The book review digest, Volume 16, 1920
Volume 2 continues the discussion along these lines and takes up
Problems of self-government and Problems of living with others. The series as a whole comprises three other volumes by Dr Forbush and two by Dr Louis Fisher on the health-care of children which are reprints of earlier works.
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“These volumes, written in the clearest language of technical terms, well illustrated and interestingly arranged, should be a helpful and invaluable guide for those who have children to bring up or children’s problems to consider.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Jl 18 ’20 280w (Review of series)
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Home-education of children. (Literary Digest parents’ league ser.) 2v il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 372
19–14028
The first of these two volumes is devoted to the first six years of a child’s life and consists of two parts: Teaching a baby, and Teaching a little child. Volume 2 is devoted to: Teaching a school child (from six to twelve or fourteen); and The teaching of youth (from fourteen upward). Volume 1 has a list of story-and-picture books to use with the littlest children, also a list of books to help the mother in telling stories, and in volume 2 there is a chapter on Books in the home, with suggestions for reading.
=FORBUSH, WILLIAM BYRON.= Sex-education of children. (Literary Digest parents’ league ser.) il per ser of 7v *$15 Funk 612.6
19–13816
“This book differs from others in the abundant literature that is being produced upon this topic, chiefly in the fact that it endeavors to present, with the least possible waste of space, all the material that parents of a growing family of children of both sexes need for their use at every stage of other children’s development. The unique feature, perhaps, is a section devoted to concrete answers to the embarrassing questions that children are likely to ask.” (Introd.) Contents: Why we have to do this; How to educate the little child; How to educate the schoolboy; How to educate the schoolgirl; How to educate the coming man; How to educate our coming women; List of books for further reading; Index.
=FORD, HENRY JONES.= Alexander Hamilton. (Figures from American history) *$2 Scribner
20–7498
“This book is a biography which aims to present the life of Hamilton as completely as possible from the evidence obtainable. It gives most attention to his political ideals and career and it also describes his character and personal life.”—Booklist
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“One lays down the book with a clear grasp of Hamilton’s important contributions to American nationality, and a fair idea of the manner of man he was. Uniform fairness, fascinating style and illumination of American political history are the outstanding characteristics of the book.” M. L. Bonham, jr.
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:718 N ’20 360w
=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 30w
“A straightforward, unbiased recital. The book is unwarmed by any glow of imagination, however.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 230w
“The volume is noteworthy for the temperate and just manner in which it is written. The author did not approach his task in that spirit of undue enthusiasm which much study of his subject too frequently inspires in the writer of biography.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 400w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 2:678 Je 30 ’20 1100w
=FORD, LILLIAN CUMMINGS, and FORD, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Foreign trade of the United States; its character, organization and methods; with an introd. by W. L. Saunders. *$2.50 Scribner 382
20–11960
“The ground work of the discussion is laid in a chapter on the ‘Nature, purpose and growth of international trade.’ This is followed by treatment of the subjects of the development of American foreign commerce; our war trade; our exports and imports; our methods; our exportation and importation of war materials and foodstuffs; the transportation problems and methods; insurance; credit; foreign exchange; balance of trade; our government aid to foreign trade. A final chapter concerns the foreign trade of other nations.”—Boston Transcript
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=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 60w
=FORKEL, JOHANN NIKOLAUS.= Johann Sebastian Bach; his life, art, and work. il *$4.50 Harcourt
20–23005
Although Forkel was not the first to assemble the known facts of Bach’s career he was the first in appreciation of the preeminence of his genius. His monograph is not a “life” in the biographic sense but a “critical appreciation of Bach as player, teacher, and composer, based upon the organ and clavier works, with which alone Forkel was familiar.” (Introd.) The present volume is a revision of the first English version published in 1820 and is edited with copious annotations by Charles Sanford Terry. The appendices occupy nearly half of the volume and contain: Chronological catalogue of Bach’s compositions; The church cantatas arranged chronologically; The Bachgesellschaft editions of Bach’s works; Bibliography of Bach literature; A collation of the Novello and Peters editions of the organ works; Genealogy of the family of Bach; Index.
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“Forkel’s text takes up only about a quarter of Dr Terry’s book; the rest is an extremely valuable collection of learned information. It is a pity that Dr Terry’s mental attitude appears to be—shall I say?—that of a creeper on a ruin. We badly need in English a book on Bach somewhat after the lines of the French monographs on composers.” E: J. Dent
+ − =Ath= p384 S 17 ’20 1500w
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 27 ’20 420w
“Dr Sanford Terry, whose services to church music are too well known to need commendation, has made a valuable addition to the Bach literature by his new translation of Forkel’s biography, hitherto only available in the imperfect version published in 1820. He has added an excellent supplementary chapter on Bach at Leipzig. The portraits and illustrations are well chosen and reproduced.”
+ =Spec= 125:819 D 18 ’20 320w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p585 S 9 ’20 100w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p610 S 23 ’20 1100w
=FORMAN, HENRY JAMES.= Fire of youth. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little
20–3795
This is the story of the country boy who comes to the city, goes wrong, but eventually finds the right path again. Anthony West is the son of a Nebraska editor, a man whose humble country paper, the Beacon, is known from one end of the land to the other. Anthony goes to Harvard, and following the death, first of father, and then mother, enters New York Journalism. But quicker means of making money appeal to him and he goes into a broker’s office, falls into the toils of an adventuress, is disillusioned and tastes the dregs of life. Then the girl from home comes to New York and hope picks up again. The war breaks out and when his service in the army is finished he is ready to go back to Little Rapids to the position Jim Howard has kept waiting for him on the Beacon.
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“The crudeness of the story lies in the fact that Anthony does not as the publishers assert, ‘win through to a fine manhood.’ He wins through to nothing at all. His whole moral life is negative. He repudiates the fire of youth and through satiety and disgust regains his will to obedience under the social law. But his mind and character are what they were.”
− =Nation= 110:402 Mr 27 ’20 200w
“The plot is firm and logical, even if not strikingly original, but the merit of the book is in the rapidity and variety of its action—the scenes in London being as well done as those in New York—and in the sharply drawn characterization.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:148 Mr 28 ’20 360w
“In spite of occasional jarring crudities, the book is worth while. The author seems to understand his characters.” D. Carr
+ − =Pub W= 97:178 Ja 17 ’20 260w
“The best character drawing is lavished on the minor roles.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 260w
=FORMAN, SAMUEL EAGLE.=[2] American democracy. il $1.75 Century 353
20–13840
“A text in government for high schools, academies and normal schools has been prepared by S. E. Forman. It is a text-book in general civics, covering the principles and theory of government, the machinery of government and its accomplishments. The author, who is well versed in civics and American history, has based this text on a former one, ‘Advanced civics,’ published in 1905, but has made this more comprehensive. New phases of democracy have been included, such as Americanization, and urban and rural problems. Questions on each chapter, and a short selective bibliography and an index make it more useful to the teacher.”—N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes
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“We know of no work that presents the subject so clearly and comprehensively as does this book.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 820w
=N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:54 N 17 ’20 160w
=School R= 28:715 N ’20 520w
=FORRESTER, IZOLA LOUISE (MRS REUBEN ROBERT MERRIFIELD).= Dangerous Inheritance; or, The mystery of the Tittani rubies. *$2 (3c) Houghton
20–18931
Carlota has inherited from her Italian grandmother great beauty, a marvelous voice and a fortune in jewels. But her New York teacher, after giving her all the technique he can, admits that her voice lacks the emotional quality that moves and stirs the hearer. Her soul still slumbers. Ward, her wealthy patron, tries to awaken it, but only succeeds in arousing her animosity. Then she meets Griffeth Ames, and her teacher at once catches the new note of power in her voice. Griffeth persuades her to sing in a society presentation of his opera, and to grace the occasion she wears her grandmother’s rubies. Instantly the international spies who have been on the lookout for the jewels are “on the job.” They try to rob her, but the various agents doublecross one another, and Carlota’s inheritance is finally returned to her. But the jewels have lost all charm for her, and she gladly turns over their value to the starving children of the old world, feeling herself rich enough in Griffeth’s love.
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“The story has a slow, graceful, feminine movement that carries one eagerly to ‘the end.’ More life might have been bestowed upon the characters by having kept them in action while off-scene.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 150w
“There is an exuberance, a delight in the contrasts and the juxtapositions of life, a quick reaction to beauty wherever glimpsed that make the reading of this book a pleasant thing even though it is crude and obvious in many spots.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 320w
=FORSEY, MAUDE S.= Jack and me. il *$1.50 (5c) Lippincott
A story for children about a little boy and girl who live in London and spend their summer holidays in Dorset. It tells in a simple way of home and school, of Christmas celebrations, of an older sister’s wedding, etc., and reads like a book of reminiscences of a real childhood.
=FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN.= Where angels fear to tread. *$2 (3½c) Knopf
20–3675
An English widow outrages her late husband’s family by falling in love with and marrying an Italian peasant. They cut her off entirely and assume the care of her young daughter. The marriage turns out as unfortunately as might be expected. Lilia dies in giving birth to a son and the English Herritons make up their minds to get possession of this child also. Philip, the romantic brother-in-law who had once idealized everything Italian, and Harriet, the harsh, Puritanical sister-in-law go to Italy for that purpose. Miss Abbott, the English girl who had had a hand in the marriage, is there also. Their efforts end tragically. Philip falls in love with Miss Abbott, but learns that she, like Lilia, had been captivated by the handsome and indolent Gino.
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“An odd and delightful piece of work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“Gino is irresistible as the embodiment of the Italian character and tradition, just as Philip the defeated is irrefutable as a Britton.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 260w
“If but one word were allowed to be said of this book and its people, it is ‘human.’”
+ =Bookm= 52:175 O ’20 120w
+ =Dial= 68:665 My ’20 60w
“The author knows his provincial Italy and the Italian character as well. The reader’s attention will be held to the end of this charming book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 750w
“Here is the best of material for a comedy. And it is as comedy that Mr Forster presents his material up to a certain point. Some may think that he would have done better had he decided to preserve that vein to the end.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 650w
=FORT, CHARLES.= Book of the damned. *$1.90 (1½c) Boni & Liveright 504
20–1375
The author explains: “By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has excluded.... I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the quasi-souls of lost data.” He has brought together a curious assemblage of physical phenomena for which science has never found any explanation. That other planets are trying to communicate with us is one of the hypotheses suggested.
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“To read of them is to be inspired with an interest which has no need of the book’s sensational title; nor is it increased by the author’s quasi-scientific speculations which he presents in a staccato style that soon produces the wearying effect of a series of explosions.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:410 Je ’20 140w
“‘The book of the damned’ reminds one of Harnack’s characterization of the gnostic work ‘Pistis Sophia’ as ‘dedicated to the propaganda of systematic idiocy.’” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 180w
Reviewed by Eugene Wood
=N Y Call= p10 My 2 ’20 1250w
“Whether he reaches any conclusion or what that conclusion is if he does reach it, is so obscured in the mass of words—a quagmire of pseudo-science and queer speculation—that the average reader will find himself either buried alive or insane before he reaches the end.”
− =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 440w
=Review= 2:184 F 21 ’20
=FORTESCUE, SIR SEYMOUR JOHN.= Looking back. il *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans
20–9644
“It must fall to the lot of few naval men to have a career so varied in incident and so full of contrast as has been that of Sir Seymour Fortescue. During his twenty-one years of duty afloat, he not only served on the Mediterranean and China stations, and took part in the Egyptian war of 1882 and the Sudan campaign of 1885, but had his first experience of attendance on royalty in the Surprise and the Victoria and Albert. During the succeeding seventeen years, he was on the staff of King Edward VII, as equerry, and took his regular turn in waiting, but even then he managed to put in some sea time during the manœuvres of 1895 as commander of the Theseus, to spend six months as A.D.C. to Lord Roberts on the Headquarters staff in South Africa, and to pay a visit to the nitrate fields in Chile in 1907. Dovetailed between these diversified engagements, yacht sailing and horseracing, shooting and fishing, the opera and the theatre, with other forms of sport and pastime, made interludes, so that as a spectator of events from many viewpoints the present Serjeant-at-arms in the House of lords had exceptional opportunities, and it is not surprising that he should publish reminiscences so kaleidoscopic in colour and change.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Sir Seymour Fortescue writes so well that one wishes he could have steered a more venturesome course. A little more latitude, and a good deal less longitude, would have made a more entertaining volume.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:563 Je 19 ’20 1550w
“A fine crop of picturesque stories told with great spirit, good humour and frankness.”
+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’19 640w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p298 My 13 ’20 1000w
=47 WORKSHOP.= Plays of the 47 workshop; second ser. (Harvard plays) il *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08
29–11241
“Prof. Baker’s course in playwriting at Harvard has published two volumes of one-act plays written by students and performed at the university during the year. Of the four plays of this series, ‘Torches,’ by Kenneth Raisbeck, is a colorful tragedy of the Italian renaissance with a special musical prelude by R. T. Serp; ‘Cooks and cardinals,’ by Norman C. Lindau is a distinctly workable comedy for amateur production; ‘A flitch of bacon’ by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley is a farce comedy with an Elizabethan setting; and ‘The playroom,’ by Doris F. Halman is a modern fantasy wistful in its appeal and containing an echo of the late war.”—Springf’d Republican
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“The book is one not to be overlooked by any organization searching for one-act plays which are simple enough to present under amateur conditions, and yet worth spending the time upon.” W. P. Eaton
+ − =N Y Call= p10 Ag 1 ’20 520w
“‘Forty-seven workshop plays,’ though containing nothing of great power, shows considerable technical skill in handling widely differing types of dramatic work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 20 ’20 170w
“All are neatly and expertly constructed, show a sense for legitimate stage effects, and, while perhaps not masterpieces, are of a literary quality decidedly above that of most contemporary one-act plays in English.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 140w
=FOSDICK, RAYMOND BLAINE.= American police systems. (Publications of the Bureau of social hygiene) *$2 Century 352.2
20–20105
This volume has been written at the instigation of the Bureau of social hygiene and is a companion to the author’s “European police systems.” It is based upon personal study of the police in practically every city of the United States, with a population exceeding 100,000, and the comparisons between European and American conditions occurring in the book are made from the latest information available. As a last word the author says: “We have, indeed, little to be proud of. It cannot be denied that our achievement in respect to policing is sordid and unworthy. Contrasted with other countries in this regard we stand ashamed. With all allowances for the peculiar conditions which make our task so difficult, we have made a poor job of it.” The book is indexed and contains insert charts of the organization of the police departments of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis and Washington. Contents: The American problem; The development of American police control; The present state of police control; Special problems of police control; The organization of the department; The commissioner or director; The chief of police; The rank and file; The detective force; The prevention of crime; Conclusion.
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+ =Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“Notwithstanding the surprise with which his closing statements will he received, no doubt their truth will be recognized and those of us who have so loudly acclaimed our entire system of government as the best in the world may possibly find it to their advantage to read a few statements, which although bitter, are doubtless true.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 320w
“Mr Fosdick has done a great public service in the making of this volume. A book of primary importance to the student of government.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 27 ’20 330w
“The whole book is a constructive criticism which will appeal to all citizens and city officials interested in the improvement of municipal government.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib= Notes 7:54 N 17 ’20 570w
=N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 1750w
Reviewed by Calvin Coolidge
+ =Outlook= 127:187 F 2 ’21 2100w
“The author has done well to emphasize the almost insuperable difficulties confronting our police. The book should be read not only by police administrators but by the general public upon whose intelligent understanding of the problems set forth depends their solution.” E. D. Graper
+ =Survey= 45:517 Ja 1 ’21 680w
=FOSTER, JOHN.= Searchers. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–26880
Two halves of a secret join Italy and Scotland in a determined search for a casket of jewels lost three hundred and fifty years ago. The quest is made by the Searchers, an ancient organization, consisting at the time of the story of desperados, with one exception, Italian. The hiding place of the jewels is recorded in a document which for greater safety has been torn in two and one-half placed in the keeping of a Scottish family, the other with Roman Jesuits. In the story the two halves are gravitating towards each other throughout a series of thrilling and dangerous adventures, plots and counterplots till the grave of the priest, with whom the casket was buried, is discovered on a high and wild summit of the Scottish crags and the canny Scotchman carries off the day and the jewels as against the Italian plotters.
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+ =Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 4 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 530w
“Exciting and cleverly constructed.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 50w
“The story stimulates a feverish interest throughout its course.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 50w
=FOSTER, MAXIMILIAN.= Trap. *$2 (3c) Appleton
20–14214
Henry Lester was very wealthy, in fact uncomfortably so, for when he fell in love, he couldn’t be sure that Sally Raeburn, the object of his affections, wouldn’t marry him for his money rather than for love of him. So he didn’t ask her to marry him at all, but instead laid a neat little trap for her. At his country estate on the Hudson he assembled a house party, and among those present were Mrs Dewitt, a former sweetheart of his, and Mr Hastings, a young man of reputed wealth, and of course Sallie. How the trap, when it was sprung, caught not only Sallie, but Henry himself, is told in the story.
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“A very good story it is.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 230w
“The heavily padded story moves slowly, and its improbabilities are not made to seem plausible by clever development.”
− + =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 350w
=FOSTER, WILLIAM ZEBULON.= Great steel strike and its lessons. il *$1.75 Huebsch 331.89
20–26587
John A. Fitch in his introduction to the book speaks of the overwhelming power of the steel trust and says: “The story of the most extensive and most courageous fight yet made to break this power and to set free the half million men of the steel mills is told within the pages of this book by one who was himself a leader in the fight. It is a story that is worth the telling, for it has been told before only in fragmentary bits and without the authority that comes from the pen of one of the chief actors in the struggle.” Contents: The present situation; A generation of defeat; The giant labor awakes; Flank attacks; Breaking into Pittsburgh; Storm clouds gather; The storm breaks; Garyism rampant; Efforts at settlement; The course of the strike; National and racial elements; The commissariat—the strike cost; Past mistakes and future problems; In conclusion.
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“This book, in spite of its lurid rhetoric, extreme statements, and partisan viewpoint, throws a good deal of light on labor conditions in the steel industry.” G: M. Janes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:840 D ’20 140w
“Too frankly partisan to be history, and with too few facts to give it the weight of a scientific survey, this authentic picture of the labor machine in operation has the force of valuable evidence from the inside.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“It is seldom that the public is afforded such a frank statement from official sources so soon after the event and in this case it is especially useful since most of the news furnished during the course of the strike came from the representatives of the employers.” G. P. W.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 350w
“His book is worth a dozen abstract discussions of the labor movement, for it is an example, one of the best examples that has ever arisen, of labor doing its own thinking, making its own detailed and disinterested analysis. For its clarity, cogency, and significance, it is better worth reading than nine-tenths of the volumes written about public affairs.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:273 S 4 ’20 2000w
“Mr Foster’s book is an exceedingly valuable contribution to our scant body of authentic documents on the labor movement.” R. W. B.
+ =New Repub= 23:284 Ag 4 ’20 1550w
=R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 800w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 S 2 ’20 70w
“Mr Foster draws a vivid picture of events, all of which he saw and a large part of which he was. His judgment is cool and dispassionate; he sees the faults in the labor movement, but he imparts to his readers a tremendous admiration for the men who could conduct so long a campaign against such terrific obstacles.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w
=FOWLER, WILLIAM WARDE.= Roman essays and interpretations. *$5.65 Oxford 937
(Eng ed 20–11698)
“The contents fall into four parts: Roman religion; Roman history; parallels from the life of other races; and finally a group of literary studies devoted to Virgil and Horace, appreciations of Niebuhr and Mommsen, and a discussion of the tragic element in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.’ About half the material is reprinted from articles which had appeared in periodicals, chiefly the Classical Review and the Journal of Roman Studies; these, however, bear everywhere the traces of careful revision and are to be taken as embodying Dr Warde Fowler’s reconsidered judgments of today.”—Class J
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“In these pages we are conscious not only of having laid before us the fruits of the highest quality of scholarship but of enjoying the guidance and companionship of a rare personality.” A. W. Van Buren
+ =Class J= 15:444 Ap ’20 1850w
“There are a number of interesting suggestions scattered through the shorter papers, not all, of course, equally convincing.” H. S. J.
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:614 O ’20 290w
“When Dr Warde Fowler speaks of Roman religion the rest of us have nothing to do but to listen and learn.”
+ − =Spec= 124:867 Je 26 ’20 2000w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 15 ’20 250w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p233 Ap 15 ’20)
“A volume without a dull page in it, and ranging over a very wide and varied field. It contains the gleanings of long studies, pursued into the ripeness of age with the ardency of youth.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p233 Ap 15 ’20 1300w
=FOX, DAVID.= Man who convicted himself. *$1.90 (2c) McBride
20–18253
“The Shadowers, Inc.” is a unique detective society composed of six ex-criminals who have decided to use their exceptional talents in an honest way rather than decidedly otherwise as heretofore. There is a handwriting expert, a jewel and art connoisseur, a toxicologist, “the greatest safe-cracker of the age,” and a smooth villain who has dealt in various forms of fraud, from oil stock to psychical phenomena. At the head of this band is Rex Powell, whose brain conceived the scheme. Their aim is restitution, not prosecution, and they work privately and discreetly. Their first case is one of robbery in an exclusive Riverside Drive home, but as it progresses it provides scope for the activities of each one of The Shadowers. That they are successful in apprehending the robber almost goes without saying but their greatest success lies in the fact that they actually force the man to convict himself.
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+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 25 ’20 160w
“‘The man who convicted himself,’ despite its novelty, strikes the reader as plausible.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 29 ’20 350w
“The story has the appeal of the popular melodrama and ‘dime novel’ without descending to crude and amateurish methods of telling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 100w
=FOX, DIXON RYAN.= Decline of aristocracy in the politics of New York. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law) il *$4 Longmans 329
19–16519
“Under this title, Dr Fox, assistant professor of history in Columbia university, has given us an account of the decline of federalism in the state of New York and its eventual transformation into the whiggism of the forties. His narrative is a continuous panorama of party activities and beliefs and of the careers and influence of party leaders during forty years of New York’s history. It runs from the days of John Jay, Elisha Williams, Stephen Van Rensselaer, and others of those who represented the property rights and aristocratic privileges of the eighteenth century, to Thurlow Weed, the anti-renters of 1837, and the Tippecanoe clubs, log cabins, and hard cider of the Harrison and Tyler campaign. Thus, as far as it goes, it illustrates the influence of industrial development and geographical expansion upon party standards and standard bearers during a very important period of American history.”—Nation
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“The book is a noteworthy contribution to all the social sciences.” A. C. Ford
+ =Am Econ R= 10:342 Je ’20 320w
“Dr Fox employs usually a lucid and vivacious style which engages the attention. There are, however, a few lapses into discomforting awkwardness and ambiguity of expression. There are discernible in places, likewise, certain failures in nicety of historical discrimination. These minor deficiencies, however, detract little from the general high excellence of the work.” W: Trimble
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:725 Jl ’20 860w
“The work has great merits, principally those resulting from diligence in collecting materials and skill in arranging them.” H: J. Ford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:525 Ag ’20 170w
“As an analysis of the conditions under which the centre of political gravity was shifted from the old party of lawyers, bank presidents, merchants, and land-holding aristocrats to the ‘people,’ vested by the revised constitution of 1821 with the right to vote, this essay is both suggestive and informing.”
+ =Nation= 109:827 D 27 ’19 1050w
“An interesting and illuminating history.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p23 O 23 ’20 180w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 17 ’20 1500w
=FOX, EARLY LEE.= American colonization society, 1817–1840. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science) $2.25 Johns Hopkins 326
20–506
“In this volume the author represents the colonization movement as essentially a moderate, conservative, border-state movement which had an appeal to men in every walk of life, from every political and religious creed, and from every section of the union. He divides the history of the American colonization society into two distinct divisions: the first, to which this volume is devoted, begins with the organization of the society in 1817 and extends to 1840; the second covers the period since 1840. This volume ends with the reorganization of the society in 1839, after which date the society, under the influence of the North and the East, was more aggressively anti-slavery in its programme and activities. In the first chapter, the author discusses at considerable length the status of the free negro and his relation to the slave and to the white population; in the second, the organization, purpose, and early history of the society; in the third, fourth, and last chapters, the relation of colonization to Garrisonian abolition, to emancipation and to the African slave-trade respectively.”—Am Hist R
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“While the book contains much that is new and interesting the material is very poorly arranged and there is much repetition in the numerous quotations.” A. E. Martin
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:726 Jl ’20 650w
“While he does justice to the South, he does rather less than justice to the abolitionists. But he has made a very useful contribution to the history of the question of slavery, for one of the best ways of understanding its difficulties and complexities is to study it from the middle point of view of the ‘colonizationist.’” E. A. B.
+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:627 O ’20 390w
+ =Survey= 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 320w
=FOX, JOHN, Jr.= Erskine Dale, pioneer. il *$2 Scribner
20–16857
“For the scene and period of his last romance, Mr Fox goes far back through nearly a hundred and fifty years. His hero, at the opening of the story a boy and at the close a young man, has been captured by the Indians, is brought up among them, and is as skilled in their ways of life and knowledge of woodcraft as if he had their blood in his veins. He is, however, the heir to a great Virginian estate, and the reader follows his exploits as he goes back and forth between the primitive scenes of the forests and the sophisticated life of the Virginian towns. At one moment he is with the pioneers resisting an attack from the Indians, at another in the very camps of the Indians themselves, and at a third gazing into the eyes of his beautiful cousin in the midst of the social entertainment of his prosperous relatives. More than once he faces death, but he emerges unscathed both from the attempts of the Indians to take his life and from the enmity of a jealous rival in love.”—Boston Transcript
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+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“In ‘Erskine Dale—pioneer,’ Mr Fox has portrayed with exceptional skill the spirit of those days when the national spirit of the British colonists was beginning to make itself felt. It is not merely the story of one boy’s adventures. It is a tale of the birth of the American power and influence as expressed in more than one picturesque region.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 1100w
“It is a good book to give to the American boy, for it abounds in stirring adventures, and at the same time gives a good insight into the everyday life of the pioneers.”
+ =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 100w
“The dialog is full of ‘go’ and the book will appeal immensely to intermediates.”
+ =Cleveland= p106 D ’20 50w
“The book has plenty of color and of movement, and gives an interesting picture of the period with which it deals.”
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 760w
“Perhaps the very best of his many romances. The flow of the story is clear and strong; it has atmosphere, movement, and distinction.”
+ =Outlook= 26:333 O 20 ’20 140w
“It is full of color and charm and thrill.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:1191 O 16 ’20 270w
“Mr Fox vividly recreates the atmosphere and social environment of the time.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 160w
=FOXWELL, HERBERT SOMERTON.= Papers on current finance. *$3.50 Macmillan 336.42
19–12740
“This volume brings together with little alteration seven articles and addresses spread over the period 1909–1917, but relating either to problems raised directly by the war or to questions to which the war has brought a new and urgent interest. An appendix reproduces a paper of 1888, ‘The growth of monopoly, and its bearing on the functions of the state’; also a letter dated February, 1918 advocating ‘fixed exchange within the empire.’ The first paper, ‘British war finance,’ deals critically with the crisis of 1914 and the financial emergency measures that it evoked. The next two papers are concerned with the problem of financing trade and industry, particularly after the war. ‘The financing of industry and trade’ (4) stresses the desirability of a closer touch between the financial, as distinguished from the banking institutions and British industries. ‘The banking reserve’ (5) deals with the inadequacy of the English position and proposes the establishment of a system of triple reserve. The burden of ‘Inflation: in what sense it exists: how far it can be controlled’ (7) an address delivered in 1917, is that the foreign exchanges do not prove currency depreciation, that gold depreciation was scarcely more marked in England than in the United States, that high prices resulted from the enormous expenditure of the government and could be checked only by cutting away from the gold standard.”—Am Econ R
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Reviewed by C. A. Phillips
+ =Am Econ R= 10:140 Mr ’20 550w
“It is the papers on finance and banking which show Professor Foxwell at his best, and make his volumes a valuable handbook for students.”
+ =Ath= p781 Ag 22 ’19 1000w
“Professor Foxwell’s book suffers from the defect inherent in its form, which is that of lectures delivered at different times during the past ten years, of not co-ordinating the treatment of these problems. The contents are valuable and the author’s grasp of his subjects complete enough to make us regret that he did not recast the lectures into book form and develop his logical sequence.”
+ − =Sat R= 127:482 My 17 ’19 1350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 My 8 ’19 450w
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Bride of Corinth, and other poems and plays; a translation by Wilfrid Jackson and Emilie Jackson. *$2.50 Lane 842
20–19383
A volume of poems and plays. Contents: The bride of Corinth; Verses; Crainquebille; The comedy of a man who married a dumb wife; Come what may.
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Little Pierre; tr. by J. Lewis May. *$2.50 (3½c) Lane
20–22476
“Little Pierre” is the story of a boy from his birth to his tenth year. It is told in the first person and the actual memories of childhood begin with his second year. He is the son of a Paris physician and is born “in the days when the reign of King Louis Philippe was drawing to a close.”
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‘Mr May and his colleague have done well, uncommonly well with their work, have indeed lost very little in the transition from French to English, and kept all the charm of ‘Little Pierre.’” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 560w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 2 ’21 330w
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 50w
=FRANCE, ANATOLE, pseud. (JACQUES-ANATOLE THIBAULT).=[2] Seven wives of Bluebeard, and other marvellous tales; a tr. by D. B. Stewart. *$2.50 (5c) Lane
20–22333
Four fairy tales, not written for children. In the first Bluebeard is pictured as a shy, modest man, the victim of the extravagance and unfaithfulness of his seven successive wives. The other stories are: The miracle of the great St Nicholas, a satiric treatment of an old legend; The story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin, a version of The sleeping Beauty; and The shirt, the story of the king who was told to find the shirt of a happy man.
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“This pleasant and apparently accurate rendering gives us one of the most delightful works of an author who loses relatively little through the process of translation, partly because of the Doric simplicity of his style and partly because of the importance which he attaches to the plot and the intellectual gist.”
+ =Ath= p434 O 1 ’20 260w
+ =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 60w
=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Roaming through the West Indies. il *$5 (2c) Century 917.29
20–17981
The author says: “The following pages do not pretend to ‘cover’ the West Indies. They are made up of the random pickings of an eight-months’ tour of the Antilles, during which every island of importance was visited, but they are put together rather for the entertainment of the armchair traveler than for the information of the traveler in the flesh.” He also states that he wishes it distinctly understood that this is not the record of a walking trip. As a protest to those friends who ever since his vagabond journey around the world have expected him to travel always on foot he planned a trip on which walking would be difficult if not impossible. The book is in three parts: The American West Indies; The British West Indies; and The French West Indies and others. There are many illustrations and a map.
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+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20
“Altogether this latest volume is another witness to its author’s talent for description, his sense for the dramatic, and his eye for the picturesque, which combine to make his accumulating works a boon to the travel-thirsty reader.” L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 140w
“If the average American wants to know just what he would see and how he would feel in the West Indies, let him read Mr Franck’s book. On occasion Mr Franck reminds one of Herodotus, in the marked distinction between the credibility of what he reports as of his own experiences and the dubious quality of what he has got through hearsay.” A. J.
+ − =New Repub= 24:248 N 3 ’20 680w
“What all other writers aim at, Mr Franck accomplishes with consummate ease. The easy flowing style of ‘Zone policeman 88’ and ‘Vagabonding down the Andes’ is here manifested in its highest perfection.” W: McFee
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 20 ’20 1100w
“His pages are thickly sprinkled with character sketches of bizarre personalities, rarely poetic descriptive passages, and narratives as tense as their back-grounds are colorful. As in Mr Franck’s earlier books, the distinguishing characteristic of his writing is his ability to make his readers ‘see the sights’ through his eyes, which are so alert to catch any happening of human interest.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 O 31 ’20 2300w
+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 70w
“‘Roaming through the West Indies’ is easily the best ‘regular’ travel book on the islands south and east of Florida we have seen.” R. S. Lynd
+ =Pub W= 98:1198 O 16 ’20 290w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 70w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 870w
=FRANCK, HARRY ALVERSON.= Vagabonding through changing Germany. il *$4 (4c) Harper 914.3
20–11658
The author went into Germany with the American army of occupation, and later, released from duty, he traveled throughout the country. He followed his usual custom of mixing with the people, talking with them and living their life as far as possible and his book sets down in detail his observations. Among the chapters are: On to the Rhine; Germany under the American heel; Thou shalt not ... fraternize; Knocking about the occupied area; Getting neutralized; The heart of the hungry empire; “Give us food!” Family life in Mechlenburg; On the road in Bavaria; Music still has charms. There are many illustrations from the author’s photographs.
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+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20
“The ‘vagabond’ tells his experiences in a rapid, brilliant manner, as if he were never for a moment tired, and had no difficulty at all in telling his story. The pictures tell the story of the Germany of today fully as well as does the author in his brilliant chat: and both together form a book well worth reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 440w
“A thoroughly entertaining and at times instructive volume. The reader is grateful for the care with which Mr Franck has handled his facts. At no point does he attempt to be picturesque, sentimental or theatrically effective.” L. M. R.
+ =Freeman= 2:238 N 17 ’20 220w
“Franck’s book is eminently readable, his possession of comparisons from other visits to Germany, his keen knowledge of German and his great fund of information upon all the countries of the world going to make it unique in character and filled with worthwhile incident. It lacks sympathy even with the wretched populace of the fatherland.” F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= p7 Ag 1 ’20 1150w
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 130w
+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 20w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 16 ’20 560w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 50w
“He gives no statistics, but the evident desire to avoid exaggeration and the studied fairness with which he reproduces opinions compel confidence in the accuracy of his report on economic and political conditions.” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 10:421 Ja ’21 1150w
=FRANCK, TENNEY.=[2] Economic history of Rome to the end of the republic. $2.50 Johns Hopkins 937
20–11380
“In contrast to the practices of certain contemporary historians who have analyzed Roman economic conditions, Professor Frank has wisely laid down the principal that ‘a priori methods of interpreting historical development by means of generally accepted economic and psychological maxims must be applied to Roman history only with great reserve.’ He therefore follows closely the evidence furnished by the inscriptions, by archaeology, and by literature. Under Etruscan domination industry and commerce developed in Latium to some extent. The treaties with Carthage and the history of Roman coinage show that trade declined after the explusion of the Etruscans, and that the Romans turned again to their farms. The deforestation of the Volscian mountains and the gradual exhaustion of the soil made it impossible for the dense population of Latium to win a livelihood from their own land, and the pressure was relieved by territorial expansion. If relief had not come in this way manufacturing, commerce and the arts might have gained a better foot in Rome. The two chapters on industry constitute one of the most valuable contributions which the author has made to our knowledge of Roman economic conditions.”—Am Hist R
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“Among the best features of Professor Frank’s[sp?] book, which is characterized throughout by knowledge, precision of statement, and acuteness of observation, as well as by vigor of style and vitality of thought, is the skill with which he has utilized the archaeological sources of information.” W. S. Ferguson
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:801 D ’20 1500w
“As a study of the economic development of the city of Rome, the governing centre of the civilized world, it stands alone in its completeness, in the thorough use which the author has made of available evidence, in the sound judgment which he has shown, and in the clear, convincing way in which he has set forth his conclusions.” F. F. Abbott
+ =Am Hist R= 26:309 Ja ’21 560w
=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Dark mother. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright
20–19046
“Mr Frank’s is one of those long novels of the type which Theodore Dreiser has popularized, with a minute description of the adventures of one or two young men, coming to New York from the West, giving especial emphasis to their amatory experiences, and reflecting sarcastically upon the evils of capitalism. In this book it is the Spanish war which enters incidentally into the story.”—Review
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Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld
=Dial= 70:95 Ja ’21 3950w
“He has chosen a highly impressionistic method of conveying his perceptions and observations. There are few or no connectives. Sentences and paragraphs stand alone and unfriended. Individually they are pitched in an extremely high key. The result is both nerve-racking and, in the end, without true effectiveness.”
− + |=Nation= 111:480 O 27 ’20 320w
“The quality of this novel seems courageous in a small way but chiefly wilful; sincere but not important. He seems to have intensity without much perception. But one thing Mr Frank does do: he brings home to us anew in this book the very valuable reminder that there are vast areas of life that our literature has not yet known how to include. In that sense this novel in places may be called a creditable experiment in material.” Stark Young
+ − =New Repub= 25:148 D 29 ’20 520w
“‘The dark mother’ is a lost cause, so far as the medium goes. For it is transitional, it is neither the novel, nor something distinct from the novel. Judged as a novel, it does not satisfy; and there is nothing else to judge it by. In any case, Waldo Frank is en route for something or other.” Kenneth Burke
− + =N Y Evening Post= p6 N 27 ’20 1350w
“Of all kinds of sophistry the most insidious is that coming from an eloquent writer who is the unconscious victim of unsound thinking. Mr Frank is perhaps unduly preoccupied with the world and the flesh, but it would take a psycho-analyst to gauge his intention in dwelling upon them. To give the author his due, it must be said that he impresses the reader rather as a man groping for ethical convictions. Mr Frank’s powers of characterization deserve high praise.”
− + =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 800w
“Short sentences, in the manner of the late Horace Traubel, make ‘The dark mother’ rather jerky and monotonous. How is it that so many young writers do not understand that just at present books about sex have become a little tiresome?” E. L. Pearson
− =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 230w
=FRANK, WALDO DAVID.= Our America. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 917.3
19–16552
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
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“To say that it is without interest would be to say what is not true; to say that it is thoughtlessly written would be a hasty comment on an author whose work everywhere evidences the pale cast of thought. It is, indeed, an interesting, thoughtful book, written in an easy, somewhat emotional style. But it is nothing if not pessimistic in its historical backward glancing and in its view of the present. And it is often lacking in a sense of perspective and proportion.”
+ − =Cath World= 110:685 F ’20 280w
“Mr Frank does not write with the sustained and rolling cadence of Hebrew poetry. His sentences are swift and staccato like the flash of a whip, sudden and shrill like newspaper headlines. And yet Mr Frank is of the school of the prophets of his race. Other witnesses have arisen against us, W. T. Stead, M. Paul Bourget, Mr H. G. Wells, Mr Arnold Bennett. These, however, have spoken in their separation from us, and, excepting the first, with the tolerant cynicism of detachment. What gives force to Mr Frank’s prophecy is that he is of us, as Jeremiah was of Jerusalem.” R. M. Lovett
+ =Dial= 68:506 Ap ’20 2800w
“We should like to be appreciative toward a great deal in this book if its author were less rasping, less intent upon antagonizing and irritating at every turn. His tribute to the wistful beauty of the perished culture of our red men and his analysis of the industrial and spiritual genius of the Jew in America would evoke a readier response if the motivation were more disinterested.” Jacob Zeitlin
+ − =Nation= 110:595 My 1 ’20 900w
Reviewed by W. J. Ghent
=Review= 2:434 Ap 24 ’20 850w
“A striking interpretation of the American spirit.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 20w
“Hostile and shallow critics will be tempted to run the gamut of the alphabet in search of verbal missiles to hurl at the author from anarchist and bolshevist down to zealot. Mr Frank is none of these, the more careful reader will decide, but merely an insurgent in letters, feeling the pulsing of a new age that sooner or later will be able to declare itself and dominate public opinion as Puritanism has dictated in the past.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 3 ’20 650w
“While most people will take exception to some of Mr Frank’s statements, his reversal of the usual points of view cannot fail to stimulate thought.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 160w
“The book has a genuinely interesting chapter on the Jew and much that is just and sympathetic in regard to the ‘buried culture’ of the Indian. But the unburied issues that cluster about the negro it notably fails to mention. And with the exception of an elaborate eulogy of Miss Amy Lowell, there is no intimation that the American population is not exclusively masculine.”
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:158 My ’20 750w
=FRANKAU, GILBERT.= Peter Jameson. *$2 (1½c) Knopf
20–3796
A story of the war—of the “great cleansing.” Peter Jameson at the outset of the story is a business man, of somewhat the American type. He is married to an admirable wife, father of two little daughters, and in every way successful and satisfied. At its beginning he is not greatly stirred by the war, but the end of three months finds him in it. The story thereafter follows his fortunes and scenes at the front alternate with homecomings to Patricia. He is twice wounded and is finally invalided home with shell shock, from which he is saved by Patricia’s care. A real love awakens between husband and wife and the story comes to a triumphant end on Armistice day, 1918.
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“We find ourselves wishing that he had kept his talent in a napkin rather than put it to such uses.”
− =Ath= p241 F 20 ’20 1000w
“The scenes of English country life in the last part are a pleasant offset to the earlier war pictures.”
+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 1 ’20 880w
“‘Peter Jameson’ is in keeping with the newest invention in novel-writing the thesis that four years of slaughter in France purifies all Englishmen.”
− =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 120w
“Personally we were more interested in the tobacco business than in the shell shock, which is the real cause of the book, but that may have been because we knew less about it beforehand. Anyway Peter is very well worth knowing, as are a number of the lesser lights.”
+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 150w
“The vivid battle descriptions that are the best part of the book cannot atone for its essential narrowness and shallowness, for its manifold defects of thought and style, for its systematic glorification of hates and follies and prejudices that were scarcely excusable even in the heat of the conflict. ‘Peter Jameson’ is the product of a mind still inflamed by the fever of war.” W. H. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:224 O 27 ’20 270w
“‘Peter Jameson’ is a fine story. Though Mr Frankau’s style is unpleasantly spasmodic and though so many characters confuse the reader’s mind the book reads easily, and one feels that a certain phase of English life has been definitely interpreted.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 820w
“There are splendid descriptions of fighting, descriptions that reveal the hand of a writer who knows well what he is writing about. Mr Frankau had a high goal in view when he conceived ‘Peter Jameson.’ It was no ordinary war book that he set out to write. The result has justified his courage. ‘Peter Jameson’ is not unworthy of the high purpose which its author set himself.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 800w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w
“A fine story, with its wealth of well-drawn persons,—a record of England in war-time to be classed with ‘Mr Britling’ and ‘The tree of heaven,’ and more hopeful than these.” Katharine Perry
+ =Pub W= 97:1292 Ap 17 ’20 350w
“The book is clever, veracious in spots; oh, so anxious to get at the truth about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and quite without creative vitality as a whole.” H. W. Boynton
− + =Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 230w
“We admire the way in which the author has ripped up a pre-war story and transformed it into a lively criticism of our military authorities, and added a vivid impression of the Battle of Loos.”
+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 70w
“Romance, in the conventional sense, is not Mr Frankau’s strong point, and the real strength of the book is in the chapters on the war and its ‘realities’—a very useful antidote to the work of Sir Philip Gibbs. We confess to finding the earlier chapters wearisome, and even repellent.”
+ − =Spec= 124:556 Ap 24 ’20 650w
“The book has the essential quality that the author enjoys his own story and believes it to be true. ‘Peter Jameson’ is not a great novel, but it is certainly a good one.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p85 F 5 ’20 850w
=FRANKEL, LEE KAUFER, and FLEISHER, ALEXANDER.= Human factor in industry; with the cooperation of Laura S. Seymour. *$3 Macmillan 658.7
20–11151
The object of the book is to show the relation of service measures in industry to increased production and aims to give in a single volume the material available in part in other books, pamphlets and monographs. It deals with the problems of labor administration which have to do with “obtaining and holding the employes,—technical training, education, and promotion,—methods of remuneration, and of providing savings and loan facilities with insurance against accident, sickness, old age, and death,—the length of the working hours,—the work environment,—medical supervision,—opportunities for recreation and self-development on the factory premises,—and housing and living conditions.” (Introd.) Contents: Hiring and holding; Education; Working hours; Working conditions; Medical care; Method of remuneration; Refreshment and recreation; The employer and the community; Insurance, savings, and loans; Organization of the department of labor administration; List of references; Index.
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“An up-to-date summary of current practice.”
+ =Am Econ R= 10:841 D ’20 50w
“Although there is little in this book to interest the more sophisticated students of labor administration, it is a valuable survey for the general reader and for those industrial managers who have not had time to keep abreast of the developments to date.” R. W. Stone
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:372 N ’20 300w
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 60w
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“It is only in recent days that employers have realized how greatly production depends upon the spirit of the laborer. For this reason this book with its careful, authoritative studies of varied aspects of the service work should be most welcome.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 220w
“To the already acquainted with the material and able to supply for himself the connecting links, it gives many leads. To the uninitiated it gives a solid back-ground for further study.” M. J. Janovsky
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:703 O ’20 1100w
Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 20w
“A scientific and well-considered treatment of vital problems in the relations of employer and employee.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 60w
“It is a kind of industrial Baedeker, practical and informing. The spirit is judicial, and difficulties as well as successes are impartially suggested with enough information to make further inquiry possible.” Mary Van Kleeck
+ =Survey= 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 480w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 60w
=FRASER, CHELSEA CURTIS.= Boys’ book of sea fights; famous naval engagements from Drake to Beatty. il *$1.75 Crowell 359.09
20–15362
A companion volume to “Boys’ book of battles” by the same author. Contents: Sir Francis Drake; Marshal Anne-Hilarion de Tourville; Commodore John Paul Jones; Lord Horatio Nelson; The burning of the “Philadelphia”; Perry’s victory on Lake Erie; The “Constitution” and the “Guerriere”; The ship that strangely disappeared; The “Monitor” and the “Merrimac”; Admiral David Farragut; Dewey at Manila bay; The battle of Santiago harbor; The running fight off the Falklands; The battle off Jutland bank. There are portraits, maps and other illustrations.
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=Booklist= 17:122 D ’20
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 100w
=Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 50w
“An excellent collection.”
+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 20w
“It is a book of real value, that should be included in every boy’s library.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=FRASER, CHELSEA CURTIS.= Young citizen’s own book, il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell 353
20–17382
“‘The young citizen’s own book’ is offered to boys and girls as a friendly guide. It is a little text-book on national, state, city, and county affairs in which we have tried to tell as directly as possible both the how and the why of things.” (Preface) The book opens with a chapter describing a visit to the national capital. This is followed by discussions of: The government of the United States; Territories and dependencies of the United States; The rights of citizenship; Young citizens; Political parties and their platforms; Political party organization; The business of voting; The real meaning of schools. Other chapters are devoted to the various departments of government, state and national, to taxation, commerce, and international relations. A series of charts illustrating phases of government comes at the close.
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“Differs from other books on this subject in that it is not a textbook, but is meant to be read for pleasure as well as information. Has some helpful charts on elective systems.”
+ =Booklist= 17:122 D ’20
“Gives a descriptive account of the workings of our government in a style which will be of interest to elementary school children. The material follows the traditional type of civics treatment and will be of value only as a supplementary reader.”
+ =El School J= 21:239 N ’20 70w
“It is a good book for young people who are sometime going to vote.”
+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 60w
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 20w
+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
=FRAZER, SIR JAMES GEORGE.= Sir Roger de Coverley, and other literary pieces. *$3.40 Macmillan 824 (Eng ed 20–7456)
A volume of essays by the author of “The golden bough.” “There are five papers on Sir Roger; an essay on ‘The quest of the gorgon’s head’; three biographical articles (Cowper—W. Robertson Smith—Fison and Howitt); and several shorter essays on other byways of letters.” (Springf’d Republican)
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Reviewed by G: Saintsbury
+ =Ath= p273 F 27 ’20 840w
“‘Sir Roger de Coverley and other literary pieces’ possesses that mellowness that bespeaks the true literary artist. It is such a book as only a great master of English letters could write.” H. S. Gorman
+ =New Repub= 23:368 Ag 25 ’20 1400w
“There is nothing in the volume which is unworthy of the author, and the de Coverley papers alone will cause it to be cherished dearly by many of its readers.”
+ =N Y Times= p15 Je 27 ’20 1500w
=Sat R= 129:164 F 14 ’20 600w
“His dream fantasies of Sir Roger de Coverley are light and charming. But though the reader cannot help being pleased at the ability which a man so learned shows in the rôle of a general writer, he will realize when he finds him touching but ever so lightly on his own subject, as in some passages on William Robertson Smith, that the other was after all only journalism of moderate merit and that what he admired in it was extrinsic.”
+ =Spec= 124:555 Ap 24 ’20 630w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 17 ’20 70w
=FREDERICK, JUSTUS GEORGE.= Business research and statistics. *$2.50 Appleton 658
20–15931
“This book is intended for all those who shape policies, make markets, direct affairs or study investments in business, and also for those analytical executives, statisticians and researchers who assist such men to arrive at correct solutions to their problems. It is further intended to give a more practical and creative outlook to those who aim to make a profession of business research and statistics.” (Introd.) The contents in part are: Types and kind of data; The law of averages as a guide to business; Per capita consumption study; The possible market analysis and saturation point; Prognostications and tendency curves; The technique of field investigations; The dollar and the budget idea in business finance research; Inquiries into management problems; Graphic charts and maps and their part in research; International trade statistics and researches; Imagination and vision in relation to research; Index.
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Reviewed by R. J. Walsh
+ − =Nation= 112:sup240 F 9 ’21 560w
“An interesting and lucid general presentation of the subject.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p741 N 11 ’20 90w
=FREDERICK, JUSTUS GEORGE.=[2] Great game of business; its rules, its fascinations, its services and rewards. *$1.50 Appleton 658
20–21357
The author makes no apologies for calling business “a game.” Properly played it is “perhaps the greatest game left to man to play, because it engages more faculties, renders greater constructive, practical service to the world and offers more discipline and stimulation and variety to the individual than almost any other interest which could be followed. Indeed, it is the game that most of us must follow!” (Preface) But—it must be played well—with more sportsmanship—with more harmony and esprit de corps. A partial list of the contents is: Warming up for the great game; Amateur or professional; The standard personal code; Technique—the science of the game; Organization and teamwork; The humbling of money to its true place in the great game; The new business ethical code; “Fair play” and unfair competition.
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Reviewed by R. J. Walsh
=Nation= 112:sup239 F 9 ’21 700w
=FREEMAN, LEWIS R.= In the tracks of the trades. il *$5 (4½c) Dodd 919
20–18401
“The account of a fourteen thousand mile yachting cruise to the Hawaiis, Marquesas, Societies, Samoas and Fijis,” (sub-title) on the pleasure yacht Lurline. The account includes descriptions of the islands visited and of the natives and their mode of life with illustrations from photographs by the author. The contents in part are: San Pedro to Hilo and Honolulu; Honolulu to Taio-Haie; The Marquesas today; The passion play at Uahuka; Society in the Societies; The song and dance in Tahiti; By the absinthe route; Samoan cricket: Fauga-Sa v. Pago Pago; A visit to Apia; In Suva and Mbau; Honolulu to San Pedro.
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+ =Booklist= 17:110 D ’20
“A very charmingly written story of a most delightful voyage.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 600w
“He has made a very readable book about his adventures; his photographs deserve better printing.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w
“Attractively told, with here and there many striking passages of description.”
+ =Review= 3:538 D 1 ’20 340w
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 D 31 ’20 700w
=FRENCH, JOSEPH LEWIS=, ed. Best psychic stories; introd. by Dorothy Scarborough. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright
20–11499
“These tales belong to a class that does not quite include the out-and-out ghost story, but does reach out to the supernatural in the indefinable fashion that we nowadays call psychic without bothering to define what psychic means. This is a perfectly fitting field for fiction of the non-realistic kind, for it does not demand belief but imagination. Algernon Blackwood and ‘Fiona McLeod’ were adepts at this form of story, and are here well represented, together with Jack London, W. T. Stead and others.”—Outlook
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=Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
+ − =Freeman= 2:118 O 13 ’20 200w
“Mr French has selected his material with a fine judgment and a discriminating taste, and Dorothy Scarborough has contributed an introduction which adds much to the reader’s enjoyment of the volume.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:319 Je 20 ’20 650w
=Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 70w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 130w
=FRENCH, THOMAS EWING, and SVENSEN, CARL LARS.= Mechanical drawing for high schools. il *$1.25 McGraw 744
19–13746
“A two years’ high school course unusually rich in drawings (of which there are 244). Authors are teachers in the department of engineering, Ohio state university. ‘The first seven chapters comprise a complete textbook which may be used with any problems. The paragraphs are numbered for easy reference. The eighth chapter is a complete problem book, in which the number of problems in each division is such that a selection may be made for students of varying ability, and that a variation from year to year may be had. The problems have references to articles in the text, and the order may be varied to suit the particular needs of a school. Definite specifications and layouts are given for most of the problems, thus making it possible for the instructor to use his time efficiently in teaching rather than in the drudgery of detail, while the time ordinarily wasted by the pupil in getting started can be used in actual drawing.’ (Preface)”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
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“An excellent textbook.”
+ =Booklist= 16:193 Mr ’20
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p9 O ’19 160w
+ =Pratt= p19 Ja ’20 20w
+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 40w
=FREUD, SIGMUND.= General introduction to psychoanalysis; authorized translation by G. Stanley Hall. il *$4.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright 130
20–12205
This volume consists of a translation of twenty-eight lectures given to laymen. They are conversational in tone and follow the inductive method, the author building up his evidence from case after case. He deals little in general statements and in the course of one of the early lectures speaks as follows: “I have not invited you here to delude you or to conceal anything from you. I did, indeed, announce a ‘general introduction to psychoanalysis,’ but I did not intend the title to convey that I was an oracle, who would show you a finished product with all the difficulties carefully concealed.... No, precisely because you are beginners, I wanted to show you our science as it is, with all its hills and pitfalls, demands and considerations.” There are four lectures on the psychology of errors, eleven on the dream, and thirteen on general theory of the neuroses. G. Stanley Hall writes an introduction for the American edition.
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“A more satisfying survey for the serious lay reader than the author’s earlier books on special topics.”
+ =Booklist= 17:17 O ’20
“It makes ponderous reading, and suffers from a lack of tolerance toward the author’s pupils who have departed from or enlarged upon the innovator’s technique. At the same time, it is a well-developed, exhaustive, and informative treatise upon the various vistas of the subject.”
+ − =Dial= 69:665 D ’20 80w
“Without stopping to inquire into the reasons for the attitude of the reactionaries, Freud has taken up their objections one by one and met them fairly. Following the rule of Darwin, he has not attempted to brush them aside with a few blustering remarks; he has keenly analyzed the obstacles they have presented. The present work offers, in an extremely attractive form, the material for a fundamental conception of psychoanalysis.” Gregory Stragnell
+ =Freeman= 1:572 Ag 25 ’20 950w
“Undoubtedly it is the finest exposition of the subject yet written. Those who have looked upon psychoanalysis as a plaything, as a philosophy for the parlor radical, or as a means of imparting thrills and color to studio life, will find this book greatly disappointing and little to their taste.” H. W. Frink
+ =Nation= 112:sup236 F 9 ’21 1750w
“You can go through a first course with the simpler books of Andre Tridon or Barbara Low; then turn to an exhaustive treatise like this one, with an initial understanding that will be of great help in understanding the immensity of this new arm of science.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ja 2 ’21 890w
“Freud believes that his subject merits the utmost care of presentation and the courteous condescension of the discoverer offering something new and all-important. One has only to follow these pages carefully, as questioningly as one will, to feel that the condescension is one of a genuine humility and yet the firm assurance of a man who has sincerely and conscientiously won his convictions by unremitting toil in the face of calumnious opposition.” S. E. Jelliffe
+ =N Y Times= p5 Ag 8 ’20 3050w
“Prof. Freud’s theories represent a degree of fantasy to which science cannot follow him. It might be said that, although he has been the principal explorer of psychoanalysis, he is its least promising exponent.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 240w
=FREUNDLICH, ERWIN.=[2] Foundations of Einstein’s theory of gravitation; authorized English tr. by H. L. Brose. *$1.50 Putnam 530.1
(Eng ed 20–16353)
“Dr Einstein, who writes the preface, states that the author ‘has succeeded in rendering the fundamental ideas of the theory accessible to all who are to some extent conversant with the methods of reasoning of the exact sciences.’ Formulae and equations are by no means lacking and the vocabulary is hardly suited to the capacity of the general reader—to whom the simply written introduction by Dr Turner should prove more acceptable.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
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+ =Ath= p641 My 14 ’20 950w
Reviewed by E. Cunningham
+ =Nature= 105:350 My 20 ’20 1050w
=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p64 Jl ’20 70w
=FREY, ABRAHAM B.= American business law. *$5 Macmillan 347.7
20–8660
“The object of this book is to set forth clearly and concisely those fundamental principles upon which is built the superstructure of business law. In order to make clear such principles ... concrete illustrations have been used, some of which are synopses of, and excerpts from, the leading cases decided in Great Britain and the United States.” (Preface) At the end of each chapter are a number of carefully prepared questions referring to the subject matter of the text and a number of legal forms are given in connection with various subjects which, on occasion, can be adapted to individual use. All technical terms are carefully explained. The chapter headings are: Law in general; Torts; Definition and classification of contracts; Essentials of a valid contract; Competent parties; An agreement; Reality of consent; Consideration; Legality; The form; Proof of a contract; Interpretation of contracts; Operation of contracts; The discharge of contracts; Forms; Agency; Sales; Bailments and carriers; Partnerships and corporations; Suretyship and guaranty; Insurance; Negotiable instruments; Property; Bankruptcy; Patents, copyrights and trade-marks; Master and servant; Damages; Evidence. There is an index.
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=Am Econ R= 10:827 D ’20 120w
“Even if published anonymously we should know it was the work of a scholar and a lawyer. It is comprehensive in its scope and is practically a textbook in little. Its rules are sound. Its exposition is clear. Its examples, taken from leading cases, are of the best.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 300w
“So far as it goes, it is clear. But it is complete only in the sense that something is said about all of the apposite judicial attitudes that have become crystallized into formulated rules. Perhaps such books have their place, notwithstanding their offense against the maxim that a little learning is a dangerous thing. But they must be handled with care.”
+ − =Nation= 111:457 O 20 ’20 230w
“This book is admirably arranged and thorough in treatment, citing clear examples for most of its statements. The indexing is excellent, the text clear, the examples concise, and the forms ready to hand for daily practical use.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 70w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 40w
=FRIDAY, DAVID.= Profits, wages, and prices. *$2 Harcourt 338.5
20–18150
The object of the book is to assemble the available facts and statistics concerning profits, wages, taxes, and prices in such a way as to set them in orderly relation one to another and to disclose their causal interdependence. Contents: The curse of peace; The growth of profits; Normal profits and profiteering; The uses to which profits are put; The rate of interest; The course of wages; The division of the product; How Europe raised American prices; Prices since the armistice; General prices and public utility rates; The theory of the new taxes: Has the excess profits tax raised prices? The part played by the banks; How can real wages be raised? Index.
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“The author marshals his facts with skill. His style is interesting and all that he has to say important.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 110w
+ =Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21
“Mr Friday’s book is a striking demonstration of the primitive state of economic science, and of its trifling influence upon the conduct of the nation’s business. Mr Friday, merely by collecting the information made available by a few war agencies, incomplete as it is, and basing his conclusions on observed facts, has been able to throw doubt upon some of the most respectable conclusions of economists, to say nothing of the assumptions to be found in current popular discussion.” G: Soule
+ − =Nation= 112:184 F 2 ’21 1350w
“The general reader will find in Professor Friday’s book a striking instance of the newer tendencies. It is economic theory which retains all the logical vigor of the works of the old school, yet faces the new facts and breathes a new spirit. The book is uncommonly readable and interesting, besides, and offers a hope that the new theory will be couched in terms that everybody can understand.” Alvin Johnson
+ =New Repub= 24:171 O 13 ’20 1300w
“In general it may be said that Professor Friday’s book is the most original and important volume dealing with economic and industrial America which has appeared since the war.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:674 F 5 ’21 620w
=FRIEDLANDER, GERALD=, tr. Jewish fairy book. il *$2.25 (4½c) Stokes
20–17680
Twenty-three stories from various sources have been translated and adapted by Mr Friedlander. The preface says: “All the stories have been collected from various Jewish writings. No attempt has been made to give a literal translation. The tales have been retold in a modern setting. Some of these quaint old tales and stories brought comfort to the children of Israel in the days of long ago. Perhaps some pleasure may be derived by their perusal in our days.” Among the tales are: The magic apples (from the Jewish Chap book); The wise merchant (from the Midrash Rabbah); Heavenly treasures (from the Talmud); King Solomon’s carpet (from Beth Hammidrash); The demon’s marriage (from the Jewish Chap book); The princess and the beggar (from Tanchuma); The citizen of the world (from Rabbi Eliezer). The colored illustrations are by George W. Hood.
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“Less extravagant than the Arabian nights entertainments, these stories are more genial in tone than many of the witch tales with which our children are quieted. Some of them seem to have a moral to teach, but it is in no case enough of a moral to prove really troublesome.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 220w
“The stories are full of imagination and miraculous deeds, and children will revel in them.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 50w
“Will be found particularly entertaining to young readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 60w
=FRIEDMAN, ELISHA MICHAEL=, ed. America and the new era; a symposium on social reconstruction; with a foreword by Herbert Hoover. *$6 Dutton 330.973
20–12473
“Instead of proposing reconstruction, most of the contributors to the symposium content themselves with pointing out ways and means by which our present social system may be improved. Professor J. H. Hollander shows that war is the very negation of economic progress. Professor R. T. Ely outlines a land policy with widespread ownership and limitation of holdings as its chief feature. Dr Frederic C. Howe favors selective immigration. Dr Edward A. Fitzpatrick calls for improvements in public administration. Professor Victor J. West shows the need of further amendments to the Constitution, especially for the purpose of establishing a congressional cabinet, or other forms of responsible government. Professor Chas. B. Davenport indicates the possibility of racial improvement by sex control among superior stocks, by sterilization of criminals, segregation of the feebleminded, and better marriage laws. Professor Warner Fite makes a plea for individualism. There are also contributions on education, vocational guidance, delinquency and crime, control of venereal diseases, recreation, nervous strain, mental hygiene, and other important subjects.”—Review
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+ =Ann Am Acad= 93:225 Ja ’21 70w
“It is a very ambitious volume and is worth having, not only for its good points but also to learn about a certain common attitude in much of the present discussion on religion and the family.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:694 F ’21 160w
+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w
“If this book held nothing but the foreword by Herbert Hoover it would be still invaluable.” M. F. Egan
+ − =N Y Times= p9 S 12 ’20 4500w
Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Review= 3:347 O 20 ’20 1200w
“Taken not as a symposium, but as a chance collection of essays on urgent present-day problems, the volume is to be commended for its wealth of suggestion. The different authors speak with authority and offer programs of the highest interest. Each of the contributions printed separately as a pamphlet would have considerable influence; in this volume it is somewhat lost.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:321 N 27 ’20 300w
=FRIEDMAN, ELISHA MICHAEL.= International commerce and reconstruction; with a foreword by Joseph French Johnson. *$5 Dutton 382
20–5838
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“In the spring of 1919, when this book was prepared. American business looked forward to a tremendous foreign trade with devastated Europe and the countries previously supplied by European belligerents. As a preparation for this anticipated trade, Mr Friedman has reviewed the literature and statistics bearing upon the commercial policies and foreign trade of the world and has attempted to outline the changes which the war has brought, or will bring, in international trade and the opportunities for American business enterprise.”—Pub W
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“It will be seen that here is material of much value. Of necessity it is largely provisional material. The world is far from having settled down. Much that is contained in this volume will fast become obsolete, and indeed some is already obsolete. None the less the student will turn with interest to this helpful collection, and will find in it much that would otherwise be difficult of access.” F. W. Taussig
+ =Am Econ R= 10:596 S ’20 520w
+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20
+ =Freeman= 2:502 F 2 ’21 200w
“The book easily contains as much important information as almost any other half-dozen books together, covering the whole or part of the same field. There are no conspicuous lacunae, and the matter is well presented, is supported by adequate statistical data, and is largely free from unnecessary verbiage or conspicuous national bias. Where the author attempts economic analysis of the facts he presents, he attains only a mediocre degree of success.” Jacob Viner
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:853 D ’20 850w
“The book is distinctly of the solid variety and represents a deal of work, tho mostly of compilation.” L. K. Frank
+ =Pub W= 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 300w
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 100w
=FROST, HELEN, and WARDLAW, CHARLES DIGBY.= Basket ball and indoor baseball for women; with an introd. by T: D. Wood. il *$1.50 Scribner 797
20–3344
“Basket ball and indoor baseball for women are two games that are rapidly growing in popularity. The book under review fills a long-felt need in that it sets forth the principles of successfully playing these games. Experts have here given the gleanings of their long experiences. They have included sixteen illustrations and thirty-seven diagrams, making clear the different points in the game of basket ball. Twelve illustrations and thirteen diagrams are used in making plain the crucial principles of indoor baseball. Such topics as passing, catching, guarding, shooting, team play, and signals are taken up in connection with basket ball. Fielding, throwing, catching, batting, base running, team play, practice, and signals are discussed in that portion dealing with indoor baseball.”—School R
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“Helpful illustrations and diagrams. No index.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:267 My ’20
=Pratt= p24 Jl ’20 30w
“Coaches, instructors, and players will find this a very helpful handbook in teaching or taking part in these delightful indoor games.”
+ =School R= 28:394 My ’20 190w
=FROTHINGHAM, ROBERT=, comp. Songs of dogs. *$1.65 Houghton 821.08
20–17755
This book consists of a compilation of the best poems written about dogs, arranged in three groups. The first, The friend of man, is headed by a prose eulogy on the dog—“the one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world”—by George Graham Vest. Group two, In lighter vein, is introduced by “Good dogs” by Baudelaire and group three, The happy hunting grounds, by “Memories” by John Galsworthy. The book has an index of titles and an index of authors.
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“A treat to dog lovers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 130w
=FROTHINGHAM, ROBERT=, comp. Songs of horses. *$1.65 Houghton 821.08
20–17756
“Since the dawn of civilization,” says the compiler of this anthology, “the horse and the Muses have been boon companions in all the heroics of mythology and history,” and, “the advance of the horse has been coincidental with that of man himself.” The grouping of the poems is indicative of the type of horses described. The groups are: The wild West; Orient and Occident; Track and field; “Horseplay”; The horse in war. There is an index of titles and an index of authors.
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“Not all have great literary value, but none detract from the quality of the whole.”
+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
“‘Songs of horses’ stands out as one of the most colorful of anthologies. As a book from which to read aloud it could scarcely be matched.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p29 O 23 ’20 120w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 130w
=FROTHINGHAM, THOMAS GODDARD.= Guide to the military history of the world war, 1914–1918. *$2.75 Little 940.4
20–16505
The object of the book is to give a general perspective of the war from a military and strategic point of view. “At the present time a detailed history is out of the question, but it is now possible to write a narrative that is complete, in the sense of giving a reliable synopsis of the strategy and grand tactics of the whole war.” (Introd.) To accomplish this purpose the author has confined himself to comparing and checking up the official statements and bulletins given out by the different governments during the war and has not measured military results merely by victories and conquest of territory but by their costliness in life and material as well. Among the contents are: The great German offensive of 1914; Military events on the Russian front; New military situation after the defeat of the great German defensive of 1914; Offensives of Entente allies, 1915; Italy in the war; The war on the sea, 1915; German offensive of 1916 against Verdun; The war in the air; The United States in the war; The final campaigns. The book contains twenty-three maps, an appendix, a table of dates, a bibliography and an index.
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“Interesting, clear and readable, and also well organized for quick reference.”
+ =Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
“Twenty-three excellent maps add to the great value of this work which will doubtless be much used by students in military schools and in advanced courses in colleges in military history and science.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 S 22 ’20 900w
“The book is free from bias and boasting, studiously written and decidedly well worth while.” F. L. Minnigerode
+ =N Y Times= p21 Ja 9 ’21 1000w
“Captain Frothingham’s narrative is well-knit, his style clear and simple.”
+ =Review= 3:424 N 3 ’20 340w
=FRYER, EUGÉNIE MARY.= Book of boyhoods: Chaucer to MacDowell. *$3 Dutton 920
20–14312
“Eugénie M. Fryer in ‘A book of boyhoods’ traces from Chaucer the poet to MacDowell the composer the formation periods in the lives of great men of every variety of genius. There are twenty-eight of them all, and they include Leonardo da Vinci, the painter and all-round man of sciences and the arts; Balboa, Drake, Raleigh and La Salle, the voyagers and discoverers; Washington, Hamilton, Lincoln, builders of the American republic; Burns, Wordsworth and Keats among poets, Stevenson, the romancer; and Kitchener, Foch, Joffre and Brusiloff, as great soldiers and leading figures in the struggle with Germany and the Germans.”—Boston Transcript
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+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 8 ’20 540w
“To have written a book which will offend no healthy boy and make no boy feel priggish for reading it, is a good thing.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 80w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 120w
“The average boy probably will balk at some of these biographies. ‘Bookish’ children, however, will find enjoyment in the carefully wrought characterizations and ingeniously varied presentations.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 2 ’20 340w
=FULLER, HENRY BLAKE.= Bertram Cope’s year. $1.75 Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chicago
19–16363
“Bertram is a post-graduate in a western college community. Socially he attracts friendly advances from men and women. But he is flabby of purpose, and has no fixed ambition except to get an honorary degree and a paying position in an eastern college. He gives nothing in return for the friendships he inspires, and escapes all love entanglements.”—Outlook
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“Live enough people and a sense of humor hovering near the surface.”
+ =Booklist= 16:133 Ja ’20
“The kind of novel which must be enjoyed not for its matter so much as for its quality, its richness of texture and subtlety of atmosphere.”
+ =Bookm= 51:344 My ’20 380w.
“The study of this weak but agreeable man is subtle but far from exciting.”
+ − =Outlook= 124:119 Ja 21 ’20 80w
“Mr Fuller’s realism is the real thing; in seeming to register it interprets and portrays.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“The story is less interesting than the author’s last previous book ‘On the stairs,’ because of its speculative tendencies. But Mr Fuller is a keen observer and anything that he writes is worthy the serious consideration of the reading public.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 500w
=FURNESS, HORACE HOWARD.= Gloss of youth. *$1 Lippincott 812
20–7798
“‘The gloss of youth’ is an eminent scholar’s brief diversion in which Shakespeare discusses with John Fletcher his relations to the public and his art and is consoled by the appreciation of two children who are no other than little ‘Jack’ Milton and ‘Noll’ Cromwell.”—Nation
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“It is all a little over-intentional. But the little play is, no doubt well suited for such academic occasions as the one which caused it to be written.”
+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 90w
“It is not surprising that Horace Howard Furness, jr., the son and literary successor of his noted father, should cast in dramatic form one of the most intimate and pleasing interpretations of a living Shakespeare. The interweaving of Elizabethan diction and contemporary thought is never strained.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ’20 550w
=FURNISS, EDGAR STEVENSON.= Position of the laborer in a system of nationalism. *$2 Houghton 331
20–18599
The book is one of the Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics and is a study of the labor theories of the later English mercantilists, 1660–1775. The author holds that the dominant nationalism existing in England between the years 1660–1775 bears a fundamental likeness to the revival of nationalism caused by the war. The former period, known by the term “mercantilism,” has come to stand for a relationship of economic rivalry between nations and the theories and policies that governed it. The reverse side of this mercantilism is the domestic economy of the nation and it is with this side, illustrating the reaction of nationalism upon the life conditions of the people and upon labor, that the book deals. Contents: The doctrine of the national importance of the laborer; The doctrine of employment; The doctrine of the right to employment and the duty to labor; The enforcement of the duty to labor; The doctrine of the utility of poverty; Theories of wages; Conclusions. The appendix contains chapters on the economic, social and moral life conditions of the English laborer, 1660–1775, and the book has a bibliography, a subject index and an index to authors.
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“Like others in this series, a scholarly piece of work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
+ =Freeman= 2:430 Ja 12 ’21 280w
“Scholarly study.” G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 600w
=FYLEMAN, ROSE.= Fairies and chimneys. il *$1.25 Doran 821
20–19073
A book of verses for children by an English poet. Among the titles are: Fairies; Yesterday in Oxford street; A fairy went a-marketing; The best game the fairies play; Differences; Mother; Grown-ups; Cat’s cradle; Visitors; I don’t like beetles; Summer morning; White magic. Following these come seven poems under the heading Bird lore: Peacocks; The cuckoo; The rooks; The robin; The cock; The grouse; The skylark.
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Reviewed by A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 60w
“Its contents would do for lyrics in an operatic version of ‘Peter Pan.’” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:209 S 8 ’20 200w
G
=GAINES, RUTH LOUISE.= Ladies of Grécourt. il *$2.50 Dutton 940.476
20–9727
“In this volume Miss Gaines continues the story of the relief work at the front of the Smith college unit, the first part of which she told in her previous volume, ‘Helping France.’ So fully was the work of this unit appreciated by the French people, that the workers were given the title of ‘Dames de Grécourt,’ from the name of one of the sixteen French villages covered by their work. Of these sixteen villages, few inhabitants were left, save the old and feeble and the children. From a population of nearly 5600, but 1740 were left in August, 1917. Six hundred of these were under fifteen years of age. It was among these helpless people that the Smith college women worked.”—Boston Transcript
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“Pleasing illustrations.”
+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20
“The story which Miss Gaines relates is not only of the deepest interest, but is one of the important documents which the war has brought forth.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 270w
“Both the manner and the matter of ‘Ladies of Grécourt’ do credit to the spirit and the culture of American college girls.”
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 130w
=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 50w
“Miss Anna M. Upjohn’s pencil sketches of French peasants and rural life add greatly to the attractiveness of the book.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 90w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 17 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E: E. Hunt
+ =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 750w
=GALBRAITH, ANNA MARY.= Family and the new democracy; a study in social hygiene. *$2.25 (3c) Saunders 392
20–1764
[Publisher has withdrawn book from circulation.]
The book completes the author’s trilogy on the phases of woman’s life; the other two books being: “The four epochs of woman’s life” and “Personal hygiene and physical training for women.” In the present volume she briefly sketches the vital epochs of the history of our social institutions and points out that today the institution of the family is threatened by three fatal excrescences: prostitution, free love, and divorce. She lays bare the causes of these evils and suggests remedies which will insure the greatest amount of social happiness and the best possible progeny. Among the contents are: Rally to save the American family; Primitive man’s problems of marriage and the family; Marriage and divorce laws in primitive society and ancient civilizations; Various aspects of the modern divorce problem; Prostitution, social disease, and marriage; Alcohol and race degeneracy; Sex education as a solvent for the double standard of morals and celibacy; Problems of betrothal; The problems of marriage; The rights of the child, eugenic marriages, the limitation of offspring; Woman’s economic independence and the disintegration of the family; References; Index.
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“The chapters on the need for uniform marriage and divorce laws, and for sex education to combat the spread of venereal disease, are much to the point.”
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“Novices in the literature of sex (to which in spite of its self-conscious title, the book belongs), will find in it a larger amount of historical information than is customary in popular treatises, an occasional sensible sociological opinion, and useful hygienic advice. It is only the critical who will realize what a hodge-podge Dr Galbraith’s volume is.”
− + =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 400w
“There are no essential facts omitted in this book that pertain to man, to woman, to the family. Many of the subjects are of absorbing interest and the manner in which the author treats them makes them the more so. For instance, her views on prohibition as a modifying factor on the family of the future are not only unique but they are sound as well.” B. P. Thom
+ =Pub W= 97:611 F 21 ’20 160w
=GALE, ZONA.= Miss Lulu Bett. *$1.75 (3½c) Appleton
20–4218
This is the story of a family drudge awakened to a sense of independence thru a marriage which turns out to be no marriage at all. Miss Lulu Bett “makes her home” with her sister, and when her brother-in-law’s brother comes to visit after nineteen years wandering, she startles her self, no less than the family, by marrying him. She goes away with him but at the end of one month comes back. She had found out that Ninian already had a wife living, and as Miss Lulu Bett she again takes up her position in her sister’s house. But there is a difference, as Dwight Deacon finds out when he tries to bully her into keeping his brother’s falsity a secret. Then comes another lover and the story ends happily.
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=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20
+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 80w
“One is conscious that the materials of the story have undergone a considerable warping in order to fit them into the tragic mould; there is less of the hopeless, inevitable sweep of things than we have found in other of the author’s recent studies.”
+ =Dial= 68:804 Je ’20 60w
“It will be interesting to see whether the people who like the somewhat over-sentimental ‘Friendship Village’ stories continue to like Zona Gale as the far from sentimental and exceedingly skilful author of ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’”
+ =Ind= 103:186 Ag 14 ’20 150w
“Miss Zona Gale has written a thoroughly admirable and thoroughly unpopular book and vindicated at last the promise of her literary beginnings. The work is clear, direct, dry, and full of haunting little implications.”
+ =Nation= 110:557 Ap 24 ’20 450w
“The book stands as a signal accomplishment in American letters.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 23:315 Ag 11 ’20 420w
“Nothing could well be more astonishing or claim a more ungrudging tribute than Miss Gale’s recent achievement in ‘Miss Lulu Bett.’ This short novel is the result of the most courageous imaginable revision of her entire fictional method. [This] revision of her method has lost her nothing that she ever had, and it has gained her a great deal that one has constantly deplored her lack of.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 1500w
“Lulu Bett herself is an exquisite piece of portrayal. Her development during the course of the events that befall her is logical and natural. To us it seems the best thing Miss Gale has yet done, and more than this, it is a promise of a new type of work from her.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:139 Mr 28 ’20 1000w
“A fine example of close, careful character study on a small scale.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w
“To say that here also [in the conclusion] the author rises to the occasion is simply to credit her once again with that fine and finished art that make all her writing an abiding joy to the discriminating.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 97:991 Mr 20 ’20 400w
“In ‘Birth,’ its immediate predecessor, Miss Gale showed a surprising growth not only as ‘localist’ but as ironic interpreter of character. This story is firmer in tone as well as more compact in form.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 320w
“The artist in her has guided her pen in careful work, and the characters are as clearly and completely delineated as if seen on the stage.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 70w
=GALLAGHER, PATRICK.= America’s aims and Asia’s aspirations. il *$3.50 Century 940.314
20–15149
The book consists chiefly of reminiscences of the peace conference, by one who was there, with the author’s individual opinions on the events as they transpired and on the personages that took part in them, the whole permeated by a spirit of benevolent imperialism and unshakeable faith in America. Of the six books that make up the volume, Pagans and prophets deals especially with the peace conference personalities; Isles and islanders with Australia, Ireland and the Philippines; High lights and history with the Asiatic side of the war. The remaining three books are; Amateurs and experts; The cause célebrè, in re Kiaochau, China v. Japan, ex parte, W. Wilson; Unfinished business. There are illustrations, appendices and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:65 N ’20
“The Asiatic chapters, the bulk of the book, are complete enough; they are a little too full. There is too much that is documentary, and the vivacity of the author’s high-gaited style suffers a little, though there is always a story or a joke to take the curse off. There is, too, a little confusion in a treatment that takes us unawares from one period back to an earlier without sufficient warning.”
+ − =N Y Times= p9 S 19 ’20 2000w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=GALLICHAN, CATHERINE GASQUOINE (HARTLEY) (MRS WALTER M. GALLICHAN).= Women’s wild oats. *$1.50 (3c) Stokes 396
20–6280
“Essays on the re-fixing of moral standards.” (Sub-title) Of the “hideous abuses” created by three generations of industrialism and brought to a climax by the war, the author is considering those affecting the position and moral standards of women. The book is an attempt to distinguish between a “too ready acceptance of the fashions of the day,” and a “too loyal obedience to the prejudices of yesterday.” Accordingly she would curb the too frantic present day rebelliousness of women by a return to the Jewish ideal of marriage as a religious duty, and praising the perfect feminist ideal inherited by the Jewish women. On the other hand she would facilitate divorce, would lift the burden of illegitimacy from the shoulders of innocent children, and would procure some sort of honorable recognition for sexual partnerships outside of marriage. The essays are: Introductory; The prosperity of fools; The covenant of God; That which is wanting; “Give, give!” If a child could choose? Foreseeing evil; Conclusion, and appendices.
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“The book is well worth reading.”
+ =Ath= p320 Mr 5 ’20 200w
“In justice to Mrs Hartley I must admit that in the earlier part of ‘Women’s wild oats’ she argues for the home as against the factory. But the second half of her book is a defense of all the things which tend to break up the home. Even in Mrs Hartley’s early chapters the hysterical note in her ‘womanly womanliness’ led me to expect that it would not last.” T: Maynard
− =Bookm= 52:74 S ’20 840w
“There are those, however, who will be inclined to think that her comparisons of English with American conditions are rather too flattering to American life of the present day. Either that or we must read into the English situation even darker colors than those with which she paints it. Nevertheless hers has been a healthful effort and should do good in clearing away some of the illusions of the situation.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 850w
“In spite of her fervid indignation at the unnecessary burdens of woman-kind, she usually fails to understand the real difficulties and she altogether ignores more radical cures. Her own favoured remedies are too vaguely indicated to be a matter for demonstration or refutation; they are rather the passionate assertions of a personal faith.” V. G.
− =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 300w
“The most satisfactory chapter is that describing the position of the illegitimate child. The book is marked by the tension of the long war and the superficial disillusions of peace, and her summary of present tendencies seems too incoherent and egotistic to have much value.” N. C.
− + =Int J Ethics= 31:119 O ’20 230w
+ =Nation= 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 260w
“It is with some hesitation that one sets to work to criticise a book such as ‘Women’s wild oats,’ for one wants to recognize its courage and its sincerity, and at the same time one disagrees with certain points of view, as one necessarily must when one is dealing with the work which touches so many sides of a great question. One thing we can say is that Mrs Hartley is always honest and always wise.” W. L. George
+ − =N Y Times= p1 S 12 ’20 2150w
Reviewed by K. F. Gerould
=Review= 3:377 O 27 ’20 900w
“‘Women’s wild oats’ is less sensational than its title, though it contains much that will provoke dissent. It is a sober and earnest book, at once incisive and felicitous in style, but it must be believed that in her diagnosis of social tendencies in England there is some exaggeration. A certain captiousness—one might almost say, querulousness—in Mrs Hartley leads her very close to inconsistency.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 580w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 100w
“The book is an irritating mixture of good sense, violent prejudice, and a most trying method of using the English language.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p196 Mr 25 ’20 850w
=GALLICHAN, WALTER M.= Letters to a young man on love and health. *$1 (4c) Stokes 612.6
20–15339
These letters are from an uncle to his nephew, beginning when the boy is sixteen and extending over a period of five years. They are on puberty, with its accompanying unrest and longings, and on sex and marital hygiene and treat these subjects with large insight, sanity and sympathy.
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“There is much common sense in these letters.”
+ =Ath= p1166 N 7 ’19 170w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 110w
“While this book is undoubtedly more desirable than those products of an earlier day that endeavored to enforce a moral code through fear, still there are many reasonable objections to be raised against it that render its great usefulness doubtful. The modern serious youth desiring sex knowledge does not want a sugar-coated pill but simple facts. This author is not always accurate or up-to-date in his statements or teaching.” H. W. Brown
+ − =Survey= 45:137 O 23 ’20 420w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 30w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Awakening. il *$2 Scribner
20–20951
This child idyll concerns the first eight years of the latest of the Jolyon Forsytes, whose birth was announced toward the close of the author’s novel “In chancery.” Little Jon is a healthy and, in the words of his mother, “loving, lovable, imaginative, sanguinary” little savage, and, so successful in the choice of his parents that he is enabled to live the life prompted by his dramatic instinct. The illustrations by R. H. Sauter are a feature of the book. The story appeared in Scribner’s magazine, November, 1920.
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“Illustrations and text fit together with unusual charm.”
+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w
“The story is slight and the note of tenderness is perhaps too long drawn out. But it throws an agreeable sidelight on the ‘Forsyte saga’ and on Mr Galsworthy’s affection for some of his creatures.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 80w
“Since little Jon was born in 1901 it seems a safe presumption that Mr Galsworthy’s forthcoming volume will take him up to the threshhold of manhood. But Jon’s childhood, as here set forth, is so charming and perfect a thing in itself that, however interesting Mr Galsworthy may make his future career, one is almost tempted to wish that he might remain in memory as we know him in this little volume.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 20 ’20 490w
“A few episodes in the life of a little boy of eight years old, vividly realized and described with great charm.”
+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 120w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= In chancery. *$2 (2c) Scribner
20–18929
The story is a sequel to the author’s earlier novel, “The man of property,” and relates the further fortunes of the Forsyte family. With one exception the possessive instinct is still strong in the male generation, who include their wives and progeny in their property. Soames Forsyte, after his wife, Irene, had run away with another man lives on into middle life nursing his injuries until he poignantly realizes that he is still without a son to inherit his fortune and his name. Meeting Irene again, after a separation of fifteen years, awakens the old desire to possess her, and failing of her consent, nothing in law is too sordid for him for the attainment of a divorce. Even the family tradition for respectability must go by the board as he forces his cousin Jolyon—the one Forsyte that has not run true to type—into the rôle of correspondent. At the end he marries the pretty French girl, whom he does not love, and smothers his disappointment at having a girl child, and no hope of another, in his sense of proprietorship. At least—“that thing was his.”
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“When we have said that ‘In chancery’ is not a great novel, we would assure our readers that it is a fascinating, brilliant book.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p810 D 10 ’20 870w
=Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“As a story of human persons, ‘In chancery’ should rank among his best.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:251 N ’20 630w
“As we have already said, these Forsytes are extremely boresome, and we fear Mr Galsworthy exaggerates not only their importance and the extent of the world’s interest in them, but also the value of his own contribution to modern imaginative literature.” E. F. Edgett
− =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 1100w
“With grace and clearness and with a skill that holds the reader’s attention unfailingly, the tale is told. Its accomplishment is fine and delicate, though its convincingness is not complete.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ’20 480w (Reprinted from London Observer)
“Here we have again in careful acrimony mingled with a warm consciousness of physical beauty which is so characteristic of Mr Galsworthy.” E. W. N.
+ =Freeman= 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 200w
“Mr Galsworthy never lets his utmost penetration make him ruthless. He knows that ruthlessness is simply a failure to perceive the dark and pathetic humanity that lies just beyond the immediate horizon of one’s vision.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 112:88 Ja 19 ’21 750w
“The book is in many ways one of the biggest Mr Galsworthy has ever written; perhaps the very biggest. A better balanced, more logical and saner novel than ‘The saint’s progress,’ one accepts its reasonings and analyses, which satisfy at once one’s brain and one’s instinct. It is notable among the notable, a novel to read—and to read again.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 24 ’20 1500w
“It is a serious drawback that the first dozen pages or so of this book are a regular barbedwire obstruction because of their intricate tangle of genealogy and relationships. The reader who perseveres, however, will be rewarded by as fine and penetrating a study of temperament and heredity as is often written—not ‘highbrow’ or philosophical, but dramatic, tense and vivid.” R. D. Townsend
+ − =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 430w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 210w
“Most of the characters of ‘In chancery’ are the brooding victims of Mr Galsworthy’s remote wrath—Soames’s father, James, is the most free from literary victimisation. Here is an old man drawn with skill, without prejudice, and with that untiring care which is this author’s chief asset as a craftsman. It seems to us that for him our little world is a sick man tossing feverishly upon his bed; Mr Galsworthy, finger on pulse and clinical thermometer in hand, sits patiently by his side, recording the slow sinking towards dissolution.”
− + =Sat R= 130:458 D 4 ’20 630w
“One may add that here, as always, Mr Galsworthy is remarkably just to the characters with whom he is not in perfect sympathy. He writes of the old régime with respect and even regret.”
+ =Spec= 125:820 D 18 ’20 600w
“It is a most absorbing story viewed merely as a personal narrative. But apart from that it is a section from the history of English society. The book must be classed with Mr Galsworthy’s most characteristic and finest work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 620w
“Once more Mr Galsworthy shows his quiet mastery, now and then a little pontifical perhaps, but always suggesting the good rider on the spirited horse. And once more he lights up his sober fabric with the golden thread of beauty.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 O 28 ’20 1050w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:238 D ’20 60w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Plays; 4th ser. *$2.50 Scribner 822
20–9081
The book contains three plays: A bit o’ love; The foundations; The skin game. In the first play a young clergyman, Michael Strangway, is deserted by his wife, who returns during the first act to plead with her husband not to divorce her out of consideration for the career of her lover. He consents and thereby makes himself impossible with his narrow-minded parishioners. His struggle is between his love as a cosmic manifestation and the essence of Christianity, and his love for the woman, his wrongs and his worldly prospects. When, at the moment of the most hopeless desolation, he has prepared a suicide’s noose for himself, the cry of a little child for “a bit o’ love,” and the brave fight with his sorrow of a brother in affliction, recall him to the world and his stronger self.
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“This fourth volume of Mr Galsworthy’s plays is hardly up to the best of his earlier dramatic work. Of the three plays which it contains, ‘The skin game’ is the most skilfully and convincingly written; but even ‘The skin game’ leaves us comparatively cold.”
+ − =Ath= p733 Je 4 ’20 560w
“Written with the usual sincerity and dramatic intensity.”
+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“It is sufficient of the first two, ‘A bit o’ love’ and ‘The foundations,’ to say that they are ‘good Galsworthy,’ which means that they are more than readable and that they are beautifully constructed and phrased. More must be said of ‘The skin game,’ the third play. It is Galsworthy at his best.”
+ =Drama= 10:355 Jl ’20 280w
“Mr Galsworthy has written better plays than these, but if you care for his plays at all you will find them worth reading.”
+ =Ind= 104:70 O 9 ’20 180w
“Of the new plays the first, A bit of love, is undeniably the weakest.... The skin-game has a more timeless touch. It takes the tragicomedy of all human conflict, localizes it narrowly, embodies it with the utmost concreteness, and yet exhausts its whole significance. Galsworthy has never derived a dramatic action from deeper sources in the nature of man; he has never put forth a more far-reaching idea nor shown it more adequately in terms of flesh and blood.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 110:732 My 29 ’20 1100w
“To the reader who revolts against the rather sickly sentiment of the first of them and who has smiled half-heartedly at the forced comedy, in which the same sentiment still appears, in the second, the virility and grasp of the third comes as a tonic.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 24:172 O 13 ’20 760w
“These three plays will hardly add much to the fame of John Galsworthy, although, on the other hand, enough skill and command of character is evidenced to render them interesting additions to his work.”
+ − =N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 700w
“‘A bit o’ love,’ ‘The foundations,’ and ‘The skin game’ display ability of a high order. That fact is presumed in their authorship and is verified in their perusal. But all three have an effect of interlude or byplay; they are corollaries to earlier and weightier dicta.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:396 O 27 ’20 1100w
“He has many gifts, many qualities—technical ability, imaginativeness, sympathy, experience of life, ideas, ideals; but the one supreme, essential gift—the ability to create living men and women working out their destinies in the grip of fate—is not his. Mr Galsworthy, in fact, remains the second-rate artist he always was.”
− + =Sat R= 129:590 Je 26 ’20 1050w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 800w
“‘A bit o’ love’ is in Mr Galsworthy’s weaker vein. ‘The skin game’ possesses a greater number of powerful scenes of dramatic conflict than Mr Galsworthy has ever put into a single play. ‘The foundations’ is an utter departure for Mr Galsworthy or any other English playwright. Our stage is almost unfitted at present to handle such a play, but the existence of the manuscript ought to do something towards stimulating the development of a new producing method.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:348 O ’20 300w
=GALSWORTHY, JOHN.= Tatterdemalion. *$1.90 (3c) Scribner
20–5770
A collection of stories and sketches, some of them reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine, the New Republic and the Atlantic Monthly. Among the sketches that compose Part 1, Of war-time, are a number presenting unfamiliar aspects of the war period. Two of these, The bright side and “The dog it was that died,” are stories of Germans interned in England. The other titles are: The grey angel; Defeat; Flotsam and jetsam; “Cafard”; Recorded; The recruit; The peace meeting; In heaven and earth; The mother stone; Poirot and Bidan; The muffled ship; Heritage; ‘A green hill far away.’ Part 2, Of peace-time, contains eight stories: Spindleberries; Expectations; Manna; A strange thing; Two looks; Fairyland; The nightmare child; Buttercup-night.
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+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20
+ =Ind= 104:70 O 9 ’20 180w
“On the side of art ‘Tatterdemalion’ illustrates the Galsworthian qualities which are quite familiar by this time: a mellowness that never degenerates into softness; a virile tenderness of tone; an unobtrusive ease in the progression of the narrative; a diction which is always adequate, often beautiful, but which will not or cannot exploit all its own full resources of either beauty or strength through some inflexibility of inner modulation. Some of the short stories here are, with these definite qualities and their defects, among the best of our time.”
+ =Nation= 110:522 Ap 17 ’20 750w
“In his earlier novels and tales there was a marked predominance of the emotional quality over the intellectual. The two are here more nearly in accord. With possibly one exception none of the impressions is overwrought, or marred by sentimentality, or blurred by loud-voiced passion. Mr Galsworthy’s restrained, softly modulated style, as of an instrument with few overtones, wins its effect without recourse to obvious eloquence or special pleading.” S. C. C.
+ =New Repub= 22:427 My 23 ’20 850w
“Unalike as these tales and sketches are in many ways, they resemble one another in this—that always there is the intense feeling for beauty. Among the artists in literature of the present day—and they are not so few as some would like to imagine—those are rare who can safely challenge comparison with the John Galsworthy of ‘Tatterdemalion.’” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= 25:139 Mr 28 ’20 1200w
“The contents of the volume are diverse in the extreme; yet the keynote of the whole can be expressed in one word—beauty.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 100w
“The volume is an interesting and notable example of Mr Galsworthy’s workmanship, typical of his clearness of vision and of his fearlessness in telling the truth, notwithstanding the fact that the winds of popular passion and taste blow in the opposite direction.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 500w
“There are pieces in this book which will probably drop out of his collected works some decades hence. Yet we would willingly miss none of them from the book before us. If circumstance has deprived some of these tales and studies of the finest touch of craftsmanship which Mr Galsworthy can give, the book as a whole is clear revelation of one of the best and bravest minds of our time.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p186 Mr 18 ’20 480w
=GALWAY, CONOR.= Towards the dawn. *$2.50 Stokes
“The novel is, quite simply and frankly, propaganda for the cause of Sinn Fein. Its heroine is a vigorous, eager, impulsive, large-hearted young woman whom the reader first sees as a gawky, somewhat impish slip of a girl in her first teens. She gets caught in a street fight between Orangemen and Hibernians, brought on because some drummers of the former refuse to give way to the band heading a procession of the others; she is knocked down, trampled and has a narrow escape from being killed. The first thing she says when she comes back to consciousness is to declare solemnly that she hates both factions and thereafter will be a Fenian. To this determination she holds with enthusiasm, becoming a Sinn Feiner when that organization comes into activity. At one time, moved by the desire to make a sacrifice, she enters a convent with the intention of becoming a nun, but her desire to take part in the active measures Sinn Fein is planning brings her out again and into the ranks of that organization’s most ardent protagonists.”—N Y Times
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“Pleasantly written and containing some excellent character drawings, ‘Towards the dawn’ is likely to prove a distinct success.”
+ =Cath World= 112:264 N ’20 320w
“Would be interesting if the author’s viewpoint could be trusted to be accurate and impartial. But it is quite evident that it is never impartial and therefore only actual knowledge of conditions can say whether or not it is accurate.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 350w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:422 N 3 ’20 160w
=GAMBIER, KENYON.= Girl on the hilltop. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
20–10304
When Roger Lingard comes to England in 1914, it is to look up his ancestry, for he is the descendant of the Lingard of St Dyfrigs’ Park, who years before had eloped with Charity Turle, his cowman’s daughter, and emigrated to America. The modern Roger finds Dorothy Lingard and another Charity Turle interesting representatives of the family in the present generation. Before he has revealed himself to them, the war breaks out and he enlists. At the end of four years, he returns to his ancestral acres, to find himself, by the death of the male line, their owner. Then follows the interesting question, what shall become of the female line. Roger offers himself to Dorothy, that thus she may not be deprived of her birthright. But he finds himself superseded in her affections by another and when he turns to the humbler Charity, he finds a similar situation to exist. But the telegram which he sends to the mysterious “girl on the hilltop” reads “The third time’s lucky!” and so it proves to be.
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+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20
“Mr Gambier has built up a very alluring story.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 260w
“An interesting picture of rural England in wartime and unusually entertaining.”
+ =Cleveland= p83 S ’20 50w
“‘The girl on the hilltop’ has the virtue of being uncommon, but it is not very satisfactory. The author’s method of story-telling may be described as spasmodic; there is no ease in the course of his recital. He jumps along in a fashion quite disconcerting to the reader and insists on creating about certain of his characters an air of mystery that is annoying rather than interesting.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w
“Incidentally the novel gives a realistic picture of the war privations and provocations in remote English villages. The story is built on unusual lines and its originality makes it decidedly readable.”
+ =Outlook= 125:467 Jl 7 ’20 160w
=GAMBLE, WILLIAM.= Photography and its applications. il $1 Pitman 770
20–16270
The book is one of the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series. It is not intended as a guide or text-book for those desiring to practice the art of photography, but as a popular outline of the subject for general information on “How it’s done.” Contents: The discovery of photography; The camera and lens; Dark room and its equipment; The sensitive plates: wet collodion process, and collodion emulsion and dry plates; Making the exposure; Development and after-treatment of the plate; Printing processes: carbon and other methods; Enlarging, copying, and lantern-slide making; Colour processes; Scientific applications of photography; Cinema-photography; Photomechanical processes; Industrial applications of photography; Photography in warfare; Illustrations and index.
=GANACHILLY, ALFRED.= Whispering dead. (Borzoi mystery stories) *$1.90 (3c) Knopf
20–8519
Some years before the war, according to this story, there was a fire at the German embassy at Santiago, Chile, which completely destroyed the building. In the ruins were found the charred remains of a human body, and the mystery of the story is the identity of the man who so perished. Beckert, the German chancellor, was thought to be the unfortunate victim, but Rojas, the Chilean detective, has another theory which takes him on a wild chase in the Andes, resulting in the capture of the man who was responsible for the fire, and the murderer of the unknown person who perished in it. Stress is laid on the ruthlessness characteristic of the German nature even before the war.
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“A well-told and well-constructed story.”
+ =Sat R= 128:422 N 1 ’19 80w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 180w
=GANZ, MARIE, and FERBER, NAT. JOSEPH.= Rebels; into anarchy—and out again. il *$2 (3c) Dodd
20–219
Marie Ganz, daughter of a Hester street pushcart peddler, came from Galicia to America in 1896, when she was five years old. After her father’s death in 1899, she never knew what it was to have time to play, tho she did not work the regular twelve-hour day in a sweatshop until she was thirteen. She made friends among Russian socialists and anarchists, joining the latter group, and preached war upon the capitalists. She organized strikes, led mobs, got into prison and out again, and finally broke her connection with the anarchist group. She tells us: “I had learned much and changed much since that day when I led the mob into the capitalist stronghold, and the old rancours were gone forever.... My work is not over ... but, in the effort to help the poor and downtrodden, it is to run in other lines hereafter.”
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=Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 130w
“Although the apostasy of Marie Ganz furnished the occasion for her book, it is the period of her rebellion that engages one’s interest and gives the book its attraction.”
+ =Nation= 111:456 O 20 ’20 200w
“A vigorous and straightforward narrative.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:231 Mr 6 ’20 460w
“Quite as authentic and interesting as other autobiographies of women who have risen from the Ghetto of the New York East side, the book by Miss Ganz, nevertheless, does not range with them; It is too much concerned with only one aspect of life to paint either accurately or convincingly the throbbing vitality and beauty of that most colorful of American neighborhoods.” B. L.
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=GARBORG, ARNE.= Lost father. $1.25 Stratford co.
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This is a prose poem interspersed with verse in the form of prayers by a lost soul seeking an unknown god. Gunnar Haave had left his native land in search of life. He has squandered it and at the end returns home in search of the Father. His brother Paul has also thrown away his life to become the servant of his Master, Christ. It is Paul who finally succeeds in bringing the peace of the Father to Gunnar. An autobiographical sketch precedes the story and the translation from the Norse is by Mabel Johnson Leland.
=GARDNER, AUGUSTUS PEABODY.= Some letters of Augustus Peabody Gardner. *$2 (8½c) Houghton
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The letters are preceded by a short sketch of Major Gardner’s career by Mrs Gardner who has edited the collection. They are grouped under the headings: The Spanish war; Congress and politics; War-time activities; The army again. The volume contains four fine portraits of Major Gardner at various stages of life.
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“These letters are glowing with American idealism.”
+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 210w
=GARDNER, GILSON.= New Robinson Crusoe. *$1.25 (6c) Harcourt 330
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“A new version of his life and adventures with an explanatory note.” (Sub-title) In this new version all of Robinson Crusoe’s reflections are along economic lines. His first musings on “Why does man work?” are answered by his own efforts to supply himself with shelter, food and clothing. He soon discovers of how little avail his labors are without the cooperation of his fellow-men. This is later supplied by a colony of refugees on a neighboring island and with cooperation come the needs of specialization and organization. As the story proceeds all the features of a capitalistic society develop. Robinson becomes a power, the chief exploiter and ruler of the realm in which there now are rich and poor, exploiters and exploited. Then some of the younger blood become wise to the fact that “a man may own what he produces,” and no more. They lay in wait for him one dark night on the beach and instead of drowning him outright mercifully ship him off to England.
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=Boston Transcript= Jl 28 ’20 180w
=Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 430w
=Nation= 111:456 O 20 ’20 480w
“The ‘New Robinson Crusoe’ is interesting as an economic tract.”
+ =Outlook= 126:202 S 29 ’20 160w
“Mr Gardner has made a distinctly novel contribution to the literature of economics, but it will be an unhappy day for children when they are given this primer of economics disguised as a story to read in place of the good old fashioned tale of Robinson Crusoe.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 350w
=GAREY, ENOCH BARTON, and others.= American guide book to France and its battlefields. il *$3.50 Macmillan 914.4
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