of military operations at the War office. General Maude was one of the small group of commanders brought to the front by the war who appealed to the popular imagination. Fortunately, his biographer is one of the leading military writers of our time. The book is inspiring, not merely as the life of a great soldier, but as a contribution to our knowledge of British military operations in Mesopotamia.” R of Rs
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“As clear and sympathetic an account as any friend of General Maude’s could desire.” O. W.
+ =Ath= p239 Ag 20 ’20 680w
=Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1350w
+ =R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 90w
“There is not too much Maude in the book, nor is there too much collateral history, just a happy combination of the two, an achievement which is by no means common in memoirs!”
+ =Sat R= 130:279 O 2 ’20 1000w
“Sir Charles Callwell is particularly to be congratulated on the justice and candour with which he has written this book. Eulogy at points where eulogy is undeserved is an offence in biography. It is misleading; it deprives the reader of the opportunities of learning the lessons which he might have learned from the truth; and in the last analysis it is unfair to the subject of the biography himself. Sir Charles Callwell, while making clear his intense admiration of Maude, succeeds in giving point to that admiration by admitting that Maude was not without his intellectual faults as a soldier.”
+ =Spec= 125:209 Ag 14 ’20 1550w
“In spite of the attraction of his subject the biography is to be read once and no more. One hesitates to think that General Callwell has missed the secret of Maude’s greatness. One searches the book in vain for a generalization, a fruitful idea.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p485 Jl 29 ’20 1200w
=CAMERON, CHARLOTTE.=[2] Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon. il $6 Stokes 917.98
Cheechako is Eskimo for tenderfoot, but this particular tenderfoot turns out to be a hardened traveler. After many other lands the far North beckoned this adventurous Englishwoman and she set out from Seattle in June to travel 2,200 miles on the Yukon to Alaska and back all in a summer season. She sings the praises of the wondrous riches of the country—for which she bespeaks a prosperous future—and of the hospitality of its people. Nome, which had lured her from childhood, was the real objective of the trip and of it the author gives a detailed account. The book is well illustrated.
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=Ath= p581 O 29 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 40w
“Very wisely she is content to write as a sightseer, not as a pioneer; and the result of this renunciation is that we get from her something fresh.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p663 O 14 ’20 1000w
=CAMP, CHARLES WADSWORTH.= Gray mask. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–2640
An episodic narrative dealing with the solution of various mysteries and taking its name from the first adventure. Garth, a member of the detective force, is asked by his chief to assume the disguise of the Gray Mask, a criminal chemist who goes with face covered to hide the effects of an explosion. The disguise takes him into the heart of a criminal gang, among whom to his horror he finds Nora, his chief’s daughter. But her presence there is satisfactorily explained and the law breakers are brought to justice. The second episode concerns a murder mystery, and there are others, ending with Garth’s engagement to Nora.
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“The stories hardly measure up to the author’s previous work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 200w
=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Football without a coach. il *$1.25 Appleton 797
20–13870
The object of the book is to supply a perfect pen-and-ink coach for a football team, telling it how to progress from week to week, warning it of the dangers that will crop up and telling it how to surmount each difficulty that arises. It is intended as a text-book for the grammar school boy, the high school student, and the young man from the shop or office. Contents: Building the foundation; Sizing up the candidates; The first scrimmage; Practice without a scrub; The line and the forward pass; The line; The backfield; Building plays; The strategy of football; Things that make or break a team.
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=Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
“The book comes as near to taking the place of an expert coach as printed words can.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 40w
+ =R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 200w
=CAMP, WALTER CHAUNCEY.= Handbook on health and how to keep it. *$1.25 (3c) Appleton 613
20–5624
In formulating a “simple, reasonable and practical system of preserving physical fitness” for all ages, the author has had in mind the “simplest, shortest, least exhausting and most exhilarating form of calisthenics” that can be devised. He has concentrated his setup exercises with four groups of three each thus: Hands, Hips, Head; Grind, Grate, Grasp; Crawl, Curl, Crouch; Wave, Weave, Wing. Portions of the book are devoted to practical suggestions as to the value of certain sports at proper periods of life and to cautions as to the general health and the follies of some habits. Contents: Problems of youth and age; Daily dozen set-up; Reviewing follies; Children, schoolboy and collegian; Industrial worker.
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+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 My 21 ’20 300w
“Mr Camp’s latest book should be useful to the instructor of gymnastics and the Boy scout leader. The author’s insistence upon athletics will readily be forgiven on the ground of a specialist’s natural enthusiasm; but the space given to it and other general considerations in the book hardly make it a very practical ‘handbook’ for the individual in need of advice and stimulus.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 160w
=CAMPBELL, HENRY COLIN.= How to use cement for concrete construction for town and farm. il $2 Stanton & Van Vliet 693.5
20–6499
This comprehensive book covers such subjects as Farming with concrete; What concrete is, how to make and use it; Making forms for concrete construction; Reinforcement; Concrete foundations and concrete walls; Tanks, troughs, cisterns, and similar containers for liquids; Concrete floors, walks and similar concrete pavements; A concrete garage on the farm; Poultry houses of concrete; Concrete silos, etc. The author writes from the point of view of both engineer and farmer. There is an alphabetical table of contents, and the book is very fully illustrated.
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=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:35 O 13 ’20 90w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p28 Ap ’20 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 210w
=CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL.= Everyday Americans. *$1.75 (5½c) Century 917.3
20–16765
The book is a “study of the typical, the everyday American mind, as it is manifested in the American of the old stock. It is a study of what that typical American product, the college and high school graduate, has become in the generation which must carry on after the war.” (Preface) This typical American the author finds to be “the conservative-liberal” in whom the inherited liberal instincts have become petrified and who suffers with a sort of a hardening of the arteries of the mind. There is also a radicalism of a sort but it is a very different thing from European revolutionary radicalism. The soul of America now in which abides the future, is the bourgeoisie and he advises all who wish to speculate in postbellum America to study the younger leaders of the labor parties on the one hand and the college undergraduates on the other. They are the future. Contents: The American mind; Conservative America; Radical America; American idealism; Religion in America; Literature in America; The bourgeois American.
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“Written in a clear, rather colorless style.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“If Mr Canby’s book had been written long ago it would have remedied in large degree the appalling ignorance existing abroad concerning American mind and thought.”
+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 180w
“A timely, undogmatic contribution to an exceedingly lively issue.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 70w
“As far as it goes, Mr Canby’s book is very good and very interesting. On the whole, his analysis appears to be sound; and his candour is admirable.” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 1150w
=Nation= 111:512 N 3 ’20 280w
“Thoughtful and lucid appraisement of American values. Though the style is simple, it is closely packed; the substance is weighty, and no one will get it all in the first reading.”
+ − =Review= 4:17 Ja 5 ’21 580w
“It may be argued that there is no special brillance or insight in these pages, but if one really wishes to convince the average thoughtful American, it is well to be neither too philosophical nor too paradoxical. Mr Canby at least shows us that he has an active mind, capable of searching the underlying issues of the time in which he lives.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 650w
“This study of the American mind is altogether delightful because of its directness, sincerity and penetration.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:369 D 4 ’20 280w
=CANFIELD, CHAUNCEY L.=, ed. Diary of a forty-niner. *$3.50 Houghton 979.4
The book is based on the authentic diary of one Alfred T. Jackson, a pioneer miner who cabined and worked on Rock Creek, Nevada County, California, from 1850 to 1852. It is a “truthful, unadorned, veracious chronicle of the placer mining days of the foothills, a narrative of events as they occurred; told in simple and, at times, ungrammatical sentences, yet vivid and truth compelling in the absence of conscious literary endeavor.... It sets forth graphically the successive steps in gold mining, from the pan and rocker to the ground sluice and flume.... No less fascinating is the romance interwoven in the pages of the diary.” (Preface) The editor states that he has verified many of the incidents and happenings. An edition of the book was published in San Francisco shortly before the earthquake and fire, during which the plates and many of the copies were destroyed.
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“This book is well printed in large type but the solid character of the contents, in spite of the chapter headings, will repel some readers.” H. S. K.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 11 ’20 600w
“One of the most fascinating features of this remarkable document is the diarist’s self-revelation of his evolution from a Puritanical New Englander, bound and shackled with the prejudices of generations, into a broad-minded man whose mental growth is miraculously stimulated by the freedom of his environment and associations.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 16 ’21 2850w
+ =R of Rs= 63:223 F ’21 100w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Release of the soul. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright 149.3
20–8452
“The surface of life has been broken by the war, says Mr Cannan; there is no longer any structure in social existence: ‘For the artist there is metaphysic or nothing.’ And in this highly metaphysical, mystical essay he attempts to convey a programme for the immediate future of society and especially for the artist. We are told that the book was written during Mr Cannan’s recent visit in America, in a period of intense creative inspiration. As a record of mystical experience, as an endeavor to express the ineffable, it expects from the reader a coöperation more sympathetic than that of the intelligence. Stripped of its mysticism, the argument is a tolerably familiar one; it is a fusion of certain beliefs almost universally held now by the younger writers and artists, beliefs regarding the industrial régime, bourgeois democracy, intellectualism, the instinct of workmanship, the release of the creative impulses.”—N Y Evening Post
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“Mr Cannan’s new book is, indeed, unusual. The words God, soul, life, occur with extraordinary frequency but the variety of their syntactical connections throws no light on their meanings. Since we are neither provided with, nor enabled to deduce, definitions of Mr Cannan’s chief terms, we find his book unintelligible.”
− + =Ath= p764 Je 11 ’20 500w
“The tone of the book is rhapsodical; its sentences are so desultory; and even the illustrations drawn here and there from history, art and literature are so loose, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to decide at times what he exactly does mean.”
− =Cath World= 111:832 S ’20 230w
“There is little art in his exposition and less evidence of work. And it takes more religion of a charitable nature than Mr Cannan preaches to restrain one from saying that the author of this work has released his soul so very successfully that it has disappeared.”
− =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 110w
“Flashes of fine thought are not incompatible with loose thinking. A
## book may be very stimulating and suggestive in its details and yet as
a whole leave behind an impression of hopeless confusion. This is just the kind of book Mr Cannan has produced.” Edwin Bjorkman
− + =Freeman= 2:19 S 15 ’20 1600w
“It is not unlikely that many, perhaps most, of the people who read Mr Cannan’s new book will wonder what he is driving at. A little of this bewilderment will be due to Mr Cannan himself; for when he passes over from the dramatic to the discursive a certain elusiveness invades his speech. The book is one of those which must be read two or three times over before its whole significance becomes clear; but it is abundantly worth that trouble.” R: Roberts
+ − =Nation= 111:301 S 11 ’20 1100w
“His book is a curious, largely incomprehensible and thoroughly dull rhapsody upon God and nature, life, love and the soul.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:152 O 6 ’20 220w
“The charm of the book is to be found in some of the brief ecstatic meditations in which from time to time the pages flower.” Van Wyck Brooks
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 My 8 ’20 950w
“Mr Cannan has flung a light bridge from mysticism to internationalism over which it is quite conceivable that an exposition so airy, chary, and fleeting as his own may pass in safety. But the plain man, the logician, and the investigator can not be urged to trust his weight to the inadequacies of the trembling fabric.”
+ − =Review= 3:711 Jl 7 ’20 500w
“It is an embarrassing book to read. One feels like an intruder upon a privacy, for really Mr Cannan appears to have suffered considerably. Either so ‘private and confidential’ a book ought not to have been written, or we should not be reading it.”
− =Sat R= 130:14 Jl 3 ’20 240w
“Obviously what Mr Cannan says is largely platonic doctrine, to many incomprehensible; but spiritual emphasis at this time is so needed that the book is justified in spite of its frequent cloudy and chaotic passages.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 220w
“Mr Cannan, weary of criticism and all negative activities, has turned to mysticism; and this book is the result. It is sincere, passionate and interesting, but it lacks structure, and so is a little difficult to read.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p417 Jl 1 ’20 1850w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Time and eternity; a tale of three exiles. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–7059
London is the abode of these three exiles. One of them is an Englishman, Stephen Lawrie, at odds with the world about him and with the war, living in voluntary seclusion in the London slums, trying to solve the riddle of the universe in silence and inactivity. The other, Perekatov, is a Ukrainian Jew eking out a precarious existence in London as a correspondent for a Russian paper. He obtrudes himself on Stephen with whose face, seen at a public meeting, he had been impressed. There is much spasmodic, intangible talk between them and their intercourse ripens into friendship of a sort. Valerie du Toit, the third exile, is a South African of French Huguenot extraction, who has come to England athirst for the eternal verities. With elemental force the spirits of Stephen and Valerie meet and melt into each other. This kindles insane jealousy in Howard Ducie who acts the Othello to Valerie’s Desdemona, smothers her in her sleep and has himself run over by a train. Stephen accepts the tragedy as a happening in time which can not interfere with the eternity of his love.
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=Ath= p1035 O 17 ’19 240w
“Mr Gilbert Cannan’s novels are important novels, but they are not good novels. They are the illustrative material of his essays and they do not illustrate them in any creative fashion. The theories shine through too glaringly, as in ‘Time and eternity.’ Mr Cannan started out with a naive creative impulse, but the events of the past six years have aroused in him, as in many of us, so much impassioned thinking about life that the material of creation itself slips from his grasp.”
− =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 400w
“Though the book frequently reveals creative strokes, though its general plan is majestically conceived, yet it conveys the sense of being a preliminary work. ‘Time and eternity’ suggests the need for a future work which will see the thing through. The sculptor is still groping.” J. C. L.
+ − =New Repub= 23:182 Jl 7 ’20 730w
“‘Time and eternity’ is the result of a serious lack in its author, the lack of a sense of humor. The piece has untold burlesque possibilities, and they have been wasted. ‘Time and eternity’ may be ascribed only to a rapidly advancing senility.” Henrietta Malkiel
− =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 420w
“We have all long known the phrase ‘a welter of words,’ but to read Gilbert Cannan’s new book ‘Time and eternity’ is to realize just exactly what it implies. The reader’s strongest feeling after he has at last toiled his weary way through this extremely dull book is a desire for plenty of soap and water and good fresh air.”
− =N Y Times= 25:204 Ap 25 ’20 900w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:489 My 8 ’20 520w
“Mr Cannan writes too quickly and too often. He writes with a sort of hungry rage, because he despises something, though he does not know what, and desires something equally unknown to him. His work is as restless and as inconclusive as a conversation between adolescents teased with growing pains.”
− =Sat R= 128:419 N 1 ’19 1200w
“In ‘Time and eternity’ Mr Cannan presents a piece of tedious writing and speculation about slinking individuals who are out of harmony with the ages.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 400w
“Mr Cannan has not yet, in this method, passed the experimental stage. Moreover, he has not enough to say about the souls of his three exiles, to each of whom by name is allotted one-third of this short book, to engage unflagging attention. They are queer if not tiresome, but vaguer than people speaking uninspired lines from behind a curtain. They do nothing very much; they appear to want nothing very special; they certainly are nothing very intensely.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 O 2 ’19 650w
=CANNAN, GILBERT.= Windmills; a book of fables. *$1.60 (3c) Huebsch
20–17654
A volume of satires. The first two, Samways island and Ultimus, altho written before 1914 have to do with a series of wars between Fatland (England) and Fatterland (Germany) and, except in matters of mechanical detail, they indicate remarkable foresight. Of the two that follow, Gynecologia describes the women governed world that succeeded the great wars, and Out of work is a social satire involving Jah, the devil, and a certain Nicholas Bly, a labor agitator. The author writes a preface to the American edition. The book was published in England in 1915.
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“Mr Cannan’s satire is not as keen and cutting when bare and exposed in these sketches as it is in some of his other books where it half hides behind a veil of romance. ‘Windmills’ is brilliant in places, but not as a whole.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 31 ’20 310w
“What he says is inexpugnably true; it is only his prose which is ineffective.”
+ − =Dial= 69:433 O ’20 70w
“When the time and circumstances of the book’s composition are remembered one’s admiration for Mr Cannan’s clear and trenchant perspicacity is of the highest. At that point, however, one’s admiration ends. Here, as in all his recent books, there is, on the side of art, a total lack of modulation, of warmth, of felicity.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 650w
“It makes light of high things and low and at the same time heavy reading for both. It sounds like Greenwich Village at its futilest.”
− =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 60w
“The truth is, Mr Cannan, with all his pose of independence, is nothing if not a partisan. He belongs to his time and his school; and neither his paradox nor his satiric whimsy nor his flashes of sentiment could have been what they are without the example or let us say the inspiration of a Chesterton, a Shaw, and a Wells. The book has, above all, the assertiveness, the bumptiousness, the determined brilliancy, and unease which will, we may fear, be the hallmark of the passing literary generation to the eye of posterity.” H. W. B.
− =Review= 3:192 S 1 ’20 920w
=CANTACUZÈNE, PRINCESS (COUNTESS SPÉRANSKY, née JULIA DENT GRANT).= Russian people. il *$3 Scribner 947
20–6483
“Many who have followed the Russian articles in the Saturday Evening Post of Princess Cantacuzène will no doubt greet with pleasure their appearance in book form under the title ‘Russian people: revolutionary recollections.’ Similar to Princess Cantacuzène’s earlier book, ‘Revolutionary days,’ these pictures of Russian life are seen through the eyes of a member of the upper classes, residents for years in the country. It is the simple folk outside the city, exemplified by the peasant of the Cantacuzène estate, Bouromka, about whom the stories center. In addition to the pictures of Bouromka before and after the ‘red’ outbreaks, there are chapters dealing with the efforts in various parts of the old empire to re-establish a stable government. Crimea, where the Cantacuzène villa is situated, was one such center. ‘Daughters of Russia’ is the title of the final chapter, these ranging from Catherine the Great to Catherine Breshkovsky and Maria Botshkarova.”—Springf’d Republican
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“The author knows the peasants and tenantry outside of the large cities and writes of them intimately and interestingly. Her account of the revolution and of political affairs is, however, second hand and lacks clarifying detail.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
“They present readable and accurate impressions of events on which full information is still hard to get.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 130w
“It would be a mistake to regard her story as seriously contributing to our understanding of the revolution, if for no other reason than that her materials are obtained at secondhand and to a great extent from rumor. Painting in simple black-and-white is not her only limitation.”
− =Nation= 110:860 Je 26 ’20 340w
“Princess Cantacuzène’s book is certainly a striking case of a good opportunity missed. If only she had stuck more to what she saw herself during those days when her adopted country was going to pieces before her eyes!”
− + =N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 1400w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 18 ’20 380w
=CAPABLANCA, JOSÉ RAÚL.= My chess career. il *$2.50 Macmillan 794
20–6061
The author, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1888, began to play chess at the age of five. At eleven he was matched against the Cuban champion, J. Corzo. In his introductory chapter he says: “The object of this little
## book is to give to the reader some idea of the many stages through
which I have passed before reaching my present strength.... As I go along narrating my chess career, I will stop at those points which I consider most important, giving examples of my games with my own notes written at the time the games were played, or when not, expressing the ideas I had while the game was in progress.” This plan is followed thruout the book, beginning with the match with Corzo and continuing to the Hastings victory congress in 1919. The conclusion gives points for beginners.
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“There is not a trace of boastfulness in the book. Capablanca’s passion is for exact scientific truth. The general spirit is one of detached and critical self-observation. Altogether, a book of great psychological interest.” R. O. M.
+ =Ath= p237 F 20 ’20 650w
=Booklist= 17:103 D ’20
“This refreshing little book probably contains more real information on the science of chess than a dozen of the more weighty tomes put together. Capablanca’s comments on his own and his adversary’s play throughout the book are of a most original and illuminating sort.” Moreby Adlom
+ =Bookm= 51:573 Jl ’20 950w
“It is in many ways the most egotistical, and incidentally subjective book we have ever come across; the note of satisfaction sounds like a loud gong throughout, nor does the voice of self-praise die away. The book, in fact, has been written in a mood of positively aboriginal conceit. All this, however, should not obscure the fact that Senor Capablanca’s chess-games are very brilliant, and his notes full of interest.”
− + =Sat R= 129:251 Mr 13 ’20 700w
“His notes on his games are lucid and vivacious.”
+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 160w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“The interest is immensely enhanced by being annotated by Capablanca himself.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p136 F 26 ’20 350w
=CAPEK, THOMAS.= Cechs (Bohemians) in America. il *$3 (5½c) Houghton 325.7
20–1302
The author, after a residence of thirty-nine years in Cech America, is thoroughly conversant with the history and the status of his countrymen here. The volume aims “to throw light, not only on the economic condition of the Cech immigrant, but on his national, historic, religious, cultural, and social state as well.” (Introd.) It describes the American Cech as being not an adventurer but a bona-fide settler, an idealist and an upholder of modern democracy. Biographical sketches are given of all the prominent and intellectual Cechs who have exerted an influence on their countrymen in America and the book is abundantly illustrated. Successive chapters are devoted to the immigration in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and to the Cech’s economic status. Other chapters are: New Bohemia in America; Rationalism: a transition from the old to the new; Socialism and radicalism; Journalism and literature; Musicians, artists, visitors from abroad; The churches; The part the American Cechs took in the war of liberation. There is an appendix and an index.
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“‘The Cechs in America’ is a comprehensive, carefully arranged manual of all information about this section of our immigration. To anyone wishing, or needing, to be authoritatively and thoroughly informed on this subject, his book is indispensable.”
+ =Am Hist R= 26:142 O ’20 530w
“Interesting and informing.”
+ =Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20
“His picture leaves no detail obscure so long as he writes without religious or political preconceptions. The copious bibliography in this volume deserves special complimentary mention.”
+ =Cath World= 111:104 Ap ’20 580w
+ =Nation= 111:482 O 27 ’20 420w
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 480w
=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w
=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 50w
“His own sturdy love of America, mixed with his identification with the Czech in America makes the book a delightful though unintentioned combination of the subjective and the objective. None of the other national groups have produced anything quite like it.” H. A. Miller
+ =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 550w
=CAPES, BERNARD EDWARD JOSEPH.= Skeleton key. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–7424
This detective story is prefaced by an introduction by G. K. Chesterton. The action takes place at Wildshott, the country home of the Kennetts, where Vivian Bickerdike, who tells part of the story in his own words, and Baron Le Sage are guests. Shortly after their arrival, a pretty housemaid is murdered in a secluded path not far from the house. The usual steps are taken, an inquest is held and a detective called in. Several arrests are made but finally guilt seems to fasten itself pretty conclusively upon Hugo Kennett, the young son of the family, whose choice seemed to be marry or murder. But Baron Le Sage is not satisfied that he is guilty, and uncovers a deep laid and unsuspected plot of which Hugo was to have been the victim, and the perpetrator was to go scot free. Fortunately the scheme was foiled in time.
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“Will please the more critical reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“Above the average detective story.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w
=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“‘The skeleton key’ is a detective story of singular ingenuity and power. Yet it is much more than that, in that the air of delicate romance dispels much of the sordidity that, in the very nature of the work, is always striving to rear its head and dominate the narrative.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 470w
“The late Bernard Capes was one of the few writers of mystery and detective stories who make an honorable effort to combine plot with literary workmanship. This posthumous tale is one of his best. It has a decidedly original dénouement which will puzzle even practical mystery solvers.”
+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 50w
=CAREY, AGNES.= Empress Eugénie in exile. il *$4 Century
20–20073
These reminiscences from Empress Eugénie’s own lips are culled from letters and diaries kept by the author while a member of the Empress’s household at Farnborough. The book contains many illustrations from photographs and the contents are: Farnborough Hill, an empress’s home; Daily events: further extracts from diary and letters; The Empress visits Queen Victoria; Later events at Farnborough Hill; Reminiscences of Empress Eugénie: her characteristics and idiosyncracies.
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+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 13 ’20 660w
“Mrs Carey incorporates, especially in the last half of the book, a great deal about the daily life at Farnborough which can be of interest only to persons who make a hobby of Eugénie, if any such there be. But this fault must be overlooked, for the book has the extraordinary merit of telling Eugénie’s own story or stories told by Eugénie, within an hour or so after they had dropped from her lips.”
+ − =N Y Times= p11 N 21 ’20 2050w
+ =Review= 3:625 D 22 ’20 170w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w
=CAREY, WILLIAM, and others.= Garo jungle book; or, The mission to the Garos of Assam. il *$2 (2½c) Am. Bapt. 266
20–2499
After describing the Garos topographically, the author calls their mountain abode “a den of wild beasts and of still wilder men.” “Within, the fiercest passions held sway, and gruesome superstitions, such as made the blood of the Bengalis run cold to think of, wrapped them in an atmosphere of ghostly fear.” It was when the British government was faced by the only remaining alternative “extermination of the Garos” that the missionaries began to demonstrate the possibility of another way. The book is the history of the struggle and an account of what has been accomplished. It contains abundant illustrations, two maps, and appendices consisting of a glossary, a list of Garo books, of churches and schools and a service chart.
=CARLETON, WILLIAM.= Stories of Irish life; with an introd. by Darnell Figgis. *$1.75 Stokes
A20–891
“Himself a peasant, William Carleton writes of the Irish people, the Irish scene and the Irish life out of the book of his own experience. He was the youngest of the fourteen children of a small farmer in Tyrone, and was brought up in a household that knew the ancient Irish tongue as well as the English language. His real literary career began in 1828, when, at the age of thirtyfour, he settled permanently in Dublin and became a contributor to the Christian Examiner. For this paper, Carleton during the following six years wrote his ‘Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry’ upon which is based his reputation as a delineator of Irish life and character. As one of the recently issued volumes in a new Library of Irish literature, eight stories and sketches are selected to represent Carleton’s contribution, among them being: Neal Malone; Phelim O’Toole’s courtship; The party fight and funeral; The midnight mass; and Denis O’Shaughnessy going to Maynooth.”—Boston Transcript
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“Carleton belongs by right to the Irish classics. His tales are vigorous and brimful of humour. His character-drawing was extremely vivid, and some of his heroes are like creations of flesh and blood. He had also a gift of impressive description.”
+ =Ath= p445 Je 6 ’19 60w
“His temperament and his experience combined to produce a picture of the peasantry which is unrivalled as an historical document, and fascinating as a work of art. Protestant though he became, Carleton writes always as one oppressed, of those suffering from similar oppression, and for that very reason appeals with undying power to the generous ethic of fair play which has always characterized the Anglo-Saxon elsewhere. What he wrote for his own generation has lost nothing of its force today.” R. B. J.
+ =Ath= p750 Ag 15 ’19 950w
=Booklist= 16:287 My ’20
“No matter what varying amount of interest they may have found in Carleton’s tales, readers and critics have vied with each other in emphasizing their appealing and truthful Irish quality.... In many ways, however, Carleton followed stereotyped formulas both in his plots and his character portrayals.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 1600w
+ =Cath World= 112:395 D ’20 160w
=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Elementary economics. *$1.10 (2c) Macmillan 330
20–1765
The author of this “introduction to the study of economics and sociology” realizes that economics is not a science in which the problems discussed can be proved mathematically; that it fairly bristles with controverted points; that the student is apt to approach it with preconceptions and class or interest bias. The object of the
## book is to help the student to look upon both sides of a question and
to come to independent conclusions on such problems of everyday life as prices and markets, taxation, banking, tariff, wages, rent, transportation, and ownership of property. The book falls into three parts: Outline of industrial and social evolution; Fundamental economic concepts; Economic problems. Some of the more specific subjects discussed are: Getting a living under various conditions; Wants and value; Direction of the world’s workers; Wealth and income; Competition and monopoly; Money and banking; Railway transportation; Labor organizations; Labor legislation; Agricultural economics; Taxation; Industrial unrest; Social and industrial betterment. There is an index.
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“The simplicity and clarity of treatment together with thought-stimulating topics for discussion make this a good textbook for the beginner in economics in junior or senior high school.”
+ =Booklist= 17:10 O ’20
“The style of the book is simple enough to justify its introduction into the upper years of the elementary school. The material is of so vital a type that it deserves recognition in all schools. Where the special problem is that of preparing children for trades this book will serve to give a broader view of the individual’s place in industry.”
+ =El School J= 20:548 Mr ’20 350w
“The author of this book has done more than simply produce another book on elementary economics for use in high schools. He has in reality broken away from the traditional discussion of consumption, production, exchange, and distribution, and organized his discussion in quite a different manner from that followed by traditional texts in the field. There are no lists of reference books. This seems unfortunate since the book itself does not contain enough material for even a half-year course in the subject.”
+ − =School R= 28:313 Ap ’20 260w
“A text that is sure to find ready reception for courses in economics, especially in secondary schools. As a basis for fruitful class discussion it should prove very effective in the hands of a competent instructor.” E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 120w
=CARLTON, FRANK TRACY.= Organized labor in American history. *$2.50 (4c) Appleton 331.87
20–7434
In tracing the influence of the wage earner in American history the writer points out the intimate relations between industrial evolution and social progress. So long as there were still open frontiers towards the west, the economic life of America can be said to have been abnormal. Now that the frontier is a thing of the past the wage earner’s influence may be expected to increase in importance as the years go by. To examine the cause and effect of organized labor as a social phenomenon and a social institution is the object of the book. Contents: Introduction; Epochs in the history of organized labor; Adoption and interpretation of the constitution; The free school and the wage earner; Land reform and the wage earner; Labor legislation and the wage earner; Other reform movements and the wage earner; Labor
## parties, socialism, direct action, and the progressive movement; The
ideals of the wage earner; Recent pre-war tendencies; The war and after; Index.
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“One of its chief merits is that it is based on an accurate knowledge of the ideals and policies of organized labor.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:837 D ’20 780w
“The author has accomplished his modest purpose of helping to bring American history into a truer perspective by showing the influence of the wage-earner on the course of events.” Mary Beard
+ =Am Hist R= 26:369 Ja ’21 280w
=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p75 Ag ’20 40w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 70w
“His interpretation of this history shows keen insight into the play of economic forces that have made for the development of classes, the rise of the labor movement and the evolution of industrial society. On the interpretive side we think that it is more informative than the more laborious work of Professor Commons and associates.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p10 Je 13 ’20 820w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 40w
“I do not see why a book designed to give understanding of the present should deal with Shay’s rebellion and fail to do more than mention either the interesting development among the garment workers of the equally significant changes in the organizations of railroad workers. I have no desire to quarrel with Professor Carlton’s selection, for his temper is tolerant and his mood understanding, qualities to be prized highly among men whose minds are directed to the description of events in the field of labor.”
+ − =Survey= 41:315 My 29 ’20 100w
“Will serve as a useful introduction to a close study of modern American labour problems.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 30w
“It is only the second half that deals with controversial matters. Here also Professor Carlton’s work is effective in that he carries the reader into the heart of the subject by bringing up all the live and crucial issues. But his frank policy of taking a decided stand upon most of them himself makes it highly desirable that his standpoint should be grasped by the reader, in advance if practicable.” W: E. Walling
+ =Yale R= n s 10:214 O ’20 900w
=CARNEGIE, ANDREW.= Autobiography. il *$5 (4c) Houghton
20–19520
The volume is edited by John C. Van Dyke and has a preface by Mrs Carnegie. Besides the facts of the author’s life and career the book contains much matter of general interest and reminiscences of notable personages. There are chapters on: Civil war period; The age of steel; Mills and the men; The homestead strike; Problems of labor; The “gospel of wealth”; Educational and pension funds; Washington diplomacy. The book is well illustrated and has a bibliography and an index.
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“The historian will regret that it confines itself more to portraiture than to documentation, that it throws little new light upon partly known facts, and that it has none of the elaborate accuracy likely to be found in the biography of a man who seeks to justify himself. The reader of the book retains a friendly feeling towards a simple yet astute personality.” F: L. Paxson
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:368 Ja ’21 490w
=Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 600w
“Although scrappy and gossipy in parts the interest is sustained.”
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The result, for those who knew Mr Carnegie intimately, is most satisfactory and charming. The style is simple and unaffected. The joyous enthusiasm, which filled him from youth to old age, shines forth in these pages.” W: J. Holland
+ =Bookm= 52:364 D ’20 700w
Reviewed by R. M. Lovett
=Freeman= 2:451 Ja 19 ’21 2150w
“The volume is as entertaining as it is inspiring. It will undoubtedly rank high among the world’s lasting autobiographies.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 360w
“Carnegie unfolds himself, and nowhere does he attempt to make it appear that he has virtues which he has not—modesty, for instance. Sometimes he talked with real eloquence and sometimes with bathos, but he sets both down with unfailing fidelity.”
+ =N Y Times= p3 O 17 ’20 1150w
Reviewed by R. R. Bowker
+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 240w
“The general reader will find this the best American autobiography since 1885, when General Grant’s ‘Memoirs’ were published.”
+ =Review= 3:620 D 22 ’20 1900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 950w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 70w
=CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE. DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND EDUCATION.= American foreign policy; with an introd. by Nicholas Murray Butler. Carnegie endowment for international peace 327
20–7870
“This collection of documents is intended by the editor to comprise ‘those official statements by successive presidents and secretaries of state which, having been formally or tacitly accepted by the American people, do in effect constitute the foundation of American foreign policy.... They are the classic declarations of policy which, taken together, present a record of which the American people may well be proud.’ Naturally the selection begins with Washington’s farewell address and includes Jefferson’s statement as to entangling alliances. Then follow the various messages relating to the Monroe doctrine: Monroe’s, Polk’s, Buchanan’s, Grant’s, Cleveland’s, and Roosevelt’s. Blaine, Hay, and Root contribute their ideas as to the Monroe doctrine, that of the last named being in no sense official, as it is the well-known address as president of the American Society of international law for 1914. The instructions to and reports from the American delegates to the Hague conferences are properly included.”—Am Hist R
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=Am Hist R= 26:141 O ’20 360w
“Readers who do not wish their history predigested for them, but on the other hand do not resent a prescribed diet, will find this little volume much to their liking.” E. S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=CARPENTER, EDWARD.= Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning. *$3 (3c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 290
20–5669
The author holds that the process of the evolution of religious rites and ceremonies has in its main outlines been the same all over the world and that it has proceeded in orderly phases of spontaneous growth. The object of the book is to trace the instigating cause of this great phenomenon along psychological lines. In its first inception, he claims, it was stimulated by fear and has run along three main lines: the movements of the sun and planets; the changes of the seasons; and the procreative forces. Contents: Solar myths and Christian festivals; The symbolism of the Zodiac; Totem-sacraments and eucharists; Food and vegetation magic; Magicians, kings and gods; Rites of expiation and redemption; Pagan initiations and the second birth; Myth of the golden age; The saviour-god and the virgin-mother; Ritual dancing; The sex-taboo; The genesis of Christianity; The meaning of it all; The ancient mysteries; The exodus of Christianity; Conclusion. The appendix on the teachings of the Upanishads contains two essays: Rest and The nature of the self. There is an index.
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“Mr Edward Carpenter has wide reading and as far as one can judge, no lack of the critical faculty; so that, presumably, he could play the man of science if he chose. But his interest is less in theory than in practice. He looks forward to a new age, and, preoccupied with his vision of the future, searches the present and the past for such promise as they may hold of the fulfilment of his hope.” R. R. M.
+ =Ath= p240 F 20 ’20 1100w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“To everyone acquainted with ... any of Mr Carpenter’s books, the present volume on religious origins and developments will come as a warrant of profound thought and beautiful illumination of expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 650w
“His treatment is throughout as sympathetic and as fair as his purpose to demonstrate his thesis allows him to be; and it is only right to admit that he makes a very good case for the vast generalization that he lays down. But he is greater as prophet than as critic; and that is why this book does not measure up to ‘Towards democracy.’” R: Roberts
+ =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1300w
=Int J Ethics= 31:119 O ’20 270w
“Some of the researches of Frazer and Lang and Tylor and other scholars are vulgarized by him, and conclusions drawn from their premises from which any of them would recoil.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 220w
“Mr Carpenter’s book is written for those who have not read much of anthropological research, and such readers will find in it an exceedingly clear and lucid summary of a vast body of specialist work. And the book is filled with that humane and glowing hope for humanity which has made Mr Carpenter’s writings an inspiration to countless readers. It can be confidently recommended to all who are not specialists in the subjects with which it deals.” B. R.
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:116 Ap 24 ’20 1100w
“Mr Carpenter is never clear, although he writes clearly. He disappears in a vacuum at the end of all his books and poems. He lacks the thunder and the sureness, the passion and the vision of the real prophet. He possesses clarity without light. He expounds, but does not see.” B: de Casseres
− =N Y Times= 25:155 Ap 4 ’20 800w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from Nation [London])
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p180 Mr 18 ’20 1900w
=CARPENTER, RHYS.=[2] Plainsman, and other poems. *$2 Oxford 821
“Rhys Carpenter is a poet enamored of classic themes. Thus in his new book, ‘The plainsman,’ we find such titles as For Zeus’ grove at Dodona, The charioteer of Elis, Birds of Stymphalus, Heracles sails westward and Pegasos at Hippokrene. He also loves nature and swinging lilting songs. His method of singing is that of former days, but to it he brings his own active personality.”—N Y Times
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=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 50w
“There is not one of Rhys Carpenter’s verses that does not possess in its degree magic and power. The poet’s thought is beautifully instinctive and confident: his expression is beautifully artistic and considered.”
+ =No Am= 212:569 O ’20 1150w
“There is many a gracefully turned poem in this book, the kind of poetry that almost runs into music. Mr Carpenter is a master of the shades of sound, he is dexterous in his meters and the delicate finish and completeness of his efforts set them in a distinctive place among contemporary efforts.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 240w
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Boy’s book of magic. il *$2 Dodd 793
20–17072
“The object of this book is twofold: (1) To explain, not only how a trick is done, but also how to do it ... and (2) to describe and explain those tricks which the average boy can make or procure, with relative ease and with but little expense.” (Preface) It falls into two parts: part 1: Introductory remarks; Card tricks; Coin tricks; Tricks with handkerchiefs; Tricks with eggs; Pieces of apparatus of general utility; Feats of divination; Miscellaneous tricks; Concluding instructions. Part II: Hindu magic; Handcuffs and escapes therefrom; Sideshow and animal tricks. There are numerous illustrations.
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=Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
“The directions are clear and practicable, and there are many helpful illustrations.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 70w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 190w
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Higher psychical development. il *$3 Dodd 133
20–17105
The book contains an outline of the secret Hindu teachings as embodied in the Yoga philosophy and is the substance of a series of twelve lectures delivered by the author before the Psychological research society of New York in 1918. It supplements a previous book by the same author, “Your psychic powers and how to develop them,” and is recommended for more advanced reading as it contains information and “secrets,” never before published and hitherto carefully guarded by the Hindu Yogis, and shows the connection between the Yoga practices and our western science, philosophy and psychic investigations. Contents: An outline of Yoga philosophy; Asana; Pranayama; Mantrayoga and Pratyahara; Dharana; Dhyana and Samadhi; The Kundalini and how it is aroused; “The fourth dimension,” etc.; “The guardians of the threshold”; The relation of Yoga to occultism; The relation of Yoga to “psychics”; The projection of the astral body; Glossary and Index.
=CARRINGTON, HEREWARD (HUBERT LAVINGTON, pseud.).= Your psychic powers and how to develop them. *$3 (3c) Dodd 134
20–5132
The author warns the reader that the views presented in the present volume are not necessarily his own but constitute the body of traditional and accepted theories on spiritualism and psychic phenomena. He has tentatively and for the sake of argument adopted the “spiritistic hypothesis” to set forth the possibilities that it contains. This course has been warranted, he claims, by the newer researches and conclusions in the field of psychical research. He also believes that the bulk of the material contained in the book is sound and helpful and that in following the practical instructions the reader cannot go far wrong. A partial list of the contents is: How to develop; Fear and how to banish it; The subconscious; The spirit world; The cultivation of spiritual gifts; The human aura; Symbolism; Telepathy; Clairvoyance; Dreams; Automatic writing; Crystal gazing and shell-hearing; Spiritual healing; Trance; Obsession and insanity; Prayer, concentration and silence; Hypnotism and mesmerism; Reincarnation and eastern philosophy; The ethics of spiritualism; Physical phenomena; Materialization; Advanced studies.
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“Perhaps gives insufficient warning to the amateur, who nevertheless will usually find results not as readily forthcoming as the recipes might imply.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:256 My ’20
“It is without question the best and most complete, the clearest and the most sensibly compiled compendium of ‘dippy’ lore that we have read.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:189 Ap 18 ’20 450w
“As a statement of the spiritistic position the volume is accurate, careful, thorough, if never once for a single moment illuminating or inspiring.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p555 Ag 26 ’20 500w
=CARROLL, ROBERT SPROUL.= Our nervous friends; illustrating the mastery of nervousness. *$2 Macmillan 616
19–18395
“In a series of short stories Dr Carroll, who is medical director of the Highland hospital in Asheville, describes typical cases of nervous pathology—chiefly among the well-to-do—indicating clearly in each case the causes of the condition and how it might have been avoided or overcome.”—Survey
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“Another of the encouraging but by no means coddling books which the nervous patient and his friends may read with profit.”
+ =Booklist= 16:191 Mr ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:85 F ’20 30w
=Survey= 43:657 F 28 ’20 50w
=CARSWELL, CATHERINE.= Open the door. *$2 (1c) Harcourt
20–10736
This novel adds one more to the list of recent books about women by women of which “Mary Olivier” is perhaps the most noted example. It is the story of Joanna Bannerman, altho it is some little time before Joanna’s story emerges from that of the Bannerman family. Indeed it is never entirely distinct from it. The Bannerman children grow up in an atmosphere of narrow religiosity, bordering on mysticism and ecstasy. Joanna’s after life is a reaction from her early environment. As a girl she dreams of love, which to her means adventure, escape, possession of the world. She seeks realization of her dreams, first in marriage with Mario Rasponi, who takes her to Italy, then in illicit union with Louis Pender, an artist, and finally, in her second marriage with Lawrence Urquhart, finds fulfillment of life.
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“It is head and shoulders above the class of books which are commonly called ‘best-sellers,’ it makes a genuine appeal to the intelligence as well as the emotions, and we do not doubt for an instant that it was inspired by the author’s love of writing for writing’s sake.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 700w
“The novel can stand without difficulty upon its own merits. This does not mean that it lacks entirely certain earmarks of the beginner. It has on the other hand much that more than makes up for a stiffness of movement which betokens the amateur. Miss Carswell will undoubtedly handle her material more easily in the future but it is questionable whether she will be able at that time to bring to a book the freshness of interest and unconventionality of phrase which attracts us strongly here.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 550w
“She does not succeed, perhaps, in drawing merely a normal woman normally, but with great competence she portrays a slightly neurotic heroine of somewhat unusually varied experience, understandingly and with conviction. It is in the conventional happy ending alone that the story fails. In its penetration to the secret springs of character and conduct, in its visualization of persons and interrelated groups, in its mastery of line and its sureness of phrase, this is no amateur effort but a first novel of some moment, provocative of thought and expectation.” H. S. H.
+ =Freeman= 1:598 S 1 ’20 900w
“Joanna and her story remain vivid and delightful and have a touch of epic breadth and richness.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:134 Jl 31 ’20 170w
“Sex interests without haunting or obsessing or torturing her. Miss Carswell is in the happy position of one who is naturally frank and naturally decent. Her decency and her frankness are not at war. ‘Open the door’ is quite sure to fasten many readers’ eyes upon Miss Carswell. She can do love and landscape and character. It is more than a remarkable first novel. It is a remarkable novel.” Silas
+ − =New Repub= 23:258 Jl 28 ’20 1000w
=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 650w
“Her work has many striking qualities: energy, a rich profusion of characters clearly seen and relentlessly portrayed, and a thoroughly modern treatment of that all-absorbing theme of today—the duel of the generations. One is inclined to think that she has put too much into her book. She leaves too little to the imagination, with the result that very few of her characters engage the affection of the reader.”
+ − =Spec= 125:151 Jl 31 ’20 600w
“Few have gone further in the successful analysis of motives than the authoress of this interesting novel.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p301 My 13 ’20 360w
=CARTER, ARTHUR HAZELTON, and ARNOLD, ARCHIBALD VINCENT.= Field artillery instruction. il *$6.50 Putnam 358
20–10616
“A complete manual of instruction for prospective field artillery officers.” (Sub-title) Contents: Physical instruction; Dismounted drill and military courtesies; Matériel; Drill of the gun squad; Fire discipline; Field gunnery; Conduct of fire; Communication; Orientation and topography: Reconnaissance; Horses and their care; Riding and driving; Cleaning and care of equipment; Entraining and detraining. There are 272 illustrations, two appendices and an index. The work is based on the authors’ experience at the Field artillery central officers training school, Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky.
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+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D 2 ’20 60w
=CARTHAGE, PHILIP I.= Retail organization and accounting control. *$3 (4c) Appleton 658
20–20957
This book covers the subject of accounting as applied to the department store, specialty shop and retail store of any description. The author says: “I have long felt the need of a text book on department store procedure, and have endeavored to render my book useful by its treatment of accounting, management and systems. Theory is entirely eliminated. Practical application and experience are its governing features.” (Introd.) Contents: Books in use and procedure; Books in use; Sales checks and return checks; Auditing; Balance sheet (three chapters); Turnover; Merchandising (two chapters); Profit and loss; Burden; Profit and loss; Alteration department. The book is illustrated with fifty-eight forms (tables, charts, etc.) and is indexed.
=CARVER, THOMAS NIXON.=[2] Elementary economics. il $1.72 Ginn 330
“It is the purpose of this book to examine the economic foundations of our national welfare and to point out some of the simpler and more direct methods of strengthening these foundations.” (Introd.) There is a topical treatment of the chapters, after the manner of textbooks, under which each topic is briefly explained and a list of exercise questions at the end of each chapter. The divisions of the book are: What makes a nation prosperous; Economizing labor; The productive
## activities; Exchange; Dividing the product of industry; The
consumption of wealth; Reform. The book is indexed and illustrated.
=CASTIER, JULES.= Rather like.... *$2.25 (3c) Lippincott 847
(Eng ed 20–682)
“Rather like” is a book of parodies on English authors, written by a Frenchman while interned in a German prison camp. Before bringing out the work the English publisher submitted a proof of each parody to the author parodied and the comments received in reply are printed in an introductory note. The sketches are genuine parodies, not burlesques. Among them are G. K. Chesterton: What’s maddening about man; A. Conan Doyle: The footprints on the ceiling; John Galsworthy: Punishment; Charles Garvice: The power of love; W. W. Jacobs: The yellow pipe; Rudyard Kipling: The song of the penny whistle; G. Bernard Shaw: The exploiters.
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“These parodies are highly creditable as the work of a foreigner, but they are not really effective. One can recognize the subjects of the parodies, but the author adopts the long-nose method in exaggerating none but the obvious features.”
+ − =Ath= p94 Ja 16 ’20 90w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p764 D 18 ’19 800w
=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.= John Seneschal’s Margaret. *$2 (2½c) Appleton
20–17318
John Tempest and John Seneschal, comrades and strangely alike, suffer untold agonies imprisoned together in Turkey. Seneschal finally breaks under the strain and is buried in the wilderness by Tempest. So much the prologue tells. The story proper begins with a hospital in London. Tempest is a patient here and as a result of a head wound is suffering from loss of memory. He is identified by the Seneschal family as their son and heir and taken to their home. He is horribly aware that this is all wrong but cannot recall his own identity and his fixed belief that John Seneschal is dead is considered one of the delusions of his mental condition. The one other certainty that he clings to is the face and name of Margaret—and Margaret was Seneschal’s childhood sweetheart. In all the confusion of his clouded mind she seems the one thing that is true and real. After rest and care and love have been given him, his mind suddenly clears and he knows that he is John Tempest usurping the place of John Seneschal. Complete recollection brings problems whose solution taxes all the love and honor of John Tempest’s manhood, but from which he emerges true blue.
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“We may be glad of this—that the book with which Egerton Castle has bidden us farewell is not only artistically worthy of one who loved and respected his art, but contains a depth and richness of feeling far beyond that of any of the blithe tales preceding it, while in all the long line of his heroines there is not one finer or more lovable than she who was ‘John Seneschal’s Margaret.’” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 1000w
“Entertaining and vigorous narrative.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 450w
“The story is indeed one of the best productions of Mr and Mrs Egerton Castle.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 150w
=CASTLE, AGNES (SWEETMAN) (MRS EGERTON CASTLE), and CASTLE, EGERTON.=[2] Little hours in great days. *$2 Dutton
“The latest volume by Agnes and Egerton Castle, ‘Little hours in great days,’ is one of domestic thrills such as the Castles know how to evoke so well. It is a continuation in spirit and in form of their ‘Little house in war time,’ with the difference explained. ‘The little house, after many vicissitudes, stands, even as the world stands today, upon a return to order and new kindly hopes.’ The Castles have a gardener, now that such men are luxuriously possible, and ensuing chapters reveal in a quiet way the joys of gardening and a gardener. Some chapters are by one writer and some by the other; from long association their style is uniform, and in these garden chapters difficult to attribute—if we had not been told. As with other English writers who cannot quickly forget the war, better chapters follow, ‘Tommy at war’ and ‘The soul of the soldier,’ for example, which take up and also look back upon the man in khaki after November, 1918.”—Boston Transcript
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=Ath= p29 Ja 2 ’20 40w
“The best of the volume is in the character sketches it contains, agreeable rather than sharp-cut, of people they have known intimately. The authors’ delicacy is real, their feelings just, and their desire to please obvious.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 190w
“Mr and Mrs Castle will find it difficult entirely to acquit themselves of the charge of having written a ‘pretty-pretty’ book. In writing about the maimed soldiers Mr and Mrs Castle show a fine quality of mind and a sympathy that increases with spending.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 310w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 110w
=CASWELL, JOHN.= Sporting rifles and rifle shooting. il *$4 Appleton 799
20–12388
“The notes and suggestions contained in this book are the result of experience in many lands and against practically all kinds of game, as well as on the target range and in actual military service. Its purpose is to supply data for the hunter against game and to give both hunter and target shooter more simple solutions of the rather intricate methods in use for the calculation of elevation, windage, and atmospheric conditions.” (Preface) Chapters are devoted to: Rifle types; Game rifles; Target rifles; Actions; Stocks; Sights; Cleaning; Bullets; Lubrication of bullets; Cartridges; Elevations; Windage and atmosphere; Judgment of distance; Position; Aiming and trigger squeeze; Stalking and cover; Aims for vital points on game. In addition there are eight appendices, devoted to various matters including Historical sketch of the evolution of the rifle, glossary, and a select bibliography of the rifle. There are eighty-one illustrations and an index.
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+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“With certain limitations, much to be regretted, he has written a very good book. It is to be regretted that Col. Caswell has failed to recognize a wider range of choice in rifles, that he has neglected to discuss the human facter as the principle element in the killing of game.” C: Sheldon
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 D 31 ’20 1400w
“Although the book makes no pretenses to literary style, it contains passages that many novelists might well envy.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 230w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p550 Ag 26 ’20 640w
=CATHER, WILLA SIBERT.= Youth and the bright Medusa. *$2.25 (3c) Knopf
20–17316
This collection of stories presents four of Miss Cather’s recent short stories: Coming, Aphrodite!; The diamond mine; A gold slipper; and Scandal. To these are added four of the earlier stories with which she first won critical appreciation: Paul’s case; A Wagner matinée; The sculptor’s funeral; and “A death in the desert.” In the early as in the later stories the theme is youth and art.
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“The first four are longer and more ambitious, but not so strong. Her real shortcoming is that she is at present quite without a ‘style’; placed beside any European model of imaginative prose she is dowdy and rough, wanting rhythm and distinction.” O. W.
+ − =Ath= p890 D 31 ’20 780w
“Honest, skillfully wrought stories. Their ruthless, almost cynical, unmasking of sometimes ugly truths will repel some readers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“The author perceives life from many angles, all subsidiary to her comprehensive outlook; she has the faculty of getting under the skin of each character, or of speaking from his mouth: she is economical, therefore powerful, in her management of action, interaction and contrast; she succeeds remarkably in conveying the sense of detachment which the ‘different’ from their kind experience.” B. C. Williams
+ =Bookm= 52:169 O ’20 580w
“As studies of success, of the successful, of the victims of ‘big careers,’ as simply of ambition, above all of the quality of ambition in women, they probably are not surpassed.”
+ =Dial= 70:230 F ’21 200w
“The thing is told with the utmost skill, and the deftest effects of descriptive incident. The two contrasted personalities are projected as firmly in a few strokes as if a whole novel had been filled with the details of their careers.” E. A. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:286 D 1 ’20 760w
“The stories have the radiance of perfect cleanliness, like the radiance of burnished glass. Miss Cather’s book is more than a random collection of excellent tales. It constitutes as a whole one of the truest as well as, in a sober and earnest sense, one of the most poetical interpretations of American life that we possess.”
+ =Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 500w
“Feeling she has, and romantic glamour, but at no time does she seem easily irradiant. For this reason her very effectiveness, her shrewd impersonal security in the arrangement and despatch of her story, has a formality that takes away from the flowing line of real self-expression. Better than the familiar vast ineptitude, this formality. But Miss Cather is perhaps still withholding from her fiction something that is intimate, essential and ultimate.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 25:233 Ja 19 ’21 1800w
“‘Youth and the bright Medusa’ is decidedly a literary event which no lover of the best fiction will want to miss.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 550w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 190w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 50w
“Miss Cather is one of a small group of American authors who are producing literature of a high type and adding to the literary laurels of America in Europe. She is an artist with a sure touch in moulding a plot and depicting a motive. The longer stories here—Coming, Aphrodite and The diamond mine—are consummate in both respects.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:351 N ’20 130w
=CAUSE= of world unrest. *$2.50 Putnam 296
20–19292
The American publishers of this English book decline to accept any responsibility for the soundness of the conclusions presented. H. A. Gwynne, editor of the London Morning Post, in a long introduction of approval of the contents, also points out that its editors do not assume the authenticity of the documents upon which it is based—the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” The contention of the book is “that there has been for centuries a hidden conspiracy, chiefly Jewish, whose objects have been and are to produce revolution, communism, and anarchy, by means of which they hope to arrive at the hegemony of the world by establishing some sort of despotic rule.” (Introd.)
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“Unfortunately, truth is a matter of proportion. We do not doubt that the industrious authors of this volume have amassed material that might become a valuable footnote to history—in the hands of a historian. Alas that there should lie so great a difference between induction and deduction; and that in the discharge of even the sternest ‘public duty’ a sense of humor should be so essential!”
− =Ath= p645 N 12 ’20 1000w
=Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 540w
“The book is one which parlor Bolshevists ought to read, yes, every one ought to read it who is interested in the development of free government, and especially those simple-minded optimists who think that the key to progress has been found and that government is a well understood thing.” J: J. Chapman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 670w
“The authors are conspicuously honest, but their honesty inclines to credulity, and they are disposed to confuse ‘post hoc’ with ‘propter hoc.’ While admitting that ebullient Israel requires to be carefully watched, we really cannot, in these days of unstinted publicity, swallow mysterious stories about a ‘formidable sect.’”
− + =Sat R= 130:376 N 6 ’20 1250w
=Spec= 125:503 O 16 ’20 1250w
“The book which appears under the pretentious title, ‘The cause of world unrest’ contains nothing to make good its pretenses.” Harry Schneiderman
− =Survey= 45:322 N 27 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 50w
=CENTER, STELLA STEWART=, comp. Worker and his work. (Lippincott’s school text ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 820.8
20–26453
“‘The worker and his work,’ by Stella S. Center, is a text for high schools designed ‘to meet the needs of boys and girls who feel the urgent necessity of selecting the right vocation.’ It is a book of prose selections from present-day writers, ranging from H. G. Wells to Harold Bell Wright, interspersed with a few bits of verse.” (Nation) “It is not concerned with processes nor practical problems. The illustrations are from artists who use some form of labor for their subjects; they include Meunier, Pennell and Rodin.” (Booklist)
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=Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
“The selections themselves leave a confusing and contradictory impression.”
− + =Nation= 111:50 Jl 10 ’20 280w
=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 20w
“It is rather a romantic statement of modern industry than a true one. The book, however, should find a real place and should give to many students a preliminary picture of the variety of industry.” Alexander Fleisher
+ − =Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 100w
=CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH, jr.= Freedom of speech. *$3.50 Harcourt 323.4
20–22239
The object of the book is to inquire into the proper limitations upon freedom of speech by way of ascertaining the nature and scope of the policy which finds expression in the First amendment to the United States constitution and then to determine the place of that policy in the conduct of war. With a wide and learned acquaintance with the law, the author’s endeavor is to get behind the rules of law to human facts, and although not in personal sympathy with the views of most of the men who have been imprisoned since the war began for speaking out, he declares with certitude “that the First amendment forbids the punishment of words merely for their injurious tendencies. The history of the amendment and the political function of free speech corroborate each other and make this conclusion plain.” Contents: Freedom of speech in war time; Opposition to the war with Germany; A contemporary state trial—the United States v. Jacob Abrams et al; Legislation against sedition and anarchy; The deportations; John Wilkes, Victor Berger, and the five members; Freedom and initiative in the schools; Appendices (including Bibliography); Index of cases; General index.
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“This is a book very much ‘up to the minute,’ with which every judge and every lawyer should be familiar as a matter of professional routine; every newspaper editor should know it by heart. Every liberty-loving American will find it profoundly disturbing reading. To those who have despaired of freedom of speech in America this calm, scholarly, sane exposition of very recent history will sound like a clear bell in a moral fog.” J: P. Gavit
+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 Ja 15 ’21 1300w
“His book is courageous and sound, simple and scholarly.” Albert De Silver
+ =World Tomorrow= 4:56 F ’21 2100w
=CHAFFEE, ALLEN.= Lost river. il $1.60 (3c) Bradley, M.
A story of two boys lost in the Maine woods. Ralph Merritt, a city boy on his vacation, and Tim Crawford, the guide’s son, wander away from their companions in search of raspberries. They lose themselves in the thicket and are unable to regain the trail. Reaching a river which they mistakenly think to be the stream their party is following, they start in the wrong direction and go further and further away. The story tells of their adventures with animals, of their means of finding food and shelter from cold and storm. They touch civilization again on reaching the cabin of a forest ranger, and so enamored are they of life in the open that they decide to prepare for the forest service.
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“In addition to its first purpose, that of being an entertaining story, ‘Lost river’ abounds in practical information about wood-life that will make a summer vacation more enjoyable.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 120w
=CHALMERS, STEPHEN.= Greater punishment. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–11075
Following five years of vagabondage, the hero of this story returns to his home in Glasgow. He has not made his fortune and is not ready to pay back the five hundred pounds his father had given him on his twenty-first birthday, but he returns with a clean record and a good name. He is about to announce his return to his family when fate throws him in the way of an old ship mate, Joe Byrnes, alias “Shylock” Smith. He knows this man to have a criminal record but he is tolerant of his faults and the two make a night of it. He is later a witness to the murder of Byrnes and when arrested cannot clear himself, for to do so would involve the girl he loves. The deep mystery surrounding Daniel Bunthorne, Jess’s father, finally clears away; by a miscarriage of justice the hero’s life is saved. His parents are spared knowledge of his near approach to death and with Jess, he sails away to Canada and a new life.
=CHALMERS, THOMAS WIGHTMAN.= Paper making and its machinery. il *$8 Van Nostrand 676
20–17582
A work on paper making “including chapters on the tub sizing of paper, the coating and finishing of art paper and the coating of photographic paper.” (Sub-title) The author is on the editorial staff of the Engineer and the book is based on two series of articles, on Paper making and its machinery and on The art of coating paper that appeared in that journal in 1915 and 1916. The volume is very fully illustrated, having six folding plates and 144 illustrations in the text. It is also indexed.
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=Booklist= 17:97 D ’20
“A valuable contribution that will be appreciated by all who are interested in the operations.”
+ =Engineering= 110:157 Jl 30 ’20 2400w
“Mr Chalmers’ effort, admirable as it is, regarded in its proper aspect as a pioneer to some such technical treatise, falls far short of our expectations in this direction. It is doubtful whether a really practical and useful textbook on the engineering problems of the paper industry will ever be written. The two most interesting chapters in the book are those dealing with The coating of art paper and The coating of photographic paper. Taking the book as a whole, we are glad to recommend it to those associated with the paper industry.” R. W. Sindall
+ − =Nature= 105:480 Je 17 ’20 1100w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 70w
=CHAMBERLAIN, GEORGE AGNEW.= Taxi. il *$1.60 Bobbs
20–2643
“This is a whimsically humorous account of the adventures of Robert Hervey Randolph, ‘six feet straight up and down, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, sandy haired, blue eyed, nose slightly up-ended and wearing a saddle of faint freckles, clean shaved, well groomed, very correctly dressed, and twenty-six years old,’ who swaps places with a New York taxicab driver, clothes and all, and gathers some big ideas while studying the under side of the upper world through a hole in the front glass of his car. His experiment convinced him that a chaperoned cab company was badly needed in New York.”—N Y Times
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“Viewed seriously, ‘Taxi’ is a piece of sheer absurdity: but it is not written for the serious view. Still, merely as a piece of deliberate nonsense, I don’t find it remarkably successful. Its gaiety is not quite spontaneous.” H. W. Boynton
− =Bookm= 51:585 Jl ’20 90w
“The most sanguine admirer of Mr Chamberlain would be obliged to admit that ‘Taxi’ is a pot-boiler. It is not, moreover, a very choice specimen of pot-boiling. The product is of a watery character, in which a few bits of nourishment float pathetically.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 120w
“An agreeable romance runs through this original tale and all ends well.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 440w
Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows
=Pub W= 97:176 Ja 17 ’20 280w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Crimson tide. il *$1.75 Appleton
19–18840
“Mr Chambers shrewdly gives us glimpses of two scenes which take place before the beginning of the story, but which are vitally important to our understanding of it. One is a foreword and contains the first meeting of Palla Dumont, Ilse Westgard and John Estridge. Estridge is an ambulance driver in Russia, detailed to take Palla Dumont to the Grand Duchess Marie who has obtained permission to have her American companion and dear friend with her in the convent where the imperial family are confined. In the preface we have an equally important scene taking place in the convent when the Bolsheviki arrive to put to death the empress and her children. With such exciting events behind her it is little wonder that Palla Dumont has no real desire to settle down to the ordinary life of the United States after the signing of the armistice. The story is largely concerned with Palla’s revolt from the conventional and her endeavor to fight the rising tide of bolshevism in New York by preaching her gospel of love and service.”—Boston Transcript
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− + =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 110w
=Boston Transcript= p9 F 7 ’20 600w
“One pictures Mr Chambers awakened by the alarm clock of destiny to realization that the hour is striking in which he must begin to write a new novel and saying to himself with infinite boredom: ‘What in thunder is there left in the world that I haven’t written about? Bolshevism? Is Bolshevism among my titles?”
− =N Y Times= 24:741 D 14 ’19 700w
“It is all fairly interesting, but rather shallow.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:440 N 27 ’20 130w
“‘The crimson tide’ promises, in its inception, to be a lively story of adventuring with a strain of characteristic Chambers romance.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
=CHAMBERS, ROBERT WILLIAM.= Slayer of souls. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
20–8632
When the story opens the heroine, Tressa Norne, is on shipboard leaving behind her China and the memories of her four years as a captive temple girl. When next met she is in a hotel room in San Francisco, expelling an intruder by the simple expedient of opening a bolted door with the power of her eye, and causing a yellow snake to appear out of the atmosphere. Next she is on the stage in New York giving an exhibition of black magic, with secret service men watching her. Victor Cleves obtains an interview and enlists her in a crusade against the “red spectre,” anarchy, otherwise bolshevism. For the secret of the bolshevist advance is really magic, “brewed in the hell pit of Asia.” It has conquered Russia, is spreading over Europe and threatening the United States, where already the I. W. W., the parlor socialists and some two million other deluded mortals are in the power of the dread Yezidees of China. Indeed, we have the author’s own word for it that all that stood between “a trembling civilization and threat of hell’s own chaos” was this little band of secret service men and one lone girl. Civilization totters but is saved.
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“‘The slayer of souls’ is as good a story as ‘In secret,’ and that is no mean praise. We embark upon strange and perilous adventures, and it is not long that we bother to count whether or not the episodes of his tale are practicable. They are exciting and they are full of wonder, which suffices.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 26 ’20 440w
“It is a well told story, but Mr Chambers, our most shining example of a debased talent, can write better than he does here.”
+ − =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 120w
“The reader sympathizes wholly with one of the characters who at the end of the book ‘whispers hoarsely, “For God’s sake, let us get out of this!”’”
− =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 630w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w
“The stories provide diverse entertainment but are in nowise above mediocrity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
“The book serves only to show that an author, reputed of great skill in casting the storyteller’s spell over his readers while leaving thought and emotion unstirred, can on occasion forget that skill, and write as clumsily as any novice.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 310w
=CHAMBRUN, JACQUES ALDEBERT DE PINETON, comte de, and MARENCHES, CHARLES, comte de.= American army in the European conflict. *$3 Macmillan 940.373
19–18747
“An account of the American military activities from a French source. The two French officers who were the authors of this work were attached to General Pershing’s staff.” (R of Rs) “The work is remarkably comprehensive, and in its 400 pages embraces a rapid but complete survey of American preparation for war, the transport of men and supplies across the ocean, the training of the troops in France, the organization and work of the services of supply, construction work in France, the part taken by different units of the A. E. F. with the allied armies, the organization of the American forces into their own armies and the part they thus played in battle.” (N Y Times)
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“The facts which they present are beyond dispute, and the presentation is singularly free of any discussion of the friction which arose between us and our allies over the methods in which the necessary cooperation between us was effected. The narrative is unbalanced in treating so much in detail minor actions of the first few divisions arriving in France.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:529 Ap ’20 900w
“Written without sentimentality, in a clear, logical, analytical manner.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:236 Ap ’20
“The book is of special value in that it gives perhaps the best account of the organization of the American troops in France.”
+ =Cath World= 111:822 S ’20 370w
“Some of the distinctive qualities of the French genius for expression are evident in the clarity, the logical arrangement, the precision with which the narrative is presented. Noteworthy throughout the book are the understanding of American character and the appreciation of how it has been formed and colored by the history and conditions of the country.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:80 F 8 ’20 1400w
=R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 40w
+ =Spec= 124:868 Je 26 ’20 670w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p230 Ap 15 ’20 830w
=CHAMPION, JESSIE.= Sunshine in Underwood. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
A trifling comedy of errors involving a young English parson on his holiday. Bob Truesdale had meant to spend his month’s leave with Colonel Massey but at the station he is hailed with joy by Uncle Joseph and Aunt Emily who mistake him for their nephew, Bob Upton. What he learns in the next half hour about the feud between the colonel and the vicar and the part he had been destined to play in it, also about the colonel’s plans for himself and Nora Massey, decides him and he keeps up the deception. Later a friend appears who is willing to play the part of Bob Truesdale and still later the real Bob Upton, who all the time has been engaged to Nora, comes on the scene and Truesdale is glad enough by then to be relieved of his disguise for he is already deeply in love with Hilda, the vicar’s daughter, and wants to do his courting in his own proper person.
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“A light and cheerful story.”
+ =Ath= p157 Ja 30 ’20 40w
“Light, irresponsible, amusing fare. It is the sort of thing that one may read or fall asleep over, as it may happen, with no harm done either way.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 400w
“This is one of the funniest books of the season.”
+ =Sat R= 129:178 My 22 ’20 70w
=CHANCELLOR, WILLIAM ESTABROOK.= Educational sociology. *$2.25 Century 301
19–17183
“Although the author, who is the head of the Department of political and social science at the College of Wooster, states in his preface that the work is written as an introductory textbook in sociology from the educational point of view, it is hardly that, but rather a work on social psychology, in which field it is very successful. Part one, on Social movement, treats public opinion, citizenship, social solidarity, custom, tradition, habit, rules of the game, revivals, panics, crazes, strikes, political campaigns, and similar topics. Part two, on Social institutions, does not take up the evolution of social institutions, but is a study of the organization and control of society through its institutions, taking up the state, property, the family, the church, the school, occupation and under minor institutions, charity, amusement, art, science, business, and war. Part three, on Social measurements, consists of seven chapters. The one on institutional workers treats the value placed upon different groups of institutional workers, as lawyers, doctors, teachers, business men, artists, and entertainers.”—Survey
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“In the field of sociology he is in his usual style: always original and often brilliant.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:240 S ’20 200w
“Well indexed.”
+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
“The breezy style, the vigorous language, the wealth of information, the multitude of applicable suggestions, compensate for the frequently dogmatic tone and for what will be for too many teachers and normal students new topics and new thoughts and new attitudes.”
+ − =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 200w
“It is a misnomer to call the volume ‘Educational sociology.’ The treatment is not focused upon education, whether curriculum, methods, or administration. There is no treatment of sociological phenomena, relations, or principles in such a way as to show how types of education have been produced, how schools and society in general are interrelated, or what kind of education is dictated by present-day social conditions. No coherent educational program is indicated.”
− + =School R= 28:153 F ’20 300w
“It has no thoughts running through the work. Instead, its arrangement is haphazard, being a collection of valuable and interesting social facts. The book is a valuable work, for it is a mine of facts and illustrations of social psychology and ought to be extremely useful to the teacher of sociology as such.” G. S. Dow
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 250w
=CHANDLER, ANNA CURTIS.= More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of the people of many lands. il *$1.40 Holt 372.6
20–4279
This book follows the plan of “Magic pictures of the long ago,” published last year. It is made up of stories told to children during the story hour in the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city. Among them are: A great Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut; In the land of the minotaur; A story from colored glass, or, Justinian and Theodora; A tale of a great crusade; At the court of Philip IV; In the time of Paul Revere. The illustrations are from pictures and art objects in the museum, and there is a bibliography at the beginning and an epilogue, “About story hours,” that will be helpful to teachers.
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=Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
=N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 60w
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
=CHANDLER, FRANK WADLEIGH.= Contemporary drama of France. *$1.50 (1½c) Little 842
20–6298
The volume comes under the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard Burton. The author claims it to be the most inclusive of all the English books on the subject published in the present century. It “offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three decades, from the opening of the Theâtre-Libre of Antoine to the conclusion of the world war. It attempts the classification, analysis, and criticism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors.” (Preface) Contents: Precursors of the moderns; Masters of stagecraft; Naturalism and the free theatre; Laureates of love; Ironic realists; Makers of mirth; Moralists; Reformers; Minor poets and romancers; Major poets and romancers; Importers and war exploiters; Bibliographical appendix; Index.
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=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
“The combination of enthusiasm and judgment is excellent.” Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 120w
“It would be an odious thing to make light of this book, a book that represents so patent and prodigious an outlay of intelligent labour. And yet! Is this, after all, the contemporary drama of France? There are so many trees and so many leaves on each tree in this kind of criticism that one doesn’t see the forest at all. There is no proportion, no light and shade, no judgment, in short, no taste essentially, in all these laborious, lucid, skilfully prepared pages.”
− + =Freeman= 1:190 My 5 ’20 480w
“Mr Chandler, in a word, exhibits that blank awe which strikes so many admirable academic minds among us at the mere sight of a hollow technical dexterity.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:627 My 8 ’20 850w
“So close an analysis is of undoubted value to the playwright who can see in the most barren plot the ultimate beauty of its development, but even a public devoted to drama will not wax enthusiastic over an anatomical study of the subject.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Chandler has produced an excellent handbook, but not a critical interpretation.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 300w
=CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE.= Jane. *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam
20–7764
Jane, small, red-haired, Irish, selfless, loving, innocent, is queer. She has both temperament and a temper and it is owing to both of these that she runs away from home, from her lethargic, fat and flabby mother and her ponderous, soulless stepfather to join a one-night-stand theatrical troupe. She travels across the continent with them, adopts and mothers each member in turn as the need arises, while all the temptations and dangers of such a life glance off from her guileless innocence as from an armor. Tom Brainerd, the sub-manager, is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. He loves her, bullies and frightens her, but at last when she fully realizes the strength, tenderness and sincerity underneath the roughness he conquers her.
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=Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Jane is a likeable girl, in spite of sunshine girl tradition, and her courage and struggles must appeal to readers, in spite of an inevitable sense of unreality surrounding the story.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 340w
“The author tells her story in a cheerful vein, but does not neglect to picture the hectic environment in which the heroine lives.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 210w
=CHAPIN, CHARLES.= Charles Chapin’s story. *$2.50 (3½c) Putnam
20–18406
This autobiography of a man now serving a life sentence at Sing Sing for the murder of his wife, has an introduction by Basil King, who suggested the writing of the story to the prisoner as a means of escaping from his own morbid thoughts. The book contains the experiences of a newspaper man of forty years’ standing. The author was city editor of the New York Evening World at the time of the tragedy. Contents: From the bottom; Barnstorming; Chicago “Tribune” days; My first big “scoop”; A murder mystery; “Star” reporting; A city editor at twenty-five; Breaking into Park Row; On the “World’s” city desk; Newspapering today; The Pulitzers; Newspaper ethics; Gathering clouds; Tragedy; A “lifer” in Sing Sing.
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=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 580w
“The recital of the morbid psychological conditions that led to the author’s crime does not make wholesome reading. Nevertheless the book is one of the most remarkable that ever came from within prison walls.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w
=Review= 3:477 N 17 ’20 880w
“The author tells his story in direct and simple English, wasting no words, and stopping when the tale is completed. In comparison with some literary products, the work may seem ‘choppy’ at times, but the human story is there and written in a style easily understood and followed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 800w
=CHAPMAN, ERNEST HALL.= Study of the weather. il *$1.10 Putnam 551.5
20–10622
“The present volume of the Cambridge nature study series has been written chiefly to provide a series of practical exercises on weather study.... In addition to serving its primary purpose as a school-book it is hoped that the book will be acceptable as an introduction to the study of modern meteorology.” (Introd.) It is an English work and its problems and illustrations are based on climatic conditions in the British Isles. Contents: The weather day by day, observations of wind; What to look for in watching the weather; Clouds, the colours of the sky; Fog and mist, dew and frost; Rain, snow and hail, thunderstorms; Temperature and humidity; The pressure of the atmosphere; Weather charts; Cyclones and anticyclones; Anticipation of weather. Appendixes contain exercises, a syllabus of weather study for elementary schools and a bibliography. There are illustrations, maps and charts and an index.
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“It is a type of book which will undoubtedly be of very great interest to pupils and will stimulate in them an attitude toward scientific method which will carry on into other fields. The book ought to be imitated by an American edition which will give an account of the conditions on this continent similar to that which is given for the neighborhood of England.”
+ =El School J= 20:552 Mr ’20 180w
“It is elementary but it is lucid. Nothing could be better as an introduction to an important subject.”
+ =Spec= 123:662 N 15 ’19 70w
=CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER.= What bird is that? il *$1.25 Appleton 598.2
20–7850
“A pocket museum of the land birds of the eastern United States arranged according to season.” (Sub-title) The author is curator of birds in the American museum of natural history, and in this book he has reproduced one of the museum features, the seasonal collection of birds. The plates, eight in number, are arranged to show Permanent resident land birds of the northern United States, Winter visitant land birds of the northern United States, Winter land birds of the southern United States, etc. The bird figures in these plates are small but they have been drawn with particular care to accuracy in color and form. They have also been drawn as nearly as possible to the same scale so that comparative sizes are indicated. A bird “map” as frontispiece also makes identification and the reading of descriptions easier. The plates, which are the work of Edmund J. Sawyer, are arranged at the beginning, followed by the text. There is an index.
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
“This compact little guide may well become the vade mecum of the birdlover.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 280w
+ =Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 40w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
+ =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 150w
“For the amateur this book is the simplest, as well as the most authoritative, bird guide.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 230w
=CHASE, JOSEPH CUMMINGS.= Soldiers all. il *$7.50 Doran 940.373
20–5654
The author was sent overseas by the War department to paint the portraits of the officers and distinguished soldiers at the American front. As a result he offers this book with 133 portraits and biographical sketches of the subjects. The other contents are the foreword by the author; a list of the army corps and division assignments; the thirteen major operations; and a description of the American military decorations.
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“The portraits are spirited, varied, and alive with the characteristic traits of the American soldier. They constitute a fine and enduring achievement.”
+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w
+ =R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 140w
“A glance through the book shows that, though there are many types among the picked manhood of America, a distinctively American type is evolving. It might be possible for an anatomist to define the special points in a characteristically American face with the help of such a collection of clever portraits as this.”
+ =Spec= 124:835 Je 19 ’20 120w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 80w
=CHASE, JOSEPH SMEATON.= Penance of Magdalena, and other tales of the California missions. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton
Magdalena was half-Spanish and half-Indian, in the early days of the mission of San Juan Capistrano. She and Teófilo, the padre’s favorite Indian neophyte, loved each other dearly. But Magdalena, being part Spanish, was not sufficiently humble and obedient to suit the padre and he would not give his consent to the marriage before Magdalena had done a penance, i.e. appeared at mass carrying a penitent’s candle. Love conquered pride at last, but in the midst of the service an earthquake shook the church and the falling walls killed the lovers. The other missions represented in the cycle are: San Diego de Alcalá, in Padre Urbano’s umbrella; San Gabriel Arcángel, in The bells of San Gabriel; San Fernando, in The buried treasure of Simí; and Santa Bárbara, in Love in the padres’ garden. There are illustrations.
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“All are charming and some of them are humorous.”
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 70w
=CHATHAM, DENNIS, and CHATHAM, MARION, pseuds.= Cape Coddities. il *$1.35 (7c) Houghton 917.4 20–10073
This collection of essays, the authors say, is not to be taken as a serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people, but merely to express their perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday land. They prefer “to think of the Cape as a playground for the initiate, a wonderland for children, and a haven of rest for the tired of all ages, a land where lines and wrinkles quickly disappear under the soothing softness of the tempered climate.” Contents: A message from the past; The casual dwelling-place; The ubiquitous clam; A by-product of conservation; Motor tyrannicus; “Change and rest”—summer bargaining; A blue streak; A fresh-water cape; Al Fresco; Models; “A wet sheet and a flowing sea”; My cape farm; Scallops; Aftermath. The
## book is illustrated.
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+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 140w
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 110w
“Pleasant little essays.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 40w
“‘Cape Coddities’ is a gem of a book, for its text, illustrations, and general appearance.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Chorus girl, and other stories. *$1.75 Macmillan
20–3884
This is volume eight in Mrs Garnett’s translation of Chekhov’s stories. Contents: The chorus girl; Verotchka; My life; At a country house; A father; On the road; Rothschild’s fiddle; Ivan Matveyitch; Zinotchka; Bad weather; A gentleman friend; A trivial incident.
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“Fairly representative of the author’s relentless realism and his keen though not unsympathetic insight into human nature.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 50w
“The tales have each its special sharpness, but how little are they a moralizing and how much a sophistication, an enrichment of experience!”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 130w
“The Chekhov of these stories is the typical naturalist. He is a naturalist, that is to say, not merely on some artistic theory, but by instinct and need. He is the man whose vision of life has caused him suffering, whose contacts have brought him pain. He has little of the Russian’s compassion; he has the artist’s cruelty toward those who have pierced and jangled his delicate nerves. The novelette My life has a note of relenting. The two stories that have a touch of gentleness and of the sadder poetry of life—Verotchka and Zinotchka—read like memories of moments that were painful enough to be recalled but not bitter enough to be resented in after years.”
+ =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 750w
“Chekhov applies the knife, which is his eye, to everyone alike. And in this critical insight is one of his distinguishing characteristics. To read Chekhov is to come in contact with a man of great sensitiveness and witty subtleties yet a man of wide sanity and plain humane feeling.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:254 Ap 21 ’20 1450w
“There is no trickery about Chekhov’s story telling; he is given neither to happy endings nor to ironical twists of narration. His tales are simply unadorned cross-sections of life, studied and described with passionless accuracy. Chekhov’s reaction to life is revealed in his treatment of his characters—a reaction neither bitter nor sentimental, but grave and just and charitable.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 320w
“His stories are replete with interest, with vivid glimpses of the baffling Russia of yesterday. It is a picture of hopelessness painted by a master without hope.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 660w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Letters of Anton Tchekhov to his family and friends; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$3 Macmillan
20–5392
“The family of Anton Chekhov, the Russian novelist, has published 1890 of his letters. From this great mass of correspondence Mrs Garnett has selected for translation those passages which seem to her to throw most light on the novelist’s life, character and opinions. A biographical sketch, taken from the memoirs written by Chekhov’s brother, introduces the volume.”—R of Rs
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“The publication of this volume of his letters affords an opportunity for the examination of some of the chief constituents of his perfect art. These touch us nearly because the supreme interest of Tchekhov is that he is the only great modern artist in prose. As we read these letters of his, we feel gradually from within ourselves the conviction that he was a hero—more than that, the hero of our time.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p299 Mr 5 ’20 1400w
“A secondary interest is the continuous passage of scenes of Russian life in all their fascinating variety.”
+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 70w
“It may be said that the letters of Chekhov are at first sight disappointing. They corroborate only faintly and unemphatically the life so vivid in outline. Either they have been subjected to a drastic process of selection and expurgation, or they represent the reduction of experience to an even, neutral tone of objective observation, of detachment, almost of indifference. Both explanations are doubtless in a measure true. Among letter-writers he belongs to the school of Prosper Merimée rather than Stevenson.” R. M. Lovett
+ − =Dial= 68:626 My ’20 1900w
“His letters are the letters of a man without calculativeness or envy—untrammelled, unpremeditative, unspoiled. To read him, when he is favorable or the reverse ... is to feel the same pleasure that he himself had in sea-bathing: ‘Sea-bathing is so nice that when I got into the water I began to laugh for no reason at all.’ His personality, so unforced, is like that; and when his letters stop, it is as if a heart stops, he is so palpable.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:226 Ap 14 ’20 1700w
=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ag 1 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“They are colorful, vigorous, entertaining, but the Chekhov who wrote them is that faithful, talented reporter who chronicles fact without opinion, and who rarely allows the reader an intimate association with himself. Of course, the letters are just as they should be; one could not expect the writer of the ‘Tales’ to be a correspondent after the fashion of the author of ‘Treasure Island.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 330w
“In spite of the early and full maturity of Tchehov’s mind and intellect we seem to retrieve in his letters the consciousness and sensibility of childhood with all its vividness and absorption.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 F 12 ’20 2700w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.=[2] Overland for gold. *$1.50 Abingdon press
20–4892
“Its scene laid in the early ’60s, Frank H. Cheley’s new story for boys tells of the adventures of a party of gold seekers who made their way to Colorado in the days when Denver was a town of shacks to which the law had as yet scarcely penetrated. Clayton Trout, one of the two boys in the party, is the narrator and tells how his uncle Herman, who had been in the gold rush to California, equipped a small company with tools, food, etc., and several wagons drawn by oxen, and set forth to meet the dangers and difficulties of the trail. The book describes first the journey, on which they encountered Indians, herds of buffalo, wolves, etc., and then the arrival at Mountain City and the adventures which befell them in their search for gold.”—N Y Times
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“This is a ‘corking’ good story.”
+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 70w
“Though the occurrences are not related in a very spirited manner, ‘Overland for gold’ will probably please the boy readers for whom it is intended.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 360w
“The valuable part of the book is the description of gold mining in the Rockies.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 100w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.= Stories for talks to boys. *$2 Assn. press 808.8
20–4120
A collection of brief stories, “brought together here for the convenience of Sunday school teachers, boys’ club leaders, Young men’s Christian association secretaries, Boy scoutmasters, and any others who are called upon to talk to boys informally or even formally to address them.... They have been selected from the four winds, ... clipped from books, magazines, and even dally papers, ... gathered from sermons, personal conversations, and other sources.... They have been arranged under abstract headings for convenience in finding what is wanted.” (Preface) Some of these headings are as follows: Appreciation; Cigarettes; Convictions; Diligence; Health; Ideals; Influence; Mother; Procrastination; Use of time; Vision, etc. The author is connected with the boys’ work department, International committee of Young men’s Christian associations, and is author also of “Told by the camp fire,” “Camping with Henry,” etc.
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“Just the kind of anecdotes which preachers, Sunday school teachers and other speakers like to use to adorn the tale which points a moral.”
+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20
=CHELLEW, HENRY.= Human and industrial efficiency; preface by Lord Sydenham. *$2 (9c) Putnam 658.7
20–21085
The book aims to map out the broad outlines of the problem of human efficiency and lays no claim to academic or scientific treatment. “Today as never before we are called upon to mobilize all our thoughts, acts and emotions in the name of efficiency” but “efficiency is not a mechanical thing; it is the science of life itself” and scientific management and welfare work have only taken the first steps towards humanizing the life of the worker. Contents: Introductory; Human efficiency; What is fatigue? Applied psychology; Selecting employees; Scientific management and the welfare of the worker; Appendix: Handling the human factor; Training executives for efficiency; How to establish an efficiency club.
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“There is nothing very new in the matter or treatment; there are the usual generalities and assumptions, but the book is clearly written.”
+ =Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 60w
“The volume fortunately is short, for it contains little particularly worth reading that has not been much better said by others.” E. R. Burton
− =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 150w
=CHENG, SIH-GUNG.= Modern China, a political study. (Histories of the nations) *$3.25 Oxford 951
(Eng ed 19–19083)
“Mr Cheng’s book is the work of a serious student of the troubles of his native land, who has taken great pains to equip himself by an academic training in this country [England]. He gives us a useful analysis of the differences between north and south, which is the crux of the situation at the moment; and the conclusion one comes to is that there is a number of military gentlemen concerned who have a profound suspicion of each other, and who for that reason maintain semi-private armies somehow to maintain themselves in their rickety positions. The struggle is said not to be territorial, and both sides pay little attention to the rights or sufferings of the patient people. Naturally the Far eastern policy of Japan fills a large space in the book.... Mr Cheng would call upon the European powers to discard the balance of power theory and stop extra-territorialism, and he would like to see America, Great Britain, and France combine to set China on her legs.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Mr Cheng’s survey is admirable as an introduction to the study of a great subject. As a plain statement of political conditions by one who speaks for China his little volume is the most satisfactory contribution to our understanding of her problem that has appeared since the revolution.” F: W. Williams
+ =Nation= 110:858 Je 26 ’20 850w
“In part 1 which deals with constitutional developments in China, he has presented a new and valuable account of recent political events in his country.” W. W. Willoughby
+ =Review= 2:281 Mr 20 ’20 2100w
“There is a moderation in his description of existing conditions which is not too common amongst Chinese politicians, and it is plain throughout that he has tried to submit the welter to a detached and impartial examination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p34 Ja 15 ’20 360W
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Irish impressions. *$1.50 (3½c) Lane 914.15
20–1624
In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical peasant. He emphasizes the fundamental differences between the English and the Irish out of which arise many if not all the tragic mistakes made on both sides. The contents are: Two stones in a square; The root of reality; The family and the feud; The paradox of labour; The Englishman in Ireland; The mistake of England; The mistake of Ireland; An example and a question; Belfast and the religious problem.
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“Neither his book nor his visit indicates any real appreciation of the almost agonizing seriousness of the issue between his country and Ireland.” E. A. Boyd
− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 400w
=Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
“The title of Mr Chesterton’s book, ‘Irish impressions,’ is apt; the author gives the temper of Ireland rather than direct information, yet his conclusions agree closely with those reached by historians, such as, for example, Professor Ernest Barker and Edward R. Turner. Mr Chesterton has caught the spirit of the Irish. His entertaining volume should be read not by itself but in connection with others.” N. J. O’C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1150w
“The Chesterton of ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Heretics’ has indeed suffered a war-change. His recent ‘Short history of England,’ however, gave us a glimmer of hope for him which this latest book confirms. There is, however, little that is new or valuable said here about the eternal Irish question, little that has not been said as well or almost as well by others before.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 180w
=Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 340w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“He proves in this book that even the most patriotic of Englishmen can treat another patriotism with magnanimity.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 21:298 F 4 ’20 1500w
+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 550w
“The defect in Mr Chesterton’s consideration of the Irish problem is not that he is superficial, but that he is in a certain sense too profound. He sees certain simple, but profound, truths so clearly and so exclusively that he ignores other truths that may possibly be as deeply rooted, and pays too little attention to superficial facts lying outside the categories that he thinks in.”
+ − =No Am= 211:426 Mr ’20 1050w
“Mr Chesterton does not write for the man in the street; his style is full of brilliant paradox, subtle allusion, and pages in which one must read between the lines for their meaning. But the game is worth the candle.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 100w
“We know what to expect from Mr Chesterton: vividness, color, wit, epigrams often a little strained but not seldom such as make one catch one’s breath and wonder; clear-cut antitheses—sometimes cut too clear to correspond accurately with situations that are complex and confused, but always a stimulant to thought, and not least arousing when they are most provoking. And it is the true Chestertonian humor that greets us in these ‘Irish impressions.’” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 500w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w
“This volume is a most notable contribution to the whole subject and one of the most important achievements of Mr Chesterton’s long and brilliant career.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 220w
“No work of Mr Chesterton’s could be altogether dull, for even the monotonous uniformity of his style is insufficient to conceal his genuine humour and alertness of mind; indeed, his latest volume takes rank amongst his most brilliant works of fiction; but as a contribution towards the solution of the Irish problem, it is a fond thing vainly invented.”
− + =Spec= 122:15 Ja 3 ’20 1600w
“Throughout Mr Chesterton writes as an Englishman, but as an extremely liberal Englishman.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 27 ’20 800w
“His observations have, of course, value, and they are presented in the form which has made Mr Chesterton a very popular writer; but the reader of his ‘Irish impressions’ is left to wonder whether a less facile pen and less nimble brain might not, if impelled by a humbler spirit, have produced a still more valuable work.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 650w
“The volume has both the virtues and the defects to be expected from one whose writing is almost entirely a succession of figures. ‘Irish impressions’ contains an amazing amount of true comment.” N. J. O’Conor
+ − =Yale R n s= 10:209 O ’20 220w
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Superstition of divorce. *$1.50 (6c) Lane 173
20–5411
The book is a collection of five articles first printed in the New Witness, apropos of a press controversy on divorce, with an added conclusion. Throughout the characteristically epigrammatic and brilliantly sketchy discourses the biological implications of marriage stand out as the incontrovertible facts and the “common sense” that has “age after age sought refuge in the high sanity of a sacrament.” The much ado about divorce, the writer concludes, is due to the fact that men expect the impossible from life and do not realize their natural limitations. Contents: The superstition of divorce; The story of the family; The story of the vow; The tragedies of marriage; The vista of divorce; Conclusion.
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“Though Mr Chesterton hardly adds anything new to the controversy, his
## book is an interesting study in style.”
+ =Ath= p192 F 6 ’20 120w
“Mr Chesterton’s position is not very easy to grasp because he has, to an unusual degree, indulged his propensity to break his argument in order to comment on anything that occurs to him, and we are not yet clear on some fundamental points. So far as we can see, Mr Chesterton does not deal with the real case for divorce, and his book leaves the question exactly where it was before.” J. W. N. S.
− =Ath= p235 F 20 ’20 1600w
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
“One can agree perfectly with Mr Chesterton in his plea for greater care in marriage partnerships and in hoping that the sanctity of the family may be preserved. But his arguments seem often rather strained, especially when coupled with his zeal in pumping up the wildest and most extravagant and often frivolous fireworks of style.” N. H. D.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 850w
=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 60w
“It is at no point a serious or searching analysis of the present situation in England as regards divorce.” R. D.
− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 330w
=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 240w
=Lit D= p116 S 18 ’20 1550w
“Mr Chesterton seems to imagine that divorce is now being advocated for its own sake. To forbid divorce and remarriage altogether, as a desperate remedy for extreme cases, is no more rational or humane than it would be to forbid surgery to all because most do not stand in present need of it.” Preserved Smith
− + =Nation= 110:827 Je 19 ’20 670w
“Mr Chesterton’s book is, like most of his work, delightfully amusing, and incidentally contains much good sense. But it is a far better treatise on marriage than on divorce. I object to divorce in the same sense as I object to surgery. But if we are to have surgery let us have it up to date and not as it was in 1800.” E. S. P. Haynes
− + =Nation [London]= 26:684 F 14 ’20 850w
=Review= 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 320w
=Sat R= 129:140 F 7 ’20 600w
“Save in a sort of dreadful desert which the reader enters about the middle of the book when he is taken through dreary tracts of guild socialism and over a waste marked ‘Superior attractions of the middle ages,’ the book is extraordinarily lively reading.”
+ − =Spec= 124:391 Mr 20 ’20 800w
“Mr Chesterton is cheerfully disinclined to subject his arguments to empirical tests. He starts with a number of definitions and then, having proved all the ramifications of his thought to be in accord with those definitions, regards the case as closed. Satisfied with his own logic Mr Chesterton conceivably may be; the reader’s satisfaction comes from the skill and surprise of the dialectic, from the ever-recurring paradox, from the humanity and good nature and good sense that often glint through the subtile fabric of wit.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ’20 750w
“As is often the case with his writings, it hits mainly into the air and does not meet the arguments of his opponents where they are strongest. Also, one gets tired of the perpetual punning which once gave this writer the reputation of being a great wit but which really is quite easy to imitate.”
− + =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 180w
=CHEVREUIL, L.= Proofs of the spirit world; tr. by Agnes Kendrick Gray. il *$3 Dutton 134
20–6884
“M. Chevreuil, whose ‘On ne meurt pas,’ here translated as ‘Proofs of the spirit world,’ was awarded the prize for 1919 by the French Academy of sciences, has brought together and discussed with judicial penetration the evidence presented for the continued existence of discarnate spirits by telepathy, abnormal psychology, apparitions, materializations and similar phenomena. The book is written in the scientific spirit and the author carefully examines the evidence and the arguments presented by other investigators, sometimes rejecting it altogether and sometimes coming to different conclusions. One of the chapters makes an interesting discussion of reincarnation.”—N Y Times
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+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− =Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 350w
“It is no exaggeration to say that out of the multitude of the psychical books which have appeared within these last few months, ‘thick as leaves in Vallambrosa,’ this one volume stands out in its luminous clearness, its scholarly selection of scientific data, its penetration into the realms beyond the senses, its sane exaltation of feeling, and its remarkable comprehensiveness of the relation between phenomena and spiritual philosophy.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 500w
=CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN.= Vanishing men. *$2 Dutton
20–7298
“The psychology of terror is the outstanding theme of ‘The vanishing men.’ Indeed, the sense of terror communicates itself to the reader, for the disappearance of two men and the portentous fate hanging over the heroine are apparently insoluble mysteries. One man plans an elopement with her but fails to appear and is not heard from again. Afterwards she marries a wealthy man some years her senior. He is attacked by a mania of fear, and eventually vanishes, too. Then a wealthy young man falls in love with her, and she warns him of the fate visited upon her previous lovers. But he is courageous and optimistic and refuses to be deterred by such fantasies of the imagination. He starts an investigation, and eventually presents a simple solution of what happens previously.”—Springf’d Republican
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“So ingenious a mystery that devotees will forgive the loose plot structure and the improbable characterization.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole problem is put and solved in an original way, and some readers will be grateful for a mystery story without the old properties and machinery.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 250w
“The story would greatly profit by a general tightening up. Its charm lies entirely in the formulation of the mystery, and with its solution the charm vanishes into incredibly thin air.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 900w
=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
“In ‘The vanishing men’ it is easy enough to pick flaws, but over and above them all remains the great fact that the story interests the reader from the beginning, holds his attention and brings up with a smashing climax at the end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 310w
“Ingenious but over-melodramatic in its grisly conclusion.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
“The reader is thoroughly thrilled, Mr Child is able to hold the atmosphere of mystery and terror.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w
=CHILDREN’S= story garden. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott
20–7726
A collection of stories illustrating Quaker principles. The book is compiled by a committee of the Philadelphia yearly meeting of Friends, Anna Pettit Broomell, chairman. The introduction says, “‘The children’s story garden’ announces its purpose at once. Its stories have the direct aim of teaching ethics and religious truth to children.... It is not the intention of the compilers to make this a sectarian book. There are of course stories which show the reason behind some Friendly customs, but as a whole it is hoped that there is a fair representation of the simple virtues which lie behind human progress and Christian living.” The stories have been selected and adapted from many sources. Several, including the opening story, show the relation between the Friends and the American Indians. A few have been written especially for this book. There are historical notes and an outline of the principles illustrated which will be useful to teachers. Further readings are also suggested.
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=Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
“If used with discrimination, the book will furnish some very good reading material.”
+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 60w
=CHISHOLM, LOUEY, and STEEDMAN, AMY=, comps. Staircase of stories. 11 *$4.50 (1½c) Putnam
20–26559
“Any originality of Intention or treatment must be disclaimed for ‘A staircase of stories.’ Its title, plan, appeal, and aim have been alike suggested by ‘The golden staircase,’ a volume of ‘Poems and verses for children between the ages of four and fourteen.’ The title indicates ... a gradual ascent in difficulty as the pages are turned.... In the choice of content, the aim, as before, has been to concentrate solely on what it is believed children will most enjoy.” (Preface) The series opens with The old woman and her pig, Lazy John, Henny-Penny and other simple tales and with its graduated ascent works up to an adaptation of Daudet’s “Last class.” Other stories are The golden touch; The madonna of the goldfinch; The storks; The queen of the seven golden mountains; The twelve huntsmen; The porcelain stove; Gareth and Lynette; and Balder the beautiful. There are illustrations in color and in black and white.
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=Booklist= 17:77 N ’20
“There is a goodly array of reading matter that should appeal to the youngster. The many color illustrations and pen and ink sketches add to the attractiveness of a book that any child may well covet.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 50w
“The illustrations are by a number of artists, whose names deserve to be known, so charmingly is their work done. In fanciful conception and delicacy of colors the plates are almost always a delight: moreover, there is no approach to the unduly fantastic or the bizarre. The black and white pictures have the breadth and surety of good draughtsmanship. Altogether ‘A staircase of stories’ is a successful production.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 180w
=CHRISMAN, OSCAR.=[2] Historical child. *$4 Badger, R: G. 392
20–6060
“Dr Chrisman, professor in the Ohio university, offers this book as the first of a projected series in paidology, the science of the child—a term originating, says the author, with himself. In this volume there is gathered an imposing array of folkways of many ancient peoples. Mexico, Peru, Egypt, India, China, Japan, Persia, Judea, Greece, Rome, earlier and medieval Europe are all included, and there is also a long chapter on earlier United States. Quotations from many sources are used in abundance. Dr Chrisman explains that one must know the setting of child life, to understand children. It is really, therefore, the social background that one finds here—miscellaneous customs of home, dress, food, marriage, infant ceremonies, industry, religion, amusements, education (briefly), and the like, which constitute the environmental stimulus to growth.”—Survey
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+ =Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 30w
“The reader gains the impression that the value of the book for students will depend upon the degree to which the teacher can help them to an intelligent use of the facts here portrayed. Unguided, one is likely to finish the book with a somewhat confused impression of a wide variety of interesting practices, but without any clear-cut addition to his knowledge of children.” Hugh Hartshorne
+ − =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 320w
=CHRISTY, BAYARD H.= Going afoot. *$1.35 Assn. press 796
20–7930
In this enthusiastic little book on walking instruction is given on the how, when and where of walking—the clothes to wear, the equipment to carry, the hours of the day, the seasons of the year, and the localities to choose. Detailed description is given of walking clubs and their organization and activities. Contents: How to walk; When to walk; Where to walk; Walking clubs in America; Organization and conduct of walking clubs; Bibliography.
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=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ag 15 ’20 800w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 300w
“It may seem impossible to write an altogether dull and uninspiring book on walking in the country; but Mr Christy has accomplished it. This is not to say that this little handbook of practical advice has not its uses. The chapter on organization is valuable for anyone contemplating the formation of a club.”
+ − =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 200w
=CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO.= Ideals of America. *$1.75 McClurg 304
19–16553
“This volume consists of thirteen essays by different authors who have endeavored to analyze the ‘guiding motives of contemporary American life’ in various fields. The essays were first presented as lectures before the City club of Chicago during the years from 1916 to 1919. Government, the law, labor, science, education, business, ‘society,’ music, religion, philosophy, literature, and human progress are treated. Robert Morss Lovett, Elsie Clews Parsons, John P. Frey, John Bradley Winslow and George Ellsworth Hooker are among the notable contributors to the volume.”—Survey
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=Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20
+ =Nation= 110:523 Ap 17 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:222 F ’20 40w
“The essays vary in value, but for example, to cite only two, those of Dean Lovett and Justice Winslow, are exceedingly able statements of realities and tendencies in their respective fields of literature and the law. As a whole the book is a useful picture of the intellectual life of the American which existed until 1914.”
+ =Survey= 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 140w
=CLANCY, MRS LOUISE BREITENBACH.= Christine of the young heart. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–17176
Christine Trevor is a butterfly debutante, pretty and selfish, with the notion that the world revolves around her. Then she loses her father and her wealth in one blow. She has a crippled younger brother and there are Dilly and Daffy, the six-year-old twins, so she has a wonderful opportunity to retrieve her character if she chooses to do so, but at first she rebels against mothering the twins and being a comrade to Laurie. She gradually awakes to the fact that nobody can love a “crosspatch,” as Daffy frankly calls her, and that to have a friend, one must be one. She decides to act on this principle, and her progress in friendship and happiness is speedy. Winning over cranky old Joshua Barton, her next door neighbor, is perhaps her greatest achievement, and thru it an ancient wrong is righted which brings happiness to many people. And Dr Denton, who has loved her always, surely loves her no less now that she has outgrown her earlier selfishness.
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“It is cloying upon the intellect and opiate to the senses. ‘Christine of the young heart’ is sweet; it is doubly dangerous because it is well constructed and well written, even though it be a typical novel of sentimentality.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 380w
=CLAPHAM, RICHARD.= Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells; with an introd. by J. W. Lowther. il *$4.25 (*12s 6d) Longmans 799
20–17000
“Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells is pure foxhunting. It is the fox and the work of the hounds alone that matter. On the Lakeland fells the fox looks after himself, and is there to be killed. He is no friend of the fell sheep. You will ask—why then is he not shot or trapped? And the answer is a simple one—because the men of that country enjoy hunting him. Of the joys and dangers of this sport on the fells Mr Clapham writes.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“He knows his subject thoroughly: he argues about it, theorizes about it, gossips about it, and all in a charmingly informal fashion. His volume is profusely illustrated with photographs that convey the interest of his subject even better than the text.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p21 D 4 ’20 160w
“A volume that will attract only a limited audience, but it is pleasingly written and the author’s intimate knowledge of his subject is indubitable. Written, undoubtedly, for the English public, its appeal to American readers will not be very great.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 70w
“Of the five chapters, we liked best that on ‘The fell hounds.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p645 O 7 ’20 1000w
=CLAPP, JOHN MANTLE.= Talking business. (Language for men of affairs) $4 Ronald 808
20–9489
The first of the two volumes on Language for men of affairs considers spoken language on the ground that not one in ten business men has the ready and sure mastery of the language forms required in business operations. The book is in five parts. Part I, The real problem: Putting your mind on the other man, treats of the psychology of speech. Part II, The machinery, explains the physiological basis under such headings as: Your appearance; The vocal organs; Pronunciation; A good voice. Part III, Language, considers the vocabulary and construction of sentences. Part IV, Conversation, Business interviews, discusses the various business situations involving speech and Part V, Public speaking, Business addresses, the more elaborate uses of language. There are illustrations and an index. The second volume, on Business writing, is edited by James Melvin Lee.
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=Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w
=CLARK, ALFRED.= Margaret book. *$1.50 Lane 828
20–7457
A book of verses strung together on a thread of prose. It is by the author of “My erratic pal” and follows the same manner. The prose narrative tells of a New Zealand soldier on sick leave in England, of his happy days in Margaret’s garden, of their love and marriage. Among the poems there is a series describing the dreams experienced in illness.
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=Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 80w
=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“It is all very sweet and nice and gentle—rather too ostentatiously so; every one plays up to the demand for sweetness too zealously and continuously, and the lusciousness of the love-making begins to pall. Nor do we think that the combination of prose and verse justifies itself.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 240w
=CLARK, ALICE.= Working life of women in the seventeenth century. (Studies in economics and political science) *$3.25 (3c) Harcourt. Brace & Howe 331.4
20–2765
The writing of the book was prompted by the conviction that “the conditions under which the obscure mass of women live and fulfill their duties as human beings, have a vital influence upon the destinies of the human race, and that a little knowledge of what these conditions have actually been in the past will be of more value to the sociologist than many volumes of carefully elaborated theory based on abstract ideas.” (Preface) The seventeenth century was chosen as a field of research because, as a sort of watershed between the Elizabethan era and the restoration period and partaking of the characteristics of both, it forms an important crisis in the historic development of Englishwomen. The author indicates in her conclusions that with the advent of machinery and capitalism, restricting the economic life of women, a marked decadence is revealed. Contents: Introductory; Capitalists; Agriculture; Textiles; Crafts and trades; Professions; Conclusion; List of authorities; List of wages assessments; Index.
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“In spite of the fact that the author’s powers of induction are not at all points comparable with her industry, the painstaking work is a monument to her effort, and is of unquestioned value in its presentation of contemporary evidence.” Amy Hewes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:577 S ’20 1750w
“Whether Miss Clark has proved her thesis or no, she has made available to the general reader and the student of economics a mass of material not easily accessible otherwise. She has faced the difficult task of presenting a fair sample of her evidence, and has come well out of that searching trial, though reflection would no doubt cause her to admit that on occasion she has read more into her authorities than is quite admissible.” E. M. G.
+ − =Ath= p9 Ja 2 ’20 1000w
“Clearly and interestingly written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Though Miss Clark’s book is technical in character, being based on a rigid plan, we may build up from it an enlightening picture of life in seventeenth century England.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 350w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
=Nation= 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 550w
“The exhaustive bibliography and the rigidly technical character of the investigation are the book’s outstanding virtues.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 170w
“Her distinction is that she has been able to render an inquiry so similar in method to that followed by many American students in graduate work, a genuine contribution in an important field. The record is in fact a corrective to much loose thinking concerning the place of women in a productive society. Not least of all, moreover, it is an extraordinarily interesting book.”
+ =Survey= 44:320 My 29 ’20 360w
“The narrative is somewhat overloaded by detail, much of which could have been relegated to foot notes; but neither this nor the defects to which we have drawn attention should prevent due praise being given to Miss Clark for a laborious and successful attempt to break new ground in the history of the economic position of women.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1500w
=CLARK, CHAMP.= My quarter century of American politics. 2v il *$6 (2c) Harper
20–4643
“I started out to accomplish certain things. I kept pounding away at them and have achieved most of them.... Endowed by nature with a strong constitution, I have been able to do more work than most men.... My long public career is due largely to the fact that I have been blessed with as faithful a constituency as man ever had.... As my wife, children, and many friends want to know some of the facts, experiences, and recollections of my busy life, I will give them as briefly, modestly, and as accurately as possible—writing about the persons, books, circumstances, and things which most influenced my life.” (