Part 3, the biographical section, is a study of Miss Austen’s

personality as revealed in her letters and reflected in the novels. Notes and an index come at the end and the whole is prefaced by verses, “To Jane Austen,” from the author’s pen, reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly.

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“He is often clever and always readable.”

+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20

=Cleveland= p84 O ’20 30w

“The advantage of this microscopic, literal measurement is that it prepares the way for an exact delineation of Jane Austen’s production and character. If the final picture lacks an inconsequent sureness, it is full of fine perspectives and fresh values.” C. M. Rourke

+ =Freeman= 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 760w

“He paints a sort of cubist portrait of Jane Austen, which would pass unrecognized were it not labeled with her name. He has succeeded in imagining a Miss Austen who is ‘one vile antithesis’. In ‘creative criticism’ does the critic create the author in his own image?” H. E. Woodbridge

− =Nation= 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 700w

“A book both new and worth reading. He has looked at Miss Austen more through his own eyes, and less through the eyes of her many illustrious eulogists, than any other writer I know of. Even when he is in harmony with the opinions of Miss Austen’s posterity one feels his first-handedness. Not one of his more heretical opinions exists for the sake of saying something new.”

+ − =New Repub= 22:318 My 5 ’20 1100w

“Although his book is written in so flowing and altogether charming a style that it is a pleasure to read it, I could not help wondering why he thought it worth doing at all. Certainly, no one that reads it will be tempted to fly to Jane Austen. Quite the contrary!” Gertrude Atherton

+ − =N Y Times= 25:219 My 2 ’20 2950w

“Minute analysis of individual characters, their consistency and temperaments, is carried a little too far for any but the devoted admirers who have every one of Miss Austen’s novels firmly in remembrance.”

+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w

=FISCHER, HERBERT ALBERT LAURENS.= Studies in history and politics. *$5.65 Oxford 904

20–11671

“When the Right Honorable Herbert Fisher took up the onerous duties of a Minister of the crown on the British Educational board ... the heavy labors in the service of the English youth left him little time for writing and research. The studies collected in his latest volume are, therefore, not new, but are reprints of various magazine articles written, for the most part, between five and ten years ago, though here and there retouched and supplemented. Three of the eleven essays deal with French politics; three with the history of history; two with Napoleon; one with British imperial administration; one with the value of small states; and one with the resurgence of Prussia.”—Nation

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+ =Ath= p510 Ap 16 ’20 1350w

“The studies are all amply worth reading.” Preserved Smith

+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 980w

“Interesting and thoughtful essays.”

+ =Spec= 124:87 Jl 17 ’20 200w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 620w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p231 Ap 15 ’20)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w

“Mr Fisher’s essays will interest everybody who cares either for history or for politics, and, most of all, those who care for both.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p231 Ap 15 ’20 2650w

=FISHER, IRVING.= Stabilizing the dollar. *$3.50 Macmillan 338.5

20–674

“[In this book] first there is a twenty-five page summary. Then there is the main body of the text, 125 pages, in which the same arguments that appear in the summary are amplified. Finally there is an appendix of 171 pages in which practically the same points are gone over again, only this time with a strong emphasis upon ‘technical details.’ Thus we have a boiled down encyclopedia addressed to three separate levels of attention, or perhaps of intellect, all within the modest confines of one small volume. Professor Fisher believes that the high cost of living is caused by a shrunken dollar, just as the low cost of living from 1873 to 1896 followed an enlarged dollar. The purchasing power of the dollar is at all times, so he easily proves, uncertain and variable. His remedy is to make the dollar more or less valuable, according as prices are rising or falling by adding or substracting from its weight in gold.”—Unpartizan Review

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“The close association between economic and political problems at the present day warrants for this book the attention of political scientists.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:322 My ’20 80w

“This book is well arranged for summary or detailed reading.”

+ =Booklist= 16:189 Mr ’20

“Many prominent economists indorse the plan. The question of its practical application is a distinct and different affair. Be that as it may, the book is provocative of thought and deserves a wide reading.” G. M. J.

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 550w

“The plan is presented with elaborate simplicity and persuasiveness, and an exhaustive discussion of technical details, alternative plans, and precedents.”

+ =Dial= 68:404 Mr ’20 80w

=Lit D= 64:119 Mr 13 ’20 950w

Reviewed by C. C. Plehn

=Nation= 110:769 Je 5 ’20 2150w

“It is a duty to direct attention to Professor Fisher’s plan, and it is agreeable to add that he makes its study easy.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:245 My 9 ’20 900w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 120w

“For the advanced student of currency and price movements the six appendices will prove of special interest.” E. R. Burton

+ |=Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 420w |=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p369 Je 10 ’20 120w

“In ‘Stabilizing the dollar’ we have not necessarily the final word, but the most complete exposition as yet of a great, fundamental reform whose inevitableness the reviewer cannot doubt.” A. W. Atwood

+ − =Unpartizan R= 13:413 Mr ’20 1850w

=FISHER, JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1st baron.= Memories and records. 2v il *$8 (6½c) Doran

20–5756

Lord Fisher devotes the first of these volumes to Memories, reserving such biographical details as he chooses to give for the volume of Records. Of the work as a whole, he says, it is “not an autobiography but a collection of memories of a life-long war against limpets, parasites, sycophants and jellyfish.” Aside from its pungent style, the book is of interest for its memories of King Edward, whom the author loved, for his estimates of Lord Nelson, whom he worshipped, and for his outspoken criticisms of Great Britain’s war policy. There are a number of illustrations and each of the volumes has its index. The appendixes to volume 2 give a summary of Lord Fisher’s great naval reforms, by W. T. Stead, and a synopsis of his career.

* * * * *

“This remarkable book is full of good things. The rush of the author’s forcible prose recalls the headlong progress of a motorcycle emitting explosive noises.”

+ =Ath= p1170 N 7 ’19 280w

“We get an impression of more than force; we feel that we are dealing with a perfectly honest man who has an unfailing eye for humbug.”

+ =Ath= p1225 N 21 ’19 900w

=Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 40w

=Booklist= 16:261 My ’20

“It is a rambling autobiography without form or plan, frank to the verge of indiscretion or beyond, crammed with the enthusiasm and energy of youth (he was born in 1851 but was of the tribe of Peter Pan), exuberant beyond the bounds of the English language, and altogether delightful and incredible.”

+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 250w

“Many delightful anecdotes testify to the more irresistible side of Lord Fisher’s personality, and his staunch praise of his friends, his inimitable descriptions of many sea captains, and his warm appreciation of the British merchant navy also show fine traits of discernment and character.” B. U. Burke

+ =Nation= 110:204 F 14 ’20 1350w

“His directness and brevity never fail him, every paragraph is charged with interest, and the reader’s mind easily gathers up and puts in place the material. The originalities in printing are devices of this fertile inventor to make truths go home and lodge.” D. S. M.

+ =New Repub= 23:285 Ag 4 ’20 1600w

“There is no connected narrative or any orderly sequence of events; and yet it is continuously interesting, often amusing, and sometimes exciting in a supreme degree. The language is occasionally deplorable, from the standpoint of most drawing rooms and all grammar schools; and yet there are passages of rare and original beauty from even a rhetorical point of view. One feels in the presence of a psychic force.” B. A. Fiske

+ − =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2750w

“A peculiar book, this—gossipy, and good, nervous comment, with technical explanation shoved in like coal into a furnace. Navy men will enjoy it, but so will the man on the street.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 170w

Reviewed by Doris Webb

+ =Pub W= 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 200w

“Admiral Fisher’s gift for comradeship makes him an admirable portraitist. There is no dull moment in the two volumes.”

+ =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 1200w

“Sturdy fighter as he is, he hits no foul blow. He is not sparing of his epithets on his opponents en masse ... but of no individual living man or woman does he speak otherwise than in terms of kindliness and honour. If his blame is hearty, so is his praise; and while his blame is anonymous, his praise is defined. He who has applauded others so lavishly and willingly may perhaps be excused when he exhibits considerable affection for his own good deeds also.”

+ =Spec= 123:617 N 8 ’19 1300w

=Spec= 123:899 D 27 ’19 100w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 22 ’19 500w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p579 O 23 ’19)

“The books are a vivid photograph of picturesque and historic personality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 1650w

“Inaccuracy is the inevitable result of hasty talk. Those of us who are not over and above solemn, and who are quite prepared to give Lord Fisher all the licence of, say, Admiral Coffin, whose free talk once amused the House of commons, often at his own expense, may still regret that he does not endeavour to deserve a share of ‘the heavenly gift of proportion and perspective’ which he admired in King Edward.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p579 O 23 ’19 1050w

“There are some things in these memories and records which few critics, now or hereafter, will commend except in so far as they exhibit some of the less attractive features of Lord Fisher’s personality with a candour which goes far to redeem them from censure. But these are really superficial traits.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p759 D 18 ’19 2050w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 890w

=FISKE, BRADLEY ALLEN.= Art of fighting; its evolution and progress. il *$3 (2c) Century 355

20–7785

Paying a passing tribute to the universal desire for peace, the author says: “Until it is certain that war has actually been banished from the earth, armies and navies must be maintained. In order to give their country the protection needed, each army and navy must be correctly designed, prepared, and operated. To know whether this is being done, the people need a general knowledge of the principles of the art of fighting, especially of strategy. To impart this knowledge in simple language is the object of this book.” (Preface) The book is in three parts: Fighting and war in general; Historical illustrations; Strategy. This third section is composed of three chapters: Strategy in peace; Strategy in war; and Strategy as related to statesmanship. There is no index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:51 N ’20

“It may be objected to this book, particularly by the pacifist mind, that it lacks a true perspective, a proper sense of proportion, an adequate conception of relative values. But the ready answer is that it is the book of an inventor, a specialist, an enthusiast. Admiral Fiske has made a notable contribution, worthy of the most careful study.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:251 My 16 ’20 1650w

=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 330w

=FISKE, CHARLES.= Perils of respectability, and other studies in Christian life and service for reconstruction days. *$1.50 Revell 252

20–2430

“The subjects [of the fourteen sermons] are striking without being sensational. Among them are ‘Alone in the wilderness,’ ‘The peril of an empty soul,’ ‘The manliness of Christ,’ and ‘The gospel for an age of luxury.’ The author has found his way into the heart of things and speaks out of a deep experience. He understands the meaning of Christianity in all its phases, individual, social and corporate.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Bishop Fiske is a plain and convincing preacher: these are sermons worth reading as well as hearing. We miss the personality of the preacher but that is inevitable in the case of printed discourses.”

+ =Bib World= 54:433 Jl ’20 180w

“No man, minister or layman, can read them without becoming strengthened.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 150w

=FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.=[2] Can the church survive in the changing order? *80c Macmillan 230

20–3581

“Prof. Fitch likens the present day to other great periods of transition; the time of Jesus’s advent, of the Mohammedan invasion, of Luther’s protest. The church today stands for the old order. It has attempted to keep abreast of the times merely by tacking new social programs on to an outworn philosophy. This method is doomed to failure from the beginning. If the church is to survive it must mold progressively its fundamental conceptions. And its most fundamental conception, its attitude to the Jesus of history, must be based on an appreciation of his moral grandeur. A quickened conscience, resulting from a clearer apprehension of the moral value of Jesus’s teaching, is far more important for the church than any new Christological formulation. This moral awakening will itself have religious content in its devotion to eternal and transcendent values.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“We looked to the last sections of the book for something to guide and inspire the church so unsparingly criticized. There is no program offered. This is a fatal weakness. What is needed now is not a negative criticism but a constructive program.”

− =Bib World= 54:645 N ’20 210w

“Anything from the pen of Dr Albert Parker Fitch is certain to be clear, colorful and aggressive. His latest little book is no exception.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 5 ’20 330w

=FITCH, ALBERT PARKER.=[2] Preaching and paganism. *$2 Yale univ. press 204

20–19512

“The Amherst professor describes the permanent element in religion—the sense of God—in contrast with two forces that are in control of our present day thinking and acting, humanism and naturalism. He shows how these alien factors have entered and subtly taken possession of worship and even preaching, and he pleads for the religious view which, while acknowledging God in nature and in man, refuses to set up either man or nature as its norm and guide.” (N Y Evening Post) “The book is the forty-sixth of the series of the Lyman Beecher lectureship on preaching in Yale university and is the fourth work published on the James Wesley Cooper memorial publication fund.” (Boston Transcript)

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=Boston Transcript= p8 D 4 ’20 330w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 180w

“Prof. Fitch may not altogether give the philosophical background to the desired restatement of transcendence, but he at least gives evidence of earnest and well-pondered affirmation. The book is meant both to instruct young clergymen and to inspire them, and it should succeed in its double object.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 14 ’21 330w

=FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.= Flappers and philosophers. *$1.75 Scribner

20–26757

A book of short stories by the author of “This side of paradise.” Contents: The offshore pirate; The ice palace; Head and shoulders; The cut-glass bowl; Bernice bobs her hair; Benediction; Dalyrimple goes wrong; The four fists.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20

“The author proves himself a master of the mechanism of short-story technique, a neat hand with dialogue, and exactly as bungling with character work as one would expect from an author as young as the cynicism of his endings proclaims this author to be. For he cannot let well enough alone.... In fact that is the chief trouble with all Mr Fitzgerald’s tales. They are too consciously clever.” I. W. L.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 250w

“Here are to be found originality and variety, with imaginativeness of the exceptional order that needs not to seek remote, untrodden paths, but plays upon scenes and people within the radius of ordinary life.”

+ =Cath World= 112:268 N ’20 130w

“The substance of the eight stories in his volume is in harmony with his new manner. They have a rather ghastly rattle of movement that apes energy and a hectic straining after emotion that apes intensity. The surface is unnaturally taut; the substance beneath is slack and withered as by a premature old age. In ‘This side of paradise’ there was both gold and dross. Instead of wringing his art, in Mr Hergesheimer’s fine expression, free of all dross, Mr Fitzgerald proceeded to cultivate it and to sell it to the Saturday Evening Post. Why write good books? You have to sell something like five thousand copies to earn the price of one story.”

− =Nation= 111:330 S 18 ’20 380w

“Not the most superficial reader can fail to recognize Mr Fitzgerald’s talent and genius.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 530w

“‘Head and shoulders’ has a twist at the end that is truly O. Henryish. So does ‘Bernice bobs her hair.’ We pick these two as the best.”

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 60w

Reviewed by Sibyl Vane

+ =Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 280w

=FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY.= This side of paradise. *$1.75 Scribner

20–6430

“It isn’t a story in the regular sense: There’s no beginning, except the beginning of Amory Blaine, born healthy, wealthy and extraordinarily good-looking, and by way of being spoiled by a restless mother whom he quaintly calls by her first name, Beatrice. There’s no middle to the story, except the eager fumbling at life of this same handsome boy, proud, cleanminded, born to conquer yet fumbling, at college and in love with Isabelle, then Clara, then Rosalind, then Eleanor. No end to the story except the closing picture of this same boy in his early twenties, a bit less confident about life, with ‘no God in his heart ... his ideas still in riot ... with the pain of memory ... he could not tell why the struggle was worth while,’ and yet ‘determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personality he had passed.’”—Pub W

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=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

“In all its affectations, its cleverness, its occasional beauty, even its sometimes intentioned vulgarity and ensuing timidity, it so unites with the matter as to make the book a convincing chronicle of youth by youth.” M. E. Bailey

+ − =Bookm= 51:471 Je ’20 950w

“It is merely his way of doing things that makes his story different from multitudes of its kind. To say that in ‘This side of paradise’ Mr Fitzgerald has written a novel that will cause us to use a modern and expressive phrase, to sit up and take notice, is a mild expression of the feeling he arouses in us. He is a story teller with a courage of his own. Many will not like his novel, some will abhor it, but none can question the fact that he is a novelist with a message if not with a mission.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 2000w

“Part of the story is thoroly amusing; part of it goes deep into the serious thoughts and desires and ambitions of its hero-author; in the last third he dives so deep that he gets well over his head.”

+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 280w

“Mr Fitzgerald is on the path of those who strive. His gifts have an unmistakable amplitude and much in his book is brave and beautiful.”

+ − =Nation= 110:558 Ap 24 ’20 500w

“An astonishing and refreshing book. The book is fundamentally honest and if the intellectual and spiritual analyses are, sometimes tortuous and the nomenclature bewildering to those not intimate with collegiate invention, it is nevertheless delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life.” R. V. A. S.

+ − =New Repub= 22:362 My 12 ’20 400w

“The whole story is disconnected, more or less, but loses none of its charm on that account. It could have been written only by an artist who knows how to balance his values, plus a delightful literary style.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 500w

“There are, as I see it, two secrets to the all-round satisfactoriness of Mr Fitzgerald’s book; he can write—that simply sticks out all over the book; and he has the rather rare good sense of ‘crowding his work instead of spreading it thin.’” R. S. L.

+ =Pub W= 97:1289 Ap 17 ’20 460w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 320w

“The story’s construction occasionally gives an impression of jerkiness; but the author’s obvious familiarity with his ground and his uncanny ability to see life through the eyes of his characters reduces this defect almost to the vanishing point.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 500w

=FLEMING, WILLIAM HENRY.= Treaty-making power; Slavery and the race problem in the South. $1.50 Stratford co. 341.2

20–12527

The book contains two speeches by the author as a member of Congress from the tenth Georgia district. The practical issue underlying the speech of the Treaty-making power was given by the crisis threatening legislation in California to discriminate against Japanese children in the public schools. The second speech, Slavery and the race problem in the South, is a courageous plea for justice on behalf of the negro.

=FLETCHER, CHARLES BRUNSDON.= Stevenson’s Germany. *$3.50 Scribner 996

(Eng ed 20–9232)

“This book, which groups about Stevenson’s ‘Footnote to history’ evidence of German misbehaviour in the Pacific, and particularly in Samoa, is, we are informed by the preface, the conclusion of an ‘argument against Germany, begun in “The new Pacific,” and continued through “The problem of the Pacific”’; it is essentially an attempt to show that Germany is unfit to govern in the islands of the South sea, and a plea that in no circumstances whatever should she be allowed to regain an inch of those profitable lands.”—Ath

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“The present volume has little to commend it. The organization is very faulty, the materials used are slight and even they have not been presented as well as they deserved, and there are certain obvious errors.” P. J. T.

− =Am Hist R= 26:373 Ja ’21 320w

“There may be good and just reasons for excluding Germany from the Pacific, but they do not appear conclusively in this book. What appears too clearly is the desire to profit to the utmost by her downfall.” F. W. S.

− =Ath= p735 Je 4 ’20 550w

=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 90w

“Well written and well-documented book.”

+ =Sat R= 129:476 My 22 ’20 700w

“The difficulty in being satisfied with Mr Fletcher’s case is not, however, that it is unfairly put or in any way exaggerated. On the contrary, it has been carefully prepared, and the evidence put forward is trustworthy. The trouble is that, from circumstances over which the Germans had no control, it is all pre-war evidence and must be judged by pre-war standards.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p362 Je 10 ’20 670w

=FLETCHER, CHARLES ROBERT LESLIE.= Historical portraits, 1700–1850; with an introd. by C. F. Bell. il 2v ea *$5.65 Oxford 757

(9–24668)

“The Clarendon press has published, after a long interval, the third volume of Messrs Fletcher and Walker’s collection of historical portraits. It contains a hundred and fourteen portraits, selected by Mr Walker, of men and women of eighteenth-century Britain, with short and racy memoirs by Mr Fletcher. The portrait gallery includes the famous admirals; generals like Wolfe, Cumberland, Wade, and Ligonier; Wesley, Berkeley, and other great divines; men of letters, lawyers, men of science like Newton and Halley, Dodsley the publisher, Arkwright, Wedgwood, and Brindley, the maker of canals, whose talents would have rusted in obscurity had he not been employed by the Duke of Bridgewater.” (Spec) The previous volumes appeared in 1909 and 1912.

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“It is fair to say that the collaborators of this volume are to be congratulated in general on their selection. Yet the principle on which they worked remains a mystery. One needs only to consider the biographies which have accompanied the portraits of other such collections to perceive that Mr Fletcher is as much a genius in his way as Mr Walker is in his; and that between them they have produced an extraordinarily entertaining and instructive book.” W. C. Abbott

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:489 Ap ’20 600w

+ =Ath= p640 Jl 18 ’19 90w

“Mr Fletcher’s potted ‘lives’ are excellent: they are a pattern of what such brief biographies should be. Scholarly, of course, informative and readable, they are completely at ease in their handling of men in every walk of life. The book has its limitations.” M. H. Spielmann

+ − =Ath= p746 Ag 15 ’19 1800w

=Brooklyn= 12:40 N ’19 30w

“The value of this publication is so great for educational purposes that one hesitates before offering any criticism. Mr Fletcher’s biographical notices are in their turn models of conciseness and economy of space, and give just the information which should excite the student to a better acquaintance with each subject in turn. These notices, however, convey some idea that they have been written entirely apart from the portraits themselves.” Lionel Cust

+ − =Eng Hist R= 34:607 O ’19 670w

“We have seen better photographic reproductions. But the volume is none the less of the greatest interest and value.”

+ =Spec= 122:86 Jl 19 ’19 1650w

“His biographies bring under fire virtually the whole of English history between 1700 and 1850, and few of them are not lit with new interest. We can imagine that in questions of aesthetic criticism his personal view will not be unchallenged.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p399 Jl 24 ’19 1950w

=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Dead men’s money (Eng title, Droonin’ watter). (Borzoi mystery stories) *$2 (2½c) Knopf

20–19048

This story is told by Hugh Moneylaws, a young law student in Berwick-upon-Tweed. While going on an errand which kept him out very late one night, Hugh comes upon a dead man lying in the woods. In the investigation that follows, Hugh conceals one piece of information, a bit of caution he has reason to regret later. He does not mention publicly having seen Sir Gilbert Carstairs, 7th baronet of Hathercleugh House, at the scene of the murder. When the one person with whom he shares this knowledge meets a violent death, he begins to realize the seriousness of it, and when Sir Gilbert makes a dastardly but unsuccessful attempt to put Hugh himself out of the way, he is convinced of Sir Gilbert’s guilt, and his disappearance makes assurance doubly sure. The remainder of the story tells of the efforts to locate him, and the facts that come to the light about him in the search. On several occasions Hugh’s life hangs by a hair, but he eventually comes out of it with only a crippled knee, and nothing more to fear from “Sir Gilbert,” who has met his punishment at the hands of another enemy.

* * * * *

“Take one typewriterful of Stevenson, add several murders for luck and one mystery that isn’t mysterious, mix well with a sensational jacket and an afterthought of a plot and the answer is ‘Dead men’s money.’”

− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 160w

“The author’s grasp on the various threads of his story is always firm, and he brings them all together at the end, leaving them tied up in a neat bow, with no loose ends, with a skill that compels deep admiration of his craftsmanship.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 N 7 ’20 320w

+ − =Sat R= 127:427 My 3 ’19 190w

“Mr Fletcher is one of the most skilful writers of this type of fiction. The narrative abounds in thrills and tense situations and will be highly diverting to devotees of this school of fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 190w

=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Paradise mystery. (Borzoi mystery stories) *$1.90 (2c) Knopf

20–8629

A stranger in the town of Wrychester is killed by a fall from the upper gallery of the cathedral. But this fact naturally is not so simple as stated, and leads to the question, was the fall suicide, accident or murder, and if murder, who was the murderer, and what was the motive. In the answering of these questions many people are involved: Dr Ransford, whom the dead man had been asking for; Dr Bryce, his assistant, who had been forcing unwelcome attentions upon Ransford’s ward, Mary Bewery; Collishaw, the laborer, who later met his death because he knew too much; Simpson Harker, an ex-detective; Stephen Folliot, whose step-son is also a suitor for Mary Bewery’s hand. These, and others, are all bound up in a network of mystery which is not unraveled until the surprising denouement of the story.

* * * * *

“A good English mystery story.”

+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

“Besides the mystery there is a tender little love story and several interesting characters.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

=Lit D= p100 O 23 ’20 1350w

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 11 ’20 390w

“The excellent reputation earned by J. S. Fletcher as a teller of engaging mystery tales is preserved in his latest story, ‘The Paradise mystery.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 240w

=FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH.= Talleyrand maxim. il *$1.75 (2c) Knopf

20–627

Linford Pratt, a young lawyer, is inspired by Talleyrand’s maxim: “With time and patience the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” He knew that wit and skill were his, and that time and patience, coupled with opportunity, would bring him the fortune he craved. He was not over nice about the opportunity. It came to him in the shape of a will whose existence no one suspected. It was to have been the first rung of the ladder by which he was to rise. Complications set in in the shape of an unknown witness of his theft, and wits as sharp as his. He must rid himself of the first by murder; he must extricate himself from the latter by blackmail, by fraud and intrigue and still another murder. But the net closes in about him till a bullet from his own weapon is his only means of escape. Side by side with this tale of horror goes a perfectly good romance between a good young man and a virtuous young woman.

* * * * *

“A very ingenious and well told mystery story.”

+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

“In the invention and use of the complications, little and big, with which the author weaves and embroiders his plot, advances and delays its movement, and intrigues the reader’s attention, Mr Fletcher works with ingenuity, resource and skill. And he writes with a freshness of touch and an individual quality of style not always possessed by writers of detective fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:38 Ja 25 ’20 600w

“The story is written with the easy facility of a practised hand, and, if we once accept without demur certain conventional improbabilities, it shows plenty of movement.”

+ − =Sat R= 127:606 Je 21 ’19 200w

=Spec= 123:89 Jl 19 ’19 30w

“Mr Fletcher shows much inventive skill, and is resourceful in advancing and delaying the movement of the plot, and in handling the maze of complications which arise. He employs a fresh touch that gives a new zest to the much over-worked detective-story type of light fiction.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 340w

=FLEURY, MAURICE=, comte. Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie. 2v il *$7.50 Appleton 996

20–14392

“The publishers have had the manuscript for the last ten years, but because of the personal revelations contained in the book, Eugénie requested that it be withheld from the public until her death. It is written by Comte Fleury, who was for more than twenty years an intimate member of the empress’s entourage.” (Springf’d Republican) The memoirs end with the peace negotiations of 1870 and do not touch on the empress’s later years. There is no index.

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“The memoirs contain no surprises. There is nothing in them that will compel any very considerable re-writing of the history of the second empire. Probably the most distinctive feature is the portrait they draw of the empress. It is, I think, much too favorable, inaccurate because incomplete. But it is done with sincerity, modesty, and good taste. It is a revelation of the empress as she would like to be seen.” F. M. Anderson

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:360 Ja ’21 320w

“A misleading title, for there is proportionately little from the pen of the empress herself and her personality is often lost in the flood of details of diplomacy and court life, but the author has been able to add some fresh information to the history of the second empire.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:153 Ja ’21

“He who hopes to find romance in the two volumes of the ‘Memoirs of the Empress Eugénie’ will be disappointed. What are we to say of a writer who omits both the drama of her rise and the pathos of her closing years, who robs the history of all its picturesque character and concentrates his attention upon her official routine? What are we to say of him? We are to say, of course, that he is an ‘official’ biographer and that, as such, is so anxious to present nothing which will detract from an impression of perfect propriety and dull royal respectability, that he has deprived her of all character.” J. W. Krutch

− =Bookm= 52:78 S ’20 600w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 2 ’20 1050w

=Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 190w

“The most valuable and important things are the reports of intimate conversations and sayings of the Emperor and Empress and others, which picture forth their characters and, without description or character analysis, place them in a different light than they have been placed by other memoir writers and historians.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Jl 25 ’20 4650w

“Being a great admirer of Napoleon and Eugénie, Comte Fleury naturally gives a picture which is highly favorable to them. But he has also attempted to take into consideration the work which has been done by historical scholars on this period. The point at which the reader must be on his guard is in accepting without question Napoleon’s views as given in the conversations which the author quotes.” S. B. Fay

+ − =Review= 3:421 N 3 ’20 400w

=R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 200w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 24 ’20 180w

“Memoirs are often disappointments, either containing nothing worth saying, or running to the Margot Asquith type. These memoirs have something to say, and it was not, in the saying, found necessary to surround them with bits of scandal or incidents better left untold.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 27 ’21 620w

“Comte Fleury had access to large quantities of letters and papers. They are thrown into the book pell-mell, with only the loosest arrangement; the source, and therefore the value, of many of them is left uncertain; it is not always easy to see in a particular place whose narrative is being read. None the less they make an interesting assortment, though nothing is brought to light in them to modify the judgment which reasonable people have for some time been accustomed to pass on the empire.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 O 7 ’20 1950w

=FLEXNER, HORTENSE.= Clouds and cobblestones. *$1.50 Houghton 811

20–19673

As the title indicates this collection of poems includes in its subjects everything contained in life between the clouds and the cobblestones: wide sympathies and interests and knowledge of men and their ways. The author employs both rhyme and meter and free verse. Among the titles are: If God had known; Children’s ward; Hunger; Masks; Longing; A sky-scraper; To a grasshopper; All souls’ night, 1917; Mammon redeemed; The sons of Icarus; Folk-dance class; Munitions; To Peter Pan; Blown leaves; A child; The masseuse.

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“There is not a single poem in this collection that is not purely creative by reason of its presentation of a fresh, vivid idea, emotionalized and expressed poetically.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 1200w

“Quite possibly there is nothing in these pages that will long endure, but the verses touch human values with sincerity and poetic feeling.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 180w

“She writes with a great deal of technical proficiency; her verse is simple, direct, and readable. This is at the same time its greatest virtue and its greatest defect, for having been apprehended easily, the lines fade from the memory, leaving no trace.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 80w

=FLINT, LEON NELSON.= Editorial: a study in effectiveness of writing. *$2.50 Appleton 070

20–20034

The author holds that, for all the truth that there may be in the saying: “the good editor is born not made,” the editor who has not thought out and applied a technique of his craft is “going it blind.” The book deals with methods of finding, gathering and handling editorial materials and with notions as to editorial responsibilities and opportunities. Contents: Development of the editorial column; Weakness and strength of the editorial; The editor and his readers; Materials for editorials; Editorial purposes; Building the editorial; The manner of saying it; Paragraphs and paragraphers; Typographical appearance; The editorial page; Editorial responsibility; The editor’s routine and reading; Analyzing editorials. The numerous illustrations consist of copies of specimen editorial pages and there is an index.

=FLYNN, JOHN STEPHEN.=[2] Influence of Puritanism on the political and religious thought of the English. *$4 Dutton 285.9

20–22021

“A broad survey of the results of the English Puritan movement in both hemispheres. The author has sought to distinguish the permanent from the merely transitory elements of Puritanism, and to relate it to the present age.”—R of Rs

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“His reading, wide as it is, is in excess of his powers to use it profitably. He sets out with vague ideas on the varied content of Puritanism, with the natural result that he leaves us in a state of vagueness.”

− =Ath= p107 Jl 26 ’20 440w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 40w

“We are given an amiable piece of dilettantism, praiseworthy in object, careless in execution, and distinguished neither by clearness of intention nor by profundity of thought. We fail to see anything fresh in Mr Flynn’s book, and the ignorance which it would dispel is ignorance of the fundamental kind which a knowledge of English history would make impossible.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 880w

=FOCH, FERDINAND.= Precepts and judgments. *$4 Holt 355

(Eng ed 20–6758)

This book, translated from the French by Hilaire Belloc, contains a sketch of the military career of Marshal Foch by Major A. Grasset. The Precepts give the marshal’s military teachings in condensed form and the Judgments contain short opinions on the European wars of the last century.

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“A volume of great interest to the student of war.”

+ =Ath= p61 Ja 9 ’20 50w

Reviewed by J: P. Wisser

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 800w

“The little book will, we think, make its readers anxious to read the originals from which it is compiled.”

+ =Spec= 123:777 D 6 ’19 140w

=FOCH, FERDINAND.= Principles of war. *$7.50 Holt 355

These pages were written for young officers, says the author in his preface. “The reader must not look to find in them a complete, a methodical, still less an academic account of the art of war, but rather a mere discussion of certain fundamental points in the conduct of troops, and above all the direction which the mind must be given so that it may in every circumstance conceive a manœuvre at least rational.” (Preface) The translation is by Hilaire Belloc and the contents are: On the teaching of war; Primal characteristics of modern war; Economy of forces; Intellectual discipline—freedom of action as a function of obedience; The service of security; The advance guard; The advance guard at Nachod; Strategical surprise; Strategical security; The battle: decisive attack; Battle: an historical instance; Modern battle. There are twenty-three maps and diagrams.

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“The entire work is convincing in its reasoning and its deductions, the language is clear (the translation is remarkably true to the original and expressed in excellent English), and the maps are adequate.” J: P. Wisser

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 800w

=FOERSTER, ROBERT FRANZ.= Italian emigration of our times. (Harvard economic studies) *$2.50 Harvard univ. press 325

20–103

“A most thorough survey of the greatest migratory movement of our time. The causes of emigration are analyzed by a consideration of conditions in Italy, and the emigrants are followed into the countries of their settlement in Europe, Africa, South America and the United States, the last of which is treated in detail. Their fortunes, economic and cultural contributions in their new homes are weighed carefully.—Booklist

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“It may be said that Dr Foerster’s work is the most authoritative as it is the most comprehensive volume dealing with the subject of Italian immigration yet published in the United States, and is indispensable to all who care to know intimately its characteristic features and main purport.” W. E. Davenport

+ =Am Hist R= 25:547 Ap ’20 500w

“The study is in all ways a very acceptable one, and may well serve as a model for similar studies of other nationalistic groups.” A. E. Jenks

+ =Am J Soc= 25:783 My ’20 950w

“Especially valuable are the four chapters (97 pages) dealing with the Italian immigrants in the Argentine and Brazil. But the especial importance of Professor Foerster’s work is the careful analysis of the causes of emigration, of the effect of this movement on the Italian nation, and of its probable future.” Edith Abbott

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:523 Ag ’20 700w

“Very readable.”

+ =Booklist= 16:153 F ’20

“The main text holds its interest for the general reader from beginning to end, while the footnotes and bibliographical citations will rejoice the heart of scholars who may wish to follow the argument to the very source.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ =Review= 3:150 Ag 18 ’20 1550w

+ =R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w

“It is a scholarly and timely book. It is a prophetic book, for it tells us our faults, fully, faithfully and fearlessly, and points to a better way. It is a scientific book, for it promotes a better understanding and, consequently, a better feeling. It is a lonely book, for no one has ever before done for the Italian or any other foreign language group what this book does.” F. O. Beck

+ =Survey= 44:312 My 29 ’20 450w

=FOLKS, HOMER.= Human costs of the war. il *$2.25 (2c) Harper 940.318

20–9641

While in charge of the American Red cross relief work in France, the author was impressed with the infinitesimal fraction of reality which found its way into print in the American papers. Towards the end of the war he was requested to make a survey of the needs of southern and southeastern Europe and to ascertain the net results of the war on human welfare. The book records his findings. It is not a constructive program he says, “simply a contribution toward a diagnosis which might make it possible to outline a well-considered course of treatment.” “Chapter I tells the origin of the survey ... and gives an account of the itinerary of the trips. Chapters II to VII, inclusive, deal respectively with Serbia, Belgium, France, Italy, and Greece. Chapters VIII to X endeavor to sum up the war’s results in all these countries, in the three vital aspects of childhood, home, and health. Chapter XI tries to fit the whole into a picture of war vs. welfare.” (Preface) There are an appendix and numerous illustrations.

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“Although mostly estimates, the data are perhaps as accurate as any we shall ever get. The survey is somewhat defective, however, because confined chiefly to the five lands named, and would have been more valuable had all the belligerent countries been included.” N. L. Sims

+ =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w

+ =Booklist= 17:11 O ’20

“It scarcely seems too much to say that this is the most human book that has been written on the effects of the war upon the populations of the countries that suffered most from the great conflict.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 420w

“His volume is one of the highest import. No more terrible exhibit of the nature of war has been written, not even by Philip Gibbs, Barbusse, Latzko, or Duhamel. The sacrifice of human values is portrayed in a plain, straightforward style, without any effort at a dramatic effect or an emotional appeal not inherent in the facts themselves.” D: S. Jordan

+ =Nation= 111:sup410 O 13 ’20 1200w

“Mr Folks speaks in a calm, temperate, judicial tone, piling up his facts, statistics, descriptions with cool judgment and restrained temper.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:12 Jl 25 ’20 2000w

“Mr Folks knows how to humanize statistics and make them yield up their hidden story of misery or hope.”

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 70w

“Dr Folks is well fitted for the task he has undertaken.”

+ =Review= 3:153 Ag 18 ’20 500w

=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w

“Like Gibbs’ ‘Now it can be told’ and Keynes’s ‘Economic consequences of the peace,’ this is a book to be owned and read—and like them it is readable. Mr Folks’ subject is as important as theirs, and his competence is unquestionable. This is not to say that it is the last word on the subject. Quite the contrary. One might wish, for instance, that there were more frequent indications that the Allies have not had all of the human costs to bear. Another obvious defect is the omission of maps.” E. T. D.

+ − =Survey= 44:449 Je 26 ’20 800w

=FOOTNER, HULBERT.= Fur bringers. $1.90 McCann

20–8241

“A tale of the Northwest. The trading posts, Indians, half-breeds, adventurers and beautiful heroines of the ordinary story are here anew in a plot in which the young trader afflicted with ‘June fever’ is obliged to take an open stand against the heroine’s father, known to all but the daughter as a slave-driver and profiteer.”—Booklist

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“Very well written.”

+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20

“The story has plenty of incident, it moves quickly, and is told with a good deal of spirit.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 450w

=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w

=FORBES, GEORGE.= Adventures in southern seas: a tale of the sixteenth century. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–16854

A romance of the days of discovery based on the voyages of Dirk Hartog, Dutch navigator. The story is told by Peter Ecoores Van Bu who sailed on his first voyage with Hartog in 1616. They were bound for the South seas in search of treasure for the Amsterdam merchants who were sending them out. But the islands they reach are poor in treasure, if rich in adventure, and it is only after the lucky discovery of pearls that Hartog is willing to return. Several other voyages follow, on which the hero experiences ship wreck, capture by savages and numerous other adventures. At the end of his second voyage he marries his Dutch sweetheart and gives up the sea, but following her death he again listens to its call.

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“The very spirit of high adventure—the manifold dangers and hardships of ancient seekers after treasure—blows through the pages of the book.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 D 26 ’20 600w

=FORBES, JAMES.= Famous Mrs Fair, and other plays. *$2 Doran 812

20–21209

The other two plays in this collection are: The chorus lady; and The show shop. Of these plays, Walter Prichard Eaton, in his introduction to the book, comparing their literary qualities, says, that “The chorus lady” can least endure the scrutiny print affords although enormously successful on the stage, while “The show shop” “stands up four square under the test of print” and is a most pungent and amusing satire of American stage life. “The famous Mrs Fair” is a more serious production with reasoned reflections on life and human motives. Its heroine, the wife of a wealthy business man, has become famous as a war worker in France. Coming home she is lionized, can no longer adjust herself to her domesticity and dreams of a career. Not until the family is nearly disrupted with tragic results does she, in the nick of time, wake up to her former responsibilities.

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“What first strikes the attentive reader of Mr Forbes’s handsome volume is the poverty of observation. Two of the three plays deal with the little theatrical world in which he has been busy for twenty years. Yet he has not seen that world directly at all. The superficial bits of verisimilitude are pure veneer. Nature is hard to reach even for those who see her. To Mr Forbes her face, like that of the idol of Sais, is veiled.” Ludwig Lewisohn

− =Nation= 111:787 D 29 ’20 620w

=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Character-training of children. 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 173

19–13817

These books by Dr Forbush, author of “Child study and child training” and “The boy problem in the home,” are issued in the Literary Digest parents’ league series. Volume one is devoted to: Problems of government, with the subject matter divided as follows: Problems to be solved by means of the child’s own responsiveness; Problems to be solved largely through suggestion; Problems to be solved largely by substitution; Problems to be solved largely through cooperation.