The book review digest, Volume 16, 1920
Volume 6 “describes the enormous counter attack of the Allies leading
up to their final victory.” Both volumes are indexed and are illustrated with maps and plans.
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“It is written in the author’s usual clear style, and sticks, for the most part, to the business in hand, although the occasional ill-informed references to the Russian revolution are hardly in keeping with the rest of the narrative.”
+ − =Ath= p932 S 19 ’19 60w (Review of v 5)
=Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 90w (Review of v 6)
=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20 (Review of v 5–6)
+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 190w (Review of v 6)
“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield
+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w
=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 30w (Review of v 6)
“Within certain limits, Sir Arthur’s account will be found useful; his maps, so-called, are execrable.”
+ − =Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 1050w (Review of v 5–6)
=Spec= 123:373 S ’20 ’19 1850w (Review of v 5)
+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 150w (Review of v 6)
“Perhaps the only possible criticism of Sir Arthur’s work is its official tinge. Considering his difficulties, Sir Arthur is to be congratulated upon his work.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 850w (Review of v 5–6)
“Sir Arthur Doyle lacks the knowledge, for which he cannot be blamed, since official material is denied to him; and it is quite impossible that such a history as his should not be more or less hastily produced, so that he lacks also time. We fear that we must add, lastly that he fails in literary skill. One bright spot, indeed, there is in the shape of a few pages of actual experience which Sir Arthur has modestly relegated to the appendix of his final volume.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p164 Mr 11 ’20 1250w (Review of v 5–6)
=D’OYLY, SIR WARREN HASTINGS, bart.= Tales retailed of celebrities and others. il *$2 (4½c) Lane
20–20076
“They are simple tales mostly such as are told in ordinary after dinner chit-chats round the fire, over a good cigar and a glass of good wine, when young men tell tales of presentday happenings to be capped by older men’s tales of the ‘good old times.’” (Preface) With a few exceptions they all relate to incidents which have come under the author’s own observation during a lifetime of over fourscore years. The contents are in two parts. Book I contains: A hundred years ago: Dorsetshire, Haileybury and Scotland; India; Tirhut, Bhaugulpore, and Arrah; Indian celebrities and others. Book II, Legends, contains: Family legends and tales taken from “The house of D’Oyly” by William D’Oyly Bayley. F. S. A.
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=Ath= p528 Ap 16 ’20 40w
“His jottings may entertain readers who know something of the circle in which he moved, or who may like a few anecdotes about the hunting of Indian big game. But the book as a whole can hardly claim to have much general interest.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p141 F 26 ’20 110w
=DOZIER, HOWARD DOUGLAS.= History of the Atlantic coast line railroad. *$2 Houghton 385
20–7433
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx series of prize essays in economics. It is the history of the consolidation of a number of short railroads along the South Atlantic seaboard into the Atlantic coast line system and illustrates the growth of the holding company period and its decline. It includes much of the economic history and the economic conditions of the section involved and shows what a marked influence the consolidation had on the latter. Contents: Early trade and transportation conditions of the Atlantic seaboard states: Economic background of the north and south railroads of Virginia; The Petersburg and the Richmond and Petersburg railroads before 1860: North Carolina and the Wilmington and Weldon railroad before 1860; The South Carolina-Georgia territory and its railroads before the Civil war; Summary of railroad conditions along the Atlantic seaboard to 1860; Growth from the Civil war to 1902; Integrations and consolidations; Summary and conclusion; Appendix; Bibliographical note; Index; and insert maps and table.
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“The student will find in this volume an important contribution to the economic literature of the country, not only because it adds to our knowledge of railway history but because it contains as a background a good discussion of the industrial development of the country through which the lines were built.” I: Lippincott
+ =Am Econ R= 10:593 S ’20 720w
“The later chapters, in fact, are notably lacking in the mention of personnel. Other faults lie in the construction of sentences and paragraphs, in the omission of dates of publication from the bibliography, and in occasional errors of statement. The book, nevertheless, is in general a substantial and well-considered contribution.” U. B. Phillips
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 320w
=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 30w
=DRACHSLER, JULIUS.=[2] Democracy and assimilation; the blending of immigrant heritages in America. *$3 Macmillan 325.7
20–18678
“Prof. Drachsler gives us an interpretation of a careful statistical study of the facts of intermarriage in New York city among immigrant groups. In view of our heterogeneous population, he states, the national ideal must be redefined and our life consciously directed toward it. Approaching the problem merely from an economic or cultural point of view is not enough. The fusion of races in America, in short, must be cultural as well as biological, and it must take place under an adequate economic environment if an American ideal is to be achieved. The most specific proposal which Prof. Drachsler makes to accomplish this is to develop in our schools a conscious attempt to study the comparative literature, politics and history of the races represented therein in order that their heritages may continue to be an inspiration and force.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 720w
=N Y Times= p10 D 12 ’20 1800w
“Prof. Drachsler’s approach is a stimulating and suggestive appeal to facts.” J: M. Gaus
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 570w
“Each reader will interpret these facts in accordance with his own point of view. It is a merit of the book that the facts have been divided from interpretation of the facts. The book will no doubt be recognized as one of the few valuable discussions on the problem of assimilation.” J. B. Berkson
+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 940w
=DREIER, KATHERINE SOPHIE.=[2] Five months in the Argentine from a woman’s point of view, 1918 to 1919. *$3.50 Sherman, F. F. 918.2
20–12791
“Miss Katherine S. Dreier, author of ‘Five months in the Argentine: from a woman’s point of view,’ faced the discomforts of her journey from Valparaiso to Buenos Aires and her sojourn there with an invincible sense of humor. She visited a great estancia (ranch) at Gualeguay and the Museum of natural history at La Plata, and writes about the general strike of January, 1919, but her principal concern was to study the status and training of women, the care of children, the organization of charity, and the control of prostitution.”—Nation
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“If one would have a faithful picture of Buenos Aires, going into considerable detail as to living conditions, charities, business and pleasure, Miss Dreier’s book is to be recommended.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 250w
+ =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 210w
=DREISER, THEODORE.= Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. *$1.90 Boni & Liveright 814
20–2927
“These essays concern Change, Some aspects of our national character, The American financier, Personality, The toil of the laborer, The reformer, Marriage and divorce, Life, art, and America, Neurotic America and the sex impulse—there are twenty of them, written in the authentic Dreiserian manner. Phantasmagoria splits the book in twain. It is a little cosmic drama in three scenes—The house of birth, The house of life, The house of death. It is the via dolorosa of the ‘Lord of the universe,’ his agglomeration, effulgence in life, and his ingression. The court of progress purports to be the record of the doings of the Federated chairman of the post federated period of world republics (2,760–3,923). This phantasmagoria is a celebration of the triumph of humanity over poets, cigarette fiends, saloon keepers, madams, socialists, Holy rollers, artists, and the like.”—N Y Times
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“They are interesting in showing the philosophy which has been back of the vigorous, often shocking fiction of the author.”
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“He states so many things that are not so, and he states them so arrogantly and cocksuredly, that the intelligent reader asks himself in amazement: ‘How can such an inane book—poorly written, full of repetitions, blatant in its irreligion, shameless in its immorality—find enough readers to warrant publication?’ Mr Dreiser has no saving sense of humor—hence this awful book.”
− =Cath World= 111:260 My ’20 320w
“Dreiser sets down his findings with all a greengrocer’s assiduity, and not a little of a greengrocer’s unimaginative painstaking. Here is a surprising absence of the creative instinct in a creative writer.”
− =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 160w
“In his novels Mr Dreiser seems very much the thinker. One is astonished, consequently, to find how unsublimated a product he is of the benighted environment he describes in his last essay when he has no characters through whom to express himself. Very simple and almost purely emotional is the reaction upon life cloaked in the scientific verbiage of this book. One asks oneself whether the soul of Jennie Gerhardt is not really the soul of Mr Dreiser himself. One thing is certain; he is far more interesting as the painter of Jennie’s life than as the recorder of Jennie’s views.” Van Wyck Brooks
+ − =Nation= 110:595 My 1 ’20 700w
“Heavy and turgid and monotonous and sensuously obtuse as he seems to be, he makes his discussion interesting. He is himself sincerely interested, and he is writing because he has something to communicate. The truth seems to be that Theodore Dreiser’s mind is formless, chaotic, bewildered. In short, our leading novelist is intellectually in serious confusion, and needs a deeper philosophy than—hey rub-a-dub-dub.” F. H.
− + =New Repub= 22:423 My 26 ’20 850w
“Mr Dreiser’s style always reminds us of a college professor who has been ‘fired’ for trying to make his pupils think. He emits endless common-places with the air of having discovered something new. He is pedantic before the threadbare. In ‘The court of progress’ Mr Dreiser has written one of the most drastic satires ever written in this country. This ought to be printed separately and distributed by the million.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:167 Ap 11 ’20 850w
− =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 750w
=DRESSER, HORATIO WILLIS.= Open vision; a study of psychic phenomena. *$2 (2½c) Crowell 130
20–6883
The author asserts that he is not a spiritualist, that he has never received any communications through a medium, and that he has never investigated spiritism after the manner of psychical researchers. He classes all these investigations with those of other sciences that arrive at conclusions through external sources. What the book emphasizes is the psychical experience by direct impression, the inner vision and certainty that is independent of outward signs. That the spiritual world is, that we are of it and in it now, in life as well as in death, and that we can develop our awareness of it and our participation in it through the cultivation of an open vision seems to be the teaching of the book. A partial list of the contents is: The new awakening; Psychical experience; The awakening of psychical power; Principles of interpretation; The human spirit; Direct impressions; Inner perception; The future life; The book of life; The inward light; Positive values.
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=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
=N Y Times= p18 Jl 4 ’20 160w
“Dr Dresser’s reasoning is systematic, but not powerful, his piety refined but not robust; his style expands discreetly in the calm of a featureless level.”
+ − =Review= 2:631 Je 16 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 40w
=DREW, MRS MARY (GLADSTONE).= Mrs Gladstone. il *$4 (6c) Putnam
20–6736
This loving tribute by her daughter reveals Mrs Gladstone as a personality of distinction in her own right, her happy family life, her sympathy for and her influence on her husband’s work. It has been the author’s privilege to share intimately her parents’ life from her birth to their death. Contents: Childhood and youth; Girlhood and marriage; Diaries in early married life; Letters from her; Letters to her; Characteristics; Good works; Reminiscences; “Via crucis—via lucis”; Genealogical table; Index and numerous illustrations.
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+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
“Her book is more a series of impressions and reminiscences than a biography. It is none the less interesting and authoritative on that account, however, and will serve very well in the place of a more extended and formal biographical record.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1850w
“It is a little difficult for the outsider to know why three hundred pages were necessary to paint what must at best be a purely negative picture.” H. J. L.
− + =New Repub= 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“This volume should be heralded equally as a new chapter in the social and political history of the Victorian period and as a rare and beautifully filial tribute to a devoted mother, a highly accomplished and perennially charming woman.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“It is trivial and unutterably dull.”
− =Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 320w
=R Of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 80w
“So far as we can discover from this and other contemporary records, Mrs Gladstone was a good but stupid woman. There are a number of letters to Mrs Gladstone which show what exceedingly dull and commonplace letters are written by very distinguished people.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 850w
+ =Spec= 124:49 Ja 10 ’20 1300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 D 4 ’19 30w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p761 D 18 ’19 1600w
=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Lincoln: the world emancipator. *$1.50 (10c) Houghton
20–20308
The object of this book, written by an Englishman, is not to retell the life-story of Lincoln to Americans, but to use him as a symbol of the community of spirit and of the differences of national character between the two peoples and to show how he can serve as a reconciler in bringing about an intellectual and spiritual alliance between them. Contents: ‘Liberty’; ‘E pluribus unum’; Anglo-American union; Lincoln as symbol; Anglo-American differences; Lincoln as reconciler; History and art; Lincoln and the artists; An epilogue.
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=Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 20w
“The whole essay is a work of art. In form it is not in the least polemical, and if it is polemical in intent, then Drinkwater has brought polemics into the region of the fine arts.”
+ =N Y Times= p1 D 5 ’20 850w
+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 80w
=DRINKWATER, JOHN.= Pawns; four poetic plays. *$1.50 Houghton 822
20–21989
The book is a collection of four one-act plays and has an introduction by Jack R. Crawford who says the plays are characteristic of the author’s point of view, namely, that peace and quiet are the natural concomitants of a mind loving beauty. “They are dramas expressed in poetry—the utterance of simple truths which we know beforehand, for of such are the materials of poetry and drama.” The plays are: The storm; The god of quiet; X = O; a night of the Trojan war; Cophetua.
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“There is justice in the title. But the true figures of the stage—Falstaff or Iago or Œdipus—are not pawns. They are living beings.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 750w
“One quality in these ‘Pawns’ is clear: their artistic sincerity. The best play of the three, the largest in conception, the richest and simplest in emotion, and the soundest in workmanship, is the last in the book. [“X = O” in English edition]”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p448 S 20 ’17 960w
=DRUMMOND, HAMILTON.= Maker of saints. *$2.50 Dutton
20–10731
“In this tale of Italy in the days of Dante (who appears in person on the stage) the maker of saints is the sculptor Fieravanti, a peasant risen to fame and power by his wonderful statues of saints which to the simple countrymen are the real persons they represent. It is the visit of Fieravanti at the Court of Arzano to the proud old Count Ascanio of the house of Faldora, who has no son, but a beautiful, proud and unawakened granddaughter, that introduces a romance of the changing fortunes of noble houses amid the turbulence of medieval Italy.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“It is by no means easy to infuse much vitality into an imaginative tale of so long ago, but the author has undoubtedly achieved a measure of success in his undertaking.”
+ − =Ath= p30 Ja 2 ’20 80w
“The story is well told, with abundance of incident.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 500w
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 20w
“A capital romance but at the end the curtain drops too abruptly on the tragic climax of the story and leaves us a little doubtful as to the real issue.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 130w
=DU BOIS, JOHN HAROLD.= Christian task. (New generation ser.) *90c (4c) Assn. press 261
20–13993
“A discussion of the supreme need of the age: how Christianity can satisfy it.” (Subtitle) In the author’s opinion the supreme need of the age “is the need of something to do, the need of some gigantic undertaking—in a word, the need of a task, or in still simpler Anglo-Saxon, the need of a job.” Contents: The need stated: the need of a task; The need analyzed: the need and the age; The need emphasized: the need and the war; The need satisfied: the need and the Christian task of establishing the kingdom of God on earth; The need summarized: Christianity and other related needs.
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=Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 130w
=DUBOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT.= Darkwater: voices from within the veil. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 326
20–4763
“I have been in the world, but not of it. I have seen the human drama from a veiled corner, where all the outer tragedy and comedy have reproduced themselves in microcosm within. From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating ways.” (Postscript) And it is an unusual collection of essays, stories and parables alternating with “little alightings of what may be poetry.” Beginning with a “credo” and an autobiographical sketch, The shadow of years, the contents are: The souls of white folk; The hands of Ethiopia; Of work and wealth; “The servant in the house”; Of the ruling of men; The damnation of women; The immortal child; Of beauty and death; The comet. The interposed poetry is: A litany at Atlanta; The riddle of the sphinx; The princess of the Hither isles; The second coming; Jesus Christ in Texas; The call; Children of the moon; Almighty death; The prayers of God; A hymn to the peoples. Mr DuBois is author of “The souls of black folk,” “The negro,” etc., and is editor of the Crisis.
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“We can admit the whole of Dr DuBois’ plea for the negro, although we cannot admit his argument, and we can do so because his argument is irrelevant. His picture of the majority of mankind, the ‘coloured’ races, being kept in subjugation by the, on the whole, inferior white races is, we feel, rather more poetic than scientific.”
+ − =Ath= p139 Jl 30 ’19 600w
“Written with tense feeling and a clean bitterness.”
+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“It is a stern indictment and one to which we cannot close our ears. It is a lesson, however, that cannot be driven home by storming, no matter how righteous be the anger. The significance of ‘Darkwater’ thus lies in the spiritual history of the author and in the passages of lyrical poetic beauty where he has expressed the extremity of racial pride.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 52:304 Ja ’21 620w
“Dr DuBois is undoubtedly the foremost spokesman of today for the negro, and as such his utterances command attention. It is doubtful whether Dr DuBois is as powerful or as convincing in his latest work as in its predecessor, ‘The souls of black folk.’” W. E. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 670w
“Whether in prose or verse, DuBois is always master of the instrument of expression. At times, as in the Litany at Atlanta, reprinted from the Independent, he rises to supreme eloquence. But his thought is not always on the same high level as his style.”
+ − =Ind= 102:235 My 15 ’20 200w
+ =Lit D= p86 My 1 ’20 1350w
“It is a fact that his own ability to suffer and to feel the wrongs of his race so deeply is at once his strength, the reason for his leadership, and also his chief weakness. For it carries with it a note of bitterness, tinctured with hate, and the teaching of violence which often defeats his own purpose. Doubtless, few of us with sympathies so keen, with nerves so rasped, with wounds as raw, would do better. But still, some suppression of the ego, a lesser self-consciousness, and the omission of personal bitterness at all times would carry Mr DuBois and his cause much further.” O. G. V.
+ − =Nation= 110:726 My 29 ’20 1150w
“It is sometimes said that Dr DuBois is bitter. If this new book of his is bitter, I do not know what bitter means. It is to me one of the sweetest books I have ever read. Dr DuBois is an artist, and his book must be reckoned among those that add not only to the wisdom but to the exaltation and glory of man. Because he is an artist, because he tells this story of his own people so simply and so charmingly, he establishes that kinship which is the essence of everything human.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:189 Ap 7 ’20 1300w
“There is a certain weakness in Professor DuBois’s reasoning, which is that his intense concentration on one subject leads him to turn general, universal wrongs into special negro wrongs. The error runs all through his book and disfigures it. If we disagree with much in this beautiful book, it is not possible to withhold the heartiest praise for the power of its statement, the force and passion that inspire it, and the entrancing style in which it is written.”
+ − =N Y Times= p19 Ag 8 ’20 2000w
“Dr DuBois is too close to the struggle to see clearly the problems involved. His work is a creation of passion rather than intelligence. It is, on the whole, a volume which will convince only those already convinced of the justice and soundness of his position.”
− + =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 150w
“‘Darkwater’ is not merely the story of the negro. The success of Dr DuBois’ writing lies in the fact that it describes something universal. Every other persecuted race quickens with tragic memories at his words. Here is the story of the circumscribed Jew, of the Hindu, of the dark peoples whom imperialism holds in subjection. It is the old story of the undeserved human suffering, doled out by the world’s victors who enjoy the cruel display of their power.” M. W. Ovington
+ =Socialist R= 8:381 My ’20 700w
“Very able and pathetic book.”
+ − =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 280w
“I believe that Dr DuBois has overstressed in his book the point of identity, not only of the colored races as such, but of the white and black races especially; yet I am equally sure that white men have overstressed the points of divergence. The signal service of this book is that it quite magnificently points out the white man’s error and makes clear as day the fact that the ‘race question’ is, at least to a great extent, a question of social environment.” R. F. Foerster
+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 600w
“His book affords a remarkable example of that elemental race-hatred which he himself so fiercely denounces. He ignores altogether the paramount importance of the economic basis of the problem, the fact that, given equal opportunity, the negro and the Asiatic would inevitably eat up the white man.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p712 N 4 ’20 520w
“If one lays down the book with a sense of disappointment that in spite of its excellence it somehow misses greatness, at least he cannot easily silence in his ears ‘the voices from within the veil’ who speak through its pages. And if bitterness seems to be the quality which mars the power of Dr DuBois’ appeal, the white man has lost his right to complain.” N. T.
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:286 S ’20 160w
=DUCLAUX, EMILE.= Pasteur: the history of a mind; tr. and ed. by Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges. il *$5 Saunders
20–6556
“This is an American translation of a French book published in 1896. The pupil, friend and successor of Pasteur describes the successful quest of knowledge and the growth of the ardent mind which pursued it. He follows the same method in describing the successive triumphs of Pasteur from the studies in crystallography to the final attainment of the conception of immunity. He gives a brief account of the state of knowledge preceding the work of Pasteur, and is thus able to describe the problems in the form in which they presented themselves when the great investigator turned his attention to them.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The translators, who are pathologists in the United States Department of agriculture, have appended an annotated list of persons mentioned in the book.” (R of Rs)
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+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“Invaluable for the light it sheds on the dynamics of scientific research, this volume is not less suggestive for its portraiture of what Ostwald has called the classicist mind in science.” R. H. Lowie
+ =Freeman= 2:259 N 24 ’20 900w
“The book must always remain a classic in the history of science. The translation has been faithfully done.” A. S. M.
+ =Nature= 106:303 N 4 ’20 980w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
“The book has a permanent value independent of the progress that has been made since it was written.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p545 Ag 26 ’20 1350w
=DUCLAUX, MARY.= Twentieth century French writers (reviews and reminiscences). il *$2.50 Scribner 840.9
(Eng ed 20–11400)
“This volume was in the printer’s hands in August, 1914. For its publication today Madame Duclaux has added a post-war preface and interpolated a passage here and there.” (Nation) “She writes chiefly of the last fourteen years, and in studies all too brief characterizes the personalities and the work of Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland, Edmond Rostand, Claudel, Jammes, René Boylesve. André Gide, Péguy, Barbusse, Duhamel, the Comtesse de Noailles and others.” (Ath)
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=Ath= p225 F 13 ’20 60w
“For readers unacquainted with contemporary French literature this volume should be a useful literary guide-book.”
+ =Ath= p475 Ap 9 ’20 600w
=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Many thanks should be given her by the English-speaking world for her brilliant and scholarly volume, arriving as it does when we need the stimulus and example of these French modernists.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 980w
“The book has its insufficiencies of judgment, of course, apart from those created by an encroaching patriotism. But her defects are obvious; they spring readily from her qualities. She is interested in her chosen writers as complex individuals. As highly differentiated individuals she presents them; and in reaching for the core of personality she accomplishes something which is vital to criticism.” C. M. Rourke
+ − =Freeman= 2:140 O 20 ’20 900w
“Substantially it is now what it was then, [August, 1914,] and therein lies its extraordinary value. The war turned everything into legend and made of every face an angel’s or an ogre’s mask. Now that the world is mildly and tentatively beginning to use its mind again, a book like this serves to mend the broken continuity of truth and to restore the normal temper of one’s studies.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 1250w
“Mme Duclaux not only possesses the comprehensive vision that makes possible a synoptic view of surface phenomena, but she is gifted with that rarer sight which pierces, embraces and understands.” B. R. Redman
+ |=N Y Times= p15 Ag 22 ’20 2500w
“Gives a better account of the most modern French literature than has yet been published in English.”
+ |=Spec= 124:587 My 1 ’20 530w
“One’s first impulse, on reading Mme Duclaux’s book, is to cry, Here is a book by some one who knows what she is talking about! The impulse is too strong to be restrained, because the event is so rare in this field of literary criticism.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p137 F 26 ’20 1850w
=DUGANNE, PHYLLIS.= Prologue. *$2 (2c) Harcourt
20–14598
This is the story of Rita Moreland’s life during her teens, when she is developing from little girlhood to womanhood. The only child of a rather unsatisfactory marriage, she has some difficulty in adjusting herself to life. The story tells of her family life, her schooling, her home in New York, where she vibrates between Fifth avenue and Greenwich Village, her friends, and more especially her relations with the masculine sex. She alternates between perfect happiness and periods of bored discontentment with everything and can’t seem to “find herself.” The war finds her at work in an office, but the end of the war brings back to her Donald, with whom, at the story’s close, she stands at “the beginnings of things.”
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“Two merits by no means discoverable in all first novels may be conceded to ‘Prologue’ at the outset. It commands to a marked degree technical dexterity and ease in expression, and—within the scope of its peacock-alley comprehension of life—it is decidedly entertaining. The book might be described as a study of flapper-psychosis—if there is such a thing. Anything tending to reveal character, or in any way interfere with inconsequent amours, is summarily dismissed by the author.” L. B.
− + =Freeman= 2:70 S 29 ’20 340w
“Miss Duganne writes with a clear, staccato, bird-like note; she visualizes men and things with cool precision.”
+ =Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 360w
=DUGUIT, LEÓN.= Law in the modern state; tr. by Frida and Harold Laski. *$2.50 Huebsch 321
20–7266
“Professor Duguit’s introductory chapter closes with the following significant words, which summarize his book. ‘The idea of public service,’ he declares, ‘replaces the idea of sovereignty. The state is no longer a sovereign power in issuing commands. It is a group of individuals who must use the force they possess to supply the public need. The idea of public service lies at the very base of the theory of the modern state.’ The demonstration as to how this has come about occupies the body of the book. Through illustrations drawn primarily from French legal history, Duguit shows the growth away from state absolutism and from the idea of governments as sacrosanct bodies.”—Socialist R
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“Of the acuteness of Duguit’s analytical powers there can, in general, be no doubt, and it therefore became a matter almost beyond understanding that he should fail to continue to appreciate the real nature of the doctrines which he attacks.” W. W. Willoughby
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:504 Ag ’20 1000w
=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
“The author makes out a strong case and the facts seem to be on his side. He answers his opponents with candor and courtesy and treats fairly and comprehensively all sides of the problem.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ =Socialist R= 9:48 Je ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 F 21 ’20 80w
“The translation by Frida and Harold Laski is very satisfactory, and the introduction by Professor Laski furnishes an invaluable background for an understanding of the volume.” A. J. Lien
+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 420w
=DUMBELL, KATE ETHEL MARY.= Seeing the West, il new ed *$1.75 (5c) Doubleday 917.8
A book designed as a convenient handbook for the westbound traveler. It is composed of five parts: The southern Rockies; The northern Rockies; The northwest; California; The southwest. There are two end maps, one showing national parks and railroads, the other showing motor highways. A four-page list of references comes at the end, followed by the index.
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“To one who does not know the country ‘Seeing the west’ offers many valuable suggestions.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 110w
“It is doubtful whether anyone has brought the same amount and quality of tourist information into so compact space before.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 130w
=DUNLAP, KNIGHT.= Personal beauty and racial betterment. *$1 Mosby 575.6
20–7871
“The first part of the book, ‘The significance of beauty,’ seeks to explain in detail the characters of personal beauty—an explanation found exclusively in the reproductive needs of the race. The second part, ‘The conservation of beauty,’ points to its importance as an element in race improvement which, the author maintains, can according to all present evidence be brought about only by selection of the more fit. It also discusses briefly some of the more disputable means of eliminating the entirely unfit. Above all, however, the author directs his argument against economic interest as the decisive factor in selection and effectively presents the case for the cultivation of beauty and love marriage as indispensable to race preservation.”—Survey
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Reviewed by E. S. Bogardus
=Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 160w
“In the recent literature of sexual selection and of eugenics there have been few more stimulating contributions than this one by Professor Dunlap. It is worth a place in the social hygienist’s library.” P. P.
+ =Social Hygiene= 6:577 O ’20 640w
“Professor Dunlap’s study of personal beauty as an element in race betterment is original and suggestive; it is, however, little more than a string of ex cathedra propositions presented without evidence or citation of authority other than his own observations.”
+ − =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w
=DUNN, ARTHUR WALLACE.= How presidents are made. *75c (2½c) Funk 329
20–8653
The book is a historical survey of the conditions and circumstances that surrounded the campaigns of the various presidents. The author takes no stock in the general impression that presidents are elected on “issues,” but thinks that personality and opportunity play a greater part and that often the result depends on accident or incident. Contents: Caste and political parties; Federalism and states’ rights—Adams and Jefferson; The Virginia succession—Madison and Monroe; Developing issues—slavery and the tariff; Passing of congressional caucus—Adams; Personal popularity a factor—Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison; Slavery and the northern boundary as factors—Polk; The Mexican war—Taylor; Slavery issue looming; Slavery compromise—Pierce; Anti-slavery republicans defeated—Buchanan; Extension vs. restriction of slavery—Lincoln; The soldier vote and war issues—Lincoln and Grant; Liberal republican movement—Grant vs. Greeley; The electoral commission—Hayes vs. Tilden; Third term issue—Garfield; Mugwump independency—Cleveland; Protectionist tariff—Harrison; The tariff and free silver—Cleveland; Gold standard vs. free silver—McKinley; “Imperialism,” silver, the tariff—McKinley; Personal popularity—Roosevelt; Tariff and personal influence—Taft; Republican disharmony—Wilson; Anti-war sentiment and tactical mistakes—Wilson; The negro as a political factor; Prohibition, suffrage, socialism.
=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 24 ’20 230w
+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 30w
“One takes up this little volume expecting a dry-as-dust account of the operations of the primaries, the electoral college, etc. Instead he finds a narrative alive with human interest.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w
“It is a meager and sketchy book, without distinction in research or judgment, but it does ‘hit the high spots’ in such a way as to bring the records of past campaigns briefly to mind, and it is written in a fair spirit, with a practical understanding of events and with intelligent discrimination.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 1500w
=DUNN, COURTENAY FREDERIC WILLIAM.= Natural history of the child. *$2 (2½c) Lane 392
20–4905
Although the author of this volume is a physician the book is not written from a medical or scientific point of view. It is rather the traditions, prejudices and customs which have surrounded childhood from time immemorial dressed in an entertaining, humorous garb, “a history of childhood which for the greater part has been grubbed up from ancient and scarce books, obscure pamphlets and papers.” (Foreword) Contents: Him before he was; His ancestry; His early life—legal infancy; His name; His environment; His language; His schooldays; His schooling; His development; His play; His religion; His mental condition; His naughtiness; His afflictions.
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“Those portions which come from browsing in old books are particularly interesting and amusing.”
+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“He has selected a very diverting lot of quotations, which are strung together on his own agreeable reflections in a book that will be read with interest by every child-lover.”
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 100w
“On every sort of aspect of child life, from christening ceremonies or the custom of infant marriages to the evils of thumb-sucking and the use of indiarubber ‘soothers,’ there is the same entertaining jumble of the results of disjointed research. Unfortunately Dr Courtenay Dunn cannot resist the lure of being ‘bright.’”
+ − =Spec= 123:250 Ag 23 ’19 350w
“Its contents, far from being prosy or dull to any but the mother or nurse, are, on the other hand, most interesting to any reader who has in him a trace of the antiquary.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 200w
“Dr Dunn has burrowed with great industry and good results among old and sometimes scarce books and pamphlets; and the light and airy style in which he starts writing must not prejudice us against his work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p338 Je 19 ’19 300w
=DUNN, JOHN DUNCAN, and JESSUP, ELON H.= Intimate golf talks. il *$3 Putnam 796
20–21193
The genesis of the book is: an indoor golf school conducted by John Duncan Dunn, a reportorial visit by the editor of Outing, the latter’s interest in the instructor’s methods and desire to profit by them for his own game, repeated interviews and—the book. The talks, interpolated with copious illustrations, are: Picking the right clubs; Learning the golf scale; The golf grip; The golf stance; The gold address; Some golf faults; Getting the knack of the swing; Stick to the minor shots; From three-quarters to fullswing; The importance of balance; Take care of your hands; Topping the ball; Overcoming faults; Keeping the muscles in harmony; Slicing and hooking; Methods of curing faults; This brings us to putting.
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“Mr Dunn’s golf wisdom and Mr Jessup’s editorial skill combine in the production of an unusually happy result.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 980w
=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Dead man’s gold. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–13705
When Wat Lyman died, he left behind him the secret of a gold lode. But he was canny enough to divide his secret among three, Healy, an ex-gambler, “Lefty” Larkin, an adventurer, and Stone, an American temporarily down on his luck. Each of these three knew one-third only of the directions necessary to locate the gold, which, when found, was to be divided equally with Lyman’s daughter, who also had to be found. By their common sharing of the secret, the three prospectors were kept together all through the first part of their hunt. Exciting experiences in the Arizona desert, and with the Apache Indians almost lead to failure. But eventually they find their lode, only to have Healy turn traitor and try to cheat the other two out of their share. How the girl comes into it and saves their lives and the gold is the close of the story.
=DUNN, JOSEPH ALLAN ELPHINSTONE.= Turquoise Cañon. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday
20–5121
A story that follows one of the standard formulas for western fiction. The rich and debonair young easterner comes west, falls foul of a gang of crooks, loses his heart to the beautiful daughter, rescues her from her unpleasant environment, breaks up the band and is rewarded with the love of the girl, who after all, it turns out, is not the daughter of the chief villain. In this story Jimmie Hollister’s goat ranching experiences add an original touch.
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=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
=DUNSANY, EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT, 18th baron.= Tales of three hemispheres. *$1.75 Luce. J. W.
20–26193
“In the two hemispheres we know more or less about, Lord Dunsany pretends now and then to set his story. But his heart is in the third hemisphere—the hemisphere at the back of the map, which lies beyond the fields we know. And, indeed, even when we think for a moment that we are in the high wolds beyond Wiltshire, or looking out on the Tuileries gardens, or checked short for a peep at the cloud-capped tower of the Woolworth building, we are pretty sure to be in, before long, for a meeting with the old gods, the gods whom time has put to sleep.” (Review) “The book is divided into two sections, the first made up of miscellaneous, far wandering tales and sketches, while the second, which is entitled ‘Beyond the fields we know,’ leads us into the lands of dream, where flows the great central river of Yann.” (N Y Times)
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“A certain abundance of even commonplace detail, combined with a subtle deviation from the usual in emphasis and sequence, conveys successfully a sense of other-reality; but this quality, the true dream-quality, is constantly impaired by a kind of arbitrary fastidiousness of language. Nothing is less akin to the dreamlike than the precious, which is the outcome of an extreme self-consciousness, and we consider that Lord Dunsany’s use of the precious constitutes a serious defect of style.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p202 Ag 13 ’20 560w
=Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20
“The stories in divers veins are all characteristic of Dunsany, but present no tricks not already familiar to his readers.”
+ − =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 560w
“They are essentially prose poems, these tales, whether they express in some half dozen vivid, poignant pages the very heart of a dying man’s desire, as in ‘The last dream of Bwona Khubla,’ or tell of a girl’s longing, as in ‘An archive of the older mysteries,’ or of such fear as that which rent the soul of the wayfarer who bore with him ‘The sack of emeralds.’”
+ =N Y Times= 24:781 D 28 ’19 800w
+ =Review= 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 650w
+ =Spec= 124:871 Je 26 ’20 580w
“Through the exotic atmosphere of many of these stories stand out sudden pictures of rare perfection. This power of calling up associations to supplement concrete images is indeed his perilous virtue, and entices him sometimes into tortuous bypaths. Yet his perfect etching of New York at night in ‘A city of wonder’ proves that he can look at the world with the disinterested and objective gaze of the pure artist.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p437 Jl 8 ’20 1250w
=DURKIN, DOUGLAS.= Heart of Cherry McBain. *$1.75 (2c) Harper
Because he had once struck his brother with murder in his heart, King Howden had determined never to fight again, and because of that resolution he was held to be something of a coward in the frontier country where he lived a rather solitary life. And then one day he met Cherry McBain, a girl worth fighting for. She was the daughter of old Keith McBain, the construction boss of a new railway. And she had an enemy in the person of Big Bill McCartney, her father’s foreman, who was determined to win her by fair means or foul and regardless of her wishes in the matter. The situation certainly offered grounds for the fight that eventually came, leaving King with his reputation vindicated, and Cherry free to bestow her heart where she chose.
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=Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 250w
=DURSTINE, ROY SARLES.= Making advertisements and making them pay. il *$3.50 Scribner 659
20–16526
“‘Making advertisements’ treats of everything in any way connected with advertising, even the weight of type. It is well illustrated with reproduced advertisements. Starting with the genesis of advertising, it ends asking, ‘Where is advertising going?’”—N Y Evening Post
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“Crisp, entertaining, suggestive chapters.”
+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20
“Somewhat sketchy but enlightening book.”
+ =Ind= 104:247 N 13 ’20 40w
“Common sense and an agreeable style are blended in a manner that makes this book delightful as well as informative reading.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 270w
“This book seems to the present reviewer more significant and more helpful than any of the other manuals which the reviewer has chanced to see.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= p9 N 21 ’20 2400w
=DURUY, VICTOR.= History of France. $3.50 Crowell 944
20–14467
A new edition brought down to date to 1920. “The original text was translated by Mr Cary, and edited and continued down to the year 1890 by Dr J. Franklin Jameson. It has now been continued up to the present year by Mabell S. C. Smith, author of ‘Twenty centuries of Paris,’ and other historical studies. The original plan and arrangement have been maintained in this appendix, which begins in point of time with the Dreyfus case, includes the famous separation of church and state, the Fashoda incident, the Agadir incident, and other events leading up to and including the world war.” (Publisher’s announcement)
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=Booklist= 17:83 N ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w
=DWIGHT, HARRY GRISWOLD.= Emperor of Elam, and other stories. *$2 (2c) Doubleday
20–19763
The range of the stories comprises most of the earth and their flavor, too, is outlandish and full of whimsical humor. The title story takes the reader to Persia where a young Englishman in a motor-boat encounters a pompous native barge on a river in Luristan, upon which an alleged Brazilian is disporting himself as the Emperor of Elam. At Dizful the Englishman inadvertently discovers that the Brazilian is a German secret agent of his government. The war breaks out and in the course of events the would-be Emperor of Elam finds himself alone on board of the motor-boat with its French chauffeur, whom he has pressed into his services. With their countries at war, they recognize themselves as enemies and after a tense encounter of words and deeds the Frenchman sees but one weapon left to him with which to serve his country: he blows up the boat. The stories have appeared in the Century, Scribner’s, Smart Set, Short Stories and other magazines.
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“Mr Dwight brings to the writing of these tales the triple qualifications of satirist, keen observer and stylist.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 190w
“The stories are extremely uneven in quality. It is in the eastern tales that the author’s musical diction and his appreciation of the suggestive limitations of words are most happily apparent.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 720w
=DYER, WALTER ALDEN.= Sons of liberty. il *$1.50 (2c) Holt
20–21337
Mr Dyer has made Paul Revere the hero of this story for boys. He has introduced a few fictitious characters and incidents, but in the main has held to the facts of history. The story begins in 1847 when Paul was a boy of twelve and it follows the course of events that led up to the revolution, introducing Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and others. The author looks on Paul Revere as “one of the most picturesque and lovable characters of his time,” and regrets that little is known of him aside from the one incident celebrated in Longfellow’s poem. He shows him to have been a many-sided man, of broad interests and sympathies and artistic ability, and a man of the people.
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=Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 50w
“The plot is conventional and Samuel Adams rather too heroic a figure to be true, but the history behind the record is unusually sound.”
+ =Nation= 112:75 Ja 19 ’21 150w
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 320w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 150w
“The book spiritedly sketches the history of the period and makes one feel the impulses then animating the people of Boston.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 17 ’20 260w
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=EAST, EDWARD MURRAY, and JONES, DONALD FORSHA.= Inbreeding and outbreeding: their genetic and sociological significance. (Monographs on experimental biology) il *$2.50 Lippincott 575
20–352
“Whether close inbreeding causes deterioration of the race and cross-breeding re-invigorates it, is a question that has long been disputed. It was not until the development of the Mendelian theory that a sufficiently powerful method of analyzing the problem was discovered. The book by Professor East and Dr Jones gives an account of the solution of the problem by means of this theory. The data which East and Jones have here brought together have a wide applicability to practical animal and plant breeding. The authors also attempt to apply them to the field of human heredity.”—J Philos
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Reviewed by L. L. Bernard
=Am J Soc= 26:251 S ’20 380w
+ − =Ath= p706 My 28 ’20 500w
“One of the most valuable features of the book is the admirable bibliography of 225 titles.” M. C. Coulter
+ =Bot Gaz= 69:530 Je ’20 1100w
Reviewed by Alexander Weinstein
+ =J Philos= 17:388 Jl 1 ’20 620w
“The book is marked at once by independence and by scholarship. Of great interest to many will be the application of the biological results to the particular case of man. There is a carefully selected bibliography.”
+ =Nature= 106:335 N 11 ’20 900w
“From a popular standpoint, ‘Inbreeding and outbreeding’ is by far the most interesting and suggestive book on heredity that has appeared in recent years.” O. E. White
+ =New Repub= 24:278 N 10 ’20 1400w
“Two biologists of note, both experimental plant breeders, have done a useful work in laying the results of their experiments and their reflections upon the experiments before a semi-popular audience. They are wise in doing so, for no question comes more frequently to the eugenicist than this: Is the marriage of cousins prejudicial to offspring? Or this: What are the biological consequences of race admixture?” C: B. Davenport
+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 450w
=EASTON, DOROTHY.= Golden bird, and other sketches. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–11225
These sketches are introduced by a foreword by John Galsworthy and “catch the flying values of life” as he says a good sketch does. They contain pictures from the southern countryside of England with some French sketches. “The golden bird” is an old inn where a paralyzed youth with a poet’s soul has for ten years made the walls of his room transparent and who beguiles the time, when he is not seeing visions of the shifting seasons outside, with his violin. Some of the other titles are: Laughing down; The steam mill; Heart-breaker; Twilight; September in the fields; Causerie; Smoke in the grass; Adversity; It is forbidden to touch the flowers; A Parisian evening; Life.
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“The writer gives us the impression of being extremely young—not in the sense of a child taking notes, but in the sense that she seems to be seeing, smelling, drinking, picking hops and blackberries for the first time. For such sketches as ‘An old Indian’ and ‘From an old malt-house’ we have nothing but praise. But while we welcome her warmly, we would beg her, in these uncritical days, to treat herself with the utmost severity.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p831 Je 25 ’20 190w
“They have color, dramatic vivacity and interesting characterization. Somewhat depressing.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Miss Easton writes with a certain graceful precision, an unerring touch for the right word, for the exact effect, and a deeply sympathetic attitude toward nature and toward humanity in its varied aspects.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 200w
“They are simple, vivid and effective in their simplicity. There is real insight and real skill in putting down what the author has seen.”
+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 200w
“With a remarkable economy of means she renders the rather drowsy sweetness of her south of England scenes. And occasionally, as in the sketches called Laughing down, her tenderness for her landscape makes her sentimental and callous—the two are never far apart—about people. But her best sketches, of which there are many, have their brief moments of irony and tragedy and so combine beauty and wisdom in uncommon measure.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 360w
“Miss Easton holds almost constantly to this objectivity, except that she relieves, or perhaps one should say illuminates, it sometimes with the suggestion of spiritual significance by means of a delicate, elusive touch that seems less her own than the inescapable implication of that which she is describing.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 600w
“An ardent fancy and a delicate yet firm hand have gone to its making; and, thank heaven, it reminds us of nobody! I am not sure, in thinking it over, but the main charm of the book, apart from its beauty of workmanship, lies in its total lack of that ‘humor’ which is the god of the current literary machine.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 450w
“A book very well worth writing and, what is more, worth reading afterwards.”
+ =Spec= 125:744 D 4 ’20 50w
“The author has a deep and comprehensive feeling for the transitory values of life which she succeeds in communicating to the emotions of her audience. She writes with a delicacy which would beautify the most sordid subjects.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 14 ’20 430w
“The quality of the volume suggests that stronger work may follow. More experience should confirm that individual quality already described, and may help to put a curb on an exuberance of sentiment which is at present Miss Easton’s chief weakness.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p454 Jl 15 ’20 390w
=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= In Berkshire fields. il *$3.50 Harper 917.44
20–18686
Not as a scientist but merely as a lover of nature and the wilds, does the author record his wanderings through fields and woods. As a permanent resident in the hills he knows them in every season of the year and in every elemental mood and loves them “less for their softness than their wildness.” Their wildness, he tells us, is still considerable for in their miles of forest the moose and wildcat still roam and there is even recent evidence of a timberwolf. Seventy-eight illustrations, chiefly of winter scenes, by Walter King Stone, grace the pages and the contents are: Landlord to the birds; Jim Crow; The cheerful chickadee; The menace from above; By inland waters; Poking around for birds’ nests; The queen of the swamp; Forgotten roads; From a Berkshire cabin; Little folks that gnaw; The ways of the woodchuck; Foxes and other neighbors; In praise of trees; Enjoying the influenza; Adventures with an ax; Weeds above the snow.
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+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 290w
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 170w
“He has written of the birds and animals of the Berkshires with an accuracy perfected by long observation and with a sympathy arising from sincere affection.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 26 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:376 O 27 ’20 50w
“Sympathetic nature study and observation, not burdened with scientific detail, is charmingly set forth.”
+ =Review= 3:391 O 27 ’20 60w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 390w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 70w
=EATON, WALTER PRICHARD.= On the edge of the wilderness, il *$1.75 (3c) Wilde 591.5
The first of these “tales of our wild animal neighbors” is the story of a lone timber wolf who strayed into western Massachusetts where his species is supposed to be extinct. The scene of the other stories is also the Berkshire hills, where, on the authority of the author and others, wolves, foxes, deer, moose and other animals still survive, The titles are: “The return of the native”; Big Reddy, strategist; The Odyssey of old Bill; The life and death of Lucy; General Jim; The mating of Brownie; The taming of ol’ Buck; Red slayer and the terror; Rastus earns his sleep; “The last American.” The illustrations are by Charles Livingston Bull.
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+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 80w
“Mr Eaton’s art is finished and flowing, a joy to read. Books like this are not only an education in natural history, but in beautiful English, in clarity of description and harmony of phrase.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 D 5 ’20 180w
“‘On the edge of the wilderness’ is almost ideal in fulfilling the many demands of the average intelligent boy for an entertaining book of adventure. In the first place it rings true. It has a literary value such as boys unconsciously appreciate.” H. L. Reed
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 250w
=ECKEL, EDWIN CLARENCE.= Coal, iron and war; a study in industrialism, past and future. *$3 (2½c) Holt 330
20–13789
Ours is a “machine civilization” and the story of industrial growth and competition since 1775, the author holds, “is chiefly though not entirely the story of coal and iron.” The book attempts to keep the discussion free from any and every preconceived bias, theory or assumption and to arrive at conclusions entirely through the historical study of the industrial developments of different countries. Industrial growth is a matter of natural evolution based on physical environment and inheritance and hardly at all on human and personal control. The form of government is a negligible fact—a strong nationalism still desirable, and war still the simplest solution of many of our industrial problems. The contents are in four parts: The growth of modern industrialism; The material bases of industrial growth: The causes and effects of industrial growth; The future of industrialism. There is an index.
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“The thesis is carefully developed and well maintained. The striking feature of the book is the openness of mind with which the future is examined. Although the historical portions of the book are sound in the main there are some statements with reference to the eighteenth century that can scarcely be accepted.” A. P. Usher
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:307 Ja ’21 640w
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“Mr Eckel has long been prominent as a geologist and engineer. In this volume he certainly qualifies also as an economist. His views on labor organization, the corporation, and the influence of legislation are especially significant.” G. P. W.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 600w
“The present work is written for the general reader, and through elimination of the less important and by judicious distribution of emphasis he has produced a book which is likely to be widely read with both interest and profit. Though written in a language intelligible to the business man quite as much as the student, it is perhaps most of all important through its judicious criticism of the traditional and orthodox viewpoint of the economist.” W: H. Hobbs
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 1450w
=Review= 3:351 O 20 ’20 280w
“It is a worth while book and one has difficulty in telling in a few words why; probably it is because it is written with sincerity and because the author is not writing as other engineers have written, to promote a cause but to examine facts critically.” Hugh Archbald
+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 360w
=EDDY, SHERWOOD.= Everybody’s world. *$1.60 Doran 327
“A discussion, from the standpoint of world Christianity, of post-war conditions in the Near East, Russia, Japan, China, and India, with a chapter on the relations between Great Britain and America and Anglo-Saxon responsibility to the world. The book is the result of a tour around the world in 1919.”—R of Rs
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“The author has given an interesting and valuable survey of world conditions.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 18 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 100w
“The charm of style lies in the author’s intense human interest which results in much picturesque and personal narrative. Mr Eddy is singularly free of bias.” L. R. Robinson
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w
=EDEN, EMILY.= Miss Eden’s letters; ed. by her great niece, Violet Dickenson with introd. *$6.50 Macmillan
“To the present generation the name of Miss Eden conveys little or nothing. As the sister of Lord Auckland, who held office in the reform ministries of the early years of last century, and who became governor-general of India in 1835, she was well known in London society under William IV; and during her later life she published some novels and books of travel which were not without merit, but had not sufficient distinction to preserve them from oblivion. But her abiding claim to the notice of posterity was her talent for friendly letterwriting. Her most intimate friend, Pamela, daughter of Lord and Lady Edward FitzGerald, had an equally marked gift for talking with the pen, and perhaps greater vivacity and humour; and the correspondence between these two brilliant women is preserved in the present volume.”—Spec
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=Ath= p1139 O 31 ’19 100w
“If she has no ideas about things in general, she has a perpetually renewed interest in the immediate; it is this, with the firm, easy texture of her style, and a delicate oddity of perception, which makes her letters so eminently readable. It is this, but something more; for of all the qualities named she is perhaps fully conscious; but she appears admirably unconscious of the qualities of heart and character she has.” F. W. S.
+ =Ath= p335 Mr 12 ’20 1100w
“We think that Miss Dickenson might have suppressed some of the letters as deficient in interest. But we are grateful to her for presenting us with some of the best specimens of the lost art of correspondence.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:441 N 8 ’19 1100w
“She had the true note of colloquial ease which few people ever achieve in their letters, and still fewer retain. She gossips charmingly; her observations on her friends and acquaintances are not the mere threadbare inanities which can interest only those who know the persons concerned, but real characteristic illuminative things which are nearly as pleasant to read now as they were when they were written eighty or ninety years ago.”
+ =Spec= 124:179 F 7 ’20 600w
“The judgment of Miss Dickenson’s selections and the unusual excellence of her materials give the book what we so seldom find in biographies—construction and artistic purpose.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p627 N 6 ’19 950w
=EDGINTON, HELEN MARION (MAY EDGINTON).= Married life; or, The true romance. *$1.75 Small
20–8626
“May Edginton’s novel begins with the marriage of a pretty, bright, charming girl who has been earning her own living and a fine, handsome young man whose salary in an automobile house has been ample to allow him to spend upon himself with some freedom. The action carries them rapidly through the rose-colored days of the first year of married life. By the end of that year they are both beginning to feel the financial pinch resulting from the necessity of making the salary that had been enough for one serve the needs of two. Then the babies begin to arrive and at the end of six years they have three. The salary that had been little more than enough for one has not been much increased and it has to be stretched to cover the needs of five. The husband, under this strain, has grown morose, fault-finding, resentful, and the wife, with her strength taxed far beyond its powers, is weary, irritable and hopeless. The author’s solution she has found solely in the very material one of furnishing them with enough money to enable the husband to spend as he likes and the wife to hire a maid, get her hands manicured and buy some new clothes.”—N Y Times
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“Why force an obviously false ending to a tale that rings true up to a certain point?”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 250w
“The author tells the first part of her story with much realistic detail and with color and vivacity.... The story is the expression of a purely material and selfish ideal of life.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 440w
=EDIE, LIONEL D.=, ed. Current social and industrial forces; introd. by James Harvey Robinson. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright 330
20–3781
“Essays from a number of radical and liberal English and American writers, which reveal the fundamental causes of unrest and propose some plans of action. Some of the authors represented are: Veblen, Sidney Webb, Meyer Bloomfield, J. A. Hobson, J. Laurence Laughlin, Bertrand Russell, Helen Marot, Emil Vandervelde, Walter Lippmann, Norman Angell, H. G. Wells and John Dewey. There are also numerous reports from various commissions of both the British and American governments and of organizations of employers and workers.” (Booklist) “The book grew out of the compiler’s need for a textbook in his courses on current historical forces at Colgate university. The selections are grouped under the headings: Forces of disturbance, Potentialities of production, The price system, The direction of industry, The funds of reorganization, The power and policy of organized labor, Proposed plans of action, Industrial doctrines in defense of the status quo, and The possibilities of social service.” (Survey)
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=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 70w
Reviewed by R. F. Clark
+ =Am J Soc= 26:367 N ’20 240w
“Should be very valuable to the student and to the more thoughtful reader.”
+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20
+ − =Cath World= 111:681 Ag ’20 420w
“The excerpts and reprints are skilfully grouped, so that the reader—for the book can be read as well as consulted—can grasp the material handily. The selections are made without prejudice.”
+ =Dial= 69:213 Ag ’20 80w
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 60w
“Prof. Edie has rendered a real service by gathering into well-related chapters some of the most illuminating discussions of a large number of modern writers on social topics.” H: P. Fairchild
+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 900w
“It is every citizen’s duty to be informed on these subjects, and Professor Edie puts the information within the reach of any who wish it.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 22 ’20 340w
“In this symposium one gets many and variously colored and confusing glimpses of industrial and social movements, but no comprehensive view of any single subject and no consistent coördination or interpretation.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 300w
+ =Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 280w
“The book gives a useful conspectus of radical thought—but it scarcely deals at all with ‘current social and industrial forces.’” W: E. Walling
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:218 O ’20 380w
=EDMAN, IRWIN.= Human traits and their social significance. *$3 Houghton 301
20–17674
Throughout the long process of civilization two factors have remained constant, says the author: nature and human nature. The only change with regard to the one has been in our increasing power of control of nature through increasing knowledge. And the only difference between the man of today and the primitive savage is in the control of the native biological impulses that the civilized man has achieved through education, religion and morals. It is the aim of the book to indicate man’s simple inborn impulses and outstanding human traits and the factors which must be taken into account if they are to be controlled in the interest of human welfare. Accordingly the book falls into two parts: Social psychology; and The career of reason. Types of human behavior and their social significance, basic human activities and crucial traits in social life, and the racial and cultural continuity are among the subjects considered in part one. Part two contains: Religion and the religious experience; Art and æsthetic experience; Science and scientific method; Morals and moral valuation. There is an index.
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“There are but few books of only 467 pages that contain so much information as this one. Written as an introduction to contemporary civilization and intended for freshmen, it clarifies questions at whose profundity Plato would have been disheartened. If the freshman of today can digest even a small portion of this book colleges are progressing, while for a man comparatively advanced in years, and with interests as universal as those of Leonardo da Vinci, it would be a handy manual.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 27 ’20 250w
=EDWARDS, A. HERBAGE.= Paris through an attic. *$3 Dutton 914.4
19–19896
“Paris, ever fascinating and ever fresh, was seen in the days before the war from a new angle, by a delightful young couple, with a thin family purse. An income of 350 dollars a year sufficed their needs. Where they lived, and how they lived is told by the feminine half of this pair of adventurers. The young couple attended the Sorbonne. Sundays and holidays are treated in an account of how Paris amuses itself. All these happenings, and many others, fill the space of two years, and the pages of the book, up to the eventful day when Richard receives his title, ‘Docteur de l’Universite de Paris.’”—Boston Transcript
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“The section on the students and the university reveals aspects of French life not ordinarily found in books of travel.”
+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“Charming narrative.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 700w
“This book contains a hundred delightful and delicate reflections, an equal number of personal touches, and some quaint views of life which cannot fail to charm the reader who likes to saunter in the little lanes of the great world.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:279 My 30 ’20 1400w
=EDWARDS, AUSTIN SOUTHWICK.=[2] Fundamental principles of learning and study. $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1
20–22148
“The present volume is a rewriting of manuscript which the writer has used for some time as part of his lectures to students in educational psychology. The aim is especially to show how the results of general psychology and experimental psychology and of allied sciences can be put into use by the teacher and the student in the problems of learning and of study.” (Preface) The author takes the point of view that “the forming, modifying and remaking of habits, habitudes, dispositions, tendencies, etc., under the guidance of ideals set up by society, seems to be the fundamental work of education.” Among the chapters are: Fundamental principles of education; Neurology and the basis of education; The fundamental work of education; Learning and habit formation; Acquisition which involves study; Attention and sustained effort; Feeling habits and moral education; Supervised study and the school curriculum. The book is provided with questions, chapter references, select bibliography and index.
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“The range of topics treated and the definite nature of the discussions make the book suitable for wide use in courses dealing with a survey of the psychology of the learning process.”
+ =El School J= 21:392 Ja ’21 600w
“In this comparatively brief and quite readable treatise, one finds less space taken up with academic discussion of pedagogic bugaboos than in most books on similar themes.” C. L. Clarke
+ =Survey= 45:611 Ja 22 ’21 400w
=EDWARDS, CLAYTON.= Treasury of heroes and heroines. il *$3 (2½c) Stokes 920
20–19159
“A record of high endeavour and strange adventure; from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.” In the book so described in the sub-title the life stories of many famous men and women are given. The “Heroes of reality” include: Buddha; Julius Cæsar; Saint Patrick; King Arthur of Britain; Mohammed; Alfred the Great; Robin Hood; Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; Dante; Robert Bruce; Jeanne d’Arc; Christopher Columbus; William the Silent; Queen Elizabeth of England; Sir Francis Drake; Henry Hudson; Peter the Great; George Washington; John Paul Jones; Molly Pitcher; Napoleon Bonaparte; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Abraham Lincoln; Grace Darling; Florence Nightingale; Father Damien; Catherine Breshkovsky; Theodore Roosevelt; Edith Cavell; King Albert of Belgium; Maria Botchkareva. Four heroes of fiction are included: William Tell; Don Quixote; Robinson Crusoe; and Rip Van Winkle. There are illustrations in color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis.
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“The stories are brief, but they are by no means mere sketches; nor are they ‘written down’ in a way that children dislike. It is a good book and a useful one.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 N 13 ’20 180w
“The big book is interesting and well done, full of information that reads like wild romance.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 120w
=EDWARDS, GEORGE WHARTON.=[2] Belgium old and new. il *$10 Penn 914.93
20–21326
“The illustrations, numbering forty-one, are full-page and are mostly in color. These reproduce ancient or famous buildings, towers, sections of historic structures and open spaces in Antwerp, Brussels and other cities and towns of the several provinces in the kingdom. Much of the text is historical in character. In the first chapter, Mr Edwards touches upon the natural resources of the little country and its condition at the close of the war, concluding with an optimistic forecast of its quick recovery and future well-being. He then proceeds, in separate chapters, with historical sketches of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges, Tournai, Couillet, Liège and Mons. This done, the author returns to the present and discusses Belgium’s colonies, characteristics of the country and people and the constitution. The work concludes with chapters devoted to Cardinal Mercier and the king and queen.”—Springf’d Republican
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“The text of the book is eminently satisfactory, but chiefly so because it puts us in precisely the right attitude of mind and spirit for enjoying to the full the charm of the book’s generous wealth of illustration.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:1893 D 18 ’20 300w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 15 ’20 380w
=EELLS, ELSIE SPICER (MRS B. G. EELLS).= Tales of enchantment from Spain. il *$2 (6c) Harcourt
20–17754
The author has brought out two earlier collections of South American tales and her studies in this field have led her to an examination of the folk lore of Spain, from which many of the Spanish-American tales are derived. Among the titles of the fifteen stories are: The white parrot; The carnation youth; The wood cutter’s son and the two turtles; The luck fairies; The bird which laid diamonds; The enchanted castle in the sea; The princess who was dumb. The pictures are by Maud and Miska Petersham.
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+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
=EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, and KENNEDY, JOHN JAMES BRIGHT.= Knights of Columbus in peace and war. 2v il *$5.25 Encyclopedia press 267
20–6359
“The first of these two handsome illustrated volumes is devoted to the origin, growth, and constitution of this celebrated Anglican Roman Catholic friendly society, founded by the Rev. M. J. McGivney in Connecticut in 1882; its work in peace time of protecting homes, promoting higher education, allaying religious prejudice, opposing bolshevism, etc.; and its war work during the fighting in France, with the navy, and after the armistice. The Canadian Knights’ war work has a special chapter. The second volume is chiefly taken up with the roll of honour of the Knights.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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=N Y Times= 25:258 My 16 ’20 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 90w
=EGGLESTON, MRS MARGARET W.= Use of the story in religious education. *$1.50 Doran 268
20–4125
“In this book the author has brought together some of the recommendations on story-telling that have been current in secular education for some time and has applied these to problems directly connected with the Sunday school.”—El School J
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“Will interest all storytellers.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“The book will be suggestive to Sunday school teachers and will lead to an improvement in the story-telling which is an important part of the Sunday school’s work.”
+ =El School J= 20:633 Ap ’20 180w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:110 Je ’20 140w
=EINSTEIN, ALBERT.= Relativity: the special and general theory. il *$3 Holt 530.1
20–17742
“The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.” (Preface) The translation is by Professor Robert W. Lawson who has added a biographical note of the author. The contents are in three parts: The special theory of relativity; The general theory of relativity; Considerations on the universe as a whole. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.
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“Although Professor Einstein’s own exposition is as clear and simple as could be expected, the book is of exceptional interest, not as a popular exposition, but as an indication of the mental processes of its author.”
+ =Ath= p311 S 3 ’20 260w
+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20
“An excellent translation of Einstein’s book.”
+ =Nature= 106:336 N 11 ’20 1200w
“Written in an unpretentious, straightforward style. The trend of his exposition can be followed in the main by any attentive reader who is not scared by algebraic formulae.” E. E. Slosson
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 23 ’20 2400w
“The book is ‘intended to give an exact insight into the theory to those who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.’ In the opinion of the reviewer, in this attempt he has been eminently successful, that is, if an essentially mathematical notion can be made intelligible without algebraic symbols.” A. G. Webster
+ =Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 1000w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 Ag 19 ’20 90w
=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Abraham Lincoln. (Heroes of all time) il *$1.50 Stokes
20–18583
This story of Lincoln for young people is in seven sections: Years of inexperience; Years of development; Years of self-expression and experience; Years of public recognition; Years of leadership; Years of supremacy; Triumph and death. Each section is prefaced by an extract from Lincoln’s speeches. There are nine illustrations, a list of presidents of the United States up to Abraham Lincoln and a chart showing method of government in the United States.
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Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w
=ELIAS, MRS EDITH L.= Periwinkle’s island. il *$1.50 (4c) Lippincott
An English story for children, all about the surprising adventures of Meg, Peg and Topkins, who go to the country with their mother, the queen, Fuzzy Wuzz, their nurse, and Tut-Tut, their tutor. Only good children are allowed to land on Periwinkle’s island and at first attempt Meg, Peg and Topkins can not pass the test, but they improve and after the second trial go ashore to take part in the great chase after the Creepingo, aided by the Top Twins, the Elastic Dog and other queer folk. The pictures in color are by Molly Benatar.
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Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Road to unity among the Christian churches. *$1 (8½c) Am. Unitar. 280
20–2426
This little volume contains the first lecture delivered under the Arthur Emmons Pearson foundation, established in 1918 with the object of promoting “the advancement of mutual understanding and helpfulness between the people of all denominations and creeds.” Dr Eliot points out the factors that have promoted division in the past and then enumerates the present forces that are encouraging unification. He says, “To the United States the world is indebted for the demonstration that on the principle of federation a strong, stable, and just government can be constructed.... The same principle applied to the divided Christian churches will produce analogous good results; but as in a group of federated states federation will not be fusion.”
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+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 50w
=ELIOT, SAMUEL ATKINS=, ed. Little theater classics, v 2 il *$1.50 Little 808.2
18–19312
This is volume two of “Little theater classics” adapted and edited by Samuel Atkins Eliot, jr. Each one of the four plays has an introduction giving its origin and history, and staging suggestions. The plays are: Patelin, from “Maître Pierre Pathelin” by Guillaume Alécis; Abraham and Isaac, from the Book of Brome and the Chester cycle of miracles; The loathed lover, from “The changeling” of Middleton and Rowley; Sganarelle, or, Imaginary horns, from Molière. Three of the plays have already been produced by little theaters and are illustrated with photographs from the production.
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=Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20
“Sganarelle is a charming little antique. Abraham and Isaac is a beautiful piece of work.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 520w
“There are some intrepidities in Mr Eliot which rather stagger me, though whether the protest comes from real disapprobation or simply from that unusedness which whimpers at the approach of novelty it is hard for me to say. For instance, I stand agape, if not aghast, at Mr Eliot’s consolidation of the Chester play and the Brome play on Abraham and Isaac into one drama.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 2:608 Je 5 ’20 340w
“On the whole, this second volume measures up to the high standard set by the first. The work has been done with fine taste and intelligence and forms a valuable contribution to the dramatic literature available to little theatres.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 300w
=ELIOT, THOMAS STEARNS.= Poems. *$1.25 Knopf 811
20–4200
Mr Eliot is a poet of American birth who lives in London. “He published ‘Prufrock’ in 1917 and ‘Poems’ in 1919—this volume assembles the contents of the two, together with a number of other poems, and is the first volume to be published in America, where heretofore it has been exceedingly difficult to obtain his poems.” (Publisher’s announcement) Some of the poems have appeared in Poetry, Others, the Little Review, and other periodicals.
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“Mr Eliot is always quite consciously ‘trying for’ something, and something which has grown out of and developed beyond all the poems of all the dead poets. Poetry to him seems to be not so much an art as a science.”
+ − =Ath= p491 Je 20 ’19 600w
=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“The ‘Poems’—ironically so-called—of T. S. Eliot, if not heavy and pedantic parodies of the ‘new poetry,’ are documents that would find sympathetic readers in the waiting-room of a private sanatorium. As a parodist, Mr Eliot is lacking in good taste, invention, and wit.” R. M. Weaver
− =Bookm= 52:57 S ’20 1400w
“Reading these poems (?) is like being in a closed room full of foul air; not a room in an empty house that is sanctified with mould and dust, but a room in which the stale perfume of exotics is poisoned with the memory of lusts.” W. S. B.
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. E. Cummings
+ =Dial= 68:781 Je ’20 1400w
“At least two-thirds of Eliot’s sixty-three pages attain no higher eminence than extraordinarily clever—and eminently uncomfortable—verse. The exaltation which is the very breath of poetry—that combination of tenderness and toughness—is scarcely ever present in Eliot’s lines. Scarcely ever, I reiterate, for a certain perverse exultation takes its place; an unearthly light without warmth which has the sparkle if not the strength of fire. It flickers mockingly through certain of the unrhymed pictures and shines with a bright pallor out of the two major poems.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Freeman= 1:381 Je 30 ’20 2000w
“He is the most proficient satirist now writing in verse, the uncanniest clown, the devoutest monkey, the most picturesque ironist; and aesthetically considered, he is one of the profoundest symbolists.” M. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:856 Je 26 ’20 300w
“In such poems as ‘Gerontion,’ the ‘Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’ ‘Portrait of a lady,’ ‘Cooking egg,’ we get a glimpse of the visions and tragedies that are in the soul—it does not matter that the soul in these situations has to look out on restaurants instead of on temples.” Padraic Colum
+ =New Repub= 25:52 D 8 ’20 980w
“His is a book to gaze upon worshipfully and humbly. We shall always cherish it, for its shrieking modernity—though we are one of the Philistines who still ask for poetry and sanity in lines presented as poetry.” Clement Wood
− + =N Y Call= p10 Je 20 ’20 270w
“Mr Eliot, like Browning, likes to display out-of-the-way learning, he likes to surprise you by every trick he can think of. He has forgotten his emotions, his values, his sense of beauty, even his common-sense, in that one desire to surprise, to get farther away from the obvious than any writer on record.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p322 Je 12 ’19 550w
=ELLIOT, HUGH SAMUEL ROGER.= Modern science and materialism. *$3 (*7s 6d) Longmans 146
20–4021
“The philosophy expounded by Hugh Elliot in ‘Modern science and materialism’ is the complete materialism which not only makes mind dependent upon matter but identifies mind with matter. The world is thus conceived as consisting of one substance. Not all of those who agree with the materialistic hypothesis will accept this extreme simplification of it. To many Mr Elliot’s view will seem as metaphysical as the opposite view which regards matter as a form of mind. Mr Elliot’s book, however, is not merely an argument against the commonly accepted dualism in the conception of matter and mind. It is also a survey of the creation of man and the universe, as interpreted by a method which reduces all processes to the working of blind, but immutable, laws. In all respects, Mr Elliot’s view of the universe is rigidly mechanistic.”—Springf’d Republican
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“It is difficult not to be unjust to ‘Modern science and materialism.’ Its science is above reproach and occupies the center of the author’s interest and the bulk of the book. But it is impossible to say more of the author’s ‘materialism’ than that it is what physical science always is when it attempts to substitute itself for life.” C. E. Ayres
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:249 S ’20 280w
“A good bird’s-eye view, not unduly technical, for the interested layman or student.”
+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 17 ’20 140w
“Mr Elliot is one of the most intolerant of materialists, but those who read his book are likely to see that he frequently falls into the sin he castigates, that of accepting ideas as true which are merely speculative. Mr Elliot also falls into the familiar error of claiming to be an agnostic and, from this negative doctrine, he immediately and cheerfully builds up a most positive philosophy.”
+ − =Review= 3:45 Jl 14 ’20 850w
=Sat R= 128:613 D 27 ’19 1150w
“Mr Elliot writes with refreshing clearness and vigour; he is always entertaining, and he never leaves his readers in doubt about his meaning. But while admiring Mr Elliot’s gifts of exposition and assertion, we would urge upon him, with some diffidence, the advantages of a larger share in his own writing of that agnosticism whose value he so strenuously upholds.”
+ − =Spec= 124:214 F 14 ’20 480w
“Unquestionably able book. Mr Elliot states his stern ideas with the utmost simplicity and clarity.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 F 1 ’20 1400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 40w
=ELLIOTT, LILIAN ELWYN.=[2] Black gold. *$2.25 Macmillan
20–19915
“The ‘black gold’ which gives its title to L. E. Elliott’s novel is rubber. Though it opens in England, the greater part of the scene is laid in Brazil. The heroine is an English girl, Margarita Channing, whose elder sister, Francina, is the wife of a musician, Salvatore. Both Margarita and her sister sing nicely, and with the help of some rich Brazilians Salvatore organizes an opera company and takes it up the Amazon as far as Manaos. The voyage and the people they meet on board the steamer afford opportunities for the discussion of Brazilian affairs, of which the author makes full use. Presently they reach Manaos, are taken to see all its sights and especially the operations of the rubber industry, and have some experiences with South American politics. Of course there is a love story for Margarita, with a young Englishman, an inventor and the owner of a rubber plantation, as its hero.”—N Y Times
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“I have felt nowhere else so keenly the spell of South America, the power of the golden blood of the ‘rio das Amazonas,’ and the power of the forest.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 1300w
“The novel is neither good nor bad; merely mediocre. Those who enjoy swift moving tales will find it slow. Those who like style, characterization, will find it uninteresting. As it is, it exemplifies the immortal (and overworked) ‘words, words, words.’”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 90w
“It is in this descriptive portion of the volume that the author has done her best work, for, though her style is usually good, she lacks dramatic and character sense, and is essentially an article rather than a fiction writer.”
+ − =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 350w
“Not only the physical beauty of Brazilian scenes, but the industries, social conditions and political upheavals are set forth interestingly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 170w
=ELLIS, JULIAN.= Fame and failure. il *$3.75 Lippincott 920
(Eng ed 20–8729)
“Short biographies of a number of famous people who ended as failures. Amongst the characters discussed are Edwin James the lawyer, Wainewright the murderer, Lady Hamilton, King Ludwig of Bavaria and Beau Brummel. In all there are eighteen biographies.”—Ath
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=Ath= p1412 D 26 ’19 40w
=Ath= p174 F 6 ’20 390w
“A better selection to illustrate his thesis that fame and success are not alway marriageable ideas could not have been made.” B: de Casseres
+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 4 ’20 2300w
“Notwithstanding his rather absurd classification, Mr Julian Ellis has written a very amusing book. His style is clear and lively; and he doesn’t bore us with footnotes or authorities, which so often spoil the pleasure of reading biographies.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:587 D 20 ’19 640w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p753 D 11 ’19 80w
“If we must decline to take Mr Ellis too seriously as a biographer, this need not prevent us from wiling away some pleasant time in his company. If he has the faults of the journalist, he has also no small measure of his virtues.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 1 ’20 2550w
=ELLIS, STEWART MARSH.= George Meredith. il $6 Dodd
20–26976
“This book follows the lines of articles which Mr Ellis contributed to the Fortnightly Review and the Saturday Review. His primary object was to use his information about the early life of Meredith, who was his father’s first cousin, and to reconsider in connexion with it the inner history of some of the novels, particularly ‘Evan Harrington,’ ‘Beauchamp’s career,’ ‘Vittoria,’ and ‘Diana of the crossways.’ There are numerous portraits and other illustrations.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Mr Ellis makes an absorbingly interesting volume out of his revelations.”
+ =Ath= p62 F ’19 2100w
=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“All the details in this volume are of surpassing interest, and it contains not a little acute criticism of Meredith’s novels. The work as a whole is an exceptional pen portraiture of a literary personality who was as great and influential as he was interesting.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 1350w
“Written without any distinction of style, Mr Ellis’s contribution belongs to that class of biographical work which owes its existence to the fact that some one or other has known, or been connected with, a famous man and is able to satisfy, by the composition of a book of this kind, the promptings of his own personal egotism.” Llewelyn Powys
− =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 740w
“That Meredith, in Evan Harrington, misinterpreted and, as the biographer holds, maligned the character of Mr Ellis’s grandparents may, or may not, have been a contributing cause of the publication of this rather shallow and rather malicious book. Certain it is that George Meredith was on no very friendly terms with his Ellis cousins, and the reader must be warned of the evident animus on the part of the biographer.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 25:267 Ja 26 ’21 1200w
“Mr Ellis’s book on Meredith is to be welcomed, though it appears to be in no sense an ‘official’ biography and though it is not written in a manner which could have pleased Meredith himself. It is neither an ‘inspired’ exposition of his career nor a book which could be counted excellent on its own independent merits. But it is the only biography in existence.”
+ − =New Statesman= 12:378 F 1 ’19 2050w
“What should have been a great portrait is only a rather ordinary photograph. He is painstaking and accurate enough. Any one who is interested in Meredith can gather from this book much which he will be glad to know. But he will seek in vain and with growing exasperation for the things which are really needful.” W. H. Durham
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 D 31 ’20 600w
“Extremely interesting and well-written book.” R: Le Gallienne
+ =N Y Times= p6 N 21 ’20 2350w
+ =Sat R= 127:157 F 15 ’19 700w
=Sat R= 130:182 Ag 28 ’20 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p46 Ja 23 ’19 70w
=ELWELL, AMBROSE.= At the sign of the Red swan, il *$1.75 Small
19–19053
“A rollicking old-fashioned story of the sea with romance, murder and suicide generously interwoven is told by Ambrose Elwell in ‘At the sign of the Red swan.’ From a quiet, simple fisherman’s home on the rockbound Maine coast, Elwell, who tells the story in the first person, sails forth over the horizon to seek a living and money with which to support his widowed mother and younger brother. His quest, teeming with adventure, leads him into strange paths and foreign waters—Liverpool, the south seas, and, finally, back to the old home. At the Red swan inn, sailors’ dive on a South Sea island, he becomes entangled in the law, charged with deserting his ship and murder of a wealthy Jewish trader. All looks black for him with a gibbet as the closing chapter of his adventurous career. But the devotion of a settlement physician and a chaplain aids him to escape in the nick of time. Later, the sensational suicide of the guilty one, while at sea on the same ship, clears the name of our hero.”—Springf’d Republican
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“The fact that this story is ‘different’ from most of the large grist of fiction turned out so steadily and voluminously since the armistice will probably cause it to attract more than ordinary attention.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 500w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 160w
=EMERSON, GUY.= New frontier. *$2 (3c) Holt 304
20–12285
A series of papers on Americanism. The new frontier is the present social and industrial situation and the author’s plea is that it be faced with the spirit that conquered the old geographical frontier of the expanding west. This spirit is for him typified by Theodore Roosevelt. The introduction says, “In this book two main points are emphasized; first, that the spirit of that portion of our people which has actually shaped the destinies of America has been liberal, rather than radical or conservative.... Second, it is claimed that our national spirit has taken its essential liberal flavor from the frontier, from the generations of tireless, self-reliant effort which won this continent for the men and women of our own day and which stamped them with its indelible character.” Contents: The frontier of American character; The leadership that made America; What is a liberal? The politics of the middle of the road; Public opinion and the industrial problem; The need for fifty million capitalists; An American federation of brains; Human resources; The weapons of truth; The American spirit in world affairs; The new frontier. There is a bibliographical appendix, also an index.
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“Written by a layman for laymen, with a limited and somewhat uneven bibliography appended for the use of readers not especially familiar with the development of the United States, the book is interesting and valuable as an illustration of one type of thought which has to be taken into consideration by the student of forces making American history today.” L. B. Shippee
+ =Am Hist R= 26:370 Ja ’21 400w
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:738 N ’20 40w
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“Excellent book. He sees clearly and writes as clearly, giving no handy panaceas as such, on a topic where the temptation is great.” R. D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 17 ’20 450w
“Mr Emerson knows his American history thoroughly. He is also a student of American psychology, as is shown by his success in directing the publicity of the Liberty loan drives. These two characteristics probably account for much of his ability to strike out a new path in the already overcrowded field of ‘Americanization.’ For that there is novelty and freshness in his attack on an old problem, no one can deny. Nor should it be held against him that he has achieved this novelty through a distinctly original and forceful use of another man’s idea. He has developed Professor Turner’s profound conception of the influence of the frontier in a new field; for the purpose of his argument he has made it his own.” Lincoln MacVeagh
+ =Dial= 69:303 S ’20 1800w
“The best chapter, we think, is the one on ‘The industrial problem,’ but the whole book is vital and invigorating.” C. F. L.
+ =Grinnell R= 15:258 O ’20 500w
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:478 O 27 ’20 1700w
“A book of timely consequence, whose pages deserve wide and careful reading.”
+ =N Y Times= p21 Ag 15 ’20 1900w
“An interpretation of America which is thoughtful and scholarly, which is simply and forcibly written, and which is well worth anybody’s reading.”
+ =Review= 3:421 N 3 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 90w
=ENGLAND, GEORGE ALLAN.= Flying legion. *$1.90 McClurg
20–12813
“In a lofty tower at the summit of the palisades of the Hudson is the eyrie of the master where he dwells with his Arabian servants. Mysteriously he summons a company of thirty veterans of the war, all longing for excitement, a battalion is formed and a new, giant aeroplane, just ready for service on the Jersey shore is seized and the party take to flight for the Arabian desert. Mysteriously they went away, mysteriously they returned after scores of adventures.” (Boston Transcript) “One of the thirty with the master had been an uninvited member—a ‘Captain Alden,’ who is a mysterious personage altogether and whose identity, ultimately discovered, furnishes the story’s principal romantic interest.” (N Y Times)
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“A tale of romance and adventure in which improbability is obscured by thrills. The style is awkward.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Well-told tale.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 220w
“The story is told in a casual, rather than an inspired, way. But when the action once really starts, the reader forgets the critical attitude in a breathless absorption in the vigor of the narrative.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 470w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 150w
=ENOCK, C. REGINALD.= Spanish America: its romance, reality and future. 2v il *$8 Scribner 918
20–26989
“The scheme of Mr Enock’s book is what Stowe would have called a perambulation. Beginning with Central America and Mexico, he takes us right along the Pacific coast through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, with an excursion into Bolivia: the remaining two chapters of the first volume are devoted to the Cordillera of the Andes. In the second volume we are taken down the Atlantic coast, with its rich and still imperfectly explored hinterlands, from the ‘lands of the Spanish Main’—Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana—through the Amazon valley and Brazil to the River Plate and the pampas, the go-ahead countries of Argentina and Uruguay and the secluded pastures of Paraguay. The historical associations, natural resources, and present industrial life of each district are uniformly described in passing.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21
“He has prepared what might quite accurately be called a primer of Latin America. It contains much valuable information, of course, but so does an ordinary primer. He expects practically nothing of his readers.” D. J. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 600w
“Such comprehensive, birdseye-view books as Mr Enock’s are of value as a starting point for more detailed study.”
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 7 ’20 2350w
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 70w
“In spite of an occasional tendency to slipshod writing Mr Enock has given us a readable and informing work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 O 7 ’20 900w
=EQUIPMENT= of the workers. $4 Sunwise turn (*10s 6d Allen & Unwin) 331.8
“There have already been exhaustive surveys of the physical and economic condition of the workers; and the findings of Booth and Rowntree have almost become classical. It was plainly necessary, however, to have these surveys supplemented by an inquiry far more inward and intimate into the mind and the outlook of the workers. What are they thinking? What are they living for? Do they read? If so, what? ‘The equipment of the workers’ gives us the answer to these and the like questions. The inquiry was planned and carried out by a group of workers at a Y. M. C. A. settlement in Sheffield; and it deals exclusively with Sheffield conditions. The finding of the group is that 25 per cent of the workers are well equipped, 60 per cent inadequately equipped, and 15 per cent ill equipped. The body of the book consists of a detailed record of the results of the inquiry in 408 typical cases.”—Nation
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“An extraordinarily interesting inquiry. The results are very illuminating and important.”
+ =Ath= p894 S 12 ’19 60w
=Ath= p975 O 3 ’19 1500w
“In the main the tests applied and the judgment passed upon the reaction of the investigated persons to the tests seem sound. We have in this volume an important datum for our thought upon reconstruction and the problems of the new world.”
+ =Nation= 109:766 D 13 ’19 550w
“This book combines the exactness of scientific inquiry with the vivid appeal of art. A picture such as this of American life would be one of the most revealing documents in our time.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 21:322 F 11 ’20 1600w
“It is an exceedingly interesting and valuable study of certain elements in the standard of living about which there is too little trustworthy information.” L. B.
+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 1400w
“A close and systematic investigation, with abundant particulars of individual cases.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p487 S 11 ’19 200w
=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Democracy and ideals: a definition. *$1.50 (3c) Doran 304
20–11647
The author’s preface states: “These chapters, with the exception of the first and the last, were written while I was serving as chairman of the Army education commission with the American forces in France in 1918 and 1919, and as educational director of the American expeditionary force university at Beaune, 1919.... I have tried to express here from several angles a central conviction that we in the United States are detached from the past, and that this detachment is the striking fact in all our problems; that if in the future we are to become and to remain a nation, we must collaborate for common ends.” The six essays are: Democracy and ideals; American character; French ideals and American; Society as a university; Universal training for national service; University leadership. The author is professor of English in Columbia university.
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“A pleasing clarification of ideas not particularly new or startling.”
+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“Among the best of the recent books dealing with the problems of citizenship and Americanization. It is written in a style so simple that anyone with but an elementary knowledge of English can enjoy it.” A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:497 F ’21 720w
“Scattered here and there through the volume are observations showing a thoughtful understanding of American problems, but the generalizations suitable to public addresses seem somewhat commonplace in their published form, when the inspiration of the occasion is past.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:400 D ’20 200w
“The author has looked about him with sympathy and understanding; and he has pondered in his heart over the things he has seen. Curious intolerances stand out the more abruptly by reason of the general temper of liberality and discrimination which marks the book as a whole. The book has it in it to do for its readers the most fruitful service possible in these bewildering times. It might and should start them thinking.” R: Roberts
+ − =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1000w
+ =Ind= 104:69 O 9 ’20 80w
“One may share his vision without subscribing to his specific educational program.”
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 390w
“He seems to assume, as is usual nowadays, that democracy, as distinguished from aristocracy and monarchy, can somehow be made immortal, and that education can of course succeed where religion has failed. Granting these assumptions, the only fault to find with his work is that it appears, here and there, sometimes hasty and again fatigued. To wake it into literary life would have required an interval of repose. For that very reason, it is the more valuable as a document.”
+ − =Review= 3:94 Jl 28 ’20 170w
+ =School R= 28:637 O ’20 170w
“By an accurate understanding of the French character as well as of our own, Prof. Erskine is able to make this study of Americanism very illuminating.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 250w
“They are happily written and are frequently stimulating, but their neglect of social undercurrents—economic and psychological, which determine the application of intelligence, and are not deflected by it—mars their value.” N. W. Wilensky
+ − =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 200w
=ERSKINE, JOHN.= Kinds of poetry, and other essays. *$1.50 Duffield 808.1
20–12047
Poetry, the author holds, is not subject to evolution in its essence but is an unchanging function of an unchanging life and its three genres, the lyrical, the dramatic and the epic, are comparable to the three eternal ways of meeting experience: “as simply a present moment, or as a present moment in which the past is reaped, or as a present moment in which the future is promised.” The other essays of the volume are: The teaching of poetry; The new poetry; Scholarship and poetry.
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+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20
“Of great value to all lovers of poetry is Mr Erskine’s book. His criticism is keen and trenchant and happily expressed in a style peculiarly his own.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 490w
“When his moral prejudices are not in the way, Mr Erskine is a sound writer.” Llewellyn Jones
+ − =Freeman= 2:405 Ja 5 ’21 800w
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 20w
Reviewed by W: McFee
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 D 31 ’20 1700w
“One will find great pleasure in his book, but it will hardly take its place as an important document.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 1050w
“They are characterized by a fine mingling of discrimination and common sense. His breadth of view, his refusal to rest content with mere special scholarship, gives value to his advice about the teaching of poetry.”
+ =No Am= 212:572 O ’20 850w
Reviewed by L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:377 O 27 ’20 720w
“An uneven book in which the critical elements are decidedly superior to the constructive ones.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 410w
“There is somewhat too much of that intellectual writing around a subject which is common with persons who are afraid of the obvious, but, on the whole, the book will awaken thought; it will not do this the less because some of its reasoning will arouse criticism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1100w
=ERVINE, ST JOHN GREER.= Foolish lovers. *$2 (1c) Macmillan
20–8447
Mr Ervine’s new book is dedicated to his mother, who asked him to write a story without any “bad words” in it, and to Mrs J. O. Hanny, who asked him to write a story without any “sex” in it. It is the story of a charmingly conceited young Irishman who goes to London to write novels and plays and comes home again to be a grocer. John’s boyhood is spent in the home over the shop where three generations of MacDermotts had preceded him. He grows up under the care of his mother, his Uncle Matthew, the dreamer whose dreams come to nothing, and his Uncle William, who supports the family. He goes to London where he meets Eleanor. He asks her to marry him almost at first meeting, dogs her steps and finally persuades her to marry him, only to find that she has leagued herself with his mother to persuade him back to Ballyards and the shop.
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“‘The foolish lovers’ has nothing to commend it but a good beginning. Why did he write it? Or, rather, why did he give up writing it? Perhaps he would reply that what is not worth doing is not worth doing well. It is a possible explanation.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p78 Jl 16 ’20 600w
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“It is regrettable that so good a story as this bears so poor a title. ‘The foolish lovers’ is neither an exact nor an appealing designation for a novel that is so full of the commonsense of life.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 22 ’20 1950w
“Mr Ervine, in spite of his obvious determination to fix securely the ‘local coloring,’ has failed to evoke the fine, harsh, sincere reality of the Black Northerners with whom his story deals. Prose drama is, after all, this author’s true medium.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 100w
=Lit D= p97 O 23 ’20 1850w
“John McDermott himself is not altogether credible. His exploits, especially his wooing of Eleanor—the central thing in the book—have none of the homely vigor and quiet truth of the Irish scenes and incidents. Here and there Mr Ervine gives us glimpses of a more searching novel he might write about the people of Ulster. But he deliberately cut himself off from that possibility here by the kindly promises to be harmless which he records in his dedication.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 111:74 Jl 17 ’20 500w
“To put it all as briefly as possible, ‘The foolish lovers,’ while not so remarkable a book as ‘Changing winds,’ is worthy of its author—and to say that a book is worthy of St John Ervine is to give it high praise.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:264 My 23 ’20 1200w
“Modern taste hardly asks for anything really better than such a suave and frank, sympathetically critical and wisely humorous treatment of life as is found in this book. Its tone just suits the mood of the cultivated man or woman of today who has outgrown youthful tastes but has retained a certain independence of view-point. In charm and in acuteness—the two qualities generally most worth commending in the fiction of the day, in which hysteria is so apt to take the place of power—‘The foolish lovers’ is preeminent.”
+ =No Am= 212:287 Ag ’20 660w
“‘The foolish lovers’ exemplifies to a very high degree the special gifts which have made its author’s novels notable among recent fiction. Mr Ervine has something of Dickens’s love for people. No more delightfully tender description of a courtship is contained in recent fiction, nor any which so finely sets forth as that in ‘The foolish lovers’ the unconscious humor of young love.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 125:388 Je 23 ’20 2950w
“Mr Ervine’s tale is in the new-British mode, the post-Wellsian, somewhat diffuse, somewhat overburdened with scenes and ‘characters,’ if not, in this instance, with ‘ideas.’” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:91 Jl 28 ’20 350w
“The portraits of his family are excellent, and the way he imposes himself on Eleanor is ably studied.”
+ =Sat R= 130:164 Ag 21 ’20 110w
“Mr St John Ervine has chosen an old theme, but he has invested it with the freshness and vigour which we have come to expect from his work.”
+ =Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 550w
“The story is rich in whimsical observations on personal characteristics and political trends, and engages the reader’s close interest in all its phases.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 600w
“By far the most attractive part of his story takes place in Ballyards. The characters of Uncle William and Uncle Matthew are delightful. The success with which Mr Ervine brings out their simplicity and nobility of character is a convincing proof of his gifts as a novelist.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Je 24 ’20 800w
=ESCOUFLAIRE, RODOLPHE C.= Ireland an enemy of the allies? tr. from the French. *$2.50 Dutton 941.5
20–5757
“M. Escouflaire’s thesis in this volume is that the Irish question so-called is ‘an international imposture.’ In years past this French writer had accepted anti-British propaganda from Ireland at its face value, but his contact with British statesmen during the war led him to question his earlier conclusions, and in the present volume after an independent study of Ireland’s relations with England he declares categorically that the whole Irish claim of oppression by England, so far as the present generation is concerned, is a myth.”—R of Rs
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“The egotism of his attitude is bewildering, but it is the key to a treatment of Irish affairs which would otherwise be merely stupidly unfair and ungenerous.”
− =Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 80w
“The book is a grotesque perversion of all Irish history, ancient and modern. The author’s gross ignorance is never corrected by the translator.” E. A. Boyd
− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 200w
“Lovers of England must trust that she will not listen to such counsels as these.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:769 Je 5 ’20 360w
=N Y Times= pl Ag 1 ’20 750w
“His book is well written, but without the wise judgment that comes through the sympathetic understanding that such men as Lloyd George bring to the problem.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w
“M. Escouflaire’s book must be laid down with a sigh of disappointment. It is the sort of work which can help no one, a perfect specimen of how Irish matters should not be discussed, and those most anxious for the object he sets before himself should be the first to repudiate the methods by which he is seeking it. The present critic hates Sinn Fein and all its works as much as M. Escouflaire can hate them, but he would wish to see it attacked with artillery not so far out of range.” H. L. Stewart
− + =Review= 2:676 Je 30 ’20 2000w
=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 80w
“Accurate and spirited little book.”
+ =Spec= 123:732 N 29 ’19 440w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p699 N 27 ’19 30w
=ESSEN, LÉON VAN DER.= Short history of Belgium. il *$1.50 (3c) Univ. of Chicago press 949.3
20–2285
This second and enlarged edition of the original book contains a special chapter on Belgium during the war. The book is illustrated and has a bibliography and an index. The first edition was published in 1916.
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“Dr Van der Essen has succeeded admirably in confining a record of monumental size within the compass of a small volume. Yet, in doing so, he has not sacrificed clearness for brevity nor interest for compactness.”
+ =Cath World= 112:117 O ’20 210w
+ =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 40w
“Professor van der Essen has treated this difficult and often intricate subject with admirable skill; though writing with a scholar’s intimate knowledge of his country’s history, he has succeeded in steering clear from the shoal of ponderosity and dulness. Here and there the Roman Catholic has led the historian astray.”
+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 750w
“It is a fascinating story told by a master of the facts who writes with a fine sense of proportion.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 200w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 140w
=EVANS, CARADOC.= My neighbors. *$1.75 (5c) Harcourt
20–5187
More stories of a Welsh rural neighborhood by the author of “My people” and “Capel Sion.” In a prologue entitled “The Welsh people” the author offers some explanation of the ugly and distorted aspects of human nature that he presents. The stories are: Love and hate; According to the pattern; The two apostles; Earthbred; For better; Treasure and trouble; Saint David and the prophets; Joseph’s house; Like brothers; A widow woman; Unanswered prayers; Lost treasure; Profit and glory.
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“I happen to know something of Welsh religion, and I have written not a little in criticism of it. But the religion which Mr Evans describes I have never met with. We Welsh have many grievous faults, and we have not been as faithful in self-criticism as we should have been. But Mr Caradoc Evans’s book does not describe us. It describes only Mr Caradoc Evans’s own soul; and it is not a pretty sight.”
− =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“Mr Evans’s artistic gift is very genuine but hard and narrow. In its present trend one can see little chance for its development. The stories are like rocks—impressive but barren. The preface is written in a more flexible vein and a more ironic mood. In it the language of the English Bible, from which Mr Evans draws, is transmuted for the uses of his artistic intention. In the stories themselves it is employed merely as a weapon. But his work has fierce honesty, concentration, power. It is sanative and, within its definite limits, completely achieved.”
+ − =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 450w
“But does he really traverse the whole stage? We cannot think so. Where there are Goneril and Regan we cry out for a Cordelia, and Mr Evans would, we think, have made his terrible portraits more effective even than they are already if he had introduced more contrast and relief into them.”
+ − =Nation [London]= 27:77 Ap 17 ’20 600w
“Mr Evans knows the Welsh intimately and searchingly, and his portrayal of their daily lives, their bickerings, prayings and aspirations is altogether ruthless and incisive.” Pierre Loving
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 800w
“The hardy reader who will persist beyond the almost impenetrable idiom of Caradoc Evans will be richly rewarded. Especially do we recommend the book to reformers, utopists, spinners of millennial dreams.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 600w
=N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 320w
“He is sometimes difficult to follow, partly because the dialogue is in English literally translated from the Welsh, and partly because the stories are almost excessively condensed; but the subdued irony and false simplicity are delightful, and he knows the sovereign power of the restraint which leaves events to explain themselves without heavy exegesis.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p154 Mr 4 ’20 450w
=EVANS, EDWARD RADCLIFFE GARTH RUSSELL.= Keeping the seas. il *$3 Warne 940.45
20–2282
“Captain Evans saw a great deal of the Dover patrol and of all it included. He tells his experiences, so to speak, right on end and in a kind of chronological order. He is a witness who was there and records what has remained in his mind of what he saw. And he had notable things to remember; for he commanded the Broke in the action of March, 1917, in the Straits. The war produced few such passages of conflict as the action in the Straits. Captain Evans’ services, like those of other officers, consisted in the main of cruising and watching. At the end he was afforded a change in the direction of Gibraltar and the Portuguese coast.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“His ‘simple sailor volume,’ as he calls it, is full of miscellaneous stories which would have been the better if they had been more carefully digested; but if the whole is rather confusing, not a little good matter is to be found in the heap.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p74 F 5 ’20 1050w
=EVANS, MRS ELIDA.= Problem of the nervous child. *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 136.7
20–6871
This volume comes with an introduction by Dr C. G. Jung of Zurich who says of the author: “Mrs Evans’ knowledge of her subject matter is based on the solid foundation of practical experience, an experience gained in the difficult and toilsome treatment and education of nervous children.... This book, as the reader can see on almost every page, is the fruit of an extended work in the field of neuroses and abnormal characters.” Its purpose is to aid parents in the training and education of their children, not to add another “to the already long list of textbooks explaining psychoanalytical treatment for nervous troubles.” It does not presuppose scientific training in the laws of human development on the part of those for whom the book is intended and therefore avoids technical terms and abstruse discussions as far as possible, giving only end results of present day research and observation on the subject, with examples of cases. Contents: Statement of the problem; The development of repression; Symbolic thought; The child and the adult; Mental behaviour of the child; Defence reactions; The parent complex; Buried emotions; Child training; Muscle erotism; The tyrant child; Teaching of right and wrong; Self and character; Index.
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+ =Booklist= 16:303 Je ’20
“There are spots in the book where the all-absorbing panacea of psycho-analytic therapy is too powerful, and she over-stresses the environment, losing sight of the medico-psychological fact that many defects are organically directed. The book needs a broader sensing and interpreting of the ever present interplay between the hereditary and environmental forces.” H. F. Coffin, M.D.
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 270w
=EVANS, LAWTON BRYAN.= America first. il *$2.50 Bradley, M. 973
20–16082
“Instead of being what the title might imply, the volume contains one hundred stories from the history of America in condensed form and written in a style that will prove interesting to the juvenile reader. The author goes on the supposition that the nearer a story is to the life of the child, the more eagerly it is absorbed. True stories, he says, about our own people, about our neighbors and friends and about our own country at large, are more interesting than true stories of remote people and places. The stories grouped in the volume open with ‘Leif, the lucky,’ and continue down through history to the time when Americans made history over-seas.”—Springf’d Republican
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“An excellent piece of work. The book will be a valuable supplement to school study of our national history and it will stimulate a healthy national pride.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w
=Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 180w
=EVARTS, HAL GEORGE.= Cross pull. *$1.90 (3½c) Knopf
20–4269
The hero of this story is Flash, a cross between wolf, coyote and dog. Clark Moran took him as a puppy and tamed him and the dog in him responded to kindness. To one other Flash gives his allegiance, to Betty, the girl from the East who comes into the mountains. To most other humans he is indifferent, but there is one he hates. The story tells how he served his two loved ones in a crisis, and how in so doing he took his own revenge on his enemy. In the end he settles down as a safe and trusted house dog, but there were times when the wild strain awakened and at those times, on still nights during the mating moon, certain civilized suburbanites would experience a primitive shudder at hearing the lone wolf’s call.
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“Not over humanized or sentimentalized; one of the best dog stories.”
+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
“A better novel it might have been, but a better animal study it could scarcely have been.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 23 ’20 200w
“A story of more than ordinary interest either as an ‘animal story’ or a ‘live’ western romance.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 200w
=EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL.= Arguments and speeches: ed., with an introd., by his son Sherman Evarts. 3v *$15 Macmillan 815
19–16299
“Mr Evarts (1818–1901) as leader of the American bar, orator, and statesman, was one of the most conspicuous of American citizens in the nineteenth century. This substantial collection of his public utterances not only provides a record of his career, but an important document for the social and political events of his day and for the history of American oratory. He was the leading counsel for the defendant in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Jackson in 1868; and in 1872 was counsel for the United States in the Alabama arbitration at Geneva. He was secretary of state during President Hayes’s administration (1877–1881) and one of the senators for New York 1885–1891.”—The Times [London]. Lit Sup
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“The editor’s introductions and comments are brief and well chosen throughout. Taken as a whole, the volumes are a worthy memorial to one of the influential leaders of the American bar, and of the Republican party during a difficult period of our history.” W: A. Robinson
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:349 My ’20 360w
“The ‘Springbok’ argument is said by our leading authority on international law to be as good an argument in a prize case as he has ever read. The defense of Andrew Johnson was equally worth reprinting. As to the rest of the three volumes there is much room for doubt.” Zechariah Chafee, jr.
+ − =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 1100w
+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 28 ’20 1650w
“These volumes should find a place in all public libraries, especially those of the higher institutions of learning, and in many private libraries. especially those of persons interested in the political history of the United States.”
+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 300w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 100w
“We are glad to find, in sampling these volumes, that Evarts’s high reputation for eloquence is fully justified.”
+ =Spec= 124:316 Mr 6 ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w
Reviewed by Moorfield Storey
=Yale R= n s 10:189 O ’20 1200w
=EVISON, MILLICENT.= Rainbow gold. il *$1.75 Lothrop
While their father is serving a term of imprisonment on a charge of embezzlement three young people, Toni, Basil and Cecily, go to live with their grandfather in a lonely old house in Maine. The grandfather is crabbed and cold and the two aunts have become as dull and drab as the old house. The story tells how the children bring new life into it and how Toni wins her grandfather’s heart and moves him to take steps toward a new hearing of their father’s case which proves his innocence.
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=FABRE, JEAN HENRI CASIMIR.= Secret of everyday things; informal talks with the children: tr. from the French by Florence Constable Bicknell. il *$2.50 Century 504
20–17586
This book for young readers contains another selection of Uncle Paul’s talks, following “The story-book of science,” “Our humble helpers” and “Field, forest and farm.” Among the everyday things discussed are Thread; Pins; Needles; Silk; Wool; Flax and hemp; Weaving; Woolen cloth; Moths; Calico; Dyeing and printing; Human habitations; Soap; Fire; Matches; Glass; Iron; Rust; Pottery; Coffee; Sugar; Tea; Bread; Air; Evaporation; Rain; Snow; The force of steam; Sound and light. There are occasional illustrations in the text.
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“Would be useful in junior high schools.”
+ =Booklist= 17:121 D ’20
“Didacticism flies before Fabre’s freshness of style like dust before a broom.”
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 80w
“The insect world has been recreated for lay readers by the patience and the genius of Fabre. Here his themes are homelier but his gift for accurate information, made fascinating in the telling, is the same.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 90w
“The heart and mind of a scientist, the style of an artist, and the sympathy of a man whose child spirit never died live in the book.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 150w
=FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN.= Conservation reader. il *$1.20 World bk. 338
20–8813
This book is one of the Conservation series and is especially designed for the education of children in right ways of looking at nature. It is the author’s opinion that much of the enthusiasm for conservation will expend itself uselessly unless it can be made to reach the children and the purpose of the book is to present its principles to pupils in a simple and interesting manner. Among the contents are: How our first ancestors lived; The earth as it was before the coming of civilized men; How far will nature restore her wasted gifts? Things of which soil is made; The use and care of water; How the forests are wasted; Our forest playgrounds; What is happening to the wild flowers; What shall we do when the coal, oil, and gas are gone? What is happening to the animals and birds; How to bring the wild creatures back again. Among the many illustrations are two color prints and there is an index.
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+ =Booklist= 16:352 Jl ’20
“Well adapted for use in the intermediate grades.”
+ =El School J= 21:156 O ’20 120w
=FALKENHAYN, ERICH GEORG ANTON SEBASTIAN VON.= German general staff and its decisions, 1914–1916. *$5 Dodd 940.343
20–2294
“The book will attempt to set forth in an intelligible form, according to my knowledge at the time of their occurrence, those operative ideas by which the best of us were guided in battle and victory during the two years of the war when I was at the head of the general staff. My statements do not afford any history of the war in the ordinary sense of the word. They touch upon the events of the war, and other occurrences connected with the latter, only in so far as is necessary to justify the decisions of the general staff.” (Preface) Contents: The change of chief of the general staff; The general military situation in the middle of September, 1914: The battles of the Yser and around Lodz; The period from the beginning of trench warfare in November-December, 1914, until the recommencement of the war of movement in 1915; The break-through at Gorlice-Tarnow and its consequences; Operations against Russia in the summer and autumn of 1915; Beginning of the unrestricted submarine campaign; Attempts to break through in the west in the autumn of 1915, and the campaign against Serbia; The situation at the end of 1915; The campaign of 1916; Comparative review of the relative strength of forces (Appendix); Maps.
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“The work itself is a memoir, rather than a history. It makes no references to authorities, and furnishes little in the form of documents, but it bears evidence of more careful preparation than is usual with memoirs and of being based on authentic records or accurate first-hand knowledge.” J: Bigelow
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:500 Ap ’20 750w
=Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
Reviewed by W. C. Abbott
=Bookm= 51:286 My ’20 2800w
=Lit D= p123 Ap 17 ’20 1400w
“Both as a personal apologia and as a revealing of inside German military history this volume is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s book—indeed, it is better; it is less clumsy and tart, its language is clearer and terser.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 240w
“With one exception, his book is a candid and apparently straightforward statement of the problems he was called upon to solve, and as such it will always be valuable to the special student, but not to the general public: it proves nothing.”
+ − =Review= 3:533 D 1 ’20 2100w
“General von Falkenhayn’s book on the war is, from the military standpoint, a much more serious production than General Ludendorff’s memoirs, though it does not appeal in the same way to the natural man’s desire for revelations of the enemy’s domestic controversies. The attentive reader of his book will be impressed with General von Falkenhayn’s personality. He writes like a soldier, not like a politician.”
+ =Spec= 123:895 D 27 ’19 1750w
“Von Falkenhayn’s book is a worthy companion to Ludendorff’s. It has the merit of being shorter; it contains a much smaller admixture of politics; and its handling of personal controversies, though sufficiently tart, is less clumsy and disagreeable than Ludendorff’s.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 D 11 ’19 2200w
=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= On the trail of the pioneers; romance, tragedy, and triumph of the path of empire. il *$3.50 Doran 978
20–7011
The present volume does not give in full detail the historical background of the successive great movements of population from the East to the West but rather actual typical cases of emigrants on the move. “It ... gives glimpses of many of these great movements, the routes the emigrants took, and the sections to which they went. The endeavor is made to answer the questions, Who were the emigrants? How and where did they travel? What adventures did they have by the way? What were their impressions of the country through which they passed? What did they do when they reached their destinations?” (Preface) For this purpose full use has been made of the records of early travellers and pioneers. Contents: Through the Cumberland gap to Kentucky and Tennessee; Through the Pittsburgh and Wheeling gateways; Floating down the Ohio and the Mississippi; From northern New York and New England to the West; The Santa Fe trail; The Oregon trail; Across the plains to California; Toiling up the Missouri; Bibliography; Index; Maps and illustrations.
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+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“An excellent, condensed history.”
+ =Cath World= 111:697 Ag ’20 120w
+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 50w
=N Y Times= p30 S 12 ’20 150w
“While sketchy and disjointed, Mr Faris’s book presents enough that is piquant or solidly interesting to lure the reader to search further for himself.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 700w
“The author has accomplished a scholarly piece of work without pedantry or tedious generalization. The writing of the book is so fresh and entertaining that the general reader will find it a real pleasure to peruse it.”
+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w
“There are evidences of haste in the compilation of the book and in the explanatory matter which introduces the excerpts from diaries, resulting in too general statements of specific historical events, and some minor errors. The charm of this book lies in the abundant passages from old journals which happily escaped the improving pencils of ‘literary’ friends.” C. L. Skinner
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:185 O ’20 330w
=FARIS, JOHN THOMSON.= Seeing the Far West. il *$6 Lippincott 917.8
20–17297
“John T. Faris’s ‘Seeing the Far West’ has chapters upon the scenery of Colorado, Arizona, the Yellowstone, the Sierras, Oregon, and Washington.” (Review) “He regales his readers with bits of gossip and local history that enliven and endow with a human interest the scenes to which he leads them.” (N Y Times)
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“The writing of the book is simple and direct, gaining thereby in clearness and force. Its sincerity cannot be questioned and its personal touches and humanness stir alive one’s jaded interest in travel volumes.” J. W. D. S.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 11 ’20 560w
“‘Seeing the far West’ is a desirable addition to any home library.”
+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 140w
“Occasionally the reader finds flashes of description that are characterized by originality, but, on the whole, the writer is content with conventional utterance.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 160w
“The book will take its place as one of the best of the ‘boosters’ for seeing the great West.”
+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w
“Mr Faris has the enviable trick of making one see. He sets one dreaming golden, fantastic, rainbow dreams, and leaves one,—as only the most vivid dreams can leave one,—half convinced that one has actually been there in the flesh.” Calvin Winter
+ =Pub W= 98:664 S 18 ’20 370w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 40w
“It is well illustrated with photographs which show that Mr Faris is not too enthusiastic in his descriptions.”
+ =Spec= 125:748 D 4 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 200w
“Mr Faris’s main difficulty is that he has so many things to write about. In fact, he would have given a clearer idea of the country if of its natural features he had been content to describe fully one of each kind instead of—in perhaps a spirit of democratic equality—giving a shorter account of several.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p755 N 18 ’20 1250w
=FARNELL, IDA.=[2] Spanish prose and poetry old and new. *$5.25 Oxford 860.8
20–22172
“‘Spanish prose and poetry, old and new.’ by Ida Farnell is a collection made in the belief that one of the consequences of the war will be an increased interest in the literature of the Latin races. Miss Farnell has endeavored to show something of the spirit of Spanish literature by translated extracts from authors ranging from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century (omitting the eighteenth as an age of decadence), to which she has prefixed short biographies of the writers.”—Springf’d Republican
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“Her versification is unusually successful in coping with the peculiar difficulties of Spanish verse. Her biographical sketches, her comments and her notes are lively and entertaining. It is a delightful book.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 1250w
“Her prefaces, though enfeebled as criticism by moral and patriotic bias, are enthusiastic, and arouse keener expectations than her translations satisfy.”
+ − =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 29 ’20 80w
=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Black Bartlemy’s treasure. *$2.15 Little
20–20647
This is a veritable treasure island and piracy story. Martin Conisby, Lord Wendover, is sold as a slave to a Spanish galleon by Sir Richard Brandon, the slayer of his father. After making his escape and returning to England, swearing vengeance, he unwittingly becomes the rescuer of Brandon’s daughter. He does not find Sir Richard, who has since been lost at sea. But he falls in with a man about to set forth in quest of a treasure and joins him. Lady Joan Brandon embarks on the same ship and presently the two are set adrift in a boat and reach the island. Here they live for some time, a la Robinson Crusoe and love grows to such an extent that the hero is ready to abjure his vow of vengeance. The treasure is also found. When rescuers come events develop in such a way that he renounces love and all and remains a solitary hermit on the island as the ship sails away. Much rough fighting and slaughter punctuate the various phases of the story.
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“Some reminiscences of Stevenson and Charles Reade may have gone towards shaping ‘Black Bartlemy’s treasure,’ but Mr Farnol gives a good account of himself as regards both these models.”
+ =Ath= p442 O 1 ’20 110w
“The story would be much more effective were it narrated in forthright English.” E. F. Edgett
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 1600w
“The author has written a thrilling and convincing sea story with so many quaint characters and so much cut-and-thrust action that it is hard to find anything which may be offered as a parallel in very recent fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 380w
“The action is as rapid as ever. The ingenuity with which Mr Farnol creates fresh situations of romance is tireless.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 S 9 ’20 700w
=FARNOL, JEFFERY.= Geste of Duke Jocelyn. il *$2.50 Little
20–16930
In this merry jest is romance and knight errantry of old. The tale tells of one Duke Jocelyn of Brocelaunde, a puissant knight, but marred of face so that he despairs of winning the love of the beautiful lady Yolande. He dons his fool’s motley garb with cap and bells and sets out with one lonely, poorly garbed knight to act the part of the Duke’s envoy and press his suit. They meet with many adventures in the forest, fall in with Robin Hood, make friends and fight many a brave fight with and for him. Even the Lady Yolande is intrigued by the fool’s merry songs and after he has rescued her from a hated suitor, she yields to his love and openly declares it before the assembled knights of the Duke of Brocelaunde. Songs and rhymes, blank verse and prose mingle in the telling of the tale.
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“He tells it for his young daughter’s edification, and has hit on a medium—his own swaggering prose and a sound, swinging, rough-and-ready metre—that suits both the matter and his now familiar manner.”
+ =Ath= p1411 D 26 ’19 70w
“This is a good Christmas book for the incorrigibly romantic, young or old.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 120w
“A pretty manner Mr Farnol has adopted for the telling of his latest story. Accepting the artifice for what it is one cannot deny that it makes good entertainment.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 540w
“One of the most charming and delightfully whimsical fictional products that have come from the presses this year.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 740w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 360w
“The choice of the genre is a very happy one for Mr Farnol; it admits of his wearing his heart on his sleeve and carrying his tongue in his cheek at one and the same time. In fact, this is such a tale as any father—did he but dispose of Mr Farnol’s vocabulary, humour and invention—would tell his daughter, providing her liberally with marvels to her taste and amusing himself with Shakespearian allusions that would escape her.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p742 D 11 ’19 650w
=FARNSWORTH, CHARLES HUBERT.= How to study music. *$2.10 (3½c) Macmillan 780.7
20–19843
Professor Frank M. McMurry in his introduction to the volume points out that the teacher’s method of teaching may unduly overshadow in importance the child’s method of study. This little book places the emphasis on the child’s method of study and takes the form of home conversations between the children and the adults of the family. It shows how a child’s appreciation of music requires a fertile home soil for its growth and how Jack’s initial “I hate music” can be changed into his final “I love music.” Contents: Difficulties in the study of music; How listen to music; How learn notation without awakening a dislike for music; How a child should learn to sing; How learn to play the piano; How learn to enjoy classical as well as modern music; How to select music; How make use of music in the family; Library of piano compositions.
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“The unusual characteristic about the book is the fact that the problems are presented from the viewpoint of both pupil and teacher. In this respect it is better than a formal text would probably be. Indeed, the author evidently sought to exemplify his philosophy of teaching by the book itself.”
+ =El School J= 21:317 D ’20 510w
=FARRAR, JOHN CHIPMAN.= Forgotten shrines. (Yale ser. of younger poets) *75c Yale univ. press 811
20–3703
“Mr Farrar has earned a reputation which foreruns this book of his with a war poem called ‘Brest left behind.’ He divides his poems in groups called Portraits, Songs for children and others, Miscellaneous and Sonnets. The first group of Portraits won the eighteenth award of the prize offered by Professor Albert Stanburrough Cook at Yale for the best unpublished verse by an undergraduate.”—Boston Transcript
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“Beautiful in thought and expression.”
+ =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 51:454 Je ’20 200w
“He gives us a fine sense of diversity of interests and a balance of form that is admirable.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 340w
“Mr Farrar has achieved clear and tender outlines in the section called Portraits, and should be encouraged to proceed further.”
+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w
=FARRISS, CHARLES SHERWOOD.=[2] American soul. $1 Stratford co. 920
20–22043
“An appreciation of the four greatest Americans and their lesson for present Americans.” (Sub-title) The four Americans are: George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; and Theodore Roosevelt.
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“On the whole, the author is quite happy in his attempt to draw the moral without overpainting the tale.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 220w
+ =R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 30w
=FAY, CHARLES RYLE.= Life and labour in the nineteenth century. *$8 Macmillan 331.8
(Eng ed 20–16219)
“Though the title sounds as if ‘Life and labor in the nineteenth century’ were solely on economics, and though economics gets plenty of treatment, Captain Fay’s lectures cover the political history of England and its international adventures. It is only the fact that wars are not described that prevents it from being a history of England in the nineteenth century.” (N Y Times) “The volume contains the substance of the author’s lectures, delivered at Cambridge in 1919, to students of economics among whom were officers of the Royal navy and students from the United States army.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
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=Ath= p47 Jl 9 ’20 800w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 100w
“It is marred by a certain ignorance of American events, or at least American points of view.... But these evidences of careless historical reading and insufficient information about a foreign country, although they impair the value of Mr Fay’s book, do not prevent it from being a careful study of the economic life and free-handed study of its politics, written in a vivacious style.”
+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 26 ’20 1950w
“Mr Fay attempts to develop no clear-cut definite theories. He does not indulge in the harmless but futile pastime of prophecy. One of the freshest and most original portions of the book is in the chapters in which Mr Fay traces the prevalence and disastrous consequences of ‘semi-capitalism,’ the stage of transition from domestic industries to manufacture.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p359 Je 10 ’20 1650w
=FAYLE, CHARLES ERNEST.=[2] Seaborne trade. il *$7.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 940.45
=v 1= The cruiser period.
“From the outbreak of the war and the mobilization of the British fleet to the beginning of the submarine warfare, Mr Fayle covers every incident, every move of the Allied and the German fleets. He takes up in turn the flight of the Goeben and the Breslau to the shelter of the Dardanelles, the protection of the Atlantic terminals, the precautions taken to cover trade in the Far East, the situation in the South Atlantic, and the depredations of the Karlsruhe.”—Boston Transcript
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“Altogether, ‘The cruiser period’ is a notable addition to the history of the war.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 350w
+ =Spec= 125:707 N 27 ’20 1350w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p787 D 2 ’20 1650w
=FELD, ROSE CAROLINE.= Humanizing industry. *$2.50 Dutton 331.1
20–8521
“Miss Feld has written a story concerning one Struthers who, inheriting an industrial plant run on old-fashioned lines of benevolent despotism, tries to introduce modern ideas and overcomes one by one the obstacles created by a bad tradition. It is not fiction, but the method of telling enhances the impression of the author’s belief in good personal relationships and common sense as the most promising approaches to a humanization of industry. Incidentally, the book discusses in detail and with reference to successful experiments the merits of welfare, educational, insurance, pension, profit sharing and industrial representation schemes.”—Survey
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=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 50w
“There seems to be one thing overlooked. In speaking of human relations, the author seems to have in mind kindliness, friendliness, charitableness—of which we have none too much. She does not mean anything as fundamental as the economic relationship of classes to one another, to the soil and natural resources, to the powers of government. She reminds me pathetically of the reformers who hoped to save the institution of slavery by inducing slave holders to treat their slaves and mules in a more kindly way.” B. C. G.
− + =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 580w
“It is a book that all employers of labor ought to read, because whether or not they have sensed that new era, or even entered upon it, they will find in it eye-opening ideas, helpful suggestions. It is a book that all laboring men who have begun to think ought to read, because it will set them on the right track in their thinking.”
+ =N Y Times= p30 Ag 22 ’20 780w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 30w
=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w
=FELLOWES, EDMUND HORACE=, ed. English madrigal verse, 1588–1632. (Oxford English texts) *$6.25 Oxford 821:04
20–17023
“This is a reprint of the known words of Elizabethan songs, arranged under their composers and, among these, under the particular type of song, with the names of the poets in the few cases where they are known. In all of these songs both words and voice part were paramount. For if, as in the first half of the book, they were madrigals (for from three to six voices), each voice was sovran in turn, and each vied with the other in the amount of meaning it could impress on the words. If, as in the second half, they were solos or duets, then they had the sketchy accompaniment of the lute, or the support of veiled and velvety-toned viols. The first are necessarily short, for the madrigal form required much repetition of words; pithy, for if a voice is only to be heard at intervals it should have something terse to say; and conventional, for you cannot put intimate sentiments into the mouths of half a dozen different people in succession. The second are more elaborate. They are all true lyrics in that they take one point and press it home.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“To all who love the lyric, English madrigal verse will be a genuine delight. Its careful editing makes the musical construction quite clear, and the material is indeed a treasury of quaint verse.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 1 ’20 680w
“A learned and careful work which only a scholar both in literature and in music could have brought to a conclusion.”
+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 260w
“Interesting and scholarly book.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p493 Ag 5 ’20 6300w
=FELSTEAD, SIDNEY THEODORE.= German spies at bay; comp, from official sources. il *$2 Brentano’s 940.485
(Eng ed 20–8200)
“This is a record of interest, exactly recording the actual work of our Secret service and the particulars of the chief German spies whom it traced and dealt with, and exposing the error of much of the panic about spies in England which at one time prevailed.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Ath= p386 Mr 19 ’20 70w
“Mr Felstead is not dull, nor truthfully can one think, brilliant. Those who are interested in spies will be reading for information (possibly thrills), and herein the author is enthusiastically cyclopedic.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 230w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 50w
“Mr Felstead has written an amusing as well as an instructive book, and he seems to have steered cleverly between the rocks of reticence and indiscretion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p178 Mr 18 ’20 1050w
=FENWICK, CHARLES GHEQUIER.= Political systems in transition; war-time and after. *$3 Century 342
20–20220
The book is one of the Century New world series of which W. F. Willoughby is general editor. Since the war, the author holds, the question of the organization of the state and the scope of the functions it is to perform has become once more an open one, for the war has made it clear that there are some serious defects in the machinery of government that call for radical amendments to our constitutional system. The relative strength and weakness of the several political systems and the probable line of future reconstruction, form the subject of the present study. Contents: Part 1, Political ideals and demands of war; War a test of democratic government; The constitutions of the great nations on the eve of the great war; Part 2, Changes brought about by the war in the political institutions of European countries; Countries with autocratic governments; Countries with democratic governments; Part 3, Changes in the political institutions of the United States; The war and the constitution; War powers of the president; Emergency legislation adopted by Congress; Changes in the organization of the government; The separate state governments: new legislation and new administrative activities; Part 4, Problems of reconstruction in the United States raised by the war; New ideals of democracy; The program of political reconstruction; The program of international reconstruction; Index.
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“An excellent account of the shake-up in governments produced by the war, full of material which must be included in any adequate history of it.” E. N.
+ =Boston Transcript= p14 D 8 ’20 950w
=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w
“The volume is a valuable compendium of war measures in the belligerent nations and of the political problems which the war has left.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 Ja 29 ’21 300w
“He writes with eminent fairness, and writes only to inform. He achieves his aim strikingly. Sometimes he falls into the error of taking a phrase at its face value. Since even small things are important in a work of this kind. Professor Fenwick should be more careful about his dates.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 19 ’20 2250w
=R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 100w
=FERBER, EDNA.= Half portions. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
20–8793
The nine short stories of this collection are: The maternal feminine; April 25th, as usual; Old lady Mandle; You’ve got to be selfish; Long distance; Un morso doo pang; One hundred per cent; Farmer in the dell; The dancing girls. They are stories of life as it is lived in Chippewa or Winnebago, Wisconsin, or on South Park avenue, Chicago. Some are stories of war time. One is an Emma McChesney story. They are reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Metropolitan, Colliers, and other magazines.
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+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
“All these stories and all these pages are thronged with real men and women, and in them Miss Ferber continues to display not merely her skill at story telling, but also her greater skill at breathing into them the breath of life. Reality and imagination combine equally in their making.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 1600w
“Miss Ferber’s talents go to polishing the bright pebbles of life, rather than to touching the bedrock of reality, but there’s no denying the world would be duller without an occasional pretty pebble.”
+ =Dial= 69:546 N ’20 50w
“The highest praise you can give an author in these days is to say that his or her book is ‘thoroly American,’ from which, alas, it does not necessarily follow that it is an excellent piece of workmanship. Edna Ferber’s ‘Half portions,’ however, wins on both counts.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 160w
“Miss Edna Ferber is not thoughtful about the affairs of the world. She simply does not let herself think. If some one would endow Miss Ferber, and make it no longer too expensive for her to think or bring a story to an honest conclusion, she might become a sort of American Arnold Bennett.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 200w
“It is a book that is thoroughly enjoyable and laughable from beginning to end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 620w
=FERBER, EDNA, and LEVY, NEWMAN.= $1200 a year. il *$1.50 Doubleday 812
20–18069
A three-act play in which a university professor gives up his $1200 a year position in the university to earn $30 a day in a mill. He immediately becomes popular as a labor leader and lecturer and is in demand all over the United States, but it is only when he is offered a salary of $5000 a week in the movies that the magnate who owns the university as well as the mill is moved to consider the question of an adequate salary for a professor.
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“Interesting to read. One would like to see it acted.”
+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“The complications hold the kernel of genuine comedy, but instead of cracking their nut, Miss Ferber and Mr Levy have contented themselves with merely painting funny faces on the shell.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 180w
“The authors have challenged serious criticism by calling the play a ‘comedy’ and by permitting the publishers to proclaim it a ‘timely satire.’ It is an amusing and clever farce, containing many touches of skilful character depiction.” Jack Crawford
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 S 25 ’20 800w
“As a vehicle for amusement ‘$1200 a year’ is both ingenious and satisfying. Its characters are human, its situations vivid. It portrays with little exaggeration the wretched circumstances of our little world of scholars with sympathetic and understanding treatment. But what of that other world? Have not the authors exaggerated the affluence of mill labor to crown their dramatic purpose?”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 560w
Reviewed by A. E. Morey
+ =Survey= 45:137 O 23 ’20 240w
“Rather a good story, though highly illogical and incredible.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:86 Ja ’21 230w
=FIELDING, WILLIAM JOHN.= Sanity in sex. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd 176
20–10067
The past few years have seen a remarkable change in the public attitude toward sex. The ban of secrecy has been largely removed and the need for rational sex education is generally recognized. The author’s purpose in this book has been “to subject the social processes responsible for these changes to a thorough analysis, classifying all the important factors and tendencies involved, and to give as concise and accurate an account as possible of this historic period of the sex-educational movement.” (Introd.) Subjects covered include: the government’s campaign of sex-education, sex-education in the army, venereal disease, sex hygiene in industry, sex education in the public schools, the relation of sex knowledge to marriage, sex ignorance and divorce, birth control, and psycho-analysis, and the final chapter discusses economic sufficiency as a basis of sex hygiene. There is a classified bibliography of seventeen pages, followed by an index.
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+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
=Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 80w
“Mr Fielding is not an alarmist; he strikes more than a note of hope in his account of the work which the United States government did with the army during the war.”
+ =Nation= 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 650w
“The book for the most part quotes authorities worth considering, and is modern in its attitude, but overestimates the theories of psycho-analysis, and is weakened by rather easy generalizations.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 90w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p688 O 21 ’20 90w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:113 Je ’20 70w
=FIFE, GEORGE BUCHANAN.= Passing legions. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477
20–20541
“How the American Red cross met the American army in Great Britain, the gateway to France.” (Sub-title) The work of the Red cross commission in Great Britain was almost wholly with passing troops, on the way to the front or returning, and the aim of the author has been to bring out those features of the service which distinguished it from that of other commissions. Among the chapters are: A call through the storm; When the commission was born; Where a million men went by; The incoming legions at Liverpool; Here and there in Britain; The bluejackets of Cardiff and Plymouth; With the army to Archangel; The unbreakable link with “home.”
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“Even now, books of the war continue to be written, and Mr Fife’s is among the distinctly lesser lights of the contest. He writes in a business-like but boresome monotone.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 260w
“The opening story of the book is a story of heroism almost unbelievable, yet intense in its realism, pathos and altruism. Great as is the Otranto story, it but serves to fix the attention on what is to come and so onward to the ‘valedictory’ is read a succession of just such tales.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 540w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w
+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 120w
=FILENE, CATHERINE=, ed. Careers for women. *$4 Houghton 396.5
20–21359
The object of the book is to give vocational information to high school and college women, to supplement the work of vocational advisors in schools, and to help decrease the number of “square pegs for round holes.” It is composed of articles written expressly for the book by a number of specially qualified contributors and its compiler, Miss Filene, is the director of the Intercollegiate vocational guidance association. The vocations considered are grouped under the headings: Accounting; Advertising; Agriculture, etc.; Architecture; Arts and crafts; Business; Dramatics; Education; Finance; Government service; Health services; Home economics services; Industrial work; Institutional work; Insurance; Law; Library work; Literary work; Motion-picture work; Museum work; Music; Newspaper work; Personnel work; Physical education; Politics; Religious work; Scientific work; Secretarial work; Social work; Specialists; Statistical work; Vocational training. Suggested readings accompany most of the chapters and there is an index.
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“By far the most practical and complete book in its field. Will be useful in any library.”
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“It should be of great value to high-school and college students and the new graduate. The suggestions are, on the whole, sound.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 220w
“Differently as the various authors write, there is uniformity in one respect—in the brisk, snappy, pungent way in which they push their points at you and make you see the picture.”
+ =N Y Times= p15 D 26 ’20 1750w
“Both for its merit as a model of the way in which occupational information should be presented, and for what it signifies in the modern outlook of thoughtful college women and, it may be added, of college men as well, this book is noteworthy. The publishers deserve mention for the most attractively printed book in the field of vocational guidance.” Meyer Bloomfield
+ =Survey= 45:674 F 5 ’21 490w
=FILLMORE, PARKER HOYSTED.= Shoemaker’s apron. il *$2.50 (5½c) Harcourt
20–17679
This is the author’s second book of Czechoslovak fairy tales and folk tales with illustrations and decorations by Jan Matulka. It is a companion volume to the earlier collection and contains besides the fairy tales five nursery tales and a group of devil tales. They are not so much translations as a retelling of other versions to suit the English-speaking child. The fairy tales are: The twelve months; Zlatovlaska the golden-haired; The shepherd’s nosegay; Vitazko the victorious. The shoemaker’s apron is one of the devil tales.
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“An interesting collection of twenty stories drawn from original sources and retold with simple charm.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:261 N ’20 90w
+ =Freeman= 2:190 N 3 ’20 150w
=FINCH, WILLIAM COLES-, and HAWKS, ELLISON.= Water in nature, il *$2.50 Stokes 551
(Eng ed 20–1223)
“W. Coles Finch and Ellison Hawks, two English scientists, have contributed to the Romance of reality series a volume entitled ‘Water in nature.’ In it they deal scientifically, and at the same time entertainingly, with practically all of water’s manifestations in the natural world, including its relations to cloud, atmosphere, ocean, rain, hail, snow, ice, glaciers, springs, rivers, lake, waterfalls, mountains, caves, rocks, reefs, and corals.”—N Y Times
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=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p12 Ja ’19 40w
+ =N Y Times= 25:55 F 1 ’20 70w
“Any one who is interested in natural phenomena will find fascinating reading in this résumé of popular science.”
+ =Outlook= 123:243 O 29 ’19 50w
=FINDLAY, HUGH=, ed. Handbook for practical farmers. il *$5 Appleton 630
20–16999
A comprehensive handbook “dealing with the more important aspects of farming in the United States.” (Sub-title) Special chapters have been contributed by practical experts in different parts of the United States. Subjects covered include the various farm and garden crops, farm animals, the care of milk and the curing of meat on the farm, farm buildings, running water, the use of explosives, the care of tools, fence posts, roads, the farm loan system, farm records, pets, weeds, etc. There are 258 illustrations and an index. The editor is lecturer on horticulture in Columbia university.
=FINDLAY, JOSEPH JOHN.= Introduction to sociology, for social workers and general readers. (Publications of the University of Manchester) il *$2 Longmans 301
20–14079
“The central theme of sociology, as conceived by Professor Findlay and lucidly expounded in this excellent introduction to a comparatively new, extremely comprehensive, but somewhat elusive science, is ‘the definition of social groups, their classification and their relations to each other.’ The treatment is systematic, though some problems of considerable importance, such as the institution of land tenure, have had to be omitted. The first five chapters are devoted to principles. The second part relates to types of social grouping, such as family, state, religion, and occupation. In the third part, which is concerned with organization, the positions of the leader, the official, and the representative, are discussed: and there is an analysis of the instinct of loyalty.”—Ath
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“A valuable part of his book is the admirable list of references to contemporary and other authorities.”
+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 190w
“The author, while primarily an educational administrator and not a professional sociologist, nevertheless has attained a definite grasp of certain fundamental principles in the science of society. His book is a very thoughtful piece of work, but the reviewer confesses to losing his way frequently in the course of the argument.” A. J. Todd
+ − =Survey= 45:22 O 2 ’20 600w
=FINNEY, ROSS LEE, and SCHAFER, ALFRED L.= Administration of village and consolidated schools. *$1.60 Macmillan 371
20–4558
“This book has been written especially to meet the needs of principals of small schools and to serve as a textbook in those institutions where young men and women are in training for the administration of village schools. Its five parts discuss, respectively, Governmental administration, The principal’s personal-official relations, Adapting the school to the needs of the child, The business side, and Miscellaneous.”—Boston Transcript
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+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“It gives valuable and practical charts and tables and is fraught with helpful suggestions. It will be very useful to those who know how to discriminate and are not too slavishly bound to the letter.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 220w
“The book is written in a style that ought to appeal to teachers and school officers who have not enjoyed the opportunities of an elaborate training.”
+ =El School J= 20:711 My ’20 550w
+ =School R= 28:554 S ’20 140w
=FIRKINS, OSCAR W.= Jane Austen. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 823
20–4130
A critical and biographical study of Jane Austen, falling into three parts: The novelist; The realist; The woman. Part 1 is a searching and unsparing analysis of the six novels, with particular reference to plot. Part 2 is a more brief and general treatment of the characters.