Part II is composed of chapters on: Paris—a brief sketch for tourists;

History of the world war; Château-Thierry, Soissons, and Rheims; British battle fronts and Belgium; Verdun, St Mihiel, and the Argonne-Meuse; Coblence, Switzerland, Provence, the Riviera, and Italy; The château country of France; England and London. Part III is devoted to Divisional histories of American divisions in France, and an Appendix presents statistics. There are numerous maps, illustrations and an index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

“This guidebook has several valuable features.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 S 26 ’20 250w

+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 170w

“The ‘American guidebook’ is not compact. It is badly organized and repetitious. Of the 20–odd maps in the book, not one is of practical value to the tourist. The only worth-while section of the book is the part devoted to brief tabular histories of A. E. F. divisions. The information given in this department is compact, well-presented and satisfying.” J: T. Winterich

− + =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 770w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 80w

=GARIS, HOWARD ROGER.= Rick and Ruddy. il $1.50 (2½c) Bradley, M.

20–23176

The story of a boy and his dog. Rick wants a dog but his mother is obdurate. She does not like dogs and is afraid that even the best of them might be tempted to bite Mazie, Rick’s little sister. Then Ruddy, the red setter, is washed up out of the sea and since he seems to have come in direct answer to Rick’s prayer, she cannot turn him away. Boy and dog have happy adventures together. Ruddy guides Rick home when the two are lost and he rescues the little sister from drowning. The tramp sailor who had been his former owner returns and tries to gain possession of him but Ruddy is recovered and returned to his true master Rick.

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+ =Ind= 104:378 D 11 ’20 30w

=GASS, SHERLOCK BRONSON.= Lover of the chair. *$2.50 Jones, Marshall 814

20–85

“Mr Gass turns over from many angles the leading problems of education in a democracy, and the wider problem of democracy itself. The matter is generally cast in dialogues, with the disillusioned scholar described in the title as arbitrator. On the side of education the author has no difficulty in showing that the present lurch towards vocational training in the public schools is really not democratic at all. It assumes that a child is to be fitted for a place in which he shall stay—an aristocratic assumption. The book closes with an autobiographical fragment which is its best literary feature and has the advantage of bringing the various problems involved to a moral focus.”—Review

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Reviewed by Mary Terrill

=Bookm= 51:192 Ap ’20 950w

“Despite the friendly humor and gentleness of the essayist there is the iron of sharp experience and the steel of strong convictions to give point and edge to his critical depictions of men and manners.” H. A.

+ =New Repub= 24:51 S 8 ’20 820w

+ =N Y Times= 25:213 Ap 25 ’20 50w

“Despite a certain crabbedness and inflexibility of literary form, the book is a notable one. It is thought through, and has flights of grave eloquence. As a survey and estimate of modern society, as offering a tenacious criticism which is ever tinged with human sympathy, the book is a true landmark.”

+ =Review= 2:157 F 14 ’20 580w

=GASTON, HERBERT E.= Nonpartisan league. *$1.75 (2c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 329

20–6358

The author of the present volume is thoroughly acquainted with the history of the Nonpartisan league from the inside, and tells the story of its foundation and growth sympathetically but dispassionately, leaving the reader to make his own estimate of its importance as a political and social movement. In his final survey the author says: “Any cult or propaganda becomes dangerous if it comes close to the truth. ‘Menaces’ to the existing order of society are born of the evils of existing society in conflict with human needs and natural human desires. To brand a group, a cult, a society, a religion, as disloyal or disreputable is one way of fighting it, but it need not forever damn it.” Contents: The Nonpartisan league—what it is; North Dakota; Seeds of rebellion; Breaking ground; Terminal elevators; The leader for the occasion; Applied psychology; “Six-dollar suckers”; Publicity; The enemy opens fire; Choosing the candidates; The first campaign; Leaguers in power; The League becomes “national”; War issues; Producers and consumers; “Patrioteering”; Growth and power; The second big battle; League democracy at work; “The new day in North Dakota”; Another crisis passed; Organization changes; Survey and forecast.

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“Three years’ employment on the publication controlled by the league has given Mr Gaston an intimate knowledge of the organization, and, although the reader is assured of a ‘conscientious effort to make a faithful report of facts of essential interest,’ favorable conclusions are the rule. This point should be kept in view in judging the matter presented.” G: M. Janes

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:628 S ’20 1700w

“A very readable history of North Dakota’s recent interesting contribution to politics.”

+ =Booklist= 16:261 My ’20

“This book is an authoritative and to a certain extent an unbiased statement of the genesis and growth of the movement.” G. M. J.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 1000w

+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 20w

“An extremely lucid, vigorous, well-written account of one of the most extraordinary movements in our political history. The league is fortunate in having an apologist as clear-minded and as fair-minded as Mr Gaston: his book has the character not of propaganda but of history.”

+ =Freeman= 1:167 Ap 28 ’20 150w

“An indispensable book for the study of middle western politics.”

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w

“A severe critic will find in it much to praise, little to blame. Of course certain transactions are glossed over. All important events are given ‘with bright protective coloration.’ While the book has historical sequence, it lacks philosophical unity.” J. E. Boyle

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:619 Jl ’20 1450w

“The Nonpartisan league has been the victim of an unconscionable amount of lying. The more notable, therefore, is the service performed by Mr Gaston in writing a book that gives not only the facts, but the truth, concerning this remarkable political organization. Mr Gaston writes with sympathy for the league, yet with scrupulous fairness to its opponents. The story is told simply, directly, and with an absence of partisanship and bitterness remarkable in view of the fierce struggle of the past five years.” H: R. Mussey

+ =Nation= 110:656 My 15 ’20 1450w

“Admirable account.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p11 My 9 ’20 1200w

=N Y Times= p28 Ag 22 ’20 80w

“Although the author warns the readers of his possible bias, he has nevertheless written dispassionately and in good spirit and, on the whole, accurately.”

+ =Outlook= 125:430 Je 30 ’20 2400w

“His book is as readable as it is earnest. In his own language, he ‘puts it across.’ It is a great pity that one must lay the book aside with the thought that though it is interesting it is little more than an excellent piece of campaign apologetics.”

+ − =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 1500w

“His narrative throws much light on agrarian conditions in the Middle West and Northwest.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 80w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 26 ’20 300w

“No doubt the impartial and critical historian of the future will discover that the narrative is colored in favor of the movement the author traces. Nevertheless, the work is a worthy one and gives a fairly reliable account of a most interesting experiment.” J: M. Gillette

+ − =Survey= 44:384 Je 12 ’20 690w

“It is so simply and directly written, with such an evident desire to be frank and honest, with so little rhetoric and apology, that we must accept it as being about as fair an account as we could hope for from an insider adequately informed for his task.” W: E. Walling

+ =Yale R= n s 10:222 O ’20 800w

=GATLIN, DANA.= Missy. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–20320

Missy, short for Melissa Merriam, is ten when we first make her acquaintance in this book. Some of her adventures and experiences in the years between ten and seventeen are told in chapters entitled: The flame divine; “Your true friend, Melissa M.”; Like a singing bird; Missy tackles romance; In the manner of the Duchess; Influencing Arthur; Business of blushing; A happy downfall; Dobson saves the day, and Missy cans the cosmos. Missy is the kind of girl who had “been endowed with eyes that could shine and a voice that could quaver; yes, and with an instinct for just the right argument to play upon the heart-strings.” From the day when, in childish religious fervor, she prays publicly “O Lord, please forgive me for being a spy-eye when Cousin Pete kissed Polly Currier, and guide me to lead a blameless life,” her mental processes are original. Some of the chapters have appeared in short story form in various popular magazines.

+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“What Booth Tarkington did for the growing boy with ‘Penrod,’ Dana Gatlin has written for the girl, with the difference that ‘Penrod’ is done with broad effects for humor, while ‘Missy’ is a more delicate piece of workmanship.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 500w

“This book is an almost perfect example of the department store romance. There is not a glimmer of anything that might disturb the picture. The book is fairly well written and many will like it.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 60w

=GAY, ROBERT MALCOLM.= Writing through reading. 90c Atlantic monthly press 808

20–10291

This “suggestive method of writing English with directions and exercises” (Sub-title) has for its object the acquisition of a command of language and discipline and drill in clearness, vigor and conciseness. The author believes that the problem of teaching writing as an art and a tool of expression can be greatly simplified by retelling the thoughts of others and the methods considered in the book are: translating; paraphrasing; condensing; imitating prose, and imitating verse. Contents: Introduction: reading and writing; Transcribing and writing from dictation; Translating; Paraphrasing; The abstract; Imitation and emulation.

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“Suggestive to anyone interested in effective writing.”

+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Beyond all question ‘Writing through reading’ is the type of textbook which eleventh and twelfth-grade classes in composition ought to be able to follow with great profit.”

+ =School R= 28:632 O ’20 320w

=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and FLAHERTY, MARTIN CHARLES=, comps. Poetry of the people. 88c Ginn 821.08

20–11327

This volume has now been enlarged by the addition of a section devoted to Poems of the world war: historical and patriotic. There are also added four pages of notes on Popular songs of the world war.

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=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

=GAYLEY, CHARLES MILLS, and KURTZ, BENJAMIN PUTNAM.= Methods and materials of literary criticism. $3 Ginn 808.1

20–11325

“This book is the second of a series entitled ‘Methods and materials of literary criticism’, the volumes of which, though contributory to a common aim, are severally independent.’ The first volume (Gayley and Scott, 1899) was an introduction to the bases in aesthetics and poetics, theoretical and historical. The present volume applies the methods there developed to the comparative study of the lyric, the epic, and some allied forms of poetry. A third volume, approaching completion, will present tragedy, comedy, and cognate forms.” (Preface) The book is made up of two parts: The lyric and some of its special forms; The epic and minor forms of narrative poetry. Each of these subjects is considered under two aspects: Theory and technique, and Historical development, and a list of general references is provided for each, in addition to frequent references in the text. An appendix contains a brief bibliography of the history of poetry (60 pages) and there is an index.

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“The work here accomplished is an honor to American literary scholarship and is of great and enduring value.”

+ =Cath World= 112:541 Ja ’21 230w

“The helpfulness of such a compilation can hardly be overestimated. Testing the book from the standpoint of a student of the classical types of literature one is impressed by the completeness of the bibliographical material and by the discrimination of the editors when selection is necessary.” H: W. Prescott

+ =Class J= 16:254 Ja ’21 520w

=Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 190w

“Nothing could be more comprehensive; and it is difficult to see how the scheme could be improved. To say this is not to assert that absolute perfection has been attained. That is beyond human power; and, as Professor Gayley frankly confesses, ‘the citation of references is nowhere as complete as the compilers could wish.’ The index, it may be well to note, is ample and excellent.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p12 Ag 15 ’20 2100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 200w

=GENUNG, JOHN FRANKLIN.= Guidebook to the Biblical literature. $2.50 Ginn 220

19–15715

“The Bible as a literature, as a library, and as a book—that is how the point of view is stated at the beginning of this treatise, which offers systematic guidance to the study of the growth of the Bible, the historical development of the Hebrew mind, the particular tendencies and needs of the successive eras represented in Biblical literature and the particular genius of the writers, and the spiritual nature of their message.”—Ath

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“The point of view of the treatment is rather confusing. The method is in a broad way historical, but in detailed application it contents itself with acceptance of traditional views to such an extent as almost to vitiate the usefulness of the book for historically minded students.” J. M. P. S.

+ − =Am J Theol= 24:473 Jl ’20 190w

“Those who are not discouraged by the preface and the abstract style of the whole work will find the matter instructive.”

+ − =Ath= p1352 D 12 ’19 140w

+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20

=GEORGE, WALTER LIONEL.= Caliban. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–15960

Richard Bulmer’s career in many respects parallels that of Alfred Harmsworth but frequent reference to Lord Northcliffe as a contemporary shows that it is not intended as a portrait. The story begins with Richard’s boyhood and covers his early amateur attempts at journalism, his first daring venture into the publishing world with “Zip,” a sensational monthly that gives the public what it wants, and his subsequent rise to the peerage and ownership of a chain of newspapers. He marries early and after seven years separates from his wife. Women mean little to him for he is too deeply absorbed in his career, but late in life he meets Janet Willoughby and at her hands suffers his first defeat. The story begins in the eighties of the nineteenth century and runs thru the world war.

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=Ath= p376 S 17 ’20 840w

=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“We know no more or less about Bulmer on page four hundred than on page forty. He is a type brilliantly projected as a George or a Wells or a Walpole or a Mackenzie knows how to project him,—and there is no more to say.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Bookm= 52:250 N ’20 660w

“In ‘Caliban’ Mr George cannot convince us for a moment that his Richard Bulmer is doing anything more than to obey the commands of his creator. A puppet in a marionette show has as much initiative of his own as is possessed by this Richard Bulmer.” E. F. E.

− =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 1600w

“It is superior in many ways to Courlander’s ‘Mightier than the sword’ and has nothing whatever to do with Gibbs’ ‘Street of adventure.’ But it is a falling off from Mr George’s superb ‘Blind alley.’”

+ − =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w

“As a portrayal of Bulmer, ‘Caliban’ is convincingly done; as a novel, it is disappointing. For the book, despite Bulmer’s portrait, is perfunctory.” R. S.

+ − =Freeman= 2:166 O 27 ’20 400w

“Mr George has grasped in its concrete terms one of the fundamental things in our civilization—the press. His report may not be faultlessly accurate; there may be depths he has not reached, complications he has not disentangled. But his account has great fulness of matter, dogged closeness of observation, fine solidity, and burning candor.”

+ =Nation= 111:380 O 6 ’20 1000w

“Mr George has neglected the difficult and more interesting half of his subject. He has not tried to answer the most puzzling of the questions that yellow journalism raises. Not everybody, however, cares to investigate the differences which separate the successful wooers of ‘Caliban’ from the unsuccessful, and in Mr George’s novel there is cleverness enough to reward all readers who do not care.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 24:329 N 24 ’20 1450w

“They who happen to enjoy Mr George’s essays as much as I do will ‘get’ with particular satisfaction certain qualities of ‘Caliban’ that give it freshness, energy and a peculiarly British tang.” Alexander Black

+ − =N Y Times= p13 S 5 ’20 2050w

“Bulmer is not developed as a character, he springs full-grown from Mr George’s top compartment; and after a time his dutiful gyrations become a sad bore. A thousand irresponsible brilliancies about nothing make for me a dull book. ‘Caliban’ is not a story or an interpretation, but a commonplace theme with endless more or less clever variations.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w

“The story of Richard Bulmer’s boyhood is quite as good as, perhaps better than, anything Mr George himself has yet written. But the whole business of newspaper founding and managing has been done before too often and better, and the crude introduction of real names into the narrative does nothing to heighten illusion.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 125:571 O 30 ’20 150w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 820w

“He only succeeds in producing a masquerade—a disconcerting muddle of truth and fiction. Unfortunately there is no lightness of touch to redeem it. The story is over-written, and Mr George’s cleverness runs away with him into a tireless and feverish elaboration of detail which would be exhausting even if he kept to the facts of history.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 210w

=GEORGIAN= poetry, 1918–1919. *$2.50 Putnam 821.08

20–26460

The writers represented in this fourth volume of Georgian poetry are: Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, Francis Brett Young, William H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, John Freeman, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Harold Monro, Thomas Moult, Robert Nichols, J. D. C. Pellow, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Shanks, Fredegond Shove, J. C. Squire, and W. J. Turner.

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“The corporate flavour of the volume is a false simplicity. Of the nineteen poets who compose it there are certain individuals whom we except absolutely from this condemnation, Mr de la Mare, Mr Davies and Mr Lawrence; there are others who are more or less exempt from it, Mr Abercrombie, Mr Sassoon, Mrs Shove, Mr Nichols and Mr Moult; and among the rest there are varying degrees of saturation.” J. M. M.

− + =Ath= p1283 D 5 ’19 670w

=Booklist= 15:270 My ’20

“It is a profound labour to read this book. Not because, let me hastily say, there is nothing good in it, but because it is all so dreadfully tired. Here are nineteen poets, in the heyday of their creating years, and scarcely one of them seems to have energy enough to see personally or forge a manner out of his own natural speech.” Amy Lowell

+ − =Dial= 69:424 O ’20 3000w

=Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w

“It would, we think, be just to assume that there are three themes which belong to poetry above all others—God, man, and nature. But after reading the fourth book of ‘Georgian poetry’ from first page to last, one would never have guessed it. We feel especially drawn towards Mr Robert Graves. He is obviously at odds with the Georgian complacency and conventionalism, particularly in the matter of language. Mr Brett Young, again, a long way the best of the five newcomers, reacts against the tenuity of the others and their careful avoidance of reality.”

− + =Nation [London]= 26:338 D 6 ’19 1850w

“Among the others, it is good to see the name of D. H. Lawrence, although he contributes but one poem, ‘Seven seals,’ a magnificent thing, worthy of his wild unhappy genius.” Siegfried Sassoon

+ =N Y Times= 25:2 F 29 ’20 1150w

“These poets have unquestionable merits. Their temper is calm, measured, resolute—almost an eighteenth century temper. Their ideal is the vivid, the striking, the extreme—almost an Elizabethan ideal. Naturally enough, their eighteenth century temper is not quite at home in the handling of this Elizabethan ideal. Hence the vividness, which is by no means altogether wanting, comes to reside less in the ideas than in the language, less possibly in the language than in the vocabulary.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 2:520 My 15 ’20 260w

“In ‘The sprig of lime’ and ‘Seventeen,’ which are his two long poems this year, Mr Robert Nichols reaches a far higher platform in his ascent of Parnassus. ‘The sprig of lime’ is an exceedingly beautiful reflective poem.... Mr Shank’s ‘Fête galante, or The triumph of love,’ is a longish poem of quite extraordinary and peculiar attractiveness.... Alas that Mr Squire’s ‘You are my sky’ has not been included! His beautiful poem ‘Rivers’ is, as ever, most delightful reading. Mr Harold Monro’s ‘Dog’ is a cunning piece of realism.”

+ =Spec= 124:143 Ja 31 ’20 1000w

“The character of the collection has altered slowly till this last volume is least like the first: in fact, quite different. Long poems are fewer and shorter, and the bulk of the contents has acquired a strong family likeness. The original group of authors was more varied in aim and achievement.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p738 D 11 ’19 2100w

Reviewed by E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:201 O ’20 140w

=GERMAN= days. *$3 Dutton 914.3

(Eng ed 19–11975)

“The author, a Polish Jewess born at Posen, describes her experiences at various Prussian schools, ending with a finishing school in Berlin.” (Spec) “The latter half of the book gives the reader a clear picture of commonplace life in Germany today—the homes, the food, the amusements. The author is continually contrasting them, greatly to the disadvantage of Germany, with what she has found in England.” (Springf’d Republican)

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+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 200w

“She writes temperately, and her indictment of the relentless Prussian school system is all the more effective on that account.”

+ =Spec= 122:368 Mr 22 ’19 130w

“Among the books which aim to give enlightenment regarding prewar Germany one volume stands out for the seemingly naive impression of unpleasantness that it gives. This is ‘German days.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 16 ’20 700w

=GEROULD, GORDON HALL.= Youth in Harley. *$2 (1½c) Scribner

20–14294

After Stephen Quaid graduated from college he became principal of Harley academy and for a year was a part of the New England village life that soon will be but a tradition. In the picture unfolded by the story many types of New England character are seen and old customs, time-honored sports and celebrations and a town meeting are described, and in the romance of Stephen and Cynthia Darrell, with the ups and downs of their courtship, glimpses are given of the New England conscience in both its feminine and masculine aspects.

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“Interesting and wholesome but not a plot novel.”

+ =Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

=Nation= 111:454 O 20 ’20 420w

“Though too abstract for great art, Mr Gerould’s novel represents an intellectual honesty which fiction lacks in America, and which for great art is requisite.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 300w

“The action is slow at times, and readers who desire plot above all and breathlessness while reading will hardly feel themselves wholly in sympathy with the book. It is, first of all, an effort in characterization, and in this field Mr Gerould is always successful. For readers who desire to taste the quality of excellent writing at their leisure ‘Youth in Harley’ is to be recommended.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 600w

“Certainly the narrative is not exciting, nor is it rapid in movement, but it is sincere in its mild realism and finished carefully in its detail workmanship.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 70w

=GEROULD, KATHARINE (FULLERTON) (MRS GORDON HALL GEROULD).= Modes and morals. *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner 814

20–3866

Instead of the above title the author has been tempted to call her collection of essays “Democracy, plumbing, and the war” because democracy, always having a materialistic connotation, and plumbing, symbolizing physical comforts, as well as war, “make the problem of our immediate future a rather special one.” In the first essay, The new simplicity, the cultural élite are exhorted to practice a severe simplicity of living in order to hold their own against overpaid labor whose tastes run to luxuries. In The extirpation of culture four causes are named for this gradual extirpation among us: The increased hold of the democratic fallacy on the public mind; The influx of a racially and socially inferior population; Materialism in all classes; and The idolatry of science. The other essays are: Dress and the woman; Caviare on principle; Fashions in men; The newest woman; Tabu and temperament; The boundaries of truth; Miss Alcott’s New England; The sensual ear; British novelists, ltd.; The remarkable rightness of Rudyard Kipling.

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“Stimulating and provocative essays.”

+ =Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20

“Sparkling little essays full of originality and common sense.”

+ =Cleveland= p52 My ’20 60w

“Mrs Gerould is infinitely more agreeable as an essayist than as a short story writer and her discussions of current problems, social, spiritual and literary, are not only clever but stimulating.”

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 90w

Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster

=Nation= 110:sup486 Ap 10 ’20 800w

=New Repub= 22:97 Mr 17 ’20 1350w

“The book is as charming as it is clever, as wise as it is witty. ‘British novelists, ltd.,’ is the most individual of the essays in this volume, as it is also the most amusing. It is full of humor and of good humor. It has the light touch so much desired nowadays; none the less is it a searching criticism.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:89 F 15 ’20 2300w

“One salutes the Mrs Gerould of the short stories as a fictional artist of subtle power and distinguished skill. One views her secondary personality, the social philosopher, the student of manners and morals, as an example of the perturbing truth that a mind which creates with brilliancy and force may be feeble and unrewarding in ratiocination. Mrs Gerould is trite and trivial not only whenever her subject gives her an opportunity to be, but at moments when she might easily be something else.” Lawrence Gilman

− =No Am= 211:564 Ap ’20 1550w

“A little superior, supercilious Mrs Gerould doubtless is, and not a little paradoxical. But in her speculation, she uncovers a good many meaty ideas. One may not always agree with her or think her correct in her statement of facts; but one has at least got some return for the energy expended in reading.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 1350w

“When we say that Mrs Gerould is sometimes rather flippant, we have indicated all the defects that a truly impartial critic may find in this attractive and satisfying volume.” M. F. Egan

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:186 O ’20 500w

=GIBBON, JOHN MURRAY.= Conquering hero. *$2 (3½c) Lane

20–16160

A fishing party of city men is interrupted by the startling appearance of a beautiful woman. She introduces herself as the Princess Stephanie Sobieska, and is then recognized as a moving picture star. One of the guides of the fishing party, Donald Macdonald, Scotch Canadian and veteran of the world war, becomes a prime favorite with her, and after the fishing season is over, they still remain friends. He goes out to a farm in British Columbia and there meets a little girl whom he shortly becomes engaged to. But here the Princess Sobieska unwittingly makes trouble for him, for she appears on the scene again, and Kate thinks there is or has been something more than friendship, between Donald and her, and breaks the engagement. The Princess, in her wisdom, takes just the right course to straighten matters out, and all ends happily.

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“The book suggests an attractive open-air atmosphere, and the freedom of great spaces.”

+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 100w

“Frankly, Mr Gibbon has contrived to secure a host of ill-assorted ingredients that, so far from assimilating each other, make known their utter unsimilarity in no uncertain fashion.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p7 O 30 ’20 210w

“If it is possible, Mr Gibbon has too much real life in his book. Now and again the realization comes quite consciously that he is using his carpetbag of a romance as a receptacle for chunks of his own life. On the whole his story is a crude, vigorous, simple and attractive sketch of the Canada of today.”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 270w

“It is an amusing tale, but carries no serious conviction.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 120w

=GIBBON, M. MORGAN.= Jan. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday

John and Jan are both Owens, John, son of the quiet, staid Henry, and Jan, daughter of the wild, wilful John. The younger John and Jan alike crave freedom and liberty from the time they play together as children. Even then John’s love for Jan is strong and protecting and it never wavers all thru their school life until she promises to marry him. But she finds the engagement irksome and after a quarrel, John sets her free. She experiments with her freedom, trying one excursion into liberty after another. But nothing satisfies, she and John are both miserable and both too proud to give in. Eventually she realizes that she would rather have love than freedom.

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“The young lady who gives a name to ‘Jan’ labours obviously under the disadvantage—very usual with novel heroines—of meaning something to her creator, which has not been conveyed to the reader. The descriptions of Welsh middle-class life are vivid and sympathetic, and impress us as drawn from actual fact.”

+ − =Ath= p163 D 3 ’20 100w

“It is a thoroughly wholesome story, set forth by a writer who has the gift of frank, effective, convincing narrative. The value of this novel, which most readers will appreciate, lies in the fact that it is entertaining in itself, page after page.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 470w

=Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 190w

“This is a first novel which may fairly be described as promising. Praise must be given to the careful delineation of the characters of Jan and John.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p721 N 4 ’20 120w

=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= France and ourselves. *$1.50 (2½c) Century 940.344

20–5134

This collection of “Interpretative studies, 1917–1919,” is from the author’s war contributions to various American magazines, mainly to the Century. The burden of the book throughout is “We must see problems as France sees them, and we must help to solve them in the French way and not in the American.” Even when the author contrasts America’s “fourteen points” with what he is pleased to call France’s “fourteen points,” he does not consider the task hopeless. Contents: How we can help France; The tiger of France; World justice for France; The industrial effort of France during the war; Human currents of the war; The attitude of France toward peace; The reconstruction of northern France; The case against Caillaux; What confronts France.

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“Much of the book must be classed less as history than as propaganda, though propaganda of a very high-minded type. But the inevitable shortcomings of the book add in another way to its value. It vibrates with the spirit of the war and with the generous enthusiasm that inspired those Americans to whom the true character of France had been revealed.” A. D. Hill

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:730 N ’20 840w

=Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 800w

+ =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 210w

+ =Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 130w

“Much of this book is now badly out of date. Aside from this, there is much that is valuable and even timely in the book. Dr Gibbons writes with vigor and clarity of vision.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:300 Je 6 ’20 950w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 100w

“The chapter on the attitude of France toward peace, written about a year ago, is full of matter for thought today.” T. M. Parrott

+ =Review= 4:16 Ja 5 ’21 880w

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 120w

“The average American can be benefited by reading this collection of essays.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 27 ’20 370w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 70w

=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Riviera towns. il *$6 McBride 914.4

20–21327

“The Mediterranean is more blue than elsewhere because firs and cedars and pines are not too green. The cliffs are more red than elsewhere because there is no prevailing tone of bare, baked earth to modify them into brown and gray. On the Riviera one does not have to give up the rich green of northern landscapes to enjoy the alternative of brilliant sunshine.” With this characterization of the Riviera before him the reader is taken along the coast and up thoroughfares “built for legs and nothing else” to browse through the picturesque and medieval towns, more or less familiar to every one but made more real to him by the thirty-two full-page illustrations of Lester George Hornby. The towns described are Grasse; Cagnes; Saint-Paul-duVar; Villeneuve-Loubet; Vence; Menton; Monte Carlo; Villefranche; Nice; Antibes; Cannes; Mougins; Fréjus; Saint-Raphaël; Théoule.

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+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

“As it must be an open question as to which is the most interesting town, so it is an unanswerable question as to which of the chapters is the best, and Mr Hornby has added much to the book by his clever illustrations.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p13 D 8 ’20 310w

“It represents the best type of its class of literature, written, as it is, in a delightfully informal and intimate mood, with description and anecdote blended with a rare felicity.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 1000w

=R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 40w

=GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS.= Venizelos. (Modern statesmen ser.) il *$3.50 Houghton

20–20218

Much of this biography is based on the author’s personal acquaintance with his subject. As a college teacher in the Near East he has, moreover, an intimate knowledge of the entire political situation that precipitated the second Balkan war, that kept Greece neutral in 1915 and 1916, and that dictated the policy of Venizelos at the peace conference. Venizelos, although a native of Crete, inherited his Hellenism and became active in its cause from the time he entered the University of Athens as a law student. Contents: The boyhood and early manhood of an unredeemed Greek; A revolutionary by profession; Venizelos solves the Cretan question; Venizelos intervenes in Greece; The Balkan alliance surprises Europe; Turkey is crushed by her former Balkan subjects; The second Balkan war and the treaty of Bukarest; Venizelos reorganizes Greece internally; Venizelos offers to join the entente against Germany; Constantine tries to keep Greece neutral; Venizelos goes to Saloniki; Greece in the world war; Venizelos at the peace conference; Greece against the integrity of the Ottoman empire. The book has a number of maps and is illustrated and indexed.

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“This study is not that of an academic student, nor a detached investigator. As the author himself states in his introduction, he is more a reporter than a historian. His narrative gains thereby measurably in freshness and interest.” O. McK., jr.

+ =Boston Transcript= p 5 N 20 ’20 850w

“The book was written before the downfall of Premier Venizelos, but it will be none the less useful.”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 150w

“What he is writing is not dignified biography, but propaganda.” Elenore Kellogg

− =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 440w

“The book is one of great value, notwithstanding its lack of some of the qualities artistic and interesting biography ought to have.”

+ − =N Y Times= p11 Ja 9 ’21 2250w

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 580w

“Mr Gibbons’ book is the most successful attempt to give a complete and proportioned account of Venizelos’ life.” A. E. Phoutrides

+ − =Review= 3:621 D 22 ’20 900w

“Aside from its strictly biographical features, this volume is a contribution to the recent history of the Balkans, as well as to that of the peace conference at Paris.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 160w

“Mr Gibbons has contributed a notable addition to modern biography.” E. B. Moses

+ =Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 250w

=GIBBS, GEORGE FORT.= Splendid outcast. il *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–2258

In the midst of a battle Jim Horton finds his twin brother Harry, an officer with responsibility, crouching behind the lines in a “blue funk,” desperately afraid to obey his major’s orders, Jim compels Harry to change uniforms with him, takes Harry’s place, and so splendidly performs his brother’s duty that he gains for him the croix de guerre. Incidentally, Jim is seriously wounded. Recovering in the hospital he finds himself in a strange dilemma. No one believes his story. At last he grimly resolves to see the game through. This is difficult, as Harry is a dissolute crook engaged in some shady undertakings, and Jim is all that a true gentleman ought to be. Furthermore there is Harry’s beautiful bride to add more perplexing complications. Around this situation evolves a tense story, running through the underworld of Paris. In the end Jim, upon the death of his worthless brother, marries the beautiful Moira, whose marriage to Harry had been forced upon her, and who loves Jim beyond question.

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“It is undeniably a dramatic story that Mr Gibbs tells. In spite of the transparent confusion of identities, he manages to keep us genuinely guessing at least part of the time.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 320w

“If the characters were any of them real people the probabilities of the plot would not matter so much, but they are merely the stereotyped figures who have appeared in dozens of tales of this order, and they rather detract than add to the book’s credibility.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:91 F 15 ’20 420w

“The book would make a tremendous movie. The moves of the detective-like story are too intricate, the action too violent, the scenes too realistic to be overlooked in this field. It is a book for tired brains and jaded moments.” Katharine Oliver

+ =Pub W= 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 300w

“The story moves with the rapid characteristic of Gibbs’s tales, but many of the incidents are more obviously manufactured for effect than in some of the author’s preceding books.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 280w

=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Now it can be told (Eng title, Realities of war). *$3 (1c) Harper 940.3

20–5994

“In this book I have written in a blunt way some episodes of the war as I observed them, and gained firsthand knowledge of them in their daily traffic. I have not painted the picture blacker than it was, nor selected gruesome morsels and joined them together to make a jig-saw puzzle for ghoulish delight.... I have tried to set down as many aspects of the war’s psychology as I could find in my remembrance of these years, without exaggeration or false emphasis, so that out of their confusion, even out of their contradiction, the real truth of the adventure might be seen as it touched the souls of men. Yet when one strives to sum up the evidence ... are we really poor beasts in the jungle, striving by tooth and claw, high velocity and poison-gas, for the survival of the fittest in an endless conflict? If that is so, then God mocks at us. Or, rather, if that is so, there is no God such as we men may love with love for men.” (Part 8) Contents: Observers and commanders; The school of courage; The nature of a battle; A winter of discontent; The heart of a city; Psychology on the Somme; The fields of Armageddon; For what men died.

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“The war writing of Mr Gibbs presents an interesting problem. He appears to be a reasonably sensitive observer, he has had exceptional opportunities for observing, and he writes with considerable fluency. Why, then, does his writing affect us so little?... Mr Gibbs’ style has no definite and unique outline; it is, as it were, a composite style, his voice has the indistinctness of the voice of a crowd. The style is adequate to his purpose because his sentiments have something of the same quality. They furnish, as it were, the greatest common measure of the more intelligent opinion and the more decent feeling about the war.” J. W. N. S.

+ − =Ath= p272 F 27 ’20 900w

=Booklist= 16:274 My ’20

“His book is a bit querulous about the obvious indignities; but it is calm and terrible about the great wrongs.”

+ =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 90w

“The indictment of war is written in the same spirit as Barbusse’s famous novel ‘Le feu’ or Sassoon’s war poetry, and with as much literary skill as either. Mr Gibbs’ emotional reaction to the horrors of war fuses the miscellaneous details of the book into a powerful picture of the whole. His intellectual reaction is not so clear.”

+ − =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 290w

“It is a great triumph for him to have written this book, to say the things he does say and reveal the facts he reveals.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 22:356 My 12 ’20 2150w

“This volume marks the close of that great work done by Mr Philip Gibbs as a chronicler of war. It is a wonderful close, and a public tired of war books must not make the mistake of neglecting this, which has a frankness, a truth and a stern reality never before shown in all the literature of the war.” Cecil Robert

+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 1100w

“Different from his other books in that it shows no particular design, is painfully fragmentary and reveals Mr Gibbs as an unsatisfactory psychologist.”

− =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 70w

“A book which, however unpleasant it may be, is to all appearances both truthful and sincere. Its truthfulness is its greatest virtue. In several ways, however, the book is somewhat unsatisfactory. Its tone, one may say, is not that of well-balanced thinking or of altogether unbiassed criticism; it does not wholly convince. Furthermore, one cannot rid oneself of the feeling that Sir Philip leans somewhat toward the pacifist fallacy.”

+ − =No Am= 212:142 Jl ’20 1200w

“Mr Gibbs says things well: his fault is that he says them too often. Some of the repetition is clever emphasis that drives home the point while the speed saves the effect of boredom. If the book lasts it will be as a record of matters which properly belong to history, but with which history does not always deal.”

+ − =Review= 2:394 Ap 17 ’20 1500w

=Review= 2:404 Ap 17 ’20 100w

=R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 100w

“We cannot honestly recommend anyone to read this book just now, valuable and interesting though it may be to the next and succeeding generations. Power of graphic description Sir Philip Gibbs undoubtedly has; but his bitterness of spirit and his emotional worship of youth are not moods to be prolonged at the present hour.”

− + =Sat R= 129:349 Ap 10 ’20 1200w

“He has a keen eye for the telling detail that impresses a picture indelibly on the mind, and his quick sympathy with all who suffer helps him to keep the human side of the great tragedy foremost in our thoughts. His style is sufficient without being distinguished. He has, however, the defects of his qualities. He sees what is to be seen so intensely that he is inclined to forget the existence of what he does not see.”

+ − =Spec= 124:493 Ap 10 ’20 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 29 ’20 80w

“From the beginning to the end he resolutely refused (and it is a great thing to say of him) to become familiar with war. He took no intellectual pleasure, as it was so easy to do, in all the human ingenuity that was concentrated on it. So too Mr Gibbs kept himself remote from everything that concerned war as a profession, with its inevitable indifference to suffering. He is single-minded in his desire to be the spokesman of youth that went to the war.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p151 Mr 4 ’20 900w

“If ‘The judgment of peace’ is a flame, ‘Now it can be told’ is a slow and smoldering fire. These books, accepted by mankind, would be sufficient in themselves to end war forever.” G. H.

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:189 Je ’20 700w

=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= People of destiny; Americans as I saw them at home and abroad. il *$2 (5c) Harper 917.3

20–17298

In describing the life in New York and the people he met in America the author records impressions that are much the same as those of other Europeans, vid., that there is too much vastness, bustle and hubbub, too little “art, beauty, leisure, the quiet pools of thought.” In summing up the characteristics of the people he finds them “filled with vital energy, kind in heart, sincere and simple in their ways of thought and speech, idealistic in emotion, practical in conduct and democratic by faith and upbringing”; and he expresses the hope that these characteristics will help them to steer free of the dangers that threaten our liberties since the war. In telling America what England thinks of it he is holding up a warning mirror to us. Contents: The adventure of life in New York; Some people I met in America; Things I like in the United States; America’s new place in the world; What England thinks of America; Americans in Europe.

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“He expresses a number of opinions about America, but they are not all consistent with one another, they belong to different emotional registers, and we feel it would be a purely arbitrary proceeding to select any consistent set of them as representative.”

+ − =Ath= p648 N 12 ’20 700w

=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20

“His first few chapters are so insistently laudatory that one feels his praise issues more from his will than from his judgment, that he is simply determined to see good, and one longs—perversely, no doubt—for more shading in the picture. In the closing chapters, however, he comes to grips with his subject and gives a more balanced verdict.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:537 Ja ’21 770w

“Sir Philip Gibbs met so many of the right people during his stay among us that it is curious he should have learned anything whatever about America. Sir Philip’s book is occupied largely with the conventional admirations of the casual European for the physical conveniences of our civilization, with the regulation amazements about wonder cities and their subways and skylines and palaces and bejewelled parasites.” Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 2:309 D 8 ’20 1150w

“In the main his studies of the American man, woman, and child at home are not only correct, but animated by a cordial pleasure in having seen people he likes, doing the things he likes.”

+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 3 ’20 1900w

+ =Review= 3:478 N 17 ’20 250w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 5 ’20 560w

=GIBBS, SIR PHILIP HAMILTON.= Wounded souls. *$2 (2c) Doran

The story is not so much a novel as it is an account of the war’s effect on human souls. We see it first in Lille with its inhuman savage hatred and lust for revenge on the part of the French and a revulsion of feeling in the English soldiers from patriotism to an abomination of the war. Then the author shows us the effect of the armistice on the German people and their reviving hope kindled by the fourteen points. Again in England the same irreconcilable spirit of hatred as in France and the ruthless, morbid, neurotic sullenness of the returned soldier. Between all these forces the crushing out of love and life in the young couple—the English officer and his German wife—whose humanity had carried them beyond nationality. The whole is a drastic picture of post-war Europe.

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+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“In this book Philip Gibbs, with powerful, vital strokes, brings home to us that the war is not yet over, although fought and won.”

+ =Cath World= 112:685 F ’21 290w

=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 60w

“Only a man who has been there could introduce so much background. Mr Gibbs was either too close to his material or too much the journalist to succeed in giving the atmosphere of an invaded country as well as Sir Harry Johnston has done in ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter.’ But his chronicle of public sentiment in England equals that of H. G. Wells’s stories of the war.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 230w

“All of the descriptive part, where the author confines himself principally to an admirable reporting of what he himself saw and heard, is extremely interesting and worth while. The fictional portion of the book is less successful.” L. M. Field

+ − =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 1150w

=Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 90w

“The junkers of all nations, the militarists, the advocates of universal military training, will not thank Philip Gibbs for ‘Wounded souls,’ which must at least be credited with eloquence and disquieting vision.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 220w

“It is excellently done, and often moving, but it is just the feeling that everything is being made so skilfully to tell which prevents one accepting it in the spirit of real æsthetic enjoyment. Sir Philip Gibbs, like many another of us, is disillusioned, which is not surprising, but he overdraws the picture of disillusionment and spiritual decay. His shadows are all pitch dark and his lights too high.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p718 N 4 ’20 540w

=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Forerunner; his parables and poems. il *$1.50 Knopf 892.7

20–20557

This book is similar in form and thought to “The madman,” published in 1918. “You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation,” are the opening words. The five illustrations are from drawings by the author.

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=Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w

“There is a great deal of beauty and imaginative power in Mr Gibran’s pages which sink into the consciousness with a kind of Oriental hush that is captivating.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 410w

=GIBRAN, KAHLIL.= Twenty drawings. *$3.50 Knopf 741

20–212

“The drawings in this book are by a Syrian who the publishers tell us ‘has brought the mysticism of the Near East to America and has chosen to throw in his lot with the artists of the Occident in an endeavor to fuse new bonds of interest between the old world and the new.’ This theme of the publishers is further elaborated in an interpretative essay by Miss Alice Raphael which prefaces the volume.”—Nation

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=Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20

“His drawings call up instantaneously to the memory the tinted pencil sketches of Rodin; they strive for the massiveness of Rodin but attain instead a feminine sweetness of touch and conception. They hint strongly too of the methods and mannerisms of Leonardo da Vinci.” Glen Mullin

+ − =Nation= 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 900w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 350w

=GIBSON, CHARLES R.= Chemistry and its mysteries; the story of what things are made of told in simple language. il *$1.50 Lippincott 540

20–8917

“The preface of ‘Chemistry and its mysteries,’ is addressed to the adult and sets forth the advantages of disabusing the mind of any child below high school age of the idea that chemistry is a dry and merely technical study. The author bases the book on the belief that children will become genuinely interested in science, if the subject is put before them in a manner in which they can easily grasp it. The volume is the fifth in the Science for children series, the text showing in a simple manner the inner meaning of everyday happenings and the composition of materials met in everyday life.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Of interest to the adult as well as child.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 200w

“He certainly has achieved considerable success in a difficult task. It is unfortunate that Mr Gibson makes a few statements to which exception can be taken in themselves.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p748 D 11 ’19 550w

=GIBSON, WILFRID WILSON.=[2] Neighbours. *$2 Macmillan 821

20–18067

“There is restraint and beauty in these poems which always keep close touch with men and women. Neighbours speak in the quiet of their homes a few intimate lines which open whole life stories; pretty love poems, poems of travel and picture verses are gathered with ‘In khaki’ and ‘Casualties.’”—Booklist

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“Mr Gibson for us has something of the power and the achievement of his fellow-Northumbrian, Bewick. Granted that he possesses not a tithe of Bewick’s nature-knowledge, he approaches him more nearly in his reading of human nature; and when he leaves this province for the dash and splendour of Turner or even the woodland reverie of Birket Foster, he drops for a shadow the substance which he had before.” E. B.

+ − =Ath= p549 O 22 ’20 540w

+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20

“The only definitely interesting section of Mr Gibson’s new book is the first, called ‘Neighbours,’ containing a series of grim rural monologues and dialogues. The other sections are filled with turgid sonnets and monotonous quatrains about the war.” Mark Van Doren

+ − =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 160w

“Admiring Mr Gibson’s careful workmanship and truth to nature, we cannot escape the feeling that at least half the time he is to the real poet as the photographer, however fine, is to the artist.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 250w

Reviewed by K. L. Bates

+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 2 ’21 1200w

“Mr Gibson’s skill is most admirable when we consider that it is allied to poetic feeling of the utmost simplicity and depth.”

+ =Spec= 125:505 O 16 ’20 380w

“Mr Gibson’s latest book will not lessen his reputation as a poet, but it can scarcely add to it. For while the virtues of style and sincerity which his earlier poetry has taught us to expect, are in equal evidence here, the vices which we trusted were only incidents of his growth remain in an exaggerated condition.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p714 N 4 ’20 1350w

=GILBRETH, FRANK BUNKER, and GILBRETH, LILLIAN EVELYN (MOLLER) (MRS FRANK BUNKER GILBRETH).= Motion study for the handicapped. (Efficiency books) il *$4 Dutton 658.7

(Eng ed 20–6759)

“The authors maintain that there is ‘one best way’ in every industrial process, and that way can best be determined by a study of the methods of experts as revealed by motion pictures so taken as to show the path of the motion and the time required. The best way of performing an operation having been determined, the authors maintain that the cripple should be taught that method. Their enthusiastic claim is, ‘We have worked out in the laboratory the methods by which suitable occupations for cripples of any type may be determined and also methods by which training in these occupations may be transferred to the crippled learner.’ Much is said about the problem of the crippled soldier, for most of the chapters of the book were papers read before meetings of engineers in 1917 and 1918 when that subject was receiving much attention.”—Survey

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=Ath= p452 Ap 2 ’20 500w

=Nature= 105:737 Ag 12 ’20 950w

Reviewed by J. C. Faris

+ =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p157 Mr 4 ’20 50w

=GILL, CHARLES OTIS, and PINCHOT, GIFFORD.= Six thousand country churches. il *$2 Macmillan 261

19–17903

“The authors whose work ‘The country church’ described rural church conditions in a county each of New York and Vermont, have thoroughly surveyed Ohio, its churches, ministers, education, crime, social life, denominationalism, and other features. They find too great a division into sects, and in some of the counties most needing religious instruction, a great number of ill-attended churches, with non-resident or poorly educated pastors. Community churches are recommended. Many maps make this book more graphic than the former volume.”—Booklist

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“Perhaps the chief value of the work ... lies in its impartial exhibit of the zeal and stupidity of denominationalism gone to seed.” Allan Hoben

+ =Am J Soc= 26:377 N ’20 180w

“This book is indispensable to all who would attempt to shape the program for the living church in America during the next generation.”

+ =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 170w

=Booklist= 16:188 Mr ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 1050w

“Some very practical and informing light on the subject of church federation is thrown by Charles Otis Gill and Gifford Pinchot, in ‘Six thousand country churches.’”

+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 80w

“Certainly everybody who is at all concerned for the cause of morals and religion, every student of sociology, and every believer in the laboratory method, must feel under deep obligation to the painstaking authors of ’6,000 country churches’ for the statesmanlike survey which they have given to us.” C: E. Beals

+ =Nation= 110:521 Ap 17 ’20 1050w

=GILLESPIE, JAMES EDWARD.=[2] Influence of oversea expansion on England to 1700. (Columbia university studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$3 Longmans 942

20–18737

“In this treatise British colonial development is approached from a new angle. The author has made a serious attempt to analyze and present the effects of early British expansion on England herself. He discusses these effects in the concrete, under the heads of social customs, commerce, industry, finance, morals and religion, thought, literature, art and politics.”—R of Rs

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“He handles large quantities of fascinating material with dexterity and good sense.”

+ =Nation= 111:539 N 10 ’20 80w

“Mr Gillespie’s book, though sometimes inconclusive and sometimes unconvincing, particularly in what it says of political development, is illuminating and suggestive, and opens up a new field of observation and research to the historical student.”

+ − =Review= 3:654 D 29 ’20 340w

“Such a discussion is useful in that it brings together for the first time a variety of materials that have heretofore been widely scattered. It serves to crystallize and clarify our views of a most important period in English history.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:222 Ag ’20 100w

=GITTINS, HARRY NEVILLE.= Short and sweet. *$1.75 Lane

20–7428

A collection of short light stories and sketches. The author died on active service in France in 1917, aged twenty-four years. The stories originally appeared in Punch, the Liverpool Daily Post and London Opinion, and have been collected in book form by Mr Gittins’ family as a tribute to his memory. The point of most of the stories, which average about seven pages, is in the light repartee of love making rather than in action. Among the titles are: The golfing husband; Marjorie on the turf; A golfing musical comedy; By the left; A difficult handicap; A lucky escape; The married man’s advantage; The difficulty of the dance; Short and sweet, etc. At the close there is a group of verses in the same strain.

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“Of gossamer texture, and seemingly dashed off without much thought, they yet give an instantly recognizable reflection of the typical British young man of good family and sufficient means. Some of the chapters suggest the daintiness of the ‘Dolly dialogues,’ while all are up to a respectable standard of literary merit.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 400w

“They are very good examples of the light humorous vein in which the youth of this generation delight and excel. Many of them remind us of the early work of Barrie.”

+ =Sat R= 130:400 N 13 ’20 60w

“The little stories have a touch of original humor and are agreeable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 100w

=GLAENZER, RICHARD BUTLER.= Literary snapshots, impressions of contemporary authors. *$1.25 Brentano’s 811

20–13197

“In these snapshots, Mr Glaenzer has brought out the literary features of his subjects. The first three groups are devoted to English, American and foreign authors, among the twenty-two of the first being Hardy, Galsworthy, Wells, Kipling, Barrie, Shaw, to Dunsany, Doyle, Hudson and Blackwood; among the fourteen American authors are Howells, Dreiser, Wharton, Tarkington, Hergesheimer, Churchill and Wister; among the ten foreign authors are France, Loti, Rolland, to Schnitzler, d’Annunzio and Boyer. Another group of prose-writers are labelled ‘Lollypops,’ among which are Harold Bell Wright, Florence L. Barclay, Robert W. Chambers, Elinor Glyn, Owen Johnson, Marie Corelli, Upton Sinclair and Frances Hodgson Burnett. In the four groups under the ‘Flicks at Pegasus,’ the poets, English and American are limned.”—Boston Transcript

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“The likeness is in the impression rather than in the contours, and for that reason is much more strikingly interesting.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 25 ’19 400w

“The literary photographer has been clever in catching his victims in what the public would call ‘a characteristic and distinctive pose.’ In the case of his vers libre subjects Mr Glaenzer is successful in reflecting their styles in his own.” L. M. R.

+ − =Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 200w

“You may not like some of the snapshots, you may violently disagree with the implied judgments—but they are all stimulating, some of them are humorous, a few bitter, and more are acutely critical.” W. P. Eaton

+ =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 220w

=GLASIER, JOHN BRUCE.= Meaning of socialism. *$2 (4c) Seltzer 335

21–880

The book is one of the “New library of social science” series, edited by J. Ramsay Macdonald. It has an introduction by J. A Hobson, who says of socialism that its most profitable labor is in the field of “humanism”—meaning that economics, politics, art and morals are but necessary factors in the realization of higher human relationships—and that the author of the book has more successfully than any other writer of our time the humanist interpretation and outlook. The four parts of the book are: After long ages; The epoch of freedom; Socialism in existing society; Beyond all frontiers.

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“Mr Glasier is badly equipped as an economist and is too impatient for rhetorical flights.” H. S.

+ − =Nation= 110:728 My 29 ’20 200w

“While the book contains no new departure in socialist thought, the author’s fine literary gift, his intimate knowledge of the socialist movement and his inspiring idealism make the volume an excellent first aid to the student of socialism.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 110w

“Presents the fundamental idea of socialism with a large amount of ethical and humane idealism and praiseworthy grace and sweetness of temper. It is, in short, socialism suffused with the spirit of William Morris and purged of its economic one-sidedness that Mr Glasier presents.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p684 N 27 ’19 1000w

=GLASPELL, SUSAN (MRS GEORGE CRAM COOK).= Plays. *$2 Small 812

20–12185

All of Susan Glaspell’s plays have been produced by the Provincetown players and by other little theater groups and some of them have been published separately. This is the first collected edition. The collection opens with Trifles, which has been called “the best play that has been written by an American.” The other one-act plays are The people, Close the book, The outside and Woman’s honor. These are followed by the three-act play, Bernice, a play of subtle theme, one of the few attempts to write serious American drama. The collection closes with two comedies written in collaboration with George Cram Cook, Suppressed desires and Tickless time.

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=Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Miss Glaspell has command of crisp and forceful dialogue, but this volume, indeed, indicates clearly that her gifts are literary rather than dramatic.”

+ =Cath World= 112:408 D ’20 160w

“These eight plays have a literary quality and a somewhat philosophical viewpoint that make them as readable as stories. Miss Glaspell writes in a crisp, descriptive style and she shows keen insight into the underlying human motives. ‘Trifles’ is a really great play.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w

“The publication of Miss Glaspell’s collected plays at last lifts them out of the tawdriness of their original production and lets them live by their own inherent life. That life is strong, though it is never rich. In truth, it is thin. Only it is thin not like a wisp of straw, but like a tongue of flame.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:509 N 3 ’20 1100w

“Miss Glaspell’s style, while not especially distinguished, is entertaining and easy to read.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 250w

“The well-rounded laughter of ‘Suppressed desires’ becomes a trifle more angular in the comedies from a single pen, ‘Woman’s honor,’ and ‘Close the book.’ In all the plays there is a deeper meaning, the presence of an interesting idea or ideal, yet, as in ‘Woman’s honor’ and ‘The outside,’ the idea often remains veiled. ‘Bernice’ may be read with an intensity of thought. Yet, as a play, acted upon a stage, what was intense might easily become monotonous.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 14 ’20 600w

“For readers who can achieve an artistic perspective in relation to these plays there is satisfaction in finding, after reading and rereading them all, that the big things are the good ones, and that the biggest is the best. It is as if Miss Glaspell hit a far target more easily than one close by.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:349 O ’20 320w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 60w

=GLEASON, ARTHUR HUNTINGTON.= What the workers want: a study of British labor. *$4 Harcourt, Brace & Howe 331

20–9059

As a result of five years’ study of the British, the author predicts that England will make an early and sane adjustment to the new impulses of the human spirit now striving for expression throughout the world and that she will be the first country to enter the new age equipped and unembittered. His summary of the wants of the workers today is: “The workers wish to be the public servants of community enterprise, not the hired hands of private enterprise. They refuse to work longer for a system of private profits divided in part among non-producers. They demand a share in the control and responsibilities of the work they do (not only welfare and workshop conditions, but discipline and management and commercial administration). They demand a good life, which means a standard of living (in terms of wages and hours) that provides leisure, recreation, education, health, comfort, and security.” (Chapter 1) The contents report all the important events and tendencies in the industrial world since the war under the sections: Chaos and aspirations; The year; The way they do it; What the workers want; Problems; The summing up. The appendix gives in full the important documents of the social revolution and is divided into the sections: The employers; Masters and men; The workers; The judgment; The public. There is an index.

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“A thoroughgoing and interesting summary of movements, forces and men in the British labor situation.”

+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“The feature that gives the book its greatest value, is its profound understanding of the British people, whose industrial and political problems it describes and illumines with such keen comment.” T. M. Ave-Lallemant

+ =Freeman= 2:164 O 27 ’20 1000w

“There is little attempt to give the historic background of the various groups, but the reader who has been awakened at all to the new authority with which labor is speaking in Britain and, to its influence upon world politics, as well as upon labor problems in the narrower sense, will find here the best material yet available for understanding the situation.”

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:115 O ’20 150w

“The account of the Coal commission, with its shrewd and playful pictures of the chief actors, is an illustration of what is, to the general reader, both the book’s greatest charm and its greatest danger—its emphasis on the personalities of the labor movement. The danger is that of a heroistic reading of current tendencies. The book nowhere gets put together, and Mr Gleason’s generalizations are likely to come as shrewd asides.” C. L. Goodrich

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:855 D ’20 1550w

“Mr Gleason reports contemporary history as a dramatist might compose a pageant. He sets the stage, describes the dramatis personae, and juxtaposes their significant utterances. The result gives an effect of authentic composition. As is usual with Mr Gleason’s books, not the least valuable part of ‘What the workers want’ is the bulky appendix.” G: Soule

+ =Nation= 111:133 Jl 31 ’20 860w

“This book is the ablest piece of reporting I have seen in several years. It is vivid, singularly intimate in its knowledge, and with a frank recognition of the problems involved that gives it an objectivity rare in books of the kind. Mr Gleason has had a preparation unparalleled among American students for this work.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 23:65 Je 9 ’20 1250w

“There is so much that is excellent and of timely consequence in Mr Gleason’s 500–page volume that it is difficult to feel either patient or charitable toward the author when, occasionally, he seems to lose his head.”

+ − =N Y Times= p2 Ag 15 ’20 2000w

+ =Survey= 44:416 Je 19 ’20 240w

=GLINSKI, ANTONI JÓZEF.=[2] Polish fairy tales; tr. by Maude Ashurst Biggs. il *$5 Lane

21–658

These tales representing the folk lore of the eastern provinces of Poland and White Russia are of extreme age, some of them dating back to primitive Aryan times. There is an obvious likeness between them and the folk lore of other European nations and they are taken from a larger collection made by A. J. Glinski. They are beautifully illustrated in color by Cecile Walton, and an explanatory appendix is added by the translator. The tales are: The frog princess; Princess Miranda and Prince Hero; The eagles; The whirlwind; The good ferryman and the water nymphs; The princess of the Brazen Mountain; The bear in the forest hut.

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“The vivacious illustrations by Cecile Walton show a conscientious striving to interpret these unfamiliar themes.”

+ =Int Studio= 72:206 Ja ’21 60w

“An exceptionally attractive book.”

+ =Spec= 125:710 N 27 ’20 60w

“What especially distinguishes this book is the illustrations.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 220w

=GODDARD, HENRY HERBERT.= Human efficiency and levels of intelligence. il *$1.50 Princeton univ. press 150

20–7588

“Series of lectures delivered last year under the Louis Clark Vanuxem foundation at Princeton university by Henry Herbert Goddard, director of the bureau of juvenile research of Ohio, have just been published under the title, ‘Human efficiency and levels of intelligence.’” (Springf’d Republican) “The lectures explain how the recognition of different degrees of intelligence among children and adults can effect greater social efficiency by aiding each person to train for the work and responsibility which his mental equipment warrants. Tests are used as a conscious control of delinquency and the feeble-minded are protected and directed to aid in their own support. The author’s work with soldiers has shown an astonishing degree of variation in intelligence among normal people.” (Booklist)

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=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20

“His theory of an intellectual aristocracy is intensely interesting and appealing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 160w

=GOIZET, LOUIS HENRI.= Never grow old. *$2 (6c) Putnam 612.68

20–18316

The author claims to have discovered a method by which man can live in beauty and health for more than a hundred years. It is based on the theory that perfect health requires absolute rectitude of form without which static equilibrium and harmony of the organic functions are impossible. The method consists of a system of “superficial tractile rubbings” by which the free circulation of “the rotary molecular current” is reestablished throughout the cells of the organized being. The book falls into two parts, of which the first develops the law on which the theory is based and the second treats of the method. Some of the chapters in part two are: Causes of alteration in form; The rectitude of forms; Rectification of form.

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“The book contains much suggestive argument and speculation.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 80w

“It can be said, however, that the first half of the book leads the way to its climax with a relentless logic—providing always that the author’s premises are correct—that is truly delightful and admirably lucid.” Van Buren Thorne

+ =N Y Times= p5 N 14 ’20 1850w

=GOLDBERG, ISAAC.= Studies in Spanish-American literature. *$2.50 Brentano’s 860

20–2423

“‘It is high time we arouse ourselves to an appreciation of the ideals and merits of Spanish-American literature’ writes Prof. J. D. M. Ford in his introduction to ‘Studies in Spanish-American literature.’ Dr Goldberg discusses the modernist spirit and five of its prophets, Dario of Nicaragua, Rodo of Uruguay, Chocano and Eguren of Peru, Blanco-Fombona of Venezuela. Many poems and philosophical and political points of view are quoted in both the original and translation. Several rhymed translations are by Alice Stone Blackwell.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 40w

“The puzzling thing about Dr Goldberg is that while in Spanish verse he is sensitive to delicate shades of rhythm and cadence, for an English equivalent he seems ready to accept anything which comes to hand.” J. B. T.

+ − =Ath= p902 D 31 ’20 520w

“Though a scholarly work, its swift, lucid style and novelty of subject give it an appeal for the general reader.”

+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20

“His study of Dario’s poetry is enthusiastic and appreciative; it is marked with the fairest critical spirit. This may also be declared of his entire treatment of the ‘Modernistas.’” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 51:235 Ap ’20 1300w

“As a work of scholarship, Dr Goldberg’s book is of tremendous value. It is written to appeal to the general reader, and appeal it will, if swift, lucid style and novelty of subject matter count for anything.” G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 4 ’20 750w

“Novelty, fairness and lucidity mark these studies.”

+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 30w

“A book of permanent value, really necessary in any collection of world literature.” T: Walsh

+ =Nation= 110:624 My 8 ’20 750w

“It is a book of pleasant reading, for Dr Goldberg’s style is florid and, were it not for a trifle too much effort, would be brilliant. The chief significance of these studies is, however, as the first effort to provide a sound literary criticism of the work of South American writers.” H. K.

+ =New Repub= 23:288 Ag 4 ’20 620w

“Dr Goldberg’s scholarship is good in essentials. Unfortunately, however, he can not be complimented for carefulness in little things. In spite of the general clarity of his style, there are now and then pages far from clear.” F: B. Luquiens

+ − =Review= 2:335 Ap 3 ’20 1500w

“Dr Goldberg has written in great detail, with diction lucid and at times sparkling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 16 ’20 340w

=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Fight for freedom. (Plays for a people’s theatre) *$1.25 Seltzer 822

20–12048

In this four act play a war-maddened young soldier assaults the girl who had asked to be relieved from her engagement to him on the ground that she has learned to love another. The development of the play brings out the attitudes of the various characters toward the man himself, his act, and the girl concerned. These vary from the sentimental attitude of those who would forgive “our boys” anything to that of the two radicals to whom personal considerations are nothing in the face of the coming revolution. Henri Barbusse has written a preface and there is an introduction by the author.

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“It is a clever pamphlet play, but there is more speechifying than dialogue.”

+ − =Ath= p321 Mr 5 ’20 90w

“Mr Goldring’s best is in the sudden reversal from the expected toward the end of his play, when his theoretical revolutionary becomes human—and a bit detestable for once.” Gilbert Seldes

− + =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 100w

“If it were not for Mr Goldring’s introduction, it would be very hard to believe that anyone could seriously contribute this muscle-bound thesis-play as anything the people or anybody else but a theatrical antiquarian would be interested in.” Kenneth Macgowan

− =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 500w

Reviewed by Dorothy Grafly

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 580w

“‘The fight for freedom’ is a good play quite apart from any pretensions to be different in character from the social plays of the pre-war theater. It is, in fact, in direct line with the best work of Shaw, Galsworthy and Barker.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 50w

=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Margot’s progress. *$1.90 (1½c) Seltzer

20–9785

The story of a social climber. Maggie Carter, a grocer’s daughter from Montreal, goes to Paris with three thousand dollars capital and there becomes Margot Cartier. Her small capital is to tide her over the brief period until her beauty, which is her real asset, has won her an advantageous marriage. And it all works out as she planned. Thru the Falkenheims, rich Jews whom she meets on the boat, she is introduced to London society. Renewal of acquaintance with an old Canadian connection gives the right suggestion of social background, and she becomes Lady Stokes. But the marriage does not turn out well. An elderly admirer dies and leaves her a legacy, which provides both the means to freedom and the excuse for a quarrel with her husband. She is divorced and goes to Paris, where the outbreak of the war finds her. At the close there is promise of a second marriage with a man she loves.

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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 52:67 S ’20 700w

“Vigorous, varied, and colourful.”

+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 60w

“The story is interesting, vigorously told, with an unusual power of vivid, direct presentation, fired too with a nervous intentness. But after all, it is not a book that gives one much comfort. One concedes its merits, but without enthusiasm. One feels, on finishing it, like turning to Ali Baba or Cinderella or Lord Dunsany as an antidote.” C. F. L.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 220w

“It is the kind of story which might easily be preposterous but is convincingly inevitable.”

+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 210w

“Beneath the superficial reaction of enjoyment derived from an entertaining story there ran a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction and resentment at the author for toying with a genuine and precious talent. In ‘Margot’s progress,’ Goldring has written a ‘best-seller’—superior in many points to the American product, but nevertheless a best-seller, with all its tawdry virtues and triple-plated vices.” Max Endicoff

− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 25 ’20 410w

“It is highly enjoyable reading and without a dull moment from cover to cover.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 450w

“One may find some of Margot’s sophisticated conversation a little grating; but, for that matter, one will find a good deal about Margot and her acquaintances a little grating. Still there is a driving force to her ambition that wins toleration, if not admiration. The story gains in emotional force and dramatic intensity as it progresses.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 580w

=GOLDRING, DOUGLAS.= Reputations; essays in criticism. *$2.50 Seltzer 824

20–17759

These criticisms and appreciations of some of the younger English novelists, poets and contemporary writers with some literary reflections in general are: James Elroy Flecker—an appreciation and some personal memories; Three Georgian novelists—Compton Mackenzie—Hugh Walpole—Gilbert Cannan; The later work of D. H. Lawrence; Mr Wells and the war; The war and the poets; An outburst on Gissing; The author of “Tarr”; The Gordon Selfridge of English letters; Redding “on wines”; Clever novels; 1855; Low tastes; Looking back. There is an index.

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“We have bitter need at the present time for a reconsideration of critical principles; for a non-partisan criticism to disperse the miasma of name-worship and of chaotic emotionalism, which are the part-legacy of war; and, in view of this need, it is refreshing to read Mr Goldring’s brilliant, and rather contemptuous, onslaught upon public idols.”

+ − =Ath= p827 Je 25 ’20 700w

Reviewed by R. E. Roberts

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 7 ’20 400w

“Possibly Mr Goldring is a little too fluent; his judgments roll off somewhat like first thoughts, and he is a little amusing in his consciousness of maturity. But he has an unmistakable knack of hitting precisely the strength and weakness of those whom he discusses.” C. M. R.

+ − =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 390w

+ − =Nation= 111:383 O 6 ’20 230w

“His comments on the intellectual life of England are exceedingly worth while and his marginal notes, those paragraphs that embroider his critical articles, are extremely valuable. The reader knows definitely where he stands. Beside his critical acumen is a deal of genuine, worth-while information.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 3 ’20 640w

“In this book the author once more gives proof of his remarkable receptivity, his power of seizing and reproducing the surface impressions of the circle in which he moves. That there is nothing either well-thought-out or valuable in these essays is hardly so much his fault as his misfortune. The lighter sketches are incomparably the better, and should prove to him his true vocation.”

− + =Sat R= 130:124 Ag 7 ’20 80w

“It is a long while since anything more delightful in the way of a literary study has appeared than Mr Goldring’s ‘James Elron Flecker.’ The study seems to the present writer to be the best essay in the book, clever as is most of the rest—that and a piece entitled ‘Low tastes,’ for these are almost the only two in which Mr Goldring does not obtrude his political opinions.”

+ − =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 560w

“The best paper in the volume—because the most thoroughly studied—is that on James Elroy Flecker. On the whole, there is nothing distinguished in these criticisms, though Mr Goldring is to be credited with flashes of illumination and a pungent style.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 450w

“As he has a gift for seeing beneath the genius to the man, and can attend a tea-party for the pleasure of saying afterwards how trivial he found it, his book is not devoid of spice, though its prose is undistinguished and sometimes slack.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p370 Je 10 ’20 300w

=GOLDSMITH, MILTON (ASTRA CIELO, pseud.).= I wonder why. il *$1.75 (2½c) Sully 504

20–1376

A book designed to provide answers to children’s many questions, giving information on “the how, when, and wherefore of many things.” The first chapter tells how the Palmer family came to organize the I-wonder-why club, with half-hour sessions daily. The remaining chapters, devoted to the club’s discussions, take up such subjects as Light, Sun, moon and planets, The stars, Comets and meteors, Air, Water, Fire, Heat, Sound, Rocks, Coal, Metals, Electricity, Photography, Moving pictures, Clocks, Butterflies and moths, etc.

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=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 120w

=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the common welfare. *$3 Dutton 331

20–224

“A compilation of the writings and addresses of Samuel Gompers, edited by Hayes Robbins. To be followed by ‘Labor and the employer,’ the two volumes together forming a comprehensive work on labor movements and labor problems in America.” (Brooklyn) “It is a compilation from official reports to A. F. of L. conventions, articles in American Federationist, testimony before congressional committees, public addresses of President Gompers, and other documents. The selections include data from the earliest reports of the federation. The material is presented under classified headings according to the subject and is generally presented in chronological order.” (N Y Call)

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=Am Econ R= 10:365 Je ’20 70w

+ − =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:97 Mr ’20 40w

“In it are adequately set forth the solid, conservative policies of the long-time president of the American federation of labor. But the thoughts are the thoughts of history rather than of the present; the reader who would know what labor is thinking now must supplement the Gompers philosophy with many creations of a new régime of ideas.” E. D. Strong

+ − =Grinnell R= 15:257 O ’20 850w

“We had occasion a few weeks ago to notice a book of the Civic federation, one chapter being written by James W. Sullivan of the A. F. of L. Our judgment was that the national officials of the organization had become trade union chauvinists. This latest volume confirms our impression. Nevertheless, we are glad to have this book. The selections by Robbins are excellent and no matter whether the reader agrees or does not agree with Mr Gompers, this compilation is valuable for his partisans and all others interested in the history of the American federation of labor.” James Oneal

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol

=Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 850w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 30w

“Fortunately Mr Gompers is unusually gifted in expression due in part, no doubt, to unusual clarity of thought.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 17 ’20 140w

+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 420w

=GOMPERS, SAMUEL.= Labor and the employer; comp. and ed. by Hayes Robbins. (Labor movements and labor problems in America) *$3.50 Dutton 331.8

20–12195

“With its companion volume, ‘Labor and the common welfare,’ this book gives a complete review of American social problems as Mr Gompers has known them during the past thirty-five years.” (R of Rs) “The book is made up of excerpts from reports, speeches, testimony, writings and editorials classified under such major headings as Employers and employers’ organizations, Wages, Hours of work, The ‘open’ shop, Women in industry, Unemployment, Insurance and compensation, Limitation of output, Strikes, Arbitration and collective bargaining, Profit sharing and Industrial democracy. Within each group are arranged chronologically the various minor topics which naturally come under the major headings.” (Survey)

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“A valuable, authoritative statement of the attitude of official unionism on important labor issues.”

+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20

“To those who seek to grasp some of the inwardness of the unfolding labor movements of the day, and particularly to the employer who would like to know what the trade unionist’s views are upon the subjects of employers and employers’ organizations, ... and a host of related subjects touching the relationship of employer and employee, this book will prove especially useful.” W. E. Atkins

+ =J Pol Econ= 28:791 N ’20 530w

“It is pathetic to drive through these 311 pages by Mr Gompers and realize how his enemies waste his time in dispute on ancient matters. In this time of change he has nothing to offer but the values and standards of an age that is dead. He ought to be freed for thinking out the problems of his day in the setting of his vast experience. When he does let himself go, he has a fine rebel stroke.” Arthur Gleason

− + =Nation= 111:302 S 11 ’20 1000w

+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w

“Such a book as this is as necessary for the employer who desires authoritative information as to what official trade unions think, as it is for the union man who wants to keep himself informed on the various phases of the movement. It bristles with controversial possibilities, demonstrates the profound conservatism of Mr Gompers and is remarkably free from such inconsistencies as one might expect in the recorded pronouncements covering a period of nearly thirty years.” J. D. Hackett

+ =Survey= 44:637 Ag 16 ’20 420w

=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.=[2] Germany and the French revolution. *$5.50 (*14s) Longmans 830.9

20–8640

“The object of this book is to measure the repercussion of the French revolution on the mind of Germany. It is a study of the intellectual ferment in Germany following the fall of the Bastille, of the effect produced by the revolution on the minds of thinkers and men of letters such as Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder, Klopstock, Humboldt, Fichte and Hegel, and of statesmen such as Hardenberg and Stein. Secondarily it outlines the influence of French revolutionary ideas on German institutions.”—Sat R

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+ =Ath= p605 My 7 ’20 1200w

+ =N Y Times= p16 Ag 1 ’20 2400w

“The book will enormously enhance the already high esteem in which Mr Gooch is held among historians. Ability in synthetic treatment is allied to entire impartiality and exact knowledge, so that the generalisation necessary to the making of a coherent story neither outweighs nor is sacrificed to completeness and accuracy of detail.”

+ =Sat R= 130:360 O 30 ’20 850w

“He has produced a work of erudition, which because of the wealth of materials investigated and summarized, as well as the objectivity and clarity of his presentation, becomes the standard book of reference on the subject. No one should lightly undertake the task of reading it, for it is closely packed and assumes much information on political and cultural conditions of the day. Nor has the author succeeded beyond cavil in his synthesis.” C: Seymour

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:418 Ja ’21 260w

=GOOCH, GEORGE PEABODY.= Life of Lord Courtney. il *$7 Macmillan

(Eng ed 20–13567)

“With Lord Courtney there passed away, in the spring of 1918, almost the last survivor of a great tradition. It was the tradition of John Stuart Mill, of Fawcett, of Leslie Stephen, of Henry Sidgwick, the tradition of reason, conscience and liberty.... From this service to reason and conscience it followed that Lord Courtney was a liberal, in that proper sense of the term which is independent of political party. Of imperialism of every kind, economic or other, Lord Courtney was an uncompromising opponent. When the war broke out, Lord Courtney was eighty-one years old. He might well have thought, as others, younger than he, did, that he was exempt from taking part in the battle of opinion at home. But he was driven by his sleepless conscience, even at the height of the storm of violence and hate, to put in his plea for reason and reconciliation.” (Ath) “Mr Gooch allows Courtney to do most of the presentation for himself, by extracts from his correspondence or his speeches or, what comes to very much the same thing, by numerous quotations from the journal kept by Lady Courtney throughout their married life. The book opens with one of its most attractive features, a memoir of his own early days in Cornwall dictated by Courtney in 1901.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“In Mr Gooch Lord Courtney has found an admirable biographer. His wide and exact knowledge of contemporary politics is always felt in the background and never obtruded. He lets his hero speak for himself, and, what cannot have been easy, suppresses his own judgment and opinions.” G. L. D.

+ =Ath= p105 Jl 23 ’20 2900w

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 11 ’20 600w

“Mr G. P. Gooch has written an interesting life of a not very attractive minor personality in politics. The keynote of Courtney’s character was an unbending independence of thought, speech, and conduct, and this quality is so rare in modern politics that the record of his career is thereby invested with a charm that does not attach to the man.”

+ =Sat R= 130:54 Ag 17 ’20 1200w

“Mr Gooch’s biography, though marred by several bad misprints like ‘the great Llama,’ is a competent and judicious portrait and an instructive contribution to contemporary history.”

+ − =Spec= 124:17 Jl 3 ’20 1900w

“His was in fact a personality that could not be ignored, one that needs accounting for even to such as believed all his views to be wrong. Mr Gooch’s book will help towards this understanding. It is fortunate that Lady Courtney found a biographer so much in sympathy with her husband’s views and yet so self-effacing.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p411 Jl 1 ’20 1900w

=GOODE, WILLIAM THOMAS.= Bolshevism at work. *$1.60 (4½c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe 335

20–6220

The author of the present volume, special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in Eastern Europe, went to Moscow to study the actual working of the government in Soviet Russia on the spot. Since this reputedly so “destructive” government had lasted two years he meant to discover its possible constructive side. Among his findings are: a strong government with strong and sincere men, capable administrators at its head; laws enforced with equality and justice; a marked orderliness instead of anarchy, and the peacefulness of the daily occupations and business of life astonishing. He found that “the Russian revolution is at bottom a moral, even a puritanical revolution, making for simplicity and purity of life and government” and that “no amount of pressure can fit the Russian people with a government framed and forged in the West.” Contents: Interview with Lenin; Interview with Tchitcherin; Bolshevism and industry; Bolshevism and the land; Bolshevism and labor; Trades’ unions in Soviet Russia; Bolshevik food control; Transport in Soviet Russia; Bolshevism and education; Bolshevik judicial system; Bolshevism and national hygiene; Bolshevik state control; School of soviet workers; A Bolshevik home of rest; Conclusions.

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=Ath= p226 F 13 ’20 100w

=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“His Russian version is at least consistent and coherent, though it leaves many things unanswered.” Harold Kellock

+ − =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w

“It is clear that the writer approaches the Bolsheviki with unfavorable preconceptions and, finding their character and their conduct unlike what he had been led to expect, allowed himself to be carried too far in appreciation. We miss the guarded reserve which is discernible in an avowed sympathizer like Mr Ransome.”

+ − =Nation= 111:109 Jl 24 ’20 360w

“As evidence of the real situation the book has little value. Mr Goode was clearly disposed before he went to admire all that the Bolsheviks had done or proposed to do.”

− =Spec= 124:216 F 14 ’20 120w

“He has no conception of the real range of his subject, and that makes his book of very little value.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F19 ’20 260w

=GOODHART, ARTHUR LEHMANN.= Poland and the minority races. *$2.50 Brentano’s 914.38

20–15472

“Mr Goodhart was attached to the mission sent in the summer of last year into Poland by the American government to inquire into the Jewish question. He accompanied the mission on their journey, and has now published his diary made at the time. So it comes, therefore, that we have much of the raw material on which Mr Morgenthau’s and General Jadwin’s reports, which have been published by the American government, were based. In addition to the light which it throws upon the Jewish problem, the book is interesting as giving pictures of the more general conditions of life and society in Poland.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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=Ath= p521 O 15 ’20 200w

“Captain Goodhart’s diary holds the reader’s attention from the first page to the last. Occasional humorous anecdotes enliven an otherwise rather sordid recital.”

+ =Cath World= 112:405 D ’20 190w

“The most sensitive Pole cannot object to the book, neither can the Jews, and the American can by reading it get a splendid idea of the Poland of today. Reading the book will increase one’s knowledge but not one’s faith in the human race.” E. A. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:358 F ’21 250w

=N Y Evening Post= p24 O 23 ’20 90w

“Captain Goodhart recorded incidents he saw and heard, without prejudice, as a keen observer, with a fine sense of humor and of fairness. His diary is a very readable little book, containing much information that is quite valuable and entertaining. He holds no brief for either side.” Herman Bernstein

+ =N Y Times= p6 D 12 ’20 2150w

=R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 100w

=Spec= 125:185 Ag 7 ’20 180w

“Full of local touches and descriptions of life in Poland which make it very vivid. One cannot help wondering a little that in the publication of a diary of experiences by a representative of a government commission no reference is made to the final report of the commission.” M. A. Chickering

+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 250w

“Mr Goodhart has written a very interesting book on Poland which, though unassuming in form, will be of more help to the ordinary reader in understanding Polish conditions and Polish problems than many more elaborate works.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p527 Ag19 ’20 1200w

=GOODRICH, CARTER LYMAN.= Frontier of control: a study of British workshop politics. *$2 (4c) Harcourt 331.1

20–20526

Industrial unrest today is less a matter of wages than of control of industry. It is a “straining of the spirit of man to be free.” The author went to England to study the present extent of workers’ control in British industry and the book states the facts of his findings without generalizations. R. H. Tawney writes a foreword to the book in which he states the task the author has set himself to do as: “the analysis of industrial relationships, of the rules enforced by trade unions and employers’ associations, of the varying conditions which together constitute ‘the custom of the trade’ in each particular industry, and of the changes in all these which took place during the war.” The book falls into two parts: Introduction: The demand for control; and The extent of control. Some of the chapters under the latter are: The frontier of control; Employment; Unemployment; “The right to a trade”; “The right to sack”; The choice of foremen; Special managerial functions. There is a note on sources and an index.

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=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21

“The study forms an excellent basis for generalizations concerning complete self-government in industry.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 120w

=GOODWIN, JOHN.=[2] Without mercy. *$2 (2c) Putnam

20–14762

The story of a mother’s fight for her daughter’s happiness. Margaret Garth is the only child of Mrs Enid Garth, head of Garth’s, London’s most powerful bank. When Margaret promises to become the wife of John Orme, she arouses the enmity of Sir Melmoth Craven, an unsuccessful suitor, and he determines to seek revenge. So the story resolves itself into the conflict of wits and wills between Mrs Garth and Sir Melmoth. Both are strong and clever characters and both have powerful interests behind them. Sir Melmoth is entirely unscrupulous and hesitates at nothing, whether it be abducting the girl, or convicting her fiance of wilful murder. On the other hand, Mrs Garth, where Margaret’s happiness is concerned, is absolutely without mercy, and as she has right on her side, she finally wins out, after a series of shrewd moves on both sides.

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“Even for a ‘first book’ this novel is quite bad. It is so full of melodramatic clap-trap, one fails to see the trees for the wood. In style it is a frothing brook; in sentiment it is strained and banal; its wooden motivation reflects its still more wooden characterizations.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p20 O 23 ’20 140w

“Notwithstanding its crudity of style and the lack of any really powerful passages anywhere, the novel holds the interest to the end.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 D 19 ’20 290w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 100w

=GORDON, ALEXANDER REID.= Faith of Isaiah, statesman and evangelist. (Humanism of the Bible ser.) *$2.25 Pilgrim press 224

(Eng ed 20–6575)

“This series, in which Mr Gordon’s book makes the eighth volume, has been marked by its judicious selection of subject; and by its success in presenting to modern minds a fresh significance in studies of Job, Proverbs, the Psalms, St Paul, etc. Isaiah lends itself specially to this ‘humanistic’ treatment in the hands of a well-known exponent of the Old Testament literature who is a professor at McGill university and at Presbyterian college, Montreal. It is not his rôle to enter into critical discussion of text and authorship, but he necessarily accepts and embodies in his historical setting of the parts of the Book of Isaiah the conclusions of modern criticism as to the Deutero-Isaiah. Many of the numerous poetical translations (and parts of the text) are reproduced from Dr Gordon’s ‘Prophets of the Old Testament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“From the point of view of homiletics it may be acclaimed unhesitatingly as high-grade work. While the book is an example of stimulating preaching, yet one feels that the reader will come away from it with a very unsatisfactory and hazy idea of the real Isaiah.”

+ − =Bib World= 54:436 Jl ’20 280w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 130w

=GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER.= Humanism in New England theology. *$1.25 (18c) Houghton 285

20–5985

This little book commemorates the tercentennial year of the landing of the Pilgrims. The author holds that every form of theism is founded upon a humanistic interpretation of the universe; that the New England divinity is at heart a variety of humanism which will endure as a type although as a system of opinion it has passed away. He moreover holds that there are two great types of theism, the Unitarian and the Trinitarian; the New England theology belonging to the latter. Coming in a direct line of descent from this faith the author confesses himself as an “out-and-out Trinitarian” whose conception of man is that of an essentially social being. The essay appeared in the Harvard Theological Review for April, 1907.

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=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20

=Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 580w

“We wish that he had avoided the treacherous word ‘humanism.’ We have dwelt on this linguistic point because it really corresponds to a loose way of thinking, now too general, and, in particular, points to a vice in Dr Gordon’s treatment of theology which goes far, in our opinion, to negate the value of an otherwise interesting book. To us the best of the book, which withal has much to commend, is its more personal characterization of some of the earlier divines.”

+ − =Review= 3:47 Jl 14 ’20 420w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 28 ’20 600w

=GORDON, MARY DANIEL.= Crystal ball. il *$2 (5½c) Little

20–17022

A fairy story. The dearest wish of the King of Moondom is to possess the crystal ball from the garden of the sun. His two children, Prince Jock and Princess Joan make up their minds to get it for him for a birthday gift, and equipped with a tin of biscuits, toy pistol, drinking cups and compass, they set forth. A tinker joins their expedition and a gypsy fortune teller helps them on their way and they are successful in the object of their quest.

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“A story which the young people will read with eagerness.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 210w

“Her tale is lively, if undistinguished.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 110w

=GORDON-SMITH, GORDON.= From Serbia to Jugoslavia; Serbia’s victories, reverses and final triumph, 1914–1918. *$2.50 (3c) Putnam 949.7

20–6737

To this “story of Serbia’s crucifixion,” S. Y. Grouitch, minister of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, contributes a foreword and says of the author that he has followed the Serbian campaign personally and closely, as war correspondent attached to the Serbian headquarters. The introduction contains a brief history of the political and military constellation of the Balkan states at the beginning of the war and the book is not only a record of the heroic struggles and sufferings of “one of the bravest peoples in the world” but of a series of Allied mistakes committed along the eastern front, which, the author claims, were responsible for much of the defeat and suffering and for a prolongation of the war. The book falls into two parts: 1, From the Danube to Durazzo—the Germano-Austro-Bulgarian attack on Serbia; and 2, The campaign on the Salonica front. There is an insert general map of the Balkan war area.

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=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20

“We are impressed first of all with the clarity which distinguishes Mr Gordon-Smith’s exposition of the Serbian war story.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 630w

=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 30w

“The book is of absorbing interest.”

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 80w

“As a history of the heroic and tragic part played by Serbia in the great war Gordon-Smith’s book ‘From Serbia to Jugoslavia’ fills a useful place. There is perhaps too much special pleading.”

+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 260w

=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 60w

=GORELL, RONALD GORELL BARNES, 3d baron.= Pilgrimage. *$2.40 Longmans 821

20–18248

“After the poem called Pilgrimage from which the volume is named, and in which the author gives the key of his spiritual aspiration, there is a group of Shorter poems, four tales of fairly good narrative measure, Youth in idleness, On the Ponte Vecchio, Florence, The coward, and Autumn in Flanders, a suspended commentary on the war, and group of dramatic episodes called Closing scenes, which chronicle the last moments of Hannibal, Mary Stuart, a district commissioner dying of fever in Africa, and the garrulous retrospection of an aged London clerk on a dull, sultry August day.”—Boston Transcript

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=Ath= p472 O 8 ’20 150w

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1400w

“Lord Gorell has two distinct manners. The shorter pieces are sensitive and wistful, but he can also manipulate the grand style, and in the finely imagined recitative of ‘The district commissioner’ he has given us the best thing of the kind that has been written since Lyall’s ‘Theology in extremis.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p361 Je 10 ’20 580w

=GORICAR, JOSEF, and STOWE, LYMAN BEECHER.= Inside story of Austro-German intrigue; or, How the world war was brought about. *$3 (3½c) Doubleday 940.311

20–5203

Dr Gori[)c]ar, who supplied the facts for this volume is a Slovene who was for fourteen years in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service where he received first-hand knowledge of the rivalries and intrigues which preceded the war. Albert Bushnell Hart, in his introduction to the volume, points out its object as being an examination into three fundamental questions: (1) the criminal policy which it (the empire) pursued in foreign affairs, including the partnership with Germany in a far-reaching plan of conquest and spoliation; (2) the enmity alike of Germans and Magyars to the Slavs, whether within or without their empire; and (3) the deliberate bringing on of the great war to serve the arrogance and ambition of the ruling classes. Successive chapters are devoted to the various attempts of the Austro-German war parties to precipitate a war against Serbia and Russia, between 1906–1914 till at last a casus belli was constructed out of the archduke’s murder. Among the closing chapters are: Russian mobilization as the cause of the war—a glimpse behind the scenes in Berlin during the first three months of the war; Mobilizing half a million men in America—how the Austro-Hungarian consulates secretly raised an army behind America’s back. There is an appendix.

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“His wide contacts with diplomatic affairs make this a contribution of new views based on materials hitherto inaccessible.”

+ =Booklist= 16:274 My ’20

“Although the greater part of the historical material introduced by Dr Goricar is not new, he manages to throw a number of fresh sidelights on the general program of the German-Austrian-Magyar war parties. Reliance on newspaper opinion is notoriously dangerous but Dr Goricar quotes so profusely and intelligently that his case is materially strengthened.” H. F. Armstrong

+ =Nation= 111:sup420 O 13 ’20 1500w

“As Mr Lyman Beecher Stowe is responsible for the English, it is unnecessary to say the style is lucid and simple. One can never miss the author’s meaning, and this makes a book which otherwise might be difficult very easy reading. The revelations made in this volume are by no means new to any diplomatist stationed in Europe during the years immediately preceding 1914; but for the public at large they are admirably stated here.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:115 Mr 14 ’20 3000w

=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 160w

=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).= Night’s lodging; scenes from Russian life in four acts. (Contemporary dramatists ser.) *$1 Four seas co. 891.7

20–26568

This drama of the underworld is translated from the Russian by Edwin Hopkins and is here printed with an introduction by Henry T. Schnittkind. The latter contains a short summary of Gorki’s life with an equally short characterization of his dramas.

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“Mr Hopkins’s translation is frequently uncouth and difficult to read. Undoubtedly that is true of the original—but in a different way, since it represents the staccato utterance of Russian speech. One could hardly imagine it possible that in its present form it would be intelligible on the stage. But who would desire to see it on the stage?”

− =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 240w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 330w

=GORKI, MAXIM, pseud. (ALEXEI MAXIMOVICH PYESHKOFF).=[2] Reminiscences of Leo Tolstoy. *$1.50 Huebsch

The reminiscences are pieced together from notes jotted down after various meetings between the author and Tolstoy. Gorki knew Tolstoy intimately and reveals him in many new lights and from many different angles. Sometimes he is very human, sometimes the impression is that of a pilgrim “terribly homeless and alien to all men and things”; always he is infinitely wise. Gorki did not love him but felt: “I am not an orphan on the earth so long as this man lives on it.” At his death he did indeed feel orphaned and cried inconsolably and in bitter despair. He leaves this predominant impression of Tolstoy: “This man is godlike.” The translators of the book from the Russian are S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf.

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Reviewed by S. Koteliansky

=Ath= p587 Ap 30 ’20 2300w

“In his attempt to ‘understand’ Tolstoy. Gorky enjoyed the considerable advantage of being himself a Russian. We do not know the precise value of this qualification, but we may suppose it to be considerable. On the other hand, we think that Gorky was at a considerable disadvantage in being a romantic.” J. W. N. S.

+ − =Ath= p77 Jl 16 ’20 1300w

“To convey so much in so short a book is a nice illustration of Gorky’s own courageous expressiveness. Because he respected his emotions regarding this old Titan of Russia, we have now one of the most real of biographical contributions. And yet most editors and publishers would have felt that these were mere fragments and would have howled for the circumstantiality of ‘fact.’” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 25:172 Ja 5 ’21 1450w

“Withal, the greatness of Tolstoy’s remarkable personality is enhanced rather than diminished by this snapshot of the old ‘earth-man,’ to use Merejkovsky’s term, which here takes on a special significance.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 250w

“Gorky’s book is particularly valuable because it reveals not only Tolstoy as he saw him, but unconsciously Gorky reveals himself also.” Herman Bernstein

+ =N Y Times= p3 Ja 9 21 3100w

“It will be seen how penetrating a study Gorky has made and how the man who emerges from his powerful charcoal lines differs from the smug ‘child of nature’ of the official portraits.”

+ =Spec= 125:212 Ag 14 ’20 1350w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p441 Jl 8 ’20 40w

“Tolstoy was too great for official biography; Gorky saw him only in fragments, but he has drawn him as Tolstoy drew his own characters, or rather, perhaps, as Dostoevsky drew his. There is no effort at an unreal synthesis, none even at judgment; what might seem to be judgment is only a record of feelings which are strong and excessive as their subject was strong and excessive.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p453 Jl 15 ’20 1200w

=GOSSE, EDMUND WILLIAM.= Some diversions of a man of letters. *$2.50 Scribner 824

A20–530

“To his latest collection of literary essays Mr Gosse gives the cumbersome title ‘Some diversions of a man of letters.’ It combines in its pages seventeen excursions into the highways and byways of literature, its figures being of every grade of prominence from Shakespeare to Caroline Trotter, the precursor of the bluestockings. Here we shall find discussed not merely such obvious subjects as: The charm of Sterne; The challenge of the Brontes; The centenary of Edgar Allan Poe; and The lyric poetry of Thomas Hardy; but also the less conspicuous but equally interesting material offered by the lives and the literary work of Joseph and Thomas Warton, of Bulwer, of Disraeli, and of Lady Dorothy Nevill. In addition Mr Gosse also discourses on: Fluctuations of taste; The future of English poetry; and The agony of the Victorian age.”—Boston Transcript

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“Mr Gosse’s diversions are also our diversions; for to anyone with a literary tincture of mind these miscellaneous studies in criticism and biography are the best and most entertaining of reading. Perhaps the best thing in the book is Mr Gosse’s account of two literary revolutionaries of an earlier age, Joseph and Thomas Warton.” A. L. H.

+ =Ath= p1031 O 17 ’19 1600w

=Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20

“It is altogether likely that these essays will fail to please the modern school of literary pencillers who scorn scholarship, and who fancy that verbal smartness and triviality is the only method of criticism. Mr Gosse writes with a light and pleasant touch. He is by no means a dry-as-dust because he is serious, and here he has written a series of papers that are a distinct contribution to the literature of criticism.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1300w

“As a literary man-of-the-world, unbewildered and unprejudiced, Mr Gosse goes forth to pay his calls here and there down the centuries, and returns to his club in Victoria street to chat with his intimates. He is correct in dress and manner, discreet in speech; he says the right thing to every one, and nearly always of every one. A Major Pendennis of literature, one might say, he plays an important part in the world which he has so long cultivated.” R. M. Lovett

+ =Dial= 68:777 Je ’20 1550w

“Mr Gosse is bravely determined not to be a mere praiser of time past. His poise is beautiful; he is immensely urbane to the younger critic and grants the latter’s contentions right and left. But he cannot hide the sadness in his heart at the thought of the cold young men with something inscrutable in their faces who despise so much that is venerable and beautiful to him.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 1250w

“Suggestive and entertaining.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 3100w

“He gives us a delightful collection of essays, distinguished in that it is handsome in tone and written like a fine old English gentleman.”

+ =Review= 2:487 My 8 ’20 800w

“Mr Gosse’s essays on Sterne and the two Wartons are pure belles lettres, but of the best brand.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:316 O 4 ’19 1200w

“The charm of his infectious admiration pervades nearly all the essays that make up the volume now before us. The best and most characteristic pages are those devoted to ‘Three experiments in portraiture’; and of these the sketch of Lady Dorothy Nevill is easily the most striking.”

+ =Spec= 123:504 O 18 ’19 1400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p529 O 2 ’19 1100w

=GOULDING, ERNEST.= Cotton and other vegetable fibres; their production and utilisation. ii *$3 Van Nostrand 677

This is a British work based on studies made for the Imperial institute. It is issued as one of the Imperial institute series of handbooks to the commercial resources of the tropics, with a preface by Wyndham R. Dunstan, director of the institute. Contents: Introductory; Cotton; Cotton production in the principal countries and the chief commercial varieties; Cotton growing in British West Africa and other parts of the British empire; Flax, hemp, and ramie; Jute and similar fibres; Cordage fibres; Miscellaneous fibres. A list of principal publications on fibres occupies nine pages and there is an index.

=GOWAR, EDWARD.= Adventures in Mother Goose land. il *$2.25 Little

20–16169

Noel was a little boy who wished to be put into a book and because he made his wish in the time of the blue moon it came true. And the book was all about Mother Goose, and his adventures in her country, where he met the little man all dressed in leather, the old woman who lived in a shoe and all the rest of them, are told in this story. There is humor both in the telling of the story and in the illustrations, which are by Alice Bolam Preston.

+ =Ind= 104:376 D 11 ’20 90w

“His tale is cleverly contrived and attractively illustrated.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 S 25 ’20 100w

“It is entertainingly told and charmingly printed.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 70w

=GOWIN, ENOCH BURTON.= Developing executive ability. il $3 Ronald 658

19–11576

“A very simply written book for the young or prospective executive. It deals mainly in developing attention to general matters of routine, good working habits, office equipment and devices, rules for mental and physical economy which will establish a spirit and habit of order. Developed from lectures before commercial associations and business classes. Bibliography. Index.”—Booklist

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“Designed primarily for the young executive, the book brings a wealth of ideas before him, which only await application that they may yield him a goodly return in economies of time, energy, and money.”

+ =Am Econ R= 9:829 D ’19 130w

=Booklist= 16:192 Mr ’20

+ =Pittsburgh= 24:456 O ’19 30w

=GRAÇA ARANHA, JOSÉ PEREIRA DA.= Canaan. *$2 (3c) Four seas co.

20–4216

Graça Aranha is a cultured Brazilian, prominent in the affairs of his country, and a writer of many books, of which, says Guglielmo Ferrero in his appreciative introduction: “‘Canaan’ is the most beautiful.” The hero of the story is Milkau, a German colonist who, disillusioned by the hypocrisies, hidden immoralities, and social and legal injustices of the civilizations of Europe, imagines that here, in a new country where the soil is virgin, unbroken, and the natives of childlike simplicity, exists a golden state of human happiness, of joy and work ideally blended, and little evil. For months his illusion remains intact. Then, a wronged and persecuted young woman’s misfortunes unveil for him the malicious injustices, cruelty, and cupidity lurking here in the ideal country of his dreams. The close of the story is vague—we do not know just what happens to Milkau and Mary, but the scenes evoked in the last chapter are especially powerful, ending in Milkau’s fervent dream and hope of a promised land of justice and beauty yet to come through toil and faith. The novel is translated from the Portuguese by Mariano J. Lorente.

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“There is a distinctly noble flavor to the work, and certainly a large humanity that marks it as something more than exclusively Brazilian in significance. Indeed, for the thinking American of the north, between Canada and the Rio Grande, the theme is of primary importance. Millions have sought their ‘Canaan’ here and have been no more successful than Milkau. And for similar reasons.” I: Goldberg

+ − =Bookm= 51:232 Ap ’20 560w

“‘The great American novel,’ Anatole France is said to have called this book, which comes to us from Brazil. Whoever reads the first hundred pages will be inclined to agree with him. Thereafter, it must be confessed, the spell relaxes. Nevertheless, ‘Canaan’ leaves behind it a powerful, memorable, beautiful impression. It is a book for both the Americas.”

+ − =Freeman= 1:261 My 26 ’20 1050w

“As a piece of writing, due allowance being made for a wretched translation, the book is amorphous in a curiously old-fashioned way. In spirit and structure it goes back to the first generation of the romantic writers. What gives its value to the book is the picture which, largely by means of discussion, Aranha presents of the Brazilian civilization of today.”

− + =Nation= 110:337 Mr 13 ’20 950w

“As pure literature the book must take a lower rank than it commands as a work of philosophy. It requires too attentive reading for Simon-pure fiction. The author’s canvas is overcrowded with ideas. His book is notable for the purity of its psychological analysis, for its powers of characterization, for the vivid beauty of its descriptive passages and for its scenes of tremendous dramatic power as much as it is for the light it throws into the depths of an unusually reflective mind.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:174 Ap 11 ’20 1650w

“Aside from the compelling interest of so vast a theme, and the fascinating portrayal of Brazilian life, either of which place the book in the first rank of modern novels, the intrinsic fineness of the book lies in the exquisite poetry of its style.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 3 ’20 850w

=GRAHAM, ALAN.= Follow the little pictures! *$1.75 (2½c) Little

20–13547

Two branches of an old English family are involved in this exciting treasure hunt and the treasure itself could be located by deciphering the puzzle picture left by the American ancestor to the only remaining survivor of his family. The English representation of the family is an irascible Scotch laird, the ingredients of whose character are cunning and venom and a passion for recovering the treasure. He outwits all the others that have gradually been let into the secret, but had not reckoned on his son’s Belgian wife, a descendant of a Belgian servant of the original Lord Tanish, who also has come into possession of a document revealing the spot, and has married Roy Tanish on the strength of it without loving him. She gets away with the loot, the laird and Roy are killed in the wild pursuit, while the other persons involved take the loss of the gold lightly, having found more precious treasures.

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=Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“A good mystery story.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 240w

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 300w

+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w

“The developments of the plot are ingenious.”

+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 20w

“Readers fond of mystery will find the tale to their liking.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 180w

“The author has chosen to set his scene in nowadays, and, to be sure, a motor chase figures in it. But the story would have been as well served by galloping horses. The dominant figure—the villain—would have been so much more at home in a heavy wig and jackboots.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p257 Ap 22 ’20 200w

=GRAHAM, JAMES CHANDLER.= It happened at Andover; well, most of it did, anyway. il *$1.90 (3½c) Houghton

20–15954

A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover, written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy; The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.

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“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 70w

“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’; but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 220w

=GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.= Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6

(Eng ed 20–23038)

“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’ set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the ‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published, is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post

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“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking. The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current practices.”

+ =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 370w

“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of partisanship.”

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 120w

“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force. But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong, thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas

− + =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 720w

“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p434 Jl 8 ’20 1400w

=GRAHAM, STEPHEN.= Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1

20–21927

This is an English observer’s report on the condition of the negro in America today. He came to America to study the problem. He traveled south by way of Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, passed on to Georgia where he followed the track of Sherman’s march, went thru Alabama and Mississippi and to New Orleans and then followed the river north. He talked with negro workmen, preachers, teachers and doctors, visited their schools, churches and theaters, and he reports on lynching, the southern point of view, the effects of the war on the negro, etc., and writes of the world aspect of the problem. He finds that slavery left its taint on the white man as well as on the negro and says it is a mistake to view this American problem as exclusively a negro problem.

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“The fact that in this book, as elsewhere, Mr Graham’s observations are more valuable than his reflections, does not detract from its simple, unescapable effect.”

+ =Ath= p615 N 5 ’20 570w

“Mr Graham has, with remarkable clearness of vision, analyzed our problem of race relations. He has fallen into error in a few instances, but the great bulk of his book is filled with a correct interpretation of the innermost thoughts and aspirations of twelve million Americans who seek to be free.” W. F. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 2 ’21 1100w

“He saw nothing, of course, that informed Americans do not know already, but as an Englishman he saw from a new point of view, and ‘The soul of John Brown’ has the interest of a genuine freshness which Mr Graham’s mystical habits of thought and expression do not obscure.”

+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 110w

“Mr Graham is an Englishman and may be forgiven for his mistakes in American history, except in the case of his opening chapter, which is lurid and dangerously misleading. It is entirely inconsistent with subsequent chapters.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 1600w

“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments. Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C. Willcox

+ − =Outlook= 127:109 Ja 19 ’21 1050w

“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple desire to learn the truth.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 100w

“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads, Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than his own side of the question.”

− + =Sat R= 130:438 N 27 ’20 1050w

+ =Spec= 125:703 N 27 ’20 3000w

“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master. But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret differently.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 20 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p727 N 11 ’20 2500w

=GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL.= Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814

20–14542

“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’ (Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages, New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)

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“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and amusing.”

− + =Ath= p811 D 10 ’20 240w

“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which should interest every student of language. If there were more philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross

+ =Mod Philol= 18:55 Ag ’20 500w

“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument, are at times rich in illustration.”

+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 60w

“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 1350w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p2 Ja 16 ’21 1050w

+ =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 300w

“Prof. Grandgent’s witty impatience at new poetry extends to so many departments of life that one need not fear challenge in fastening upon him the epithet ‘conservative.’ The lighter papers of Prof. Grandgent’s combining wit and scholarship, are meant to give pleasure and will do so.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 680w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 70w

=GRANTHAM, MRS A. E.= Wisdom of Akhnaton. *$1.25 Lane 822

20–17687

A poetic drama based on incidents drawn from the life and reign of Pharaoh Akhnaton, son of Amenhotep III, as read in the sculptures and inscriptions brought to light by modern excavations. These evidences reveal in the young ruler a new attitude toward life, a reversal of all inherited values. “There was no room for greed and hate and war in his conception of man’s destiny.... The episode chosen for dramatization is the conflict between the claims of peace and war and Akhnaton’s successful struggle to make his people acquiesce in his policy of peace.” (Preface)

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“His portrayal of the ruler who acts in defiance of his military chiefs is managed with a good deal of skill and entire sympathy. The verse is adequate throughout, and the climax might easily be made by stage presentation into an impressive spectacle.”

+ =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 160w

“A poetic drama of some merit. If certain passages with too modern a ring, which make his Pharaoh seem almost a President Wilson in Egyptian robes, were brought into harmony with the tone of the period, the play might have a success in representation.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p290 My 13 ’20 450w

=GRATTAN-SMITH, T. E.= True blue. il *$1.50 (2½c) Holt

20–14285

An Australian story for young people. Mel is a fourteen year old girl, Ned is her brother, and Jim Stanley is their chum. The three are expert in all outdoor sports, including surf riding, and Mel holds her own with the boys. The story opens on Ned’s birthday, with a hydroplane for a birthday gift. A few days later war is declared and the new hydroplane plays an important part. Altho the war-time plot is the now familiar one, involving the capture of German spies, the story has an added interest in its descriptions of Australian sports.

* * * * *

“Up-to-date boys and girls will revel in this wholesome book, and, unless we are mistaken, grown-ups will not wholly pass it by.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 160w

=GRAVES, CLOTILDE INEZ MARY (RICHARD DEHAN, pseud.).= Eve of Pascua, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–12450

With some exceptions the stories are comic and the title story tragic. A typical Englishman, whose boast it was that he never had been in a scrape with a woman, left England to escape the charms of one and betook himself to Spain. Immediately on his arrival he finds himself defending a woman against an infuriated mob. She is a famous dancer who has incurred the hatred of her native town. As he is conducting her to her home where she is seeking her mother’s reconciliation, they are run down by a stampede of bulls. The girl is killed, he almost. Later, when sufficiently recovered from his injuries he finds that it was the sister who was killed and that the vilified girl has slipped into the former’s place with the blind mother.

* * * * *

“On the whole, the book well sustains her reputation.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:553 Ja ’21 70w

=Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 40w

“These narratives are unmistakably the work not only of a ‘born story-teller,’ but of a careful artist. There is a quality in the title-story which, with whatever apologies and misgivings, we can only suggest by the word ‘style.’” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 210w

“The medium of the short story is not very favorable to the work of ‘Richard Dehan.’”

+ − =Spec= 125:280 Ag 28 ’20 40w

=GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT.= What did Jesus teach? an examination of the educational material and method of the Master. *$1.75 Macmillan 232

19–18243

“The Christian association of the University of Pennsylvania started a campaign a year ago to enroll 2000 students in Lenten Bible study. The leaders were faculty men, secretaries, older students and outsiders, and these were all taught in a normal class by Frank Pierrepont Graves, dean of the school of education. Prof. Graves has yielded to a strong demand for the publication of the study material, and it appears as ‘What did Jesus teach?’ The book is based on the gospel of Mark, and is arranged in such form as to be available for other classes in college or out. Beginning with a study of the historical sources for the teachings of Jesus, the book goes on with eight chapters on Jesus as a teacher, his method of teaching, his ideas of God and man, the ideals and reconstruction of life, the future, the kingdom and the church, and modern society. A bibliography adds to the value of the book.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“This book is an experiment in pedagogy rather than a contribution to theological science. As an introductory book upon the subject, it should prove useful for many readers.” S. J. C.

+ =Am J Theol= 24:475 Jl ’20 150w

“The book is noteworthy on two accounts. The first is the arrangement of the material. The running margin makes it possible to grasp the content of pages and paragraphs clearly and quickly. Also the paragraphs bear interesting headings; there are suggestive chapter summaries; the references to literature are excellent. The second feature is the substance of the studies. The prevailing accent is upon the ethical content of the teaching.”

+ =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 240w

+ =Booklist= 16:220 Ap ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 11 ’20 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w

=GRAVES, ROBERT.= Country sentiment. *$1.25 Knopf 821

20–6375

To quote from one of the poems, “Love, fear and hate and childish toys are here descreetly blent.” It is the first and the last that predominate. The other elements are to be found in the small group of war poems called “Retrospect” that come at the end. Titles are: A frosty night; A song for two children; The boy out of church; True Johnny; Advice to lovers. Among the war poems are: Haunted; Here they lie; Country at war; Hate not, fear not. This is Mr Graves’s second book of verse. “Fairies and fusiliers” was published in 1918.

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“At the worst Mr Graves is schoolboyish and impertinent. He, we think, suffers at present from not having realized that the province he has deliberately chosen for himself, though small, is very hard to subdue. It is not enough to be simple yourself in order to achieve simplicity.”

+ − =Ath= p472 Ap 9 ’20 1050w

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:65 S ’20 50w

“The verse of Robert Graves charms you with a whimsical tenderness that is appealing but you feel all the time a hidden sense of something for which the whimsey is protection. That something is the stern reality of life.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w

“Lacks the full richness of ‘Fairies and fusiliers,’ but remains a delicious collection of ballads and lyrics.”

+ =Dial= 69:434 O ’20 80w

“In ‘Country sentiment’ Robert Graves discloses a vein of poetry as fine as a line of mercury. But there is no singing heart in him to go with his singing throat. The music of his verse falters and falls into little echoes of other poets or quarrels line by line with its meaning.”

+ − =Freeman= 1:430 Jl 14 ’20 90w

Reviewed by Mark Van Doren

+ =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 70w

“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 450w

“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”

+ =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 500w

“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with a future before him.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 220w

=GRAY, A. HERBERT.= Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230

20–8352

“There are no arguments about the truth of Christianity in this book. It is wholly concerned with the preliminary question, ‘What is Christianity?’... I have confined myself to an effort to present the message of Jesus as He gave it to the world.” (Preface) The author considers churches, creeds and theologies to be secondary affairs, never more than partially successful attempts at stating truths. Christianity stands or falls by mankind’s judgment of Jesus as the embodiment of the essential secret of life. Contents: Jesus; What was Jesus doing? Further features of the kingdom; Methods in the kingdom; Was that all?—the King; What does he want you to do? What about human nature? The resources of the disciple.

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“This book is one of the freshest, clearest, and most stimulating statements of the Christian faith and program that we have seen in a long time.”

+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 320w

+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w

=GRAY, JOSLYN.= Rosemary Greenaway. il *$1.50 Scribner

19–15554

“The heroine is the daughter of a poet, who is also a bank clerk—and not very successful in either calling, though some of his verse is delicate and graceful. Rosemary adores her father, and is with him as much as possible, to the neglect not only of her schoolmates but also of her mother, and his sudden death is a great grief to her. But worse is to come, for only a year after her father’s death her mother marries again, marries Mr Anstruther, the homely, shrewd, and kindly schoolmaster, who makes her far more happy than the poet ever did. Rosemary bitterly resents this marriage as a slight to the memory of her father, and it is this resentment of hers and the way in which it is gradually and completely overcome which forms the theme of the story. She has many trials and many tribulations before she learns to love the stepfather, who at last gives her the thing she most wants and has almost despaired of obtaining.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“A simple, pleasant little story for girls just entering upon their teens.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 270w

“It is the sort of story to be read with enjoyment by girls in their teens.” R. D. Moore

+ =Pub W= 97:179 Ja 17 ’20 90w

=GREENBERG, DAVID SOLON.= Cockpit of Santiago Key. (Open road ser.) *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright

20–775

A Porto Rican story for boys and girls. Young Felipe lives with an uncle on Santiago Key, a rocky island off the coast. His uncle’s sole duty is to keep the light burning and the island is seldom visited. From the point of view of Don Enrique and Don Alejandro it is an ideal place for a cockpit, since the Americanos, who had forbidden cockfighting in Porto Rico, would be little likely to find it. Felipe enters into the sport and it is only after he goes to the American school and comes under American influence that he begins to see what his old grandfather had meant by the “curse of the cockpit.” A hurricane sweeps over the island, and leaves Felipe homeless, but his American teacher adopts him and takes him away to the United States.

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“Much information about customs and country.”

+ =Booklist= 17:122 D ’20

“Morals and local color are not, however, the only requisites for a good juvenile story. Plot is the first essential, and it is in this particular that ‘The cockpit of Santiago’ is somewhat weak.” G. H. C.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 480w

+ =Cath World= 111:412 Je ’20 90w

=GREENBIE, SIDNEY.= Japan real and imaginary. il *$4 (2½c) Harper 915.2

20–9726

It is the author’s claim for his book that he has given due regard to both the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of Japan, to the fine sights and the bad odors. Japan is in a state of transition, with resultant discords everywhere between the old and the new Japan, and the impression the reader takes away from the book is that in its present state it is an unhappy country. “To save Japan from itself we must stop exalting it; to save ourselves from Japan we must stop condemning it.” The contents are in four parts: 1, Impressionistic; 2. The communal phase; 3. The spokes of modern Japan; 4, Critical. There are many illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

“His book is of conspicuous value for the shrewdly observed wealth of detail it gives of the everyday life of contemporary Japan. The faults of the book are patent enough. With so much matter, it is to be regretted there is not more perfect art.” R. M. Weaver

+ − =Bookm= 51:633 Ag ’20 400w

“It is the best book on actual Japan, by an American, in some time; best from the viewpoint of fact, not poesy nor romantic charm. No one interested in the far East as related to America should miss it.”

+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 90w

“His writing is worth while because he writes as he really sees and thinks. His descriptions are like untouched photographs and his judgments square and fair. He is the calm and unafraid commentator, the patient and constant observer and recorder, and the caustic critic. The book weighs more than ten ordinary American books on Japan. It is vital.” F: O’Brien

+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 18 ’20 1050w

“Mr Greenbie’s frank, lively, imaginative account of Japan may properly be called ‘a real book.’ It is entitled to this popular but expressive characterization because, by reason of its intimate realism, its sensitive perception, and, above all, its common sense, it stands out conspicuously from the great mass of variously interesting literature upon the subject with which it deals.”

+ =No Am= 212:719 N ’20 480w

“A very readable and beautiful book.” G. D.

+ =St Louis= 18:250 O ’20 40w

“The people whom he met he actually studied and classified and he has endeavored to interpret what he has seen for the benefit of other Americans, the result being a book which inspires confidence.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 360w

“He writes from experience gained from close contact with the people; and it is evident throughout that he is concerned to tell the truth without partiality or prejudice, and that he is by temperament qualified to recognize it in matters of every-day intercourse. But with the best will in the world he would have difficulty in appreciating the point of view of the Japanese, for it is a point of view that he—an American of the Americans—cannot conceive a sensible person adopting. It should be made clear that Mr Greenbie writes without malice.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 O 21 ’20 900w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w

=GREENWOOD, HAROLD CECIL.= Industrial gases. il *$5 Van Nostrand 655.8

(Eng ed Agr20–1194)

This volume belongs to the series on Industrial chemistry of which Samuel Rideal is general editor. The aims of the book as stated in the author’s preface are “to give a general account of the manufacture and technical manipulation of gases, to describe briefly the development and general principles of industrial gas technology and to present a collection of data likely to be useful in connection with such technology.” The first part of the book is devoted to The gases of the atmosphere; Part 2 to Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, asphyxiating gases; Part 3 to Gaseous fuels. There are indexes to subjects and to authors’ names. The foreword by Dr J. A. Harker is a brief tribute to the author, who died shortly before the publication of his book.

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“Notably thorough and authoritative account.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech= Bks p49 Jl ’20 170w

+ =Pratt= p18 O ’20 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 110w

=GREGG, FRANK MOODY.= Founding of a nation. *$2.25 (1c) Doran

This is “the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers, and the beginnings of American democracy.” (Sub-title) It is the narrative and romance of Francis Beaumont, which, the author states, is fact where it concerns the colony, and fiction where it concerns himself. In the foreword the author distinguishes sharply between the Pilgrims and the Puritans and points out in what the difference consists. As to the romance: Beaumont, a young English nobleman, was forced to leave England on account of a duel; joined the Pilgrims at Leyden, accompanies them to America on the Mayflower and describes all their trials and hardships along with his own personal experiences.

* * * * *

“Mr Gregg has woven a story which faithfully follows authentic history, enables the reader to visualize the life as only fiction can, and at the same time holds the interest through sheer excellence as a tale of love and adventure. It deserves a wide audience.” W. A. Dyer

+ =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 110w

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 560w

“At fifteen, especially if feminine, one is apt to be partial to history in this form.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 40w

“‘The founding of a nation,’ with its romance of early American days set in precise historical background, is particularly well adapted for adolescent study.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 600w

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 70w

“To the readers of this book, the first two winters at Plymouth will remain as vividly in memory as Crusoe’s stay on the island.”

+ =Review= 3:539 D 1 ’20 170w

=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady.= Dragon; a wonder play in three acts. *$1.75 Putnam 822

20–13121

An obese king of Ireland and his second wife are in a quandary about the Princess Nuala who, according to a prophecy, is to be devoured by a dragon. The princess is a wild and wilful child who will not submit to a speedy marriage as her only safety from the dragon, and the king in a rage finally vows that he will wed her to the first man that enters the castle. The Prince of the Marshes had already come to woo, accompanied by two of his seven aunts anxious for his safety, but is sent away by the scorn of the princess. After the vow, the King of Sorcha comes, disguised as a cook, and claims her. The approach of the dragon concentrates attention upon himself. The would-be cook subdues the dragon and wins the princess. The play is a rollicking comedy from start to finish.

* * * * *

“It is highly entertaining and actable, readable too.”

+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 40w

“Neither the literary nor the dramatic reputation of Lady Gregory will be greatly enhanced by the publication of this somewhat childish little piece. The piece might not be ineffective in the theatre if given as burlesque or pantomime, for it is not deficient in the robust humor which has won popularity for some of Lady Gregory’s farces.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 240w

“Lady Gregory’s ‘The dragon’ can not be classed with her best plays.”

+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 230w

“A pleasant enough entertainment for children; it is amusing, imaginative, and exciting. The queen is undoubtedly an anachronism.”

+ − =Spec= 125:341 S 11 ’20 340w

“The play abounds with humor, and yet the plot is strong enough to carry the interest from beginning to end.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 19 ’20 330w

“What real Irish fun there is in it, reminding one a bit of James Stephens’s ‘Pot of gold,’ with a good deal of human character for all that; why it might ‘act’ well if well acted—all this you can best find out for yourself by just reading this bit of excellent fooling. it opens a pleasant escape into the realm of fantasy in these super-serious times.”

+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 270w

=GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady=, comp. and ed. Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland. 1st and 2d ser. 2v il *$4.50 Putnam 398.2

20–26541

These various superstitions, beliefs, fancies and fairy lore of the Irish peasants are given in the versions of the people, as they told them to Lady Gregory. She has classified them into groups under appropriate titles, introducing each group with an explanatory note or quotation. In the preface of volume 1 she tells about the “Sidhe,” the invisible host, some sort of fallen angels, who still swarm about the country side, in turn helping, teasing and interfering with the country folk. The contents of volume 1 are: Sea-stories; Seers and healers; The evil eye—the touch—the penalty; Away; and an essay and notes by W. B. Yeats. The essay is: Witches and wizards and Irish folklore. Volume 2 contains: Herbs, charms, and wise women; Astray, and treasure; Banshees and warnings; In the way; The fighting of the friends; The unquiet dead; Appearances; Butter; The fool of the forth; Forths and sheoguey places; Blacksmiths; Monsters and sheoguey beasts; Friars and priest cures; Essay on Swedenborg, mediums, and the desolate places, and notes by W. B. Yeats.

* * * * *

“Almost every kind of reader will find these volumes deeply interesting. Taken down with patience and extraordinary skill from the lips of living men and women, they make audible the very voice of the Irish people. They form a valuable contribution to the literature of folk-lore, while Mr Yeats’ highly characteristic essays and notes add greatly to their curious charm.” F. R.

+ =Ath= p550 O 22 ’20 1250w

=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20

“Bacon said that some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed and digested: Visions and beliefs’ belongs to the former class; folk-lorists will use it as a work of reference (although scholars would find it more valuable were it supplied with a good index), while those seeking only entertainment will enjoy chiefly Lady Gregory’s interpretative passages.” N. J. O’C.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 1100w

“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening, but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum

+ =Dial= 69:300 S ’20 1400w

+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 100w

“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race must have this book.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:270 My 23 ’20 1200w

“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”

+ =Outlook= 125:222 Je 2 ’20 1650w

“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general psychologist.” H. L. Stewart

+ =Review= 3:320 O 13 ’20 1600w

“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”

− =Sat R= 130:280 O 2 ’20 1000W

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 S 23 ’20 1700w

=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Ladyfingers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner

20–8277

Robert Ashe, alias Ladyfingers, expert “on life, lyric poetry and ... burglar proof safes,” had been left a pennyless orphan at the age of six, had grown up without guidance—except the memory of the fairy tales his mother used to tell him—and without morals; had become a newsboy, a pickpocket, a thief, and lastly a safe-cracker, and through it all remained a poet and an innocent boy at heart. His career is thrilling and romantic, for one day he finds himself the grandson of a multi-millionairess, a crabbed old witch of a woman, and in love with a sweet country girl. Then the awakening comes. His past has been hushed up, smothered in his grandmother’s millions. But the girl will have none of him for all her love. She fears a criminal inheritance for her children-to-be. Then Robert realizes that he has not yet paid for his misdeeds and that to pay is a law of nature. He gives himself up voluntarily to the police and serves a two-years sentence in the penitentiary. In the meanwhile Enid repents and prepares a home for him on his return. In due time the grandmother also repents and all ends happily.

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=Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

“All the world loves a crook if he is also an artist and a gentleman and Ladyfingers is a very charming specimen, but, alas, he begins to reform far too near the beginning of the story and becomes so noble that he is a little hard to bear.”

+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 70w

“Although there is a good deal too much description, the story is agreeably told. At first it moves quickly, then seems steadily to lose momentum, very much as though it had been started with a vigorous shove and then been allowed to slow down as it would.”

+ − =NY Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 450w

“Mr Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing.”

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 80w

“While he tells a very entertaining and often amusing tale, it lacks much of the probability in his previous stories.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 120w

=GREGORY, JACKSON.= Man to man. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner

20–19919

When Steve Packard comes home after twelve years of roaming, his father is dead and the ranch that should have been his is heavily mortgaged to his fiery old grandfather, “Hell-Fire Packard.” The old man gives him no odds on account of relationship, and Steve soon finds he’ll have to fight for his rights and his property. His first act is to discharge the ranch foreman Blenham, who has been running the place in his grandfather’s interests and his own. Blenham tries to annoy him in every possible way, and by deceit and treachery sets grandfather against grandson in more bitter hatred than ever. But Steve is capable and handles the ranch problems skilfully. In the meantime he has been falling in love with a little spitfire neighbor, Terry Temple. His suit does not go well, and finally Terry goes away and Steve does not care what happens. It even looks as if he might forfeit his ranch to his grandfather after all, and it doesn’t seem to matter much. Then—she comes back! He takes up the game with zest again, and in the last round of their battle, Blenham is defeated. Steve and his grandfather are reconciled, and he wins his girl.

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“If one can hazard criticism of such a breakneck story, it is simply to say that Mr Gregory writes with both his eyes fixed on the film royalties. His prose style, left unsupervised, moves ahead with a sort of blind, blundering vigor.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 120w

“A sufficiently lively if entirely commonplace story.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 380w

=GREGORY, ODIN.= Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; with an introd. by Theodore Dreiser. *$2 Boni & Liveright 812

20–13984

“A five-act historical tragedy in blank verse.” (Freeman) “Caius Gracchus, idealist and statesman, had stirred the Roman plebs to a consciousness of their own existence, not as servile beasts, but as human beings. His success had disturbed the patricians, who, forthwith, plotted his downfall in true Roman fashion, couching their scheme in religion, and thus outwitting a less guileful populace.... In the end, when the plebs find themselves disbursed and outwitted, when, in the slow process of reasoning, they discover in the dead Gracchus a martyr to their cause, the few among them rally their mental energies and press forward toward the ideal.” (Springf’d Republican)

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“Ambitious as this work is, however, and interesting in detail it is hardly likely to kindle beacons on Olympus. As a play, ‘Caius Gracchus’ sticks too close to polemics ever to achieve the heights of tragedy. Occasionally, one encounters felicitous phrases, but these have to be sought for, like bright pebbles scattered along a dry, sandy beach.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:261 N 24 ’20 210w

“A drama of the excellence of ‘Caius Gracchus’ is a solid achievement of which any modern writer might well be proud. The constant declaration of their lofty sentiments by the chief characters is an accepted convention of the English and French classical tradition which Odin Gregory follows, but modern realistic drama has made it difficult to accept this convention unmodified, even under the shelter of the old forms.” C. M. S.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:330 Ja ’21 480w

“Mr Gregory produces blank verse of vigor and suppleness, but hardly comparable to Shakespeare’s in poetic content.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 6 ’20 720w

“‘Caius Gracchus’ is a tremendously ambitious work in the most difficult and aspiring genre of literature, and perhaps it is better to try and fail than not to try at all. One finds fault not so much with the author, who at least lets his work speak for itself, as with the critics who profess to find in it qualities that so obviously are not there.”

− + =Theatre Arts Magazine= 5:84 Ja ’21 480w

=GRENFELL, ANNE ELIZABETH (MACCLANAHAN) (MRS WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL), and SPALDING, KATIE.= Le petit Nord; or, Annals of a Labrador harbour. il *$1.50 (4½c) Houghton 917.19

20–5733

In the form of letters this amusing volume by the wife or Dr Grenfell, and the nurse who accompanied them to their northern abode, makes a good accompaniment to the autobiography of “A Labrador doctor.” It relates the experiences and hardships of their mission home in the far north in a humorous vein and with the feminine touch. The unique illustrations tell a story of their own.

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“These bright brave little letters have the power of transporting one into the heart of the Labrador country by their charm of description and humor. Crude little sketches by the doctor make just the right illustrations.”

+ =Booklist 16:309 Je ’20=

“The book is delightful reading and adds interesting sidelights to her husband’s accounts.”

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 50w

“They present a very vivid, unpretending picture of things as they really are in this work, viewed by a capable, energetic, and humorous temperament.” Archibald MacMechan

+ =Review= 2:679 Je 30 ’20 820w

“The present work is of special interest in that it gives the feminine viewpoint.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w

“About the letters there is a marked and pleasing individuality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 16 ’20 280w

=GRESHAM, MATILDA (MCGRAIN) (MRS WALTER QUINTIN GRESHAM).= Life of Walter Quintin Gresham, 1832–1895. 2v *$7.50 Rand

20–3856

“An unusual career, even for America, known as the land of eccentricities in public life, is summed up in these two sizable volumes. Soldier, lawyer, judge, statesman, Walter Q. Gresham seems never to have known an idle moment in the sixty-three years of his life. He had a distinguished record in the Civil war, enlisting as a private, and, after successive promotions for gallantry, receiving his discharge as a Major-General of volunteers in 1865. After fifteen years of service at the bar and on the bench he was made a member of President Arthur’s cabinet, and ten years later, because of disagreement with the Republican party on the tariff question, became a Democrat and was appointed secretary of state in President Cleveland’s second administration. He died in 1895. This biography [is] written by his widow.”—R of Rs

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=Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20

“A veritable source book of American history.” F. B. N.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 28 ’20 400w

“Mrs Gresham’s life of her husband is of value as far as political and economic information is concerned.” C. W. Alvord

+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w

=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 160w

“This biography throws much light on the politics of the entire period from the middle of the nineteenth century to its closing years.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 160w

=GREY, EDWARD GREY, 1st viscount.= Recreation. *$1.25 (17c) Houghton 824

20–5788

The booklet contains an address delivered by Viscount Grey at the Harvard union, December 8, 1919. He enumerates a number of things that make for happiness of which one is a degree of leisure and knowing what to do with it. He speaks of the forms of recreation most enjoyed by himself, certain games and sport and gardening but most of all books read for pleasure. Enjoyment of nature also finds a place and calls up a memorable walk he took with Colonel Roosevelt for the purpose of observing birds.

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“His address, indeed, contains nothing that is original or profound. We read it for its personal note and for the light that it throws on the personality of the late Colonel Roosevelt. The lessons that may be learned from this charming and gracious little pamphlet are not quite the lessons that it professes to convey.” E. M. F.

+ − =Ath= p76 Jl 16 ’20 430w

“In depicting the incident [of Roosevelt’s visit] Lord Grey allows the Baconian clarity of his earlier pronouncements to take on poetic warmth and color.”

+ =Nation= 110:732 My 29 ’20 400w

“The one who has attained such an appreciation of the real place of recreation in life deserves to be called by a word which is very frequently abused—‘cultured.’”

+ =Outlook= 124:601 Ap 7 ’20 1800w

“Of artifice, literary, or any other, in the plan or style, there is not a trace. The diction is plain and simple, almost to the point of baldness. There are no flights and no flowers.” Archibald MacMechan

+ =Review= 2:518 My 15 ’20 1050w

“The address is not only a most attractive piece of literature but also an interesting pendant to Mr Roosevelt’s biography.”

+ =Spec= 124:799 Je 12 ’20 350w

“It strikes a sane and healthful note.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 180w

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w

=GREY, ZANE.= Man of the forest. il *$1.90 (1½c) Harper

20–2265

Milt Dale loves the silence and the romance of the mountains. There he lives in solitude, hunting animals for his food, and finding thorough happiness and contentment, until accidentally he overhears an unscrupulous plot against the property and safety of a young girl, newly arrived from the East. To save her and her sister he hides them in his woodland camp, entertaining them with hunting trips and riding expeditions to keep their minds from brooding. When, however, Helen Rayner and her pretty sister Bo leave the camp, Dale finds it an empty, unsatisfying place. And Helen, mistress of a great ranch, which a conscienceless “greaser” is trying to take from her, keeps longing for the lonely man from the mountains. Her troubles reach their climax just after the long winter, and Dale, coming out of the forests, helps her in the most terrible moment. “Bo’s cowboy” is instrumental in completing the collapse of the “greaser”; and afterward, Dale’s camp witnesses an unusual honeymoon.

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“A story full of the thrills and charms familiar to readers of Zane Grey.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“The tale has plenty of incident, and though it contains too numerous and too long passages of description not a few of them are well done, while the lover of horses will be sure to envy Helen her possession of the splendid Ranger.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:70 F 8 ’20 900w

“A western story conventional in plot and incident, but well written and with a certain nobility in its feeling for the freedom of the wide spaces.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w

“Action is always rapid and there is an abundance of local color. On occasions Mr Grey gives play to his liking for descriptive paragraphs, which sometimes bulk too large. But these are seldom formal. The book is among the author’s best stories.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 580w

“Few romances make better business out of the wilds of the West than Mr Zane Grey: and he is well up to his mark in this stirring tale.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 70w

=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Swiss fairy tales. il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell

20–13979

The first two chapters of the book are devoted to the author’s Swiss ancestors, their home in Switzerland in the shadow of the mountains, where it was finally burled by an avalanche, and later their American home in Pennsylvania whence they had brought their customs and traditions and, above all, the fairy tales of their native country. Some of these tales are: The wonderful alpine horn; The mountain giants; Two good natured dragons; The frost giants and the sunbeam fairies; The yodel carillon of the cows; The fairy of the edelweiss; The alpine hunter and his fairy guardian; The white chamois; The siren of the Rhine.

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+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 80w

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 180w

=GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT.= Young people’s history of the Pilgrims, il *$3 (4½c) Houghton 974.4

20–10074

“In writing for, but not down to, young people, I have dwelt rather upon what was visible to, or interested, the Pilgrim boys and girls. Yet I have endeavored, also, to make clear the formative principles and impelling motives, as well as conditions and events; and this without any special interest in genealogy.” (Preface) One of the objects of the book is to show that the Puritans were “bona-fide everyday Englishmen” and to further a deeper unity and closer co-operation between all English-speaking people. The religious motive prompting the Pilgrims is also emphasized. A partial list of the contents is: How the world looked long ago; A mirror of English history; Fun and play in the old home; A girl’s life in merrie England; Puritan, Independent, Separatist, and Pilgrim; Brewster: the boy traveler; Bradford: boy hero and typical Pilgrim; The decision to emigrate and why; The new world: America; The first winter and the great sickness; The Pilgrim republic; The Pilgrim inheritance; Chronological framework of the story of a free church in a free state; Index; Illustrations.

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“It is a scholarly history; shall we say a bit too scholarly for youthful tastes? At least it has the merit of being accurate, thoroughgoing, and informing” W. A. Dyer

+ − =Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 90w’

“Dr Griffis writes with enthusiasm, his writing discloses the most careful study of his subject in its every phase, and especially does his familiarity with the places trodden by the Pilgrims appeal to the reader.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 380w

“‘Young people’s history of the Pilgrims’ is packed with interesting information. The author has, however, an annoyingly priggish manner and he tends to paint the Pilgrims as rather unpleasantly noble.”

+ − =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 80w

+ =N Y Times= p15 O 3 ’20 80w

“In the closing pages of Dr Griffis’ book is a valuable chronology.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w

=GRIFFITH, IRA SAMUEL.= Teaching manual and industrial arts, il $2 Manual arts press 371.42

20–10299

This work by a professor of industrial education in the University of Illinois “is intended as a text for use in normal schools and colleges. Its primary aim is to assist in the making of necessary connections between the more general courses in educational psychology and theory of teaching and the special work of practice teaching in manual and industrial arts.” (Preface) Contents: Introduction; Classification and differentiation of the manual arts; Industrial arts; Instincts and capacities; Application of the principle of apperception to manual and industrial arts teaching; Interest and attention: Individual differences: the group system; Correlation and association; The doctrine of discipline: Types of thinking inherent in the manual arts: Teaching methods in manual and industrial arts; The lesson; its component parts; Class management: discipline; Standards and tests; Conditions which make for progress. There are two appendices devoted to Special method procedure and Type outlines.

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“Very useful to any teachers of hand work.”

+ =Booklist= 17:52 N ’20

“Although one feels the need for a more extended discussion of many of the points, there is left in the mind of the reader the conviction, nevertheless, that Mr Griffith has sought to present the facts in as simple and untangled a form as possible, with the specific purpose in mind of establishing a workable pedagogy on the psychological principles developed. One feels that he has succeeded in his purpose in an admirable degree.”

+ =El School J= 21:236 N ’20 640w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p67 Jl ’20 80w

“Written in a concise and convincing manner. It is the kind of a book that teachers of drawing, design and applied arts should read and absorb. It will connect them with the technique of teaching.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:41 S ’20 120w

=GRIFFITHS, GERTRUDE (MRS PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS).= Lure of the manor. *$1.75 (1½c) Duffield

A20–1264

The story opens in England but soon shifts to America, there to be played out in a quaint old-time South Carolina setting. At the close of the Civil war, General Sutledge of the Confederate army had retired from the world, and his three daughters had continued to follow his example, living and dressing in the style of the sixties. To them comes the Honorable Patricia Denham, daughter of an adored and much younger sister who had married a British peer. This sister, Millicent, is a cold, heartless woman, engaged in her own love affairs and indifferent to her children. It is partly to escape her that Patricia comes to America. Peter d’Eresby, who has been in love with Millicent, also comes to America. Patricia marries a rich northerner, who has been looked down upon by the three impoverished old southern aristocrats. Peter marries Sophia, a young Sutledge cousin and to the end the three elderly sisters are kept in ignorance of Millicent’s real character.

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“A romance written with amusing naïveté and some freshness.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“A very uneven story, amateurish at times and very much too long but by no means devoid of merit. It suffers from the fact that it has two heroines, the story of one of them being fairly interesting, while that of the other is dull, and the connection between them seeming forced and artificial.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 400w

“‘The lure of the manor’ reads unevenly and strikes the reader as being considerably too long. Strengthening of the story could be obtained through elimination of that which gives an impression of being artificial and exaggerated.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 190w

=GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE ETHEL.= Terrible island. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan

20–19507

This adventure story of the South seas has two mysteries, the mystery of “Lady Mary” who walks up out of the sea and the mystery of Ku-Ku’s island. Lady Mary is suffering from amnesia. She doesn’t know who she is or how she came to her present plight. All that she can remember is a meaningless string of words, which her listeners rightly interpret as the directions for finding the half-legendary Ku-Ku’s island, reputed to be rich in the valuable red shell that passes as currency in the islands. The three men, with Sapphira Gregg and the girl from the sea, set out in search of it and then begin their adventures on the terrible island. In the end they conquer all obstacles, including the mysterious blindness that inflicts those who land on the island. Lady Mary’s memory is restored, and two romances come to a satisfactory conclusion.

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=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 90w

+ =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“The scheme of the story is very good, but it is so tangled up in verbiage and moralizing that one loses interest, and wishes the author had made another of the group her mouthpiece.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 230w

“It is a capital tale, quite novel in its plot and incident, and with amusing character depiction as well as the thrill of adventure.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w

“The narrative is set forth interestingly and with some humor.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 170w

“She shows her tact in the touches of individuality that she gives to characters who have to be drawn broadly. So much is she in sympathy with them, and so clearly does she see the situations in which they find themselves, that they come to respond by creating their own difficulties for her to write about. This seems to be the secret of her fertility of invention. For a lady not in her first book she is most prodigal of her good things.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p85 F 5 ’20 630w

=GROGAN, GERALD.= William Pollok, and other tales. *$1.50 (2c) Lane

20–7728

This volume of short stories opens with a memoir of the author, who was killed in 1918. As the son of a soldier he led a wandering life in childhood, and later his work as a mining engineer took him to Mexico, where the scenes of most of these stories are laid. Only one is a story of the war. The collection opens with a series of eight tales, The trials and triumphs of William Pollok, mine superintendent. The other titles are: Encinillas; The faith of Henderson; A warm corner in Mexico; The casting vote; The subjugation of the Skettering; The failure; The cat; The weregeld; A moral victory.

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+ =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 80w

“He wrote well because he lived well and fully, he depicted character in an entertaining fashion because he knew men. He has produced a group of stories worth reading more than once.” G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 500w

“When his feet are off the romantic soil of Mexico, Mr Grogan seems less at home. One story, however—his latest—is distinguished by a quality only a little short of genius. It is a vision of the wars of the future. The story is a prophecy that may be fulfilled in a happier day; it is Gerald Grogan’s chief contribution to literature.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Je 27 ’20 430w

“They have the excessive cleverness of the young writer, who will not tell a plain tale. Nevertheless the book is full of vitality; and readers to whom this quality, even if it goes with some immaturity, is the all-important one will enjoy the book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 280w

=GROSSMANN, LOUIS.= Aims of teaching in Jewish schools; a handbook for teachers. (Isaac M. Wise centenary publication) *$1.50 Bloch 377

19–27517

“Dr G. Stanley Hall, who contributes the introduction, pronounces this ‘by far the best treatise on religious pedagogy that has anywhere yet appeared. It places religious education on its proper scientific and constructive basis.’ Something over half of the volume is devoted to the successive stages in the child’s advancement from the kindergarten to the eighth grade. The latter part is devoted to special phases such as the use of stories, the textbook, the Hebrew language, music, etc.”—Am J Soc

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“The discussions are rather general to constitute a ‘handbook,’ but they make good reading for anyone who is interested in recent pedagogy and modernist religion.” F. R. Clow

+ =Am J Soc= 25:502 Ja ’20 340w

“Designed as a teacher’s handbook, but it has a broader interest.”

+ =Booklist= 16:42 N ’19

“A very complete outline for the teacher in the religious school.”

+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w

=GROVE, SIR GEORGE.=[2] Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; Waldo Selden Pratt, editor, Charles N. Boyd, associate editor. il *$6 Macmillan 780.3

This American supplement adds a sixth volume to Grove’s dictionary of music. It is made up of two parts, the first consisting of an historical introduction with chronological register of names; the second of Personal and descriptive articles and alphabetical index. The register in Part I gives brief reference to about 1700 persons. In the descriptive articles of the second part there is more extended treatment of some 700 of these, with cross references from one section to the other, Canadian musicians are included under the term American and to a limited extent Latin American names have been included. The preface states further: “Inasmuch as the latest edition of Grove’s dictionary was issued ten to fifteen years ago, the publishers desired that this volume should include continuations of those articles that relate to the more conspicuous foreign musicians.... Accordingly, in the dictionary proper will be found statements regarding more than a hundred musicians who are entirely outside the American field.”

=GROZIER, EDWIN ATKINS=, ed. One hundred best novels condensed. 4v il *$5; ea *$1.50 Harper 808.3

20–6493

A series of books giving synopses of one hundred works of fiction. They have been prepared under the direction of the literary editor of the Boston Post, assisted by Charles E. L. Wingate and Charles H. Lincoln, various writers contributing to the contents, among them John Kendrick Bangs, George S. Barton, Sara Ware Bassett, Alfred S. Clark and James B. Connolly. There is no ordered plan of arrangement and the word novel is given a broad interpretation to embrace the “Iliad,” “Pilgrim’s progress” and “Alice in Wonderland.” Famous translations are included in addition to all the well-known English novels. A biographical sketch and portrait of each author is provided.

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“Perhaps the best condensation of all is that of ‘Far from the madding crowd.’ Many of the synopses approach this, but some fall far behind it in quality.” A. A. W.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w

“As for giving any real idea of the originals, these condensations are about as satisfying as the description of a banquet would be to a starving man.”

− =N Y Times= 25:244 My 9 ’20 800w

=GUILD, ROY BERGEN=, ed. Community programs for cooperating churches; a manual of principles and methods. *$1.90 Assn. press 261

20–17803

The book contains the reports of the Church and community convention held in Cleveland, June 1–3, 1920, under the joint auspices of the Commission on councils of churches of the Federal council of churches of Christ in America, and the Association of executive secretaries of church federations, and contains: Principles and methods of organization; Survey, program, and comity; Evangelism; Social service; Religious education; Missions; International justice and good-will; Religious publicity; Securing and training executive secretaries; “The church and its new cooperative power,” by Dr Robert E. Speer; “The spiritual basis for the unity of the churches,” by Rev. M. Ashby Jones, D.D.; Appendix.

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+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“The book is a practical manual for those interested in interchurch work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 630w

=N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 100w

=GUILD, THACHER HOWLAND.= Power of a god, and other one-act plays. il $1.25 Univ. of Ill. 812

20–84

The volume is a memorial to the author, an account of his short career as a dramatist and his early death in 1914, and contains, besides the plays, a tribute from Prof. George P. Baker of Harvard university; Preparation days at Brown, by Prof. Thomas Crosby, jr., Brown university; The fullness of his life, by Prof. Stuart P. Sherman, University of Illinois; Dramatic reminiscenses, by F. K. W. Drury, University of Illinois library; and a bibliography. The title play shows a scene in the office of a celebrated surgeon who has taken up mental therapy and in his practice of it, finds himself before the alternative, for the love of a woman, to use his power as a “god” or as a “devil.” After much soul anguish he chooses the better way. The other plays are: The class of ’56; The higher good; and The portrait.

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“At least the first two plays are distinctly above the average in their realistic dialogue. The eloquent and sympathetic introduction by Professor Baker, of Harvard, adds to the value of the book.”

+ =Cath World= 111:698 Ag ’20 90w

“Each [play] is interesting and each has distinct merits, while as a whole they display a steady growth in literary power and technical expertness.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 500w

=GUILLAUMIN, EMILE.=[2] Life of a simple man; tr. by Margaret Holden. *$2 Stokes

“The good brown earth, the sheep and the swine; stretches of sparkling, bedewed meadows with perfumed masses of golden broom, white daisies and honeysuckle.... From such a background Emile Guillaumin has drawn ‘La vie d’un simple.’ Small wonder that a simple man speaks from its pages. The book is called a novel. In reality it is a biography and, as it happens, one with only a slight vista into the realm of Eros. The author tells us that Tiennon is his neighbor, but it is suggested in a foreword by Mr Garnett that Guillaumin has attempted a portraiture of his own father. At any rate it is interesting to observe that the book received an award from l’Académie Française in 1904, and that the author is a peasant, unschooled, in our modern sense of the word, whose life has been spent in a town of some 1,800 inhabitants, and who has ‘remained faithful to the soil’ in spite of literary laurels.”—N Y Times

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+ =Ath= p1050 O 17 ’19 50w

“For those who evaluate standards of living in terms of their simplicity, reality and intensity, the farmer Tiennon, as he stands revealed in ‘The life of a simple man,’ will find a place with friendly philosophers of the highways and byways.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 550w

“Invaluable to us as a standard of comparison, quite apart from its charm as a human document.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p600 O 30 ’19 1050w

=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.= Ballads of old New York. il *$1.50 Harper 811

20–3010

In this collection of ballads, the author tells us, he has been “martialing the varied traditions of New York and its neighborhood, piecing together colorful stories of the past for those who are to inherit the future.” And in the prologue he bids us “Hear! for I carol in lilting rhymes rollicking lays of the good old times!” The contents are grouped under the headings: Dutch period; English colonial period; Revolutionary period; and Miscellaneous, and the verses are interspersed by descriptive prose paragraphs by way of interludes. The illustrations are pen and ink sketches by J. Scott Williams.

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“A delightfully whimsical book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:234 Ap ’20

“The book is a happy book, done by a genuine lover and historian of the greatest city in the new world. Washington Irving would have liked it.” W. A. Barrett

+ =Bookm= 51:476 Je ’20 700w

“Mr Guiterman has a virtue beyond the virtue of the average humorist in verse whose quips and laughter after a little grow tiresome; that virtue is his unfailing humanism. The humanist in him has made him sing on occasions with all the fine fervor of a truly inspired poet. These ballads help very largely and convincingly to show us this very little-thought-of side of Mr Guiterman.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 1250w

“Displays pleasing variety in the matter of subject and form.”

+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w

+ − =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 80w

“In ‘Ballads of old New York’ a delightful idea is somewhat disappointingly worked out.”

+ =Ind.= 104:65 O 9 ’20 50w

“Arthur Guiterman is a perfect master of his trade. He has a genius for mirth, for seeing the funny side of life, for throwing a fantastic light on everything that happens. ‘Ballads of old New York’ is worth its price twice over.” B: de Casseres

+ =N Y Times= 25:132 Mr 21 ’20 1300w

+ =N Y Times= 25:286 My 30 ’20 1650w

“The versatility of the author’s pen is evident in the variety both subjective and metrical, of the different ballads and interludes. The book ought to be among the most popular metrical offerings of the season.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 240w

=GUITERMAN, ARTHUR.=[2] Chips of Jade. il *$2 Dutton 895

20–19184

“This is a volume of alleged folk-sayings of China and Hindustan, clothed in homely English verse, and there is a chuckle in every quatrain. There is sharp social comment in many of the lines—and it is often anti-Socialist.”—N Y Call

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“The amount of exhilaration which may be obtained from a book of mottoes is rather less than half of one per cent, and even the knowledge that the present compilation has an oriental origin is not in itself calculated to intoxicate the reader. After all, a jingle is only a jingle, and ‘Chips of jade’ is but the small change of philosophy.” L. B.

− =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 150w

“A thoroughly delectable addition to the already rich proverb-literature which exists in English.”

+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 160w

“Perhaps it is no exaggeration to say that this volume is the most crystalline, the most brilliant, the most uniform yet issued by this twanger of the harp of Momus. There are a thousand universal words here, which read as if they were spoken for your ear only.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p8 Ja 9 ’21 260w

“Attractive in appearance and contents.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:419 N 3 ’20 130w

=GUITRY, SACHA.=[2] Deburau; a comedy; in an English version by Harley Granville Barker. $2 Putnam 842

This English version of a French play is a free rendering, which preserves the original meaning detail by detail but uses a paraphrase where a literal rendering would appear labored. The play is in four acts. The first shows the auditorium of a theatre after a successful evening. Gaspard Deburau, the Pierrot, has just made a great hit in “The old clo’ man.” In the second act Deburau is seen in the room of Marie Duplessis, the famous “Camellia lady,” to whose charms he has succumbed and who, immediately after his departure, accepts another lover. Act three is in Deburau’s own garret, seven years later, with Deburau ill and retired. His young son is pleading with him for permission to become his successor on the stage. In the fourth act Deburau once more after a long intermission essays to act his old rôle. He is a complete failure and while the management is deliberating in despair what course to pursue, Deburau brings on his son, has him dressed in his old Pierrot costume and puts him thru his paces as his successor. The scene abounds in good stage advice.

=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Evolution of the budget in Massachusetts. *$2.50 Macmillan 336

20–10284

This volume is the second in a series of Special studies in administration in course of preparation by the Bureau of municipal research and the training school for the public service. Its object is to record in orderly fashion the long series of events that have led up to the present budget system of Massachusetts and to counteract some of the superficial views that prevail on budget-making. Among the contents, following the early financial history of Massachusetts, are: The governor and the budget, 1910–1918; The joint special committee on finance and budget procedure; Establishing the budget system; Experience with the budget in 1919; Constitutional conflict over the budget in 1920; Classification of the Massachusetts budget system; Outstanding facts in the evolution of the Massachusetts budget. The appendices contain The budget amendment of the Massachusetts constitution, and The Massachusetts budget act.

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“The book is one which should appeal to the practical administrator as well as to the student of political science.” A. C. Hanford

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:712 N ’20 450w

=Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“The study of the budget system is usually supposed to be dull and uninteresting, but Dr Gulick has succeeded in writing an interesting book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 320w

“It will prove exceedingly helpful to those political adolescents who imagine that a piece of legislation imposing on the governor the duty of preparing a financial plan will produce any important changes in our way of doing business.” C: A. Beard

+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 260w

=R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 60w

“The author has prepared an interesting and well written history. The illustrative excerpts from political speeches and journals add decided readability to what might be otherwise tedious history.” L. D. Upson

+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 200w

=GULICK, LUTHER HALSEY.= Philosophy of play. *$1.60 (3c) Scribner 790

20–4701

Joseph Lee, in his foreword to this posthumous volume, calls it Dr Gulick’s legacy to his fellow citizens. In making the study of play his life work the author has come to the conclusion that it affords the best and most profitable way of studying humankind itself; that the individual reveals himself more completely in play than in any other way; that play has a greater shaping power over the character and nature of man than any other activity; and that a people also most truly reveals itself in the character of its pleasures. Contents: The extent of the play interest: Separation vs. concentration; Hunting and fighting plays; Playing house; Fire play; Toys—construction and ownership; Masculine and feminine differences; The play of animals; The play of adults; The play of subnormal children; Play progression; Play and physical growth; Play and education; Play and moral growth; Instinct and tradition in play; Play and our changing civilization; Play and the modern city; Direction and control in play—playgrounds; Play and democracy; Play, the pursuit of the ideal; Index.

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“Dr Gulick’s last book is suggestive especially to parents.”

+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 200w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 My 8 ’20 650w

“He has built up an attractive guide to the understanding of children’s ways. There is not a hint of superficiality in his treatment.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 170w

“With this book Dr Gulick has made a real contribution which will enrich all who read it. It should be in the hands not only of all who are interested in recreational activities, but of fathers, mothers and educators as well.” S. L. Jean

+ =Survey= 44:309 My 29 ’20 80w

=GULL, CYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER (GUY THORNE, pseud.).= Air pirate. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt

20–26883

The time setting of this story is about ten years in the future, when travel and commerce by air have become thoroughly established, and cross-Atlantic air trips are an everyday occurrence. The story is told by Sir John Custance, young and popular commissioner of air police for the British government. On one of its regular trips, one of the aerial liners is held up by a pirate airship, and even while this affair is being investigated, a second holdup is made. And it so happens that on this ship, Connie Shepherd, Sir John’s fiancée, is a passenger, and is captured and carried away by the pirates. His motive is therefore doubly strong for discovering the criminals. He has the help of Mr Danjuro, a unique Japanese personality with apparently infinite resources and capabilities. Altho they are in the end successful in capturing the whole pirate band and releasing Connie, it is by no means an easy task, and Sir John finds himself in close proximity to death more than once.

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=Booklist= 17:71 N ’20

“By all the rules of the game, ‘The air pirate’ should be a badly written attempt at a thriller, and its jacket goes far to confirm that suspicion. But with the jacket the resemblance to a dime novel abruptly ceases. Mr Gull has a facility for turning melodrama into plausibility.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 40w

=GUNION, PHILIP CYRUS (GEORGE CONOVER PEARSON, pseud.).= Selling your services. $2 (1½c) Jordan-Goodwin corporation, Jefferson bank bldg., N.Y. 658

20–6660

Getting a job, says the author, is a problem in salesmanship. A man’s services are a product that can be sold and how to go about to sell it has been so successfully and methodically worked out by John Caldwell, that he was asked to teach a class in re-employment for the graduates of the Metropolitan university. His lectures as given to the class are here edited and collected into book form by the author. John Caldwell’s method is to apply modern salesmanship, marketing methods and advertising to the selling of a man’s individual product, his services. Among the contents are: Make a job of getting a job; Know your product—yourself; Determine your appeal; Make good use of your experience; Develop a group of prospects; Situation wanted advertisements; The circular letter; The personal call; The employment agency; The interview; The eternal question—the salary; Keep your case alive; Index.

=GUTHRIE, ANNA LORRAINE=, comp. Index to St Nicholas, service basis Wilson, H. W. 051

The forty-five volumes of St Nicholas, from 1873 to 1918, have been indexed for this volume. “The index is dictionary in form, giving author, subject and title entries, the latter as a rule made for fiction and poetry only. Selection of subject headings most easily usable by children has been the aim striven for.” (Preface) The work is compiled and edited by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, formerly editor of the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.

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“Indispensable aid.”

+ =Booklist= 16:296 Je 20

=GUTTERSEN, GRANVILLE.= Granville. *$1.25 Abingdon press 940.44

19–15645

“The experience of a young chap in the army air service—a fellow who embodied all that was fine and noble in young manhood, who suffered continual disappointment in not being able to get his overseas orders and in being held on this side as an instructor in bombing, and who yet retained his humor and philosophy of life—are pictured in ‘Granville,’ the subtitle of which is ‘Tales and tail spins from a flyer’s diary.’ The book, which is published anonymously in deference to the wishes of the author’s family, contains a series of letters from ‘Granny’ to his folks at home. These tell of his hopes and desires, his setbacks, his friends in the service and the girls he met, and the experiences that he went through from the time he entered ground school until he received his last orders.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 240w

“The writer is so frank and outspoken in what he says and thinks and does that anyone reading the book cannot help feeling unbounded admiration for him. From cover to cover the book is filled with a buoyancy and a joy of living that leave one refreshed with even a few short pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p16 O 19 ’19 220w

=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= Irish books and Irish people. *$1.75 Stokes 891.6

A20–768

“These essays are for the most part revived from the years 1897–1907, representing the views, during the changing moods of the decade, of this capable and cultured Irish essayist, who, it will be remembered, severed his connexion with the Gaelic league when it decided to make the learning of Irish compulsory and who believes that, as Yeats and Synge have shown, it is possible to be completely Irish while using the English language. His subjects are Nineteenth century novels of Irish life; A century of Irish humour (written 1901); Literature among the illiterates, from a volume called ‘To-day and to-morrow in Ireland’ (1902), now out of print (in two parts, The Shanachy, and The life of a song, a traditional song which Mr Gwynn took down from the lips of an Irish peasant); Irish education and Irish character. There are two later essays on Irish gentry (1913), and Yesterday in Ireland (1918).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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+ =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 140

=Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

=Brooklyn= 12:131 My ’20 40w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 170w

=GWYNN, STEPHEN LUCIUS.= John Redmond’s last years. *$5 (*16s) Longmans

20–5238

“A personal and political study of very great interest, written by one who was a friend of Mr Redmond and had access to his papers for the period beginning with the war. Mr Gwynn makes no attempt to represent Mr Redmond as a hero, but lays emphasis upon the patriotism, modesty, and nobility of purpose of the Irish leader, who died heartbroken because he had not ‘won through.’ ‘His action upon the war was his life’s supreme action; he felt this, and knew that it had failed to achieve its end.’ But, says the author, ‘tangled as are the threads of all this policy, he leaves the task far nearer to accomplishment than he found it; and if in the end freedom and prosperity come to a united Ireland, they will be found to proceed ... from the action which John Redmond took in August, 1914, and upon which his brother ... set the seal of his blood.’”—Ath

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“Mr Gwynn displays some of the qualities which a biographer ought to possess. He knew Redmond intimately and admired him greatly, yet he makes no attempts to represent him as unerring in judgment and supreme in every quality of leadership. Yet his book has serious defects from the point of view of both the serious student of Irish affairs and the general reader.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:134 O ’20 520w

=Ath= p1365 D 12 ’19 160w

“Written with a sympathy and ease that will make interesting reading for those informed on Irish politics.”

+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20

“Mr Gwynn’s book has not a little of the somber splendor of a Greek tragedy. Certainly a reading of it is indispensable to an understanding of Irish history in the last ten years. The record is set down with a fairness which even Redmond’s most bitter opponents can hardly fail to praise.” H. J. Laski

+ =Nation= 110:sup484 Ap 10 ’20 850w

“Mr Gwynn has given far the clearest account of the procession of events, and especially a fascinating narrative of the labors and personalities of the convention. His book is almost indispensable to anyone who would wish to understand the relation of opinion to the controversy which is about to open concerning the new Home rule bill.”

+ =Nation [London]= 26:544 Ja 17 ’20 1750w

“Amid the abundant and increasing literature on Irish affairs it is seldom indeed that there comes into a reviewer’s hand a literary treasure such as this. Mr Gwynn writes as one having knowledge and authority. Perhaps what strikes one first in the book is the judicial balance by which it is everywhere marked.” H. L. Stewart

+ =Review= 2:390 Ap 17 ’20 1800w

=Sat R= 128:688 D 20 ’19 750w

“Captain Gwynn’s memoir of his late leader, though in no sense a dispassionate or unbiassed narrative of events, displays a breadth of view that is wholly lacking in most modern Irish books, and puts the nationalist case with courtesy and discretion. We cannot agree either with his estimate of Mr Redmond or with his presentation of certain notorious episodes in recent Irish controversy. Nevertheless we feel that he is an honourable political opponent.”

+ − =Spec= 123:728 N 29 ’19 1400w

“Mr Gwynn writes in a sanely liberal vein and can take a detached view of all sides of the struggle of Ireland for home rule.... Nevertheless, the summing-up is an indictment of a government that had an excellent chance to show, by firmness and justice, that it was determined to give Ireland the promised measure of home rule.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 1200w

“Nowhere throughout a book which vividly illumines the recent history of Irish politics, is Captain Gwynn more intimately informed or more profoundly interesting than in the story of the Irish convention. His work is one which every student of modern politics should read and read at once. There has been no more important publication on the Irish question during recent years.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p642 N 13 ’19 950w

Reviewed by N. J. O’Conor

=Yale R= n s 10:210 O ’20 270w

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=HAGEDORN, HERMANN.= That human being, Leonard Wood. *$1 (7c) Harcourt, Brace & Howe

20–8515

A eulogistic sketch of General Wood by one who regards him as the legitimate successor of the late Colonel Roosevelt. It is also an arraignment of the Wilson administration and a campaign document. “Gradually, as month has succeeded month and the presidential election has drawn near, Wood has become the focus of the hopes of an increasing number of men and women scattered over the country who have found in him a symbol of that blunt belief in facts, that respect for training and experience, that love of open dealing, which the administration has offended.... It is not strange that countless Americans, angered at the lack of these qualities in the administration, should seek to make the man who most patently possesses them, the instrument of their indignation.”

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“The little book will have no political influence at this time, but it should have a personal influence to inspire better citizenship and continual preparedness.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 300w

“The briefest and most readable of the various current biographies of General Wood.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 50w

=HAGGARD, SIR HENRY RIDER.= Ancient Allan. *$1.75 Longmans

20–5230

“‘The ancient Allan’, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, reintroduces some of the characters of ‘The ivory child.’ Lady Ragnall, Allan Quartermain, and his faithful Hottentot Hans, are shown us in a previous incarnation by means of the mysterious Taduki, as ancient Egyptians, warring for the independence of their country against the Lords of the East.” (Sat R) “The new chronicle is chockful of excitement. There are fights with lions and a crocodile, duels to the death, the clash of mighty hosts in battle. There is a signet ring whose bearer commands unquestioning obedience from those who behold it, an attribute which the Allan of bygone centuries finds most useful when his faithful dwarf purloins it from its possessor, the villainous king of kings. There is a white-bearded soothsayer, who keeps dropping in and making solemn prophecies of a brilliant future for the great Captain Shabaka. There are hunters and soldiers, cringing courtiers and solemn priests, warriors and slaves, and the waters of the ancient Nile murmuring through the breathless narrative.” (N Y Times)

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=Ath= p274 F 27 ’20 240w

+ =Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

=Lit D= p121 S 18 ’20 1500w

“The tale is told swiftly and simply, as all good Rider Haggard tales are told. It moves so naturally that one overlooks the unreality. ‘The ancient Allan’ is by no means to be named in the same breath with ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and other earlier creations of its indefatigable author. But it will not disappoint the reader who wants thrills without analyzing too closely the methods employed to provide them for him.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 900w

“It is a very good example of the author at his second best—we can never hope to recover the first thrill of ‘She.’”

+ − =Sat R= 129:352 Ap 10 ’20 80w

“The story is told in Sir Rider’s customary colorful style and with his gift for creating illusion. Ancient Egypt becomes a vivid reality.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 420w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p104 F 12 ’20 600w

=HAIG, DOUGLAS HAIG, 1st earl.= Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches. il *$15 Dutton 940.342

20–762

“From the time Field Marshal (now Earl) Haig assumed the chief command of the British armies in France on December 19, 1915, until the close of fighting at the end of 1918, he forwarded to the war office at London in May and December of each year a summary of the operations for the six months preceding. These were intended frankly for the information of the people at home and were quite apart from the detailed, confidential information sent daily from great headquarters in France to the general staff at home. These statements have been collected and edited by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston, private secretary to Earl Haig and published under the title ‘Sir Douglas Haig’s despatches.’ The despatches, which number eight and fill 357 pages of the heavy volume, are preceded by an introduction written by Marshal Foch, and a preface by the field marshal himself. The volume is accompanied by a number of carefully prepared, highly detailed maps in large scale.”—Springf’d Republican

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“For those desirous of studying the war as a military event, these despatches furnish information of remarkable clearness and precision. The splendid series of very large and detailed maps which accompanies the volume, not only enables one to follow each detail of every struggle, but appeals to the imagination.”

+ =No Am= 212:135 Jl ’20 2600w

“Altogether the volume is an invaluable aid to the student of the campaigns that it describes.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w

“The civilian and the soldier alike may profit by reading and re-reading the masterly despatches of Lord Haig.”

+ =Spec= 123:769 D 6 ’19 1000w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 23 ’20 950w

=HALDANE, RICHARD BURDON HALDANE, 1st viscount of Cloan.= Before the war. il *$2.50 (5½c) Funk 327.42

20–3879

The attitude of the author throughout is that of an impartial investigator rather than an accuser. “Few wars are really inevitable,” he says. “If we knew better how we should be careful to comport ourselves it may be that none are so.... How some of those who were deeply responsible for the conduct of affairs tried to think in the anxious years before the war, and how they endeavored to apply their conclusions, is what I have endeavored to state in the course of what follows.” (Introd.) The book is based on personal, official experience and contains several interviews of the author with the kaiser. In the epilog, deprecating the harshness of the treaty, he says: “It is at all events possible that the wider view of a generation later than this may be one in which Germany will be judged more gently than the Allies can judge her today. We do not now look on the French revolution as our forefathers looked on it.... And here some enlargement of the spirit seems to be desirable in our own interest.” Contents: Introduction: Diplomacy before the war; The German attitude before the war; The military preparations; Epilog; Index.

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“As a defence of those in power it is sincere and in the blame for the war attributed to Germany, temperate and generously sympathetic. The style is admirable. Interesting for general readers and as a first hand account.”

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

Reviewed by Sganarelle

+ =Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 250w

=Lit D= 64:116 Mr 13 ’20 1250w

“It goes without saying that Viscount Haldane makes out a good case for Great Britain: but he does so in anything but a blindly chauvinistic temper. Without anger or irritation, imputing sinister motives to none, he deals honestly with the facts as he sees them and presents his case with a patient and persuasive reasonableness that lends an air of finality to his conclusions. Nevertheless, what strikes one on reflection is that the discussion never goes below the surface of things.” Carl Becker

+ − =Nation= 110:692 My 22 ’20 1600w

=Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 310w

“Great injustice has been done by the press and the public to Mr Haldane’s work before the war as secretary of state.... The war being over, Lord Haldane publishes his defence, which we hope everybody will read, and having read, will admit to be a refutation of charges hatched in the fever of fear.”

+ =Sat R= 129:187 F 21 ’20 1250w

“Lord Haldane’s defence of the policy adopted by the liberal government towards Germany between 1906 and 1914 deserves attentive reading. His little volume, mainly composed from the articles which he has published recently in various periodicals, has been hastily put together and contains a certain amount of repetition, but it is an obviously sincere attempt to explain and justify a policy that has brought much unmerited odium on the author.”

+ − =Spec= 124:83 Ja 17 ’20 950w

=HALE, FREDERICK.= From Persian uplands. *$5 Dutton 915.5

(Eng ed 20–11662)

“Mr Hale was stationed from 1913 to 1917 at Birjand, in eastern Persia, and from 1917 onwards at Kermanshah, near the western frontier. This book contains his letters to a friend at home, describing the ordinary course of life in sleepy Persia, and touching lightly on the German and Turkish intrigues and the measures taken to counteract them. Mr Hale declares that the Persians are far more intelligent than their neighbors, and that they only need good schools and a tolerable administration. Mr Hale was engaged at Kermanshah in the preparations for General Dunsterville’s romantic little expedition to Baku.”—Spec

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“Here is a vivid picture of Persia during the war made by one who can describe his own times in delicate phrasing and neat speech.” R. C. T.

+ =Ath= p506 Ap 16 ’20 600w

“His comment on current topics ... is extremely diverting, always in good taste, and enlivened with a dash of humor reminiscent of Howells. It is the charming style and manner which make the book worth while.”

+ =Bookm= 52:272 N ’20 100w

“Mr Hale is a charming writer, and he evidently knows and likes the Persian people. Thus his unpretentious book gives perhaps a truer picture of modern Persia than some more ambitious works.”

+ =Spec= 124:526 Ap 17 ’20 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p248 Ap 22 ’20 530w

=HALE, LOUISE (CLOSSER) (MRS WALTER HALE).= American’s London. il *$2 (1½c) Harper 914.21

20–26752

An American actress goes to London for a season and talks wittily and ramblingly about her experiences on and off the stage. She gives many a glimpse of the aftermath of the war in London streets, in London houses, and in London heads in the form of opinions and judgments. The book is illustrated.

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“Pleasing, spontaneously humorous, keen often, and clever, though the author’s self-consciousness will seem to some to be intrusive.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:111 D ’20

“From her first page to her last, Mrs Hale is distinctly entertaining. Her philosophy of life is a genial one and her style of presenting it agreeably light and pleasantly tinged with humor.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 29 ’20 870w

“Mrs Hale has a very pleasant style, a nice discrimination in the incidents she relates, and a gently humorous way of recording her experiences that makes her book delightful reading.”

+ =Lit D= p94 N 20 ’20 1550w

“‘An American’s London’ is no solemn study of social economics, but it is fully as illuminating as a dozen scholarly tomes and far more likely to make an impression on the lay reader’s memory. Its pages are lightened by a sprightly sense of humor, and the enjoyment of reading is further heightened by the author’s generous sharing of her most intimate confidences.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 S 26 ’20 2200w

“The book is more Hale than London, but under the circumstances who would have it otherwise?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 21 ’20 280w

=HALE, WILLIAM BAYARD.= Story of a style. *$2 Huebsch

An analysis of President Wilson’s literary style by the author of “Woodrow Wilson; the story of his life.” “Mr Woodrow Wilson,” says the author, “is a man of words.... What he has accomplished—and his has been a wonderful record of accomplishment—has been accomplished through statement, argument, appeal. His scepter is his—pen; his sword is his—tongue; his realm is that of—words. Therefore it ought to be, it infallibly will be, in his language that Mr Wilson’s real self will be revealed.” Beginning with the essay on “Cabinet government in the United States,” written at the age of twenty-two, Mr Hale examines Mr Wilson’s writings and speeches, pointing out his excessive use of adjectives, his habits of repetition and interrogation, etc., and drawing his inferences therefrom. The book was written before the President fell sick, and was completed on Sept. 26, 1919. Contents: Prophetic symptoms; Aristocratic affectations; Learned addictions; Symbolism; Phonetic phenomena; Doubt and the flight from the fact; A typical manuscript; Concerning popular repute; The story of the League of nations speeches.

=HALL, AMANDA BENJAMIN.=[2] Blind wisdom. *$1.90 (1½c) Jacobs

20–17531

Joan Wister was and remained a character of incorruptible sincerity and spontaneity. Because she was clear as crystal and trusted her own impulses she was a puzzle. Expelled from boarding school on account of her inconvenient questionings of the things that were taught her, she found a friend in Jerry Callendar, her brother-in-law’s law partner. For years he was her friend, adviser and father confessor and when one day Joan found herself precipitantly in love with Bret Ballou and her course beset with obstacles and temptations more than she could bear, she fled to Jerry for protection and demanded that he should marry her, the better to secure this end. Although Jerry truly loved her he took upon himself the rôle of protector only and for a year even gave her every chance to try out her infatuation for Bret. Before the end of the year the make believe marriage had gone through various stages, finally arriving at the real thing.

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“The entire book has many delightful descriptions, and some bits of whimsy humor. The ending of the story with its subduing veil of pathos, is a flash of pure inspiration, worthy of the poet as well as the novelist.” W. T. R.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 600w

“In Joan Miss Hall shows to great advantage not only as a teller of tales but as an acute and dramatic delineator of character.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 520w

Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows

=Pub W= 98:1886 D 18 ’20 260w

=HALL, ARNOLD BENNETT.= Monroe doctrine and the great war. (National social science ser.) *75c McClurg 327

20–2059

“The author has aimed ‘to present in simple form an accurate but brief account of the origin and development of the doctrine and some of its relations to the present problems of peace.’ He concludes that the League of nations is the logical method of extending the principles of the Monroe doctrine to the larger diplomatic problems of the present.”—Booklist

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“The narrative is generally clear and in most respects quite conventional.” J. S. R.

+ =Am Hist R= 26:150 O ’20 370w

“A convenient summary.”

+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 80w

“Professor Hall furnishes us with a compendious account of the Monroe doctrine, which not only skillfully skims the cream from more extensive compilations, but churns it, salts it, and serves it up ready for the table. When, however, it comes to making bread and butter of the doctrine and the covenant, Mr Hall’s success is not conspicuous.” E. S. Corwin

+ − =Review= 3:70 Jl 21 ’20 1100w

=HALL, GRACE.= Stories of the saints. *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday 922

20–7587

“For children, young and old” these stories of the saints are retold in the form of legends. The contents fall into two parts. Some of the saints whose story is told in part 1 are St Thomas, in The palace of Gondoforus; St Patrick; St Bridgit of Kildare; St Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins; St Edward’s smile, and the seven sleepers; St Louis of France; St Margaret of Scotland; St Anthony of Padua; St Elizabeth of Hungary. Part 2 under the caption “The saints and their humble friends” contains in part: St Francis, the birds and the beasts; St Roch and his dog; St Deicolus and the wild boar; St Felix and the spider. The chronological order of the saints gives a list of the saints according to their century and one according to their days.

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=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Morale, the supreme standard of life and conduct. *$3 Appleton 170

20–13129

The background of this book, as the war-term “morale” suggests, is the war. The author holds that the war itself revealed the bankruptcy of the old criteria and that our human standards and values must now be subjected to a redefinition. This the book sets out to do, using morale with a psychophysic connotation in its individual, industrial and social applications. “It implies the maximum of vitality, life abounding, getting and keeping in the very center of the current of creative evolution; and minimizing, destroying, or avoiding all checks, arrests, and inhibitions to it.” (Chapter I) The long list of contents is in part: Morale as a supreme standard; Morale, patriotism and health; The morale of placards, slogans, decorations, and war museums; Conscientious objectors and diversities of patriotic ideals; The soldier ideal and its conservation in peace; The labor problem; Morale and feminism; Morale and education; Morale and “The Reds”; Morale and religion; Bibliography.

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+ =Booklist= 17:6 O ’20

“Of course, Dr Hall has many valuable things to say in his book. He colors up his quasi-physical norm of morality with a good dash now and again of Christian sentiment. Still it is a pity that he, like so many of our ‘advanced’ collegiate thinkers, can find so little room for Christ.”

− + =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 490w

“The book is keenly analytic, a little coloured by the Freudian trend of what philosophy people will read nowadays, but helpful in its breadth and application, to any one concerned with studying or directing the rest of the race.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 90w

“The style of the book under review is symbolic of its weakness. It appears to be the product of what he calls ‘exuberant, euphorious, and eureka moments.’” Preserved Smith

− =Nation= 111:595 N 24 ’20 780w

“Some of the psychologic explanations in this volume are undoubtedly ingenious. But as to the reality of the facts which he explains it is not so easy to be certain. But considerations of fact are, after all, not primary in the author’s regard. He believes that facts ‘cannot and must not’ change certain treasured beliefs.”

− + =New Repub= 24:126 S 29 ’20 1400w

“No writer of modern times has so completely freed himself from every vestige of scholastic methods, nor dared so freely to apply to religion, ethics, education and social reconstruction, every last and newest product of psychogenetic, psychoanalytic, experimental and differential psychology. The result is that Dr Hall’s style is peculiarly stimulating, refreshing and invigorating.” G. T. W. Patrick

+ =N Y Times= p18 O 24 ’20 1300w

“To speak seriously, these vivacious lectures are the readable improvisations of a clever ready writer who possesses a facility of association that Emerson would have envied, but who persistently overworks and overloads his faculty or facility with undigested reminiscences of his German studies and his subsequent dabblings in all the sciences and all the philosophies.” Paul Shorey

− + =Review= 3:378 O 27 ’20 1600w

“Dr Hall’s views will often be found ‘stimulating’ for their independence, whether one agrees with them or not. But there is no groundwork of a new ethics or new sociology here. As with some other books of Dr Hall’s, better organization of the material and more careful writing would improve this one.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 1400w

“On the whole the work will hardly enhance the reputation of the author of ‘Adolescence.’ First presented as a series of lectures during the war, it reveals in many places the highly colored effects induced by war-time emotions. Besides it views the psychologic features in life out of all due proportion.” H: Neumann

− =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 280w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p782 N 25 ’20 190w

=HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY.= Recreations of a psychologist. *$2.50 Appleton

20–20441

“Vacation skits” the author calls this collection of short stories, whose merit he claims to be their illustration of psychological principles. The first of these stories, “The fall of Atlantis,” is a new version of the Platonic myth, and records what happened to the world after the year 2000—the record purporting to have been made by the writer’s subliminal self while his conscious mind was in a state of amnesia. The other stories are: How Johnnie’s vision came true; A conversion; Preëstablished harmony—a midsummer revery of a psychologist; Getting married in Germany; A man’s adventure in domestic industries; A leap year romance; Note on early memories.

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“Dr Hall is in error when he styles his work in these fields ‘crude and amateurish if judged from the standpoint of literature’; he is right when he claims a distinct merit for it as a means to the enunciation of scientific principles. The literary touch and the psychological implication characterize the book throughout.” E. N.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 500w

=HALL, HERSCHEL SALMON.= Steel preferred. *$2 Dutton

20–12451

“‘Steel preferred’ is a punning title, the point being that Wellington Gay, born and brought up in the steel industry, can not be tempted away from it. There his personal success or failure must be made, and which it may be is a matter of secondary importance. Steel is his lode-star and his love. All he asks is to be permitted to take a hand somehow, somewhere, in the great game of steel-making. Chance takes him away from Steelburg, as chance has brought him there—in the same boxcar, to round out the coincidence. He has an uncommon knack for clerical work, and is presently offered a promising position in a city office. But chance once more sets him down at Steelburg, and the old spell takes him. Once more he becomes a cheerful drudge, overworked, unrecognized, and happy in the service of his mistress Steel. He is discovered after a while by a new manager, and given his first step upwards on the climb from roustabout to master of Steelburg. The point is that, whether as roustabout or ‘old man,’ the main thing with him is love of work and not love of personal reward or ‘success.’”—Review

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“Boys and men will like this.”

+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“A good story well told and a vivid picture of the life of a big steel plant are combined in this very readable novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 420w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 650w

“An entertaining and inspiring story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 220w

=HALL, JAMES NORMAN, and NORDHOFF, CHARLES BERNARD=, eds. Lafayette flying corps; associate editor, Edgar G. Hamilton. 2v il *$15 Houghton 940.44

20–17744

“In offering this record of the Lafayette flying corps to the families and friends of the men who served in it, and to the public at large, the editors feel that a few words of explanation are necessary. Their purpose has been twofold: to furnish a record as complete and authentic as possible, and to reconstruct an atmosphere.” (Preface) The contents of the first volume comprise: The origin of the Escadrille Américaine; The Escadrille Lafayette at the front; The Lafayette flying corps and Biographical sketches. Volume 2 is devoted wholly to letters and personal reminiscences, arranged under the headings: Enlistment and early training; Adventures in action; Life on the front; Combats; Prisoners of war. Lists of dead, wounded, prisoners of war, etc. are given in an appendix. The volumes are very fully illustrated.

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+ =Booklist= 17:108 D ’20

“One hoped, upon learning that such a history was to appear, that at least a fair proportion of the possibilities might be compassed, and it is a great satisfaction to find in the finished book these hopes more than realized and expectations generally surpassed. The editors are to be congratulated and heartily thanked for their achievement.” J. W. D. Seymour

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1100w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 120w

“The brief biographies are touched off, not always quite happily, with the jocularity of a college class book. Everything is written from the point of view of the insider. Thus the outsider will have to pick and choose. The picking, however, is excellent.” F. J. Mather

+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 640w

=HALLIBURTON, WILLIAM DOBINSON, ed.= Physiology and national needs. *$4 Dutton 613

(Eng ed SG20–168)

“The physiologists in this country and in England were called upon during the war to give expert advice in food rationing, food conservation, health preservation, etc., and a series of public lectures on these topics given at King’s college by men of eminence in their profession have now been edited by Mr Halliburton. Some of them are worthy of special notice owing to the amount of new scientific knowledge they contain, knowledge that as yet has hardly penetrated beyond well-informed medical circles. Such, for example is the lecture by Professor Hopkins on vitamines. In the lecture by Professor Harden on scurvy a great deal of new and important information is collected and presented. In the article by Professor Dendy on ‘The conservation of our cereal reserves’ the difficulties connected with the storage of grain are described, and evidence is given for the great saving that might be effected by the adoption of a system of air-tight storage.”—Review

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=Ath= p418 Mr 26 ’20 1300w

“The book as a whole is extraordinarily interesting from many different aspects, as much perhaps for the questions it asks as for those it answers.” A. E. B.

+ − =Nature= 105:286 Mr 6 ’20 1000w

“The addresses selected for publication are well written in popular style, free from scientific terminology, and may be read with profit by any intelligent person interested in such topics.”

+ =Review= 3:505 N 24 ’20 370w

“In all probability the reader will find the first three lectures dealing with foods and vitamines the most interesting of the series, but each one is well worth studying.”

+ =Spec= 124:870 Je 26 ’20 1200w

=HAMBIDGE, JAY.= Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase, il *$6 Yale univ. press 738

20–15783

“The life-suggesting quality of Greek art by which generation after generation of art-lovers have been impressed is the true theme of the book. To get back of appearances to the source of this quality has been a task occupying more than twenty years of the author’s concentrated mental labor. Why should the Greek masterpieces suggest the life and growth of nature in their design while inferior designs suggest inertia and fail to stimulate the mind? The secret was simple enough, although it has called for an elaborate and extended process of proving by mathematical tests. It consists in the fact that the Greeks did all their measuring for works of art in areas, and that by finding the proportions of these areas in growing organisms such as plants, and especially the human figure, they provided themselves with a guide to the arrangement of areas in design that enabled them to capture vitality in all their works.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“The make-up of the book is beautiful and the illustrations and general idea are interesting to the lay student, though the study of the text is for the artist.”

+ =Booklist= 17:60 N ’20

“What seems to distinguish this study is the effort, apparently quite subconsciously made, to cover the whole matter with an air of mystery. This has been done by the familiar device, prehistoric in origin and perennial in its growth, of creating a new vocabulary. Stripped of its mystery and set forth in simple language it would have been an interesting work.” D: E. Smith

− + =Nation= 111:326 S 18 ’20 1600w

“A contribution to the literature of art more searching and revealing than anything published within this field during the last century.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:20 Jl 4 ’20 1700w

“On the side of aesthetic appreciation ‘Dynamic symmetry’ affords, at least to one critic, very little help.... Mr Hambidge’s patient and modestly presented researches should cause a restudy of the whole problem, which can only be beneficial.” F. J. Mather, Jr.

+ − =Review= 3:456 N 10 ’20 1400w

“In this book through his re-discovery of the principles used by the Greek artists of the classic age, Mr Hambidge has opened up a new field in modern art.”

+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:187 N ’20 70 w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 13 ’20 110w

“At first sight his results appear little short of marvellous, and yet it may be doubted whether they are so convincing as appears to their author.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p700 O 28 ’20 1750w

=HAMILTON, CICELY MARY.= William—an Englishman. *$1.25 (2c) Stokes

20–8361

Mild-mannered, pale-faced, undersized, painstaking and obedient—thus is William Tully characterized in this biographical novel. At his desk in a London insurance office he is vaguely conscious that his too well regulated life has been ordered by his masterful mother. Her sudden death leaves him adrift and chance lands him among the reformers. Like a new garment he puts on their cult and convictions, finds him a wife among them—and is surprised by the war while on his honeymoon in Belgium. Inwardly and outwardly his world collapses about him and his wife is crushed in the ruins. Stunned he returns to England, his pacifism changed into patriotism. After several rejections he is accepted in the army and eventually finds himself caught in the rat-trap of a military clerkship from whence he is rescued from growing bitterness by an aerial bomb.

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+ =Booklist= 17:32 O ’20

“The book is earnest, realistic and very well written, the emotional and dramatic portions of it getting a real hold on the reader’s imagination. It is an unpretentious volume, and a very moving, very interesting one.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 400w

“Vividness of characters and a keen study of human emotions under abnormal strain, are the more noticeable traits of ‘William—an Englishman.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w

=HAMILTON, CLAYTON MEEKER.= Seen on the stage. *$1.75 (3c) Holt 792

20–21431

The author wishes this informal collection of essays to be considered as a suffix to his other books on the theatre. In the first paper, “Life and the theatre,” he quotes the Athenians who regarded our world as “the valley of soulmaking” and states that the aim of art should be to provide a sense of life for men who, in themselves, are not sufficiently alive to create art by their very living. Some of the other papers are: Personal greatness on the stage; Hero-worship in the drama; Acting and impersonation; The laziness of Bernard Shaw; Satire on the American stage; Le Théâtre du Vieux Colombier; In praise of puppet-theatres; Understanding the Russians; Ibsen once again; The Jewish art-theatre; Booth Tarkington as a playwright; The Athenian drama and the American audience; A reminiscence of the Middle Ages—Guibour; Edmond Rostand. The book is indexed.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21

“One of his most thorough criticisms is that of Eugene O’Neill, whom he thinks the greatest dramatist of the present day. Other essays in the volume are of less importance; they are correct but commonplace, and interesting chiefly for the gossip they contain.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 160w

“He has studied the drama of the past as thoroughly as he has mastered the drama of the present. In other words, his preparation for dramatic criticism is far more than adequate; it is exceptionally ample. To this substantial equipment for his task he adds also the other three qualifications which a critic ought to possess—insight and sympathy and disinterestedness.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p4 Ja 30 ’21 1600w

=HAMILTON, COSMO.= Blue room. il *$1.90 (2c) Little

20–18662

Bill Mortimer comes back from the war with an intense desire to settle down and be happy with a wife and family. His past has been lurid, and he has memories locked in his “Blue room” which he wishes he could forget. His pal, Teddy Jedburgh, on the other hand, having walked the paths of rectitude in his youth, is inclined to kick over the traces and go the pace now. Both men fall in love with the same girl, a “Miss Respectable,” a “flower of a girl, with the dew on her and a morning hymn in her eyes.” Bill is the successful suitor and plans for the wedding are quickly made. Then just on the eve of the ceremony, Martha discovers Bill’s blue room, and, disillusioned and bitter, knows not which way to turn. It is Teddy who decides for her whether she shall, at the last moment, run away and refuse to marry Bill, or, letting the dead past bury its dead, carry on and marry him.

* * * * *

“The tale is told in a style of consistent and complacent banality, the very style of the movie commentator.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 360w

=N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 100w

“The plot, which is rather simple, at times dovetails in too smoothly to convince the reader. But once it gets fairly under way it carries the reader along without a hitch, to the very end.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 500w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

=Pub W= 98:1194 O 16 ’20 320w

=HAMILTON, COSMO.= His friend and his wife. il *$1.75 (3c) Little

20–6492

A story of the Quaker Hill colony, an exclusive residential community within commuting distance of New York. Julian Osborn has been unfaithful to his wife and Margaret Meredith to her husband, but in the divorce proceedings a false alibi is provided for Margaret and she returns to her husband, resolved to be a model wife and mother henceforward. Julian and Daisy Osborn are also reconciled, and altho Daisy knows the truth, as do several other people, she joins in the conspiracy to shield Bob Meredith. Their plans are upset however. Mary Miller, the girl who out of gratitude to Margaret had sworn herself to be the guilty party, becomes engaged to one of the colony’s popular young men and the wife of the lawyer who arranged this false testimony, herself a malicious gossip, tells the truth. Tragedy is averted and affairs are settled to everyone’s satisfaction.

* * * * *

“Readable as Mr Hamilton’s style is, it must be admitted that he is not without his difficulties. It must be confessed that there is tedium in the triteness of some of his ideas and situations.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 500w

“The background, cleverly and entertainingly sketched, is very much better than the overdrawn story.”

+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“Utterly unconvincing story.”

− =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 350w

“Mr Hamilton’s story moves swiftly and keeps the reader intent on the disentangling of the threads. Two characters stand out clearly—the self-made inventor and the worldly-wise, kindly woman who dominates her little circle.” H. Dick

+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 180w

=HAMILTON, ERNEST WILLIAM, lord.= Elizabethan Ulster. *$6 Dutton 941.5

(Eng ed 20–655)

“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ is an account of the stormy days of that Irish province during the reign of Elizabeth of England. Ulster then was in continuous strife with one or another—and occasionally practically all—of the great Irish chieftains, who resisted the English attempt to overrun and colonize their lands. The greater part of the book is given over to the rebellion of the three Hughs—O’Neil, O’Donnell and Macguire—in which most of the chiefs participated. The movement is traced in detail from its earliest stages until after the battle of Kinsale. The closing chapters deal with a few later and weaker revolts and the flight of the Ulster Earls, Tyrone and Tyrconnell, to the continent in the reign of King James.”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

=Ath= p415 My 30 ’19 120w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 550w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 500w

“It is a dull thing that he has given us, but not without its value. The chief fault of his work is his obvious inability to think himself back into an environment and a mode of life quite different from that of the year 1920.” H. L. Stewart

+ − =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 320w

“Every student of the history of Ulster must obtain this most valuable handbook. The publishers have, however, been so remiss as to send it out without either an index or even a table of contents.”

+ − =Sat R= 127:634 Je 28 ’19 420w

“Lord Ernest Hamilton’s handling of the subject is throughout wonderfully impartial; there are one or two generalizations which betray the side to which his feelings incline him, but he allows no personal prepossessions to interfere with an unbiassed presentation of the facts. The defects of his book are only incidental.”

+ − =Spec= 122:700 My 31 ’19 1700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 22 ’20 260w

“The atmosphere of war-time journalism has penetrated Lord Ernest’s historical study, and even his phraseology has occasionally suffered.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p332 Je 19 ’19 1500w

“‘Elizabethan Ulster’ fails, and partially for lack of the qualities of imagination and felicity of phrase.”

− =Yale R= n s 10:209 O ’20 150w

=HAMILTON, FREDERICK SPENCER, lord.= Vanished pomps of yesterday. *$4 (4c) Doran

(Eng ed 20–10129)

This is the second and revised edition of “some random reminiscences of a British diplomat.” His official duties took the author to Rome, Austria, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Paraguay and he chats pleasantly of the life he saw. On the pomp and circumstance, the glitter and glamour of the three great courts of eastern Europe the curtain has now been rung down definitely, is his final verdict. There is an index.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:84 N ’20

“Seldom does one find a book more completely enjoyable than this collection of the random memories of a British diplomat. It is an ideal companion for an idle hour—an excellent article for suitcase or bedside table—a mine of precious anecdotes.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 11 ’20 1900w

“His volume really deserves the reviewer’s conventional praise of being impossible to lay down, if once begun. It is as fascinating as it is informing.” Archibald MacMechan

+ =Review= 3:348 O 20 ’20 900w

“The Russian chapters are the best in this engaging chronicle.”

+ =Spec= 123:815 D 13 ’19 1800w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 29 ’20 800w

“There is nothing either indiscreet or malicious in his narrative; for all his lightness of touch, it is concerned with essentials, not with accidents; with conditions that were the growth of centuries, not with moods that are ephemeral; and its interest is permanent rather than startling.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p644 N 13 ’19 800w

=HAMILTON, SIR IAN STANDISH MONTEITH.= Gallipoli diary. 2v il *$10 Doran 940.42

(Eng ed 20–10127)

The author gives as his reason for keeping a diary during the Gallipoli campaign, his experiences with the Royal commission after the South African war. Never again would he trust his military memory without the black and white of his diary. It was a help to him in his work at the time, and he expects it to be his justification before the verdict of his comrades. Volume one dates from March 1915 to July 1915 and volume two from July to October 1915. There are illustrations, maps and an index.

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“It is not so much for its literary qualities—for these have been a little exaggerated—that the book is one to read, but for the insight which it gives into a mind extremely sensitive to impressions not only of actual experience, but of the imagination. What he calls ‘the detachment of the writer’ enabled him to look at his force, his superiors, his subordinates, and, above all, himself, as elements in a stirring picture.” O. W.

+ =Ath= p795 Je 18 ’20 1500w

“It is a tragical story Sir Ian tells, but tells with all the art of a poet and the precision of a soldier.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 1700w

“Sir Ian exposes the system he represents in its horrible imbecility. His ‘Diary’ has changed the barrenness of disaster into a world service. As a member of the tribunal he selects, I vote for his acquittal.” W: J. M. A. Maloney

+ =Nation= 111:sup653 D 8 ’20 2000w

“It is the personal narrative of the failure of a great man in a great adventure. It is history more enthralling than any fiction.” F. L. Minnigen

+ =N Y Times= p9 N 7 ’20 1900w

“As the reader turns page after page of these volumes he may be surprised to find that he is getting not only a valuable narration of a particularly interesting campaign; he will find that the military man who writes the account is frequently capable of brilliantly atmospheric and poetic text.”

+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 130w

“For the general public the greatest charm of his diary lies in its characterizations of great leaders like Kitchener and Churchill, and its sketches of the principal officers of the expedition. At the same time military experts will find in its pages much new and valuable material by way of criticism of war policy.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 150w

“We confess that, while the matter of the narrative absorbs our interest, we are repelled by the slangy style in which it is written.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:518 Je 5 ’20 1400w

=Spec= 124:762 Je 5 ’20 1400w

=HAMMOND, ARTHUR.= Pictorial composition in photography. il *$3.50 (7c) Am. photographic pub. co. 770

20–11849

This work by the associate editor of American Photography takes up such subjects as spacing, mass, linear perspective, line composition applied to figure studies, tones in portraiture, etc. A knowledge of elementary principles is taken for granted and for the technical and scientific aspects of photography the reader is referred to other volumes in the series. The author’s purpose here is “to try to point out to the artist in photography some of the universally recognized rules of composition, and to give as much practical help as is possible in dealing with a phase of artistic work in which the personal equation is so important a factor.” (Chapter 1) The book is beautifully illustrated with forty-nine pictures from photographs.

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“The simple, common-sense suggestions about picture-making in this book, backed as they are by thorough technical knowledge and wide experience, will make the volume of real, practical use to ambitious amateur photographers. The ‘soft-focus’ illustrations hardly do justice to the text.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:715 Ag 25 ’20 50w

“Nothing that the most ambitious worker may need is omitted by the author, whose equipment for the self-imposed task is remarkably complete. Modesty and self-repression, rather than egotism and presumption, characterize the mental attitude of the author throughout his engrossing volume.”

+ =Photo-Era= 45:104 Ag ’20 760w

=HAMMOND, DARYN.= Golf swing, the Ernest Jones method. il *$3 Brentano’s 796

(Eng ed 20–16277)

“Mr Hammond sets forth the views of Ernest Jones, the Chislehurst professional, on the golf swing, and they certainly deserve a sympathetic and attentive hearing, because Jones’s swing has stood the severest possible test. In March, 1916, he lost his right leg just below the knee, in France.... His new gospel, very briefly put, is that the golfer should first get a clear ‘mental picture’ of the shot he wants to play, then concentrate his mind entirely on the right action of hands and fingers, and let everything else take care of itself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“The book is an interesting contribution to the theory of golf, but, in our opinion at least, it is too narrow in its range, and too exhaustive in that range, for a satisfactory volume of instruction.” B. R. Redman

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 4 ’20 110w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 130w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p287 My 6 ’20)

“Despite its reiterations the book contains much that is interesting as well as original.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 250w

=HAMMOND, JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON and HAMMOND, BARBARA (BRADBY) (MRS JOHN LAWRENCE LE BRETON HAMMOND).= Skilled labourer, 1760–1832. *$4.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 330.942

20–4494

“A companion volume to the valuable works by the same writers on ‘The village labourer’ and ‘The town labourer.’ In the latter they described the new life of town and factory introduced by the industrial revolution; they now give the history during the same period of particular bodies of skilled workers:—Miners of the Tyne; The cotton workers; The woollen and worsted workers; The Spitalfields silk weavers; The frame work knitters; The Nottingham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire Luddites.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“This story is not new: but the full and authoritative account of it is, and the historian may here find source-material for which he might otherwise search many weary months. The authors have done their work well. One wishes that they might have been a little less liberal, in the more technical sense of that word, in their attitude toward the ruling classes of the early nineteenth century.” W. P. Hall

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:324 Ja ’21 800w

“Despite the singularly felicitous style which is the endowment of the Hammonds, and despite the human interest of the book, it will not, probably, prove as charming to the general reader as ‘The village labourer.’” W. F. Woodring

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:364 N ’20 1050w

“Unfortunately there is not much information concerning the relation of labor to the development of English politics during the period prior to the great reform statute, although this aspect of things is not wholly neglected.”

+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w

“There can be no question as to the very great merits of Mr and Mrs Hammond’s achievement. They have deservedly taken their place in the front rank of social or industrial historians. Their work is conscientious, scholarly, well written, of the greatest interest and the highest importance, and they have the instinct of the born ‘researcher.’ The authors are, however, content to let the facts speak for themselves.” L. W.

+ − =Ath= p76 Ja 16 ’20 1800w

“In view of the present industrial disturbances this intensive study of an earlier upheaval, written with interesting fact upon interesting fact, is illuminating.”

+ =Booklist= 17:12 O ’20

“The whole work is a splendid example of enlightened industry and painstaking care, and takes its place immediately among the great classics of English sociological literature.”

+ =Cath World= 111:404 Je ’20 290w

+ =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 100w

“The book is more impartial in its discussion of social questions than the two earlier volumes of the series; though the introduction, which describes the England of the period in terms of ‘civil war,’ is surely an exaggeration.”

+ =Eng Hist R= 35:624 O ’20 390w

“Brilliant volume. It is in no way inferior to its predecessors, than which there is hardly greater praise.” H. J. Laski

+ =Nation= 110:594 My 1 ’20 200w

=Sat R= 129:188 F 21 ’20 1350w

“Readers who bear in mind the course of politics and of the Napoleonic wars will have in this book a really instructive commentary, from the workman’s standpoint, on the revolution then proceeding in British industry.”

+ =Spec= 124:243 F 21 ’20 1000w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 7 ’20 90w

“Its timeliness quite apart, this history is one of the most fascinating ever written—perhaps because it renders articulate the masses of toiling people by fitting into a large, animated picture the thoughts, actions and sufferings of obscure individuals; perhaps also because it explains these chronicles with skilful and sympathetic psychological search for motives and current beliefs. It cannot be recommended too warmly.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 140w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p771 D 18 ’19 80w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p95 F 12 ’20 1950w

=HAMMOND, MATTHEW BROWN.= British labor conditions and legislation during the war. *$1 Oxford; pa gratis Carnegie endowment for international peace 331

19–19930

One of the Preliminary economic studies of the war issued by the Carnegie endowment for international peace. Contents: The social background: English industry and labor at the outbreak of the war; Industrial panic and readjustment; The government and the trade unions; The munitions of war acts; The supply and distribution of labor; The dilution of labor; Wages, cost of living, hours of labor, welfare work and unemployment; Industrial unrest; Industrial reconstruction; Index. The author is professor of economics, Ohio state university, and was a member of the United States food administration.

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Reviewed by Edith Abbott

+ =Am Econ R= 10:841 D ’20 160w

“This is a useful compilation but not altogether a mature treatment of the subject. The garnering has been conscientiously done, and the presentation is full, informing, and lucid.” H. L. Gray

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:550 Ap ’20 400w

Reviewed by E. H. Sutherland

+ =Am J Soc= 26:370 N ’20 150w

=Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 100w

“We cannot help feeling that Professor Hammond could have added a great deal to the value of his book without unduly enlarging its bulk if he had relied less complacently on the material which he found ready to his hand. His work gives no indication of far-reaching research or first-hand acquaintance with British conditions. Yet it has considerable merit. It is clear and easy in style and remarkably unbiased.” G. S.

+ − =Ath= p442 Ap 2 ’20 500w

“An interesting preliminary survey written in an uncritical historical way.”

+ =Booklist= 16:262 My ’20

Reviewed by C. C. Plehn

+ =Nation= 111:379 O 6 ’20 190w

“The volume gives a documentary history of the reactions of the war on labor in England which future students will find invaluable.” H. W. L.

+ =Socialist R= 8:252 Mr ’20 100w

“Within its limits the present study is of the highest value. The present reviewer has found it accurate on the matters he happens to know about, and sufficiently detailed to make clear the intentions of the legislature even on comparatively small points.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w

=HAMSUN, KNUT.= Hunger. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf

20–21963

The book has been translated from the Norwegian by George Egerton and has an introduction by Edwin Björkman. It is an epic of hunger. A young writer has fallen on evil days and is condemned to long spells of hunger between the acceptances of articles now and then by some paper. The physical privations he undergoes are only casually described but the psychology of hunger is enlarged upon with distressing detail. There is black despair suddenly replaced by fantastic mirth, clear mental vision by hallucinations and delirium, complete lassitude by sudden spurts of energy, morbid sensitiveness about his condition by brazen affrontery and mendacity.

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“The work belongs to the naturalist movement of thirty years ago. Its belated appearance in America may be excused on the ground that no public could have been found for it earlier.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 70w

+ =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 200w

“Its artistic quality is indisputable. The book is very real, very frank—distressingly and shockingly frank, some persons will no doubt consider it. But none can deny that it is life, genuine, if appalling.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 12 ’20 1000w

“There are occasional gleams of light, hints of humor, which relieve the tense and depressing atmosphere of a book at once repellent and compelling, highly imaginative and profoundly true.” R. F. Eliot

+ =Pub W= 98:1884 D 18 ’20 300w

“‘Hunger’ is an extraordinary book, to be read with one’s faculties alert, quickened to a difficult understanding of a supernormal human soul.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 490w

=HANIFAN, LYDA JUDSON.= Community center. (Teacher training ser.) $1.52 Silver 374.28

20–3342

In 1913 the author prepared “A handbook for community meetings at rural schoolhouses” for the use of West Virginia school teachers. The wide and continued demand for this work has led her to treat the subject more comprehensively in the present book. “The aim has been to emphasize strongly two things which the author believes to be fundamental in any plan that may be followed in the improvement of rural life conditions: (1) The redirection of rural forces must be effected by the rural people themselves; (2) for the present, and probably for a good many years to come, the active work of such redirection must be carried on mainly by means of community activities centering around the school.” (Author’s preface) Contents: The community center and the world war; Leadership and the community center; The community center idea; The enjoyment of leisure; Recreation; Social capital—its development and use; The community center as an aid to teaching; First steps in the community center; Special school programs; Miscellaneous activities within the community center; Entertainment programs for community meetings; Country life programs. Each chapter is followed by exercises. There is a general bibliography, in addition to occasional references in the text, and the book is indexed.

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=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

“Altogether, a most helpful little book, suggestive and with good references for further study.”

+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 120w

=HANKEY, DONALD WILLIAM ALERS (STUDENT IN ARMS, pseud.).= Letters of Donald Hankey. il *$2.50 Revell

20–4805

These human documents, as letters by the author of “A student in arms” can be called, are published as a tribute of love to one who sleeps in France. The introduction and notes are by Edward Miller, whose glowing picture of a loving personality adds an interest to the letters which, although written for the most part to his family and intimate friends, “run up and down the whole gamut of life.” Here and there are pen and ink sketches reproduced from the letters and charming features of the book are several facsimile letters to nephew and niece. Contents: The subaltern, 1904–1906; The undergraduate, 1907–1910; The traveller, July 1910–July 1912; The emigrant 1912–13; One of the immortal hundred thousand, 1914–1916.

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+ =Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 90w

+ =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20

=Nation [London]= 26:866 Mr 20 ’20 1300w

+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 160w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w

“Let us say at once that the first impression on the reader is that Hankey in his letters falls below the high literary inspiration which he displays in a ‘Student in arms.’ Yet the letters if they do not on the surface display the same quality as the essays, reveal when carefully studied a nature free, noble, and humane, combined with a truthfulness deeply impressive from its singular intensity.”

+ − =Spec= 123:860 D 20 ’19 1900w

“The author’s religion was very rational and wholesome and very advanced in thought for so young a man. Here and there he drops a comment on religion that would be worthy of the profoundest philosopher.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 250w

“These letters reveal the zest of life in a man of deep religious experience, especially quick to respond to the challenge of those on whom the burdens of life bore more heavily than on himself.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1050w

=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Irishman looks at his world. *$2 (3½c) Doran 914.15

20–4485

In this volume an Irishman tells us simply and dispassionately what he knows about his country, its politics, its religion, its social and economic structure and at the end disavows any knowledge of a solution of the Irish problem. He seems strongly to suspect that “we Irishmen, all of us, are spending most energy on what matters least, the form of the state; and far too little energy on what matters most, the making of men.” Contents: Irish politics—the old parties; Irish politics—the new parties; The island of saints—Ireland’s religion;—and scholars—Ireland’s culture; Education—primary, intermediate, university; Education—the Gaelic league and the Irish agricultural organisation society; The Irish aristocracy; The farmers; The middle classes—Dublin—Belfast—the country town; Conclusion.

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+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20

“Mr Birmingham takes apparently a rather Laodicean attitude. He is not aflame with that determined patriotism which burns in the souls of so many other Irish writers of today. He has applied, on the contrary, his own rather detached, yet pleasantly sympathetic spirit, and the wit and knowledge of human nature that have gone to the making of his novels, to a study of his fellow-Irishmen, and with laudable results.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:261 N ’20 370w

+ =Dial= 68:669 My ’20 110w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 500w

“Mr Birmingham’s book covers a very broad field, and does it with an ease, a lack of hurry and an ever-present sense of humor, which, when the highly controversial nature of the subjects is considered, render it a most unusual volume.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:117 Mr 14 ’20 900w

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 60w

“We can cordially commend Canon Hannay’s book to all who want to know what sort of men inhabit Ireland, what they think about, and in what way they will bear themselves in the hour of trial; we commend it to all who think some working compromise can be devised to inveigle Ulster under a Dublin parliament, and who imagine that because a policy is useful and desirable it must therefore also be practicable.”

+ =Spec= 124:146 Ja 31 ’20 700w

“This book will be much more helpful than ‘Irish impressions.’ Mr Chesterton found in Ireland the stronghold of the religion of which he is such an able propagandist. George Birmingham, although adherent to the church of Ireland, deals more even justice and displays in his treatment of the religious question that Irish fairness which is as real as Irish bigotry, though far less generally recognized.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 360w

=HANNAY, JAMES OWEN (GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM, pseud.).= Up, the rebels! *$1.75 (2½c) Doran

19–15676

Sir Ulick Conolly was a high government official in Ireland whose phlegmatic temperament and easy-going worldly wisdom refused to take the unrest of the Irish Nationals seriously. His policy was not to suppress the rebels but to avert an explosion by letting them blow off steam freely. He did not even suppress his daughter Mona, one of the rebels, who talked in Gaelic and dressed like a Celtic queen; who engaged in conspiracies and led uprisings. But he managed to send her off into the country to her aunt’s, for safe keeping, as he thought. There she organizes the natives and proclaims the Irish republic in the village of Dunally. Her father’s timely interference saves the situation from becoming serious for the rebels and turns the fracas into something of a farce. In the end the girl is put to bed for recuperation under the watchful eye of her aunt.

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“The humorous possibilities of the situation are used with delicacy and ingenuity. George A. Birmingham is at his best in this book.”

+ =Ath= p930 S 19 ’19 120w

+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20

“Never was irony so playful, so kindly an instrument as in Birmingham’s ‘Up, the rebels.’” M. E. Bailey

+ =Bookm= 51:207 Ap ’20 900w

“To read ‘Up, the rebels!’ is to see new light upon the Irish question. Both as a story and as a study of political and social conditions it is a tribute to the knowledge and skill of a leader among present-day clerical humorists.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 1200w

“Of course it is possible that some persons will not find this tale amusing; there are people who do not find the Gilbert and Sullivan operas amusing. But those who can enjoy wit and a shrewd, ironic treatment of certain human vanities and foibles will undoubtedly chuckle long and deeply over Mr G. A. Birmingham’s new tale.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1150w

“A thoroughly delightful story of Ireland, over which the reader chuckles long if not loud, appreciating and enjoying the whimsical wit and good-natured satire he has some time ago learned to expect from this most entertaining of writers.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 60w

“Canon Hannay has never written a more satisfying story.”

+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 100w

“Another of those disconcerting criticisms of Irish life and English government which illuminate the difficulties of affairs in the distressful country. The fact that the book is as amusing as any of its predecessors, even ‘Spanish gold’ or ‘The search party,’ seems merely incidental, but it must be mentioned.”

+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 120w

“We have already had several serious novels inspired by the events of Easter, 1916, but George Birmingham is the only writer who has turned the sequel to humorous purpose, and he is probably the only writer living who could be trusted to do so without offence. The worst that can be said of the book is that, as in ‘The seething pot,’ his first novel, the author sees no way out.”

+ =Spec= 123:510 O 18 ’19 900w

“The relation between his amusing chronicles and actual life may be remote: no matter, for they were always considered to be descriptive of the kind of events that might occur if people and Ireland had happened to be like the people and the Ireland of George Birmingham’s books.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p514 S 25 ’19 450w

=HANSHEW, MARY E., and HANSHEW, THOMAS W. (CHARLOTTE MAY KINGSLEY, pseud.).= Riddle of the frozen flame. il *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday

20–9476

“Mr Maverick Narkom, superintendent of Scotland Yard, sat before the litter of papers upon his desk.... ‘Dash it, Cleek!’ he said for the thirty-third time, ‘I don’t know what to make of it, I don’t, indeed!’” So opens the new Cleek story. The mystery referred to is a series of daring bank robberies. But more unusual matters are to follow, involving the riddle of the frozen flames. Sir Nigel Merriton sees them on the first night spent in Merriton Towers and his impulse is to go out onto the fens to investigate, but his horrified servants restrain him with tales of those who have dared this never to return. Sir Nigel, who is very much in love and has just become engaged, has no wish to risk his life and his interest in the supposed supernatural phenomenon lapses. It is only when Dacre Wynne, his unsuccessful rival, disappears, that he is moved to action and carries the strange tale to Scotland Yard, arousing the interest of Cleek, who pursues the mystery to its solution.

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“The dénouement is obvious from the first, while the love interest is of the usual stereotyped kind. Even so, ‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is an infinitely better mystery tale than many others appearing this season.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 18 ’20 220w

“‘The riddle of the frozen flame’ is a cleverly conceived tale that will idle away an hour most pleasantly.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 400w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 200w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 80w

=HANSON, DANIEL LOUIS.= Business philosophy of Moses Irons. il *$2.50 (1c) Shaw, A. W. 658

20–19862

A series of chapters, in fiction form, on the methods of conducting a big business today. Moses Irons is the typical self-made business man, shrewd, kindly, humorous and masterful. His ideals, his methods, his relations with his subordinates are set forth in the book, some of the chapters of which are: A romance of business; Live wires and dead ones; Getting a job with Moses Irons; The ironmaster talks advertising; Business diplomacy and trade anarchists; Wives and sweethearts; The ironmaster gets pointers on handling salesmen; The ironmaster invests in junk.

=HANSON, OLE.= Americanism versus bolshevism. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doubleday 331.87

20–2669

The author speaks of bolshevism and everything he conceives of as coming under the head—communism, syndicalism, I. W. W.’ism—in no uncertain terms. They all, he says, thrive on “murder, rape, pillage, arson, free love, poverty, want, starvation, filth, slavery, autocracy, suppression, sorrow and hell on earth.” (Preface) After giving the above ‘isms more than their due he also mentions the red employers as likewise culpable, but “we should be thankful that every day they become less and soon will be an inconsequential minority in the land.” Among the contents are: The labour situation in Seattle; Something of the rise, trial and failure of bolshevism in Europe; Some of history’s verdicts on reformers, utopias, trade unions, and bolshevism; The causes of Bolshevism in Russia; The origin and development of bolshevism in the United States; Bolshevism in America: its causes and some remedies; Bolshevism contrasted with Americanism.

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“The book contains pages of shallow generalizations.”

− =Booklist= 16:223 Ap ’20

“The value of this book, and the interest of it, is the clearness with which it points out the menace.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 950w

=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 70w

“The best part of the book is that in which Mr Hanson tells the story of his own fight. The reader is forced to decide whether or not Mr Hanson has attempted too much. For one thing he has endeavored to generalize from his own experiences. His arguments are weak when he delves into the past. Ole Hanson on the subject of remedies is worth reading.”

+ − =Lit D= p90 My 1 ’20 1050w

=R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 60w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 15 ’20 400w

=HANUS, PAUL HENRY.= School administration and school reports. *$1.75 Houghton 379.15

20–13792

The object of the book is to help principals and teachers as well as superintendents and boards of education to acquire a clearly defined educational and administrative policy and to formulate and justify their opinions and procedure. Contents: The meaning of education; Some principles of school administration; Town and city school reports, more particularly superintendents’ reports; Testing the efficiency of public schools; Courtis arithmetic tests applied to employees in business houses; Measuring progress in learning Latin; How far shall the state go? The German example; German schools and American education; Germany’s kultur; The Harvard graduate school of education.

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“One might raise a question as to why such an excellent monograph as the first three chapters would make should be made to carry an equal amount of loosely associated material. The last eight chapters are interesting and have individual value, but are not more closely related to the theme of the book than many other articles which might have been included. The busy school administrator would doubtless appreciate the book more if there were fewer ‘riders’ attached.”

+ − =El School J= 21:73 S ’20 880w

“The clear-cut statement of principles of school administration and of the bases of determining the efficiency of the administration of a system of schools, and the analysis of typical school reports and the suggestions for their improvement contained in the first four of the essays have in themselves much more than enough of value to justify the volume.”

+ =School R= 28:710 N ’20 190w

=HAPGOOD, NORMAN.= Advancing hour. *$2 Boni & Liveright 940.5

20–12808

Mr Hapgood accepts the fact that we are now in the midst of revolution, and accepting that fact, he says “the only question is in what manner it will be conducted, and by whom.” He states his own position, and defines his liberalism: “If a radical is one who by nature prefers sudden change and violent remedies then I am not a radical.... A liberal differs from a radical in humility. He concentrates on certain changes, good in themselves and also carrying the seeds of further change, but he leaves later steps to later times. His faith is that if the next step taken by us is important and of right direction we shall have done all that belongs to our moment.” Contents: In time of revolution; The storm cellar; The blockade of thought; What the issues are; Without a party; Facing bolshevism: our follies in Russia; Facing bolshevism: the future in Russia; Is socialism needed? The answer of cooperation; The answer of liberalism; From Wilsonism to the future; What is our faith?

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“A hopeful book which does not attempt to solve all problems at a stroke.”

+ =Booklist= 17:13 O ’20

“Mr Hapgood always writes interestingly even though his words may not be based upon the soundest philosophy.”

+ =Cath World= 112:403 D ’20 330w

“Outside of an excellent chapter on the cooperative movement, the volume is chiefly pious platitude, amiable advice to business men not to make fools of themselves in a time of rapid social change like the present.” Harold Stearns

− + =Freeman= 2:92 O 6 ’20 960w

Reviewed by W: MacDonald

=Nation= 111:sup427 O 13 ’20 750w

“It is a book worth everyone’s reading, for its notable contribution of facts and ideas, and more especially for its candor of spirit, rare indeed in a day when a great part of our political writers are still more or less disabled morally by their late services to national morale in disseminating lies and misrepresentations for the glory of God and the cause of right.” A. J.

+ =New Repub= 23:339 Ag 18 ’20 2050w

“Mr Hapgood shows the defects of his good qualities and one of these is at present a lack of knowledge in what these good qualities consist. The volume is stimulating, patriotic without being nationalistic, unselfish and idealistic; but it shows some of the defects of an education which seems to have been entirely American.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p8 Ag 29 ’20 3550w

“The best chapter in the book is chapter eight on the advantages of co-operation, over both socialism and government regulation of great combinations, as a remedy for industrial injustice. Mr Norman Hapgood is an effective pamphleteer; but excellences in a pamphleteer are fatal defects in a historian.”

− + =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 300w

“To one reviewer at least—and one who is not insensible to the part Mr Hapgood has taken in past times in the advocacy of certain social measures—there is provocation on almost every page of this book. But in the two chapters on the Russian problem, as well as in other incidental treatment of this problem, the provocation concentrates in every line.” W. J. Ghent

− + =Review= 3:230 S 15 ’20 3350w

=R of Rs= 62:333 S ’20 130w

“To see things steadily and clearly is a gift of few. Mr Hapgood possesses fewer blind spots than most, but it may be that he is mistaken in parts of his analysis. However, he stimulates the reader to formulate his own beliefs. The style is a trifle labored, but there is no mistaking the book’s earnestness.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 320w

“Special mention should be made of Mr Hapgood’s intimate study of President Wilson. It is a helpful antidote to Mr Keynes’ sketch.” L. R. Robinson

+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 720w

=HARA, KATSURO.=[2] Introduction to the history of Japan. *$2.50 (2½c) Putnam

952

The book is the first of a projected series of publications by the Yamato society, whose aim is to make clear the meaning and extent of Japanese culture to other nations, and to introduce the best literature and art of foreign nations to Japan for a promotion of a common understanding. The present volume is intended for those Europeans and Americans who would like to know Japan “not as a land of quaint curios and picturesque paradoxes only worthy to be preserved intact for a show, but as a land inhabited by a nation striving hard to improve itself, and to take its share, however humble, in the common progress of the civilisation of the world.” (Preface) Contents: The races and climate of Japan; Japan before the introduction of Buddhism and Chinese civilisation; Growth of the imperial power; gradual centralisation; Remodeling of the state; Culmination of the new régime; stagnation; rise of the military régime; The military régime; the Taira and the Minamoto; the shogunate of Kamakura; The welding of the nation; the political disintegration of the country; End of medieval Japan; The transition from medieval to modern Japan; The Tokugawa shogunate—its political régime; culture and society (two chapters); The restoration of the Meidji; Epilogue. The objects of and the rules of the Yamato society are given in full and there is an index.

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“A carefully evolved and well written synopsis of the many centuries of Japanese national life. There is one especially creditable circumstance about the publication of this book. It is honest Japanese propaganda, and it makes no pretensions of being anything else.” S. L. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 420w

=HARBEN, WILLIAM NATHANIEL.= Divine event. *$1.75 (2c) Harper

20–16796

A story of psychical phenomena. Hillery Gramling, unhappy over the death of his brother, in consultation with a medium is sent to New York’s East side to live among the poor. There he comes in contact with Lucia Lingle, a beautiful young girl who seems to be under the shadow of some awful, mysterious tragedy. He falls in love with her and is anxious to help her. He is aided by Professor Trimble, psychologist, alienist, mental scientist, who becomes deeply interested in Lucia’s case. Thru the mediumship of Madame DuFresne, they discover the exact nature of her trouble, that her half-brother is trying to prove her insane that he may take over her inheritance. Together they fight the thing out, encouraged always by the supernatural aid they receive, thru Madame DuFresne, from those on the other side of death. In the end thru their combined efforts, Lucia is freed from the awful curse that has hung over her, and has the promise of happiness.

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“The plot is slight and unconvincing but is evidently meant to be taken seriously and will interest readers inclined to believe in spirit control and guardian angels.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=HARCOURT, ROBERT HENRY.= Elementary forge practice. 2d ed, enl il $1.50 Manual arts press 672

20–19056

A second edition of a work originally published by the author, instructor in forge practice in Leland Stanford Junior university, where it has been used as a text. It is designed for use in technical and vocational schools. Contents: Materials and equipment; Drawing-out, bending and twisting; Common welds; Special welds; Hammer work; Annealing, hardening and tempering steel; Tool forging. There are forty-four plates illustrating as many projects.

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“The volume should prove a valuable addition to any shop library as a supplementary text. For the teacher of large classes of beginners it should lift the burden of much class work and explanation if placed in the hands of the pupils as a text.”

+ =School R= 29:77 Ja ’21 210w

=HARD, WILLIAM.= Raymond Robins’ own story. il *$2 (4c) Harper 947

20–3007

Colonel Robins was the unofficial representative of the American ambassador to Russia for eighteen months and a close observer of the powers that conducted Russian affairs, and he has had a more intimate acquaintance than any other American or allied representative with the government of Lenin. He is not a socialist and not a bolshevist, but he sees that the danger from the latter, if such there be, lies not in riots and robberies, mobs and massacres, not in its disorder but in its order, in that “the Soviet system is genuinely a system on its own account.... It can be extinguished only in the free air of fair controversy and of fair, practical proof.” There is but one choice left to America, according to Colonel Robins, in dealing with Russia, and that is not intervention but intercourse. The story of the book is told by the author as it was narrated to him by Colonel Robins. The contents are: The arrival of the Soviet; Trotzky’s plans for soviet Russia; The all-Russian congress and the Brest-Litovsk peace; The personality and power of Nikolai Lenin; The bolshevik “bomb”; and many illustrations.

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+ =Booklist= 16:237 Ap ’20

“It stands out in this consecutive form as the most vigorous, the most picturesque, as well as the most truthful record in English of the birth of Bolshevism through the Soviet.” O. M. Sayler

+ =Bookm= 51:310 My ’20 950w

=Cleveland= p76 Ag ’20 60w

+ =R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 180w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 1 ’20 1000w

“Mr Hard is so carried away with dramatic fervor that he feels it necessary to interrupt himself every now and then to assure us that Mr Robins is a good anti-Bolshevist. But these interludes need not divert the reader from the important parts of the book. Mr Robins’ admirable suggestions as to future American policy toward Russia deserve to be widely read.” Reed Lewis

+ − =Survey= 44:48 Ap 3 ’20 270w

=HARDY, THOMAS.= Collected poems, lyrical, narratory and reflective. *$3.40 Macmillan 821

20–26754

“This book contains all of Thomas Hardy’s poetry except ‘The dynasts,’ including poems which have appeared in his prose works.”—Booklist

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“There have been many poets among us in the last fifty years, poets of sure talent, and it may be even of genius, but no other of them has this compulsive power of Hardy. The secret is not hard to find. Not one of them is adequate to what we know and have suffered.... Therefore we deliberately set Mr Hardy among the greatest.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p1147 N 7 ’19 2200w

+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

“Let it be said straight out that in our opinion, whatever else Mr Hardy’s writing, susceptible to scansion, is, it is not poetry. It is not poetry, because, in the end, poetry is in a sort illusion.... He has been guilty of the last, the unforgivable sin in poetry—* *he has sinned against love, for which there is and should be no forgiveness.”

− + =Sat R= 128:459 N 15 ’19 1250w

=Spec= 122:512 O 18 ’19 20w

“Mr Hardy, once and for all, set up as poet, then, at an age when Shakespeare left our mortal stage. This book, for that reason alone, is an unprecedented achievement. Apart from that, to read steadily through it—and what severer test of lyrical poetry could be devised?—is to win to the consciousness not of any superficial consistency, but assuredly of a ‘harmony of colouring’; not, however keen the joy manifest ‘in the making,’ of an art become habitual, but of a shadowy unity and design.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p681 N 27 ’19 2450w

=HARKER, MRS LIZZIE ALLEN.= Allegra. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner

20–161

Allegra is a charming but decidedly self-centered young actress who sees every person and every incident in the light of her career. She is playing in a provincial repertory theater at the opening of the story and it is thru a chance meeting with Paul Staniland that her ambition to appear in London is gratified. Paul is delighted with Allegra and works up a part for her in the play he is dramatizing from one of Matthew Maythorne’s novels. Maythorne is one of those popular novelists whose books sell into the thousands and he fatuously accepts the success of the play as a tribute to himself, giving Paul none of the credit. Allegra’s admiration for the novelist is killed by a reading of his book and she comes to appreciate Paul, but a visit at the country home of Paul’s people, delightful tho they are, convinces her that she belongs to the theater and she returns to the stage.

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+ =Ath= p1208 N 14 ’19 70w

“The plot is not credible in parts, but this does not mar the interest of the story.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20

Reviewed by M. E. Bailey

=Bookm= 51:205 Ap ’20 260w

“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a really happy ending to a story?”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w

“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 70w

“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’ very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy ending.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w

+ =Sat R= 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w

“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w

“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a little below that attained in other books by the author.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p594 O 23 ’19 100w

=HARPER, GEORGE MCLEAN.=[2] John Morley, and other essays. *$1.60 Princeton univ. press 814

20–10290

“Professor Harper, of Princeton university, author of various books of literary criticism (including the substantial and able work on Wordsworth), here puts together eight essays—on John Morley; Victor Hugo (these from the Atlantic Monthly); Michael Angelo’s sonnets; Balzac; W. C. Brownell (an American critic); Wordsworth at Blois; Wordsworth’s love poetry; and ‘David Brainerd: a Puritan saint.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“His generalizations are just, and he is not ridden by them; he knows when to generalize and when to forget his generalizations.”

+ =Ath= p838 D 17 ’20 110w

=Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p762 N 18 ’20 70w

=HARRIS, CORRA MAY (WHITE) (MRS LUNDY HOWARD HARRIS).= Happily married. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–3192

The scene is an exclusive southern town, the time that summer of intense war activity, 1918, and the characters several married pairs. Two of these are Mary and Pelham Madden, and two others Ellen and Barrie Skipwith. Mary is one of those calm, maternal and beautifully placid women, a perfect housekeeper and mother of four children. Ellen is a childless woman with red hair and baby blue eyes. Mary has just found a note in her husband’s pocket addressed to Dear Pep. Ellen has just turned in a Red cross subscription list with an anonymous contribution of $1000. How Mary wakes up and learns to practice the old womanly wiles is the theme of a story that is told amusingly with touches of satire.

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“Entertaining in spite of its hackneyed plot.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“Mrs Harris makes no attempt to inject novelty into the situation. She relies on her knowledge of men and women and her happy faculty in phrasing her reflections thereon for the pleasure of her readers. And these easily suffice.” F. A. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Mr 27 ’20 500w

“The entertaining and shrewd comment upon married life, adds ginger to a somewhat conventional vamp story.”

+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 100w

+ =Lit D= p99 My 1 ’20 2300w

“An immense quantity of mildly entertaining and occasionally shrewd comment strung on a very slight, very much worn thread of plot, constitutes Corra Harris’s new novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:4 F 29 ’20 300w

+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 30w

“Mrs Harris’s thesis does not command unfaltering acquiescence. For those, however, who collect novels as others collect butterflies, the book will have a great deal of interest.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Je 17 ’20 500w

=HARRIS, CREDO FITCH.= Wings of the wind. *$1.75 (1½c) Small

20–11301

Jack Bronx, returning from the war, is packed off by his fond parents on their private yacht, with one of his army pals. On the way to Havana they pick up a stranger who turns out to be a secret envoy from the Kingdom of Azuria, in search of a lost princess. Chance favoring they trace the princess as one of the passengers on another yacht. Great is the chase, thrilling the adventures which eventually take the party to the Florida swamps into the ancient haunts of the Seminoles. The princess is rescued, Jack falls violently in love with her, and the old emissary hard put to it to save her, under the circumstances, for the throne of Azuria. Jack’s resourceful friend settles the matter by demonstrating to everybody’s satisfaction that the emissary’s orders to deliver the princess did not contain the provision that she must be single when found.

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=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 650w

“The story teems with thrilling incidents. The plot, however, is trite.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:552 Ja ’21 90w

=N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 530w

=HARRIS, H. WILSON.= Peace in the making. il *$2 Dutton 940.314

20–6966

“‘What I have endeavored to produce is an account, checked by such official documents as are available, which will convey to the general reader some not wholly inadequate impression both of what the conference did and how it did it.’ (Preface) The author was for three months the special correspondent of the London Daily News to the conference.”—Wis Lib Bul

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+ =Ath= p95 Ja 16 ’20 200w

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“Mr Harris is well-informed and his pen-pictures of the personality and policy of the leading diplomats, tho less lively than those of Mr Keynes, are far closer to the facts.”

+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 50w

“His plan is less ambitious than that of Dr Dillon, for he leaves out most of the historical summaries which are a valuable feature of Dr Dillon’s volume, and also tells fewer incidents. His account of the Prinkipo episode, and of the apparently deliberate intermeddling of France to insure that the proposed conference should come to naught, should be read by anyone who still cherishes confidence in the good faith of the Paris negotiators.” W: MacDonald

+ =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 150w

=N Y Times= p15 S 19 ’20 50w

“Those readers who are interested in finding an account of the peace conference to supplement the somewhat opinionated statements of Keynes and Dillon would do well to provide themselves with a copy of ‘The peace in the making.’ The book as a whole, while not itself history in the fullest sense, may well be regarded as a contribution to history.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 220w

“His summary of the deliberations of the conference is just a little too summary, and the chapter on Lenin and Bela Kun is vague and unsatisfactory. On the other hand, Mr Harris’s judgments of the personalities of the conference are generally temperate and just.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p23 Ja 8 ’20 220w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:119 Je ’20 60w

=HARRIS, JAMES RENDEL.= Last of the Mayflower. (Manchester univ. publications) *$2 (*5s) Longmans 974.4

20–14551

“In this publication of the John Rylands library Dr Rendel Harris tries to find an answer to the question, ‘What became of the “Mayflower“?’ The name was a common one for ships in late Tudor and early Stuart times; hence the tracing of the authentic ‘Mayflower’ has entailed much research. Some ten years after the landing of the Pilgrims (1620), she was employed on a similar service, that of transporting the remainder of the Leyden colony to New Plymouth. Then she is traced in the whale-fishery, and to her last owner and master, Mr Thomas Webber of Boston. Not long after 1654, the author says, ‘one is tempted to conjecture that she died (in a nautical sense). Most likely she was broken up in Boston, or perhaps in the Thames on her last voyage to London.’ ”—Ath

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=Ath= p591 Ap 30 ’20 140w

Reviewed by W. A. Dyer

=Bookm= 52:125 O ’20 40w

=HARRISON, AUSTIN.= Before and now. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane 304

20–6972

This collection of papers, reprinted in a revised form from the English Review, are critical and partly satirical and humorous impressions of conditions in England previous to and during the war. They were “journalism then, today they are prophetic,” says the author. It is the disintegration of old conceptions and the birth-pangs of new that form the subject-matter of the papers, which are: Jingoism; The coming of Smith; “Surrey in danger”; Peace, perfect peace; St George’s stirrup; The duke’s buffalo; A “Christian” Europe and afterwards; Our gentlemen’s schools; Authority and privilege; The new “Sesame and lilies”; The Christian drum; What is ours is not ours; The country of the blind; “Leave them ‘orses alone!”; Foreign politics; “Minny”; The awakening; Musings at Fort Vaux; Foundations of reconstruction.

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“Some of these reprinted articles from the English Review are worth reading again, as the contemporary views of a very independent critic.”

+ − =Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w

“Although the intimate knowledge of men and events which the author demands of his readers will be a drawback to many, the interest of his criticisms will hold the attention of the more thoughtful and well informed.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20

“The papers are stimulating and thoughtful.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ap 14 ’20 480w

“Mr Austin Harrison is unfortunate enough to live in a between-age. Actually he belongs to the Victorian era, but his generation and his intelligence will not leave him at peace, and push him into a rather uncomfortable ultra-modern attitude. Of all his essays the musings at Fort Vaux are the most illuminating, because they are at once the most sincere, the least preconceived.”

+ − =Nation= 111:224 Ag 21 ’20 220w

=N Y Times= p17 S 12 ’20 50w

“What he has given us is very suggestive, and one is grateful to any man who can stir up general interest in our social problems by the use of such a facile pen. He has the same sort of literary gift as Mr H. G. Wells, though in a slighter degree. But he has not so far shown anything like the rich literary nutritiousness that belongs to the work of his distinguished father [Frederick Harrison].” H. L. Stewart

+ − =Review= 2:600 Je 5 ’20 1000w

“Mr Harrison has a vigorous and effective pen, which often runs away with him and never quite knows when to stop; but his chief fault, as this book reveals it, is a love for exaggeration which detracts considerably from the value of his words.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p609 O 30 ’19 1150w

=HARRISON, MARY ST LEGER (KINGSLEY) (MRS WILLIAM HARRISON) (LUCAS MALET, pseud.).= Tall villa. *$1.75 (4c) Doran

20–3

The outstanding characteristic of this novel is that it is a ghost story. After her husband’s financial failure, Frances Copley betakes herself away from Grosvenor square and London high society and buries herself in Tall villa, a maternal inheritance and a preposterous piece of architecture, while her husband goes to seek a new fortune in South America. There the ghost of an ancient relative, a suicide from disappointed love, makes itself known to her and moved by pity she resolves to consecrate her life to his redemption. They hold daily concourse and by the time his earth-bound spirit has been released through her martyrdom, the latter for her had turned into rapture. Her spirit too, now longs for release and when the ghost makes its final appearance it is to free her too from earthly thralldom.

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=Ath= p767 Je 11 ’20 460w

“The story is kept sane by means of the other people, the Bulparcs, Lady Lucia and her baby, and Charlie Montagu. Therefore it is cleverly done. But no one who has not been drawn by a spirit lover to the fairer clime can tell if the rest of it is really correct. To review the volume rightly one needs a ouija board.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 520w

“The story, a modern fairy tale, is handled with much restraint and artistry.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w

=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w

“Those who are desirous of finding something to laugh at and to ridicule in any tale of the supernatural will readily discover all that they desire in ‘The Tall villa’; even those who are ready and willing to take the novel with the same high and intense seriousness with which it is written will find it difficult to refrain from smiling over some of the high-flown speeches addressed by Frances Copley to the ghost of Alexis Lord Oxley. Yet there is much of charm in the book.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w

“The character of Frances Copley is exquisitely etched. The rare distinction of Mrs Harrison’s carven style is at its best in this unusual and dexterously handled romance, which is finely free from the over-frank emphasis of the senses found in ‘Sir Richard Calmady.’” Katharine Perry

+ =Pub W= 97:601 F 21 ’20 400w

“The book will rank with the best of the author’s.”

+ =Sat R= 130:300 O 9 ’20 110w

“It is a sad confession to make, but we are Philistine enough to prefer those portions of the story in which normal events and personages predominate.”

+ − =Spec= 124:728 My 29 ’20 450w

“The dialog is invariably stilted, and the generally formal tone robs the situation of reality and those startling qualities inherent in it. The heroine herself is delicately portrayed. The story is not long and stirs only a mild interest.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 560w

“This novel is excellently written; but a ghost story should make the flesh creep, and that is the one function which, in spite of its excellences, it certainly does not perform.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p284 My 6 ’20 460w

=HARROW, BENJAMIN.=[2] Eminent chemists of our time. il *$2.50 Van Nostrand 540.9

The author has chosen eleven scientists “whose work is indissolubly bound up with the progress of chemistry during the last generation or so.” His aim has been “to write a history of chemistry of our times by centering it around some of its leading figures.” Contents: Introduction; Perkin and coal-tar dyes; Mendeléeff and the periodic law; Ramsay and the gases of the atmosphere; Richards and atomic weights; Van’t Hoff and physical chemistry; Arrhenius and the theory of electrolytic dissociation; Moissan and the electric furnace; Madame Curie and radium; Victor Meyer and the rise of organic chemistry; Remsen and the rise of chemistry in America; Fischer and the chemistry of foods. Reading references follow the chapters and there is an index.

=HARROW, BENJAMIN.= From Newton to Einstein; changing conceptions of the universe. il *$1 (6½c) Van Nostrand 530

20–7594

The booklet gives in simple popular language an outline of Newton’s great discovery and of the various steps in scientific achievements which led up to Einstein’s conception of the universe and theory of relativity. It shows how Einstein’s conception of time and space led to a new view of gravitation and explains some facts which Newton’s law was incapable of explaining. The three essays of the book are: Newton; The ether and its consequences; Einstein.

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“Dr Harrow’s account is altogether too inadequate. The chapter on ‘Einstein’ utterly fails to bring out the central conceptions of the ‘Relativity theory’; it is not that the treatment is obscure; it is that very important points are slurred over, misstated, or ignored.”

− =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 240w

+ =Booklist= 17:57 N ’20

“It contains egregious mistakes, minor errors, misplaced emphasis, wrong interpretation, and a modicum of information.” R: F. Deimel

− =Freeman= 1:423 Jl 14 ’20 60w

+ =Nature= 106:466 D 9 ’20 40w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p36 Ap ’20 70w

“A lucid little book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p603 S 16 ’20 20w

=HARTLEY, OLGA.= Anne. *$1.90 (2c) Lippincott

Anne is an orphan and still a child at seventeen when young Gilbert Trevor, one of her self-appointed guardians, falls in love with and marries her, while her other self-appointed guardian, John Halliday, continues to hover over her with a more selfless devotion. Anne never grows up but remains an ardent, wilful, fascinating child with a child’s sincerity and purity of heart. It leads her into dangerous situations and causes complications during which, at a crucial moment, Gilbert fails her. She forces the estrangement and after some mad escapades follows the dying John to Scotland, resolved to give him all the love that he deserved and of which Gilbert has proved himself unworthy. But the latter’s love and manhood stand the final test and his protecting arms once more hold Anne safe.

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“Anne’s future sister-in-law, Francesca, is a likeable character; but the heroine herself is difficult to understand, almost to the end of the book.”

+ − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 100w

“The author’s handling of the heights and depths of the story towards its climax deserves high praise for restraint, for absence of sensationalism while it yet holds and thrills.”

+ =Cath World= 112:407 D ’20 260w

“Whether one has patience with the violent-tempered, erratic heroine or not, it cannot be denied that here is a soundly-constructed, well-written novel.”

+ − =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 260w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

=Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 300w

“The development and gradual ripening of the heroine’s character (she needed it) are very well done, and we commend the book to our readers.”

+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 80w

=HARTMAN, HARLEIGH HOLROYD.= Fair value. *$2.50 Houghton 338

20–6119

The book is one of the series of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx prize essays in economics and the thesis is concerned with the meaning and application of the term “Fair valuation” as used by utility commissions. The usage of the term is a loose one and open to much confusion on the part of the public as well as of the courts. The author’s inquiry rests on the points: “that the public utility is essentially different from other industry; that private property devoted to the public use is not the same as other private property, and does not enjoy the same legal protection; that the service rendered is governmental in its nature, and; that the purpose of regulation is curtailment of ‘private rights’ and the encumbrance of ‘private property.’” The book falls into two parts: 1, The meaning of the term “fair value” contains: The basis of regulation; The purpose of regulation; Valuation and regulation; The theory of valuation; Valuation methods. 2, The application of the theory of fair value, contains: The valuation of tangible property; Valuation of intangible property; Depreciation; The return on the investment; Conclusion. There is also a selected bibliography, a table of cases, and an index.

* * * * *

“The first is far the more significant part. A valid criticism of the book is that it overstrains legal definitions and logical legal relationships.” J: Bauer

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:822 D ’20 880w

“A useful and opportune classifying of a large mass of scattered material.”

+ =Booklist= 16:329 Jl ’20

“‘Fair value’ is, withal, a most exhaustive and illuminative work on current economics, with principles, laws, court decisions and commission opinions all set forth in such a fashion that even the uninitiate in such matters are able to grasp Mr Hartman’s theories of valuation.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 22 ’20 550w

=Review= 3:448 N 10 ’20 1100w

=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 120w

Reviewed by E. R. Burton

+ =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 340w

=HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DRAMATIC CLUB.= Plays of the Harvard dramatic club. *$1.25 Brentano’s 812.08

“The little volume of one-act plays, edited by Professor George Pierce Baker, contains only four pieces, all of them dealing with American themes and all of them the result of their several authors’ studies in the dramaturgic laboratory which the editor has successfully conducted at Harvard. In his brief prefatory note he explains the activities of the Harvard dramatic club and tells us that the four plays he has chosen for inclusion have been selected ‘as a group which perhaps gives the volume best variety and balance.’” (N Y Times) The titles are “The harbor of lost ships, by Louise Whitefield Bray; Garafelia’s husband, by Esther Willard Bates; The scales and the sword, by Farnham Bishop; and The four-flushers, by Cleves Kinkead.” (Brooklyn)

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=Brooklyn= 12:66 Ja ’20 30w

“Professor Baker has worked earnestly, unostentatiously, and with only one failing, a somewhat lively fear of being academic.” K. M.

+ − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

=N Y Times= p10 Ag 8 ’20 150w

=HARVEY, LUCILE STIMSON.= Food facts for the home-maker. il *$2.50 Houghton 613.2

20–6498

The book is intended to help the young housekeeper without either knowledge of science or technical skill, and to give the experienced cook a scientific foundation, but primarily to show mothers how to feed their children. “Few women realize the great importance of the proper feeding of the family. Undernourishment among our children in the United States is far more prevalent than is generally supposed, and is found quite as often in the homes of the well-to-do as in those of the poor.” (Preface) Although the book contains recipes it is not intended to compete with cook-books, but rather to supplement them. Among the contents are: The importance of food; The composition of foods; Milk and eggs; Meat; Cheese and legumes; Cereals; Fruits and vegetables; Fats; Sugar; The use of food in the body; The measurement of food values; Food for infants and young children; Food for school-children; Food for invalids. There is a bibliography and an index.

=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

“A highly important and serviceable book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 230w

“Throughout the volume is an excellent manual that is well arranged, written in an informal and untechnical vein and well fitted to meet the demands of the ordinary household.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 140w

Reviewed by E. A. Winslow

+ =Survey= 44:592 Ag 2 ’20 110w

=HASBROUCK, LOUISE SEYMOUR.= Hall with doors. il *$1.75 (4c) Womans press

20–8235

A story for girls with a vocation moral. In their junior year in high school a group of friends form the V. V. club (the initials standing for vacation-vocation), and in the chapters of the book their various experiences in the world of work are followed. After college one group goes to New York to attack business, advertising, interior decorating and tearoom management. One girl stays at home and finds her vocation in a recreation center. One country girl leaves the farm to go to college and then comes back to teach a country school and make over a rural community. One girl, who is a misfit in business, succeeds as athletic director and organizer of a summer camp. The girls are bright and natural, the stories are interestingly told and the romance that has a part in all real-life stories is not omitted.

=HASKINS, CHARLES HOMER, and LORD, ROBERT HOWARD.= Some problems of the Peace conference. *$3 Harvard univ. press 914.314

20–12208

“It will be remembered that Professor Haskins and Professor Lord were two of the experts who accompanied President Wilson to the peace conference. Prof. Haskins served as chief of the division of western Europe and he was American member of the special committee of three which drafted the treaty clauses on Alsace-Lorraine and the Sarre valley. Professor Lord served as American adviser on Poland and related problems, both at Paris and in Poland itself. The lectures published in this volume were delivered last winter at the Lowell institute and are now given with only incidental changes. The effort of the two men has been to present each of these problems in its historical setting, revealing at the same time, the reason of its importance to the conference.”—Boston Transcript

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“In respect both to extent and to content, the book leaves much to be contributed to the subject in the future, by the present authors or by other scholars. It does provide what is most needed at this time, a well-informed and fairminded sketch of the background and of the probable issue of the territorial settlement. One noteworthy contribution of the book is the first chapter on Task and methods of the conference.” Clive Day

+ =Am Hist R= 26:334 Ja ’21 1400w

“May be regarded, without question, as the most important work on the conference that has yet appeared. It should do much to counteract the overdrawn and splenetic sketches of Keynes, Dillon, or Creel.” C: Seymour

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:734 N ’20 420w

“It is improbable that this particular book, with the accurate knowledge it displays and the authoritative position which its authors held in the actual negotiations, will ever be replaced as an historical record.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 14 ’20 280w

“By far the best account of the Paris conference which has yet appeared.”

+ =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 130w

Reviewed by W: MacDonald

=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 500w

“Their book will meet the needs of the many now looking for just such a graphic account of the methods of the peace conference in dealing with important questions.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 30 ’20 180w

“The book is to be welcomed warmly just because the Peace conference did not accomplish (whether it could have done so we need not here discuss) the enormous task it set itself, and Americans will be forced again and again to take a stand on new disputes arising from the settlements made.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 260w

“Within its limits the book, which is admirably written, is of great value. It contains a scholarly, open-minded, impartial account of such matters as the problem of Slesvig, and the questions concerning the status, and territorial extension of Belgium. It will do much good, for it serves as a useful antidote to the criticisms, often so ignorant and so partisan, of the territorial settlement.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p526 Ag 19 ’20 950w

=HASLETT, ELMER.= Luck on the wing; thirteen stories of a sky spy. il *$3 Dutton 940.44

20–8364

The personal narrative of a young American aviator in France. “The author records at the very outset how he preferred the clean air to the rat-haunted trenches, and it was that human desire to escape from the muddy, disagreeable ground that made him become a flying man. The book reads more like a novel than the record of a warrior.” (Bookm)

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“Hardships and adventures are told with a youthful verve, without overstraining and with an ever ready appreciation when the joke is on himself.”

+ =Booklist= 17:66 N ’20

“Major Elmer Haslett has written, in ‘Luck on the wing,’ just the kind of book we need, now that we all have some perspective—though little, I admit—on the war. It is full of the fire and fervor of youth, good-natured, natural—a splendid picture of the fighting airman.” C: H. Towne

+ =Bookm= 52:77 S ’20 430w

“For those who have shared our ignorance of the aerial observer, this book should be of value.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 500w

=HASLUCK, EUGENE LEWIS.=[2] Teaching of history. (Cambridge handbooks for teachers) *$3.20 Macmillan 907

“After defining certain legitimate reasons for teaching history in schools, and distinguishing these from ‘false and shallow justification,’ a statement is presented of the basis of selection of materials for pupils of different age groups and a detailed plan is outlined for organizing courses in English history for upper-grade pupils in either a one, two, three, or four years’ sequence. Further discussion concerns the nature and use of the history textbook and the effective use of supplementary historical and literary source material, with specific reference to a number of especially valuable ones; types of historical exercises which may be employed as aids to the stimulation of interest and the retention of historical facts; and different ways of utilizing general, local, and recent history. Three specimen lesson-units are given in outline form—one illustrating a unit of pure narrative, one which describes a particular social situation, and one which centers about a national character. A final chapter points out some of the most common pitfalls which beset the teacher of history, and suggests means of avoiding them.”—School R

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“This slender volume is of interest to American teachers for two reasons: first, for the information it gives directly or by implication upon the state of history-teaching in England, and, secondly, for the practical quality of its criticisms and suggestions, so wholly unaffected by the airs and attitudes of the professional pedagogue.” H. E. B.

+ =Am Hist R= 26:353 Ja ’21 390w

=Ath= p140 Jl 30 ’19 940w

“On the study of history, and the study of teaching as applied thereto, Mr Hasluck writes as an expert. Where there is life, there is hope. And even the formal categories of this handbook bear witness to a vitality, widespread and abounding in promise.”

+ =Sat R= 130:120 Ag 7 ’20 750w

+ =School R= 28:793 D ’20 320w

“Suggestive and helpful.”

+ =Spec= 125:281 Ag 28 ’20 190w

=HASTINGS, MILO MILTON.= City of endless night. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–15704

Great changes had taken place on the earth’s surface in 2150. The German empire had been wiped out and all that was left of it was the roof of Berlin looming up to the height of three hundred metres out of a bomb-torn desert that had once been Germany. The German people themselves now lived underground, three hundred million of them. It was an American chemical engineer who, during one of his experiments, was by accident exploded into their domain and by a cunning strategy managed to live and work among them; to escape by submarine and by means of his knowledge to be instrumental in the overthrow of that stronghold and in the liberation of those millions. All the qualities that the Germans have been credited with before, during and since the war, are utilized in the story with satiric exaggeration.

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“Mr Hastings has succeeded in interweaving into this book a love story that always escapes being bizarre, no mean accomplishment in a tale depicting a society ‘that never was on land or sea’ outside of an author’s imagination.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 420w

=HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.= Mutineers. il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press

20–26982

“A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago.” (Sub-title) It was young Ben’s first voyage and although only a ship’s boy he was in the midst of all the adventures that happened. He was the first to detect treason aboard, to suspect that it was not the pirates they encountered who killed the captain and first mate, and to join the mutineers against the crafty usurpers of power. He was set adrift with the mutineers in a boat, had an exciting encounter with Malay savages who helped them regain control of the ship and, after more thrilling experiences, in the course of which the culprits met their doom, the ship and its precious cargo was saved, and when the “Island Princess” returned to its home port there was indeed a story to tell.

* * * * *

“Told with skill and an evident knowledge of the sea and seamen. Older boys will find it absorbing. Good make-up.”

+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21

“This is a story that has the sort of appeal carried by ‘Treasure island.’ It is a book written with swing and go, windy of the high seas, full of the wild doings of those early days.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w

“There’s not one element of the ideal sea story lacking.” L. H. Seaman

+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 320w

“It is a tale with the true flavor of the time it professes to portray, and will have the genuine attraction for boys of all ages that similar stories by Stevenson and other lovers of the South sea and its shores possess.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 140w

=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Master Frisky. new ed il *$1.50 (6c) Crowell

The author is a well-known naturalist, author of “Wood and water friends,” and other books. Master Frisky is a collie puppy and in telling his story many other animal friends of barnyard and field are introduced. There are interesting chapters on the training of dogs, on dog signs and language and dog friendships.

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“A worthy addition to our delightful literature of dogdom.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 140w

=HAWKES, CLARENCE.= Trails to woods and waters; foreword by W: T. Hornaday. il *$1.60 (3c) Jacobs 590.4

20–6752

In driving the cows to and from pasture as a barefoot boy, the author tells us, he learned to love nature, he learned to “see” things, he learned to endow the growing, running, flying things in the woods with personality. He makes his young readers feel that they are coming in touch with sentient things, with personalities, when they read about the trees, brooks and animals of the stories. Contents: The trail to woods and waters; A tale from the skidway; The story of willow brook; A little dapple fool; The family of Bob-White; The busy bee; Downstream in a canoe; Jacking and moose-calling; In Beaver-land; One’s own back door-yard; A wary mother; A lively bee hunt; The speckled heifer’s calf; Camping with old Ben; Forest footfalls; In the hunter’s moon; A winter walk; Camp fire legends of the wood folks. Some of the material of the book has appeared in two earlier works now out of print.

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+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 29 ’20 200w

=HAWKINS, SIR ANTHONY HOPE (ANTHONY HOPE, pseud.).= Lucinda. *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–18612

The scene is all set for a fashionable London wedding, but at the last moment something goes wrong. The wedding is “unavoidably postponed.” As a matter of fact the bride has disappeared. Waldo Rillington, the bridegroom, is about to start in pursuit of the pair, for he rightly assumes that she has gone with Arsenio Valdez, but the war intervenes and for years Lucinda is lost to her English friends. Julius Rillington, Waldo’s cousin, meets her once in the interval, comes upon her unexpectedly in the year 1916 in a town in southern France. She tells him her story but he refrains from telling it to the others and keeps the meeting secret. Julius is thereafter much involved in Lucinda’s affairs, and when she is set free, he marries her. Lucinda is a heroine who serenely refuses to be downed by fortune. She takes good or ill with the same imperturbability and so always has the better of her rival, Nina, later Lady Dundrannan.

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“The canvas is small and the theme has no great originality, but it is treated with the delicately humorous grace which has always distinguished this author.”

+ =Ath= p763 D 3 ’20 130w

“There is some very clever characterization of the group of people involved in the delinquency.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 100w

“Light, whimsical, ironic, sophisticated, the history of ‘Lucinda’ is pleasantly diverting.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 19 ’20 600w

“One feels that Mr Hope is now writing to please his own ideals of the art of fiction rather than to amuse the crowd. The novel is on original lines and has underlying humor.”

+ =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 110w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p777 N 25 ’20 560w

=HAWORTH, PAUL LELAND.= United States in our own times, 1865–1920. *$2.25 Scribner 973.8

20–14454

“This book is designed to meet the needs of students who desire to know our country in our own times. In it I have devoted a large share of space to social and industrial questions, but I have been on my guard against swinging too far in this direction. After all, the business of government is still of prime importance to the welfare of the nation, and it is essential that our citizens should understand our past political history.” (Preface) The contents are in part: The aftermath of war; President Johnson’s plan of reconstruction; Mexico, Alaska, and the election of 1868; The fruits of reconstruction; Foreign relations and the liberal Republican movement; The passing of the “Wild West”; Hard times and free silver; The war with Spain; “Imperialism”; “Big business” and the Panama canal; The Progressive revolt; America enters the great war; The peace conference. The book contains eight maps, some suggestions for further reading and an index.

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“Not only has the author failed to show the interaction between the social and industrial problems of the country and the evolution of our law, but also he has failed to indicate the relation of these problems to our political life. Two attributes, however, of this work stand out so strikingly as to make its reading well worth the while of the student of recent American history. In the first place the ‘Suggestions for further readings,’ giving as they do page references to selected portions of various works, are excellent; secondly, and more important, Mr Haworth has produced a work which is so readable as to justify the claim of the publishers that it is as ‘fascinating as a story.’” B. B. Kendrick

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:349 Ja ’21 520w

=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20

“The author uses no little self-restraint in his endeavor to be impartial. The style is attractive, and the author has hit upon a happy medium between a mere outline and excessive details. This work is the best of its kind that has been published.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 580w

“His book deserves no serious consideration, save in so far as it may be used to befuddle the minds of our children.” Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 650w

Reviewed by C: A. Beard

=Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 460w

“It is possible to detect errors, for, though Dr Haworth’s method has apparently been to study thoroughly each standard authority on each particular phase of his subject, standard authorities on very recent events sometimes need a good deal of overhauling.... When it comes to the war itself, Dr Haworth gives about as lucid and understandable an account of it as we have met with anywhere. In his treatment of the social question no extremist on either side will find much comfort, but it will be applauded by all who want a sane and intelligent account.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 5 ’20 3000w

+ =R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 150w

“The text is notably readable with a delightfully simple style. The judgments passed on the actors in the difficult times of reconstruction and on such characters as Arthur, McKinley and Taft follow closely the estimates by Rhodes and the authors in the American nation series, which is to say they are eminently fair. The last chapters, dealing with the war and the peace conference, do not represent such mature or impartial judgments.” R. D. Leigh

+ − =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 440w

=HAWTREY, R. G.=[2] Currency and credit. *$5 (*15s) Longmans 332

19–19368

“Mr R. G. Hawtrey’s ‘Currency and credit’ is a series of essays on subjects connected with money, which the writer has put together with the intention of presenting ‘a systematic analysis of currency and credit movements.’ His ‘analysis’ takes the form of a description of the mechanism of exchange and of the way it works in practice, in the course of which he supplies an exposition of the nature of financial crises. Two chapters are devoted to the discussion of the financial problems which have to be faced in time of war, and two more to ‘The assignats’ and ‘The bank restriction, 1797.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 80w

“The book as a whole is in danger of falling between two stools: it is not easy or simple enough for beginners, and it does not take enough for granted to appeal to those who are already familiar with the theory of money. It could have been improved a good deal by rearrangement and a redistribution of emphasis. It is, however, the product of an acute intellect which reasons closely and threads its way through what are sometimes rather tortuous paths of abstraction.” G. S.

+ − =Ath= p1120 O 31 ’19 460w

“The last two sections of the book are, on the whole, the best portions of it. Mr Hawtrey’s history of the assignats is so well done that it could hardly be improved upon; it is clear, concise, and covers all the points which require bringing out. In selecting these few chapters for special praise we do not deny merit to the rest of the book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p568 O 16 ’19 720w

=HAY, JAMES.= Melwood mystery. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–4958

Washington is the scene of this mystery story. Zimony Newman, suspected of being a German spy, is murdered in her apartment in the Melwood. Suspicion rests chiefly upon John Thayer, a young senator, and Knowles, an inventor who had once employed Miss Newman as his secretary. Other characters are Felix Conrad, a retired German-American manufacturer, and his secretary, David Gower, and Rosalie, Conrad’s daughter, who is engaged to John. Two detectives are occupied with the case, one the typical secret service man, working with conventional methods, the other Hastings, who whittles away with his jack knife and thinks.

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“A well worked out detective story. Although conventional, the characters are interesting and the climax unexpected.”

+ =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

“The author’s style, simple, terse and gripping makes it easy to follow the dramatic happenings that finally lead to the dénouement.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:165 Ap 11 ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 140w

=HAY, JAMES.= “No clue!” *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd

20–15703

Like most mystery stories, this one begins with a murder. The victim is a young girl, Mildred Brace, the scene the lawn in front of “Sloanehurst,” the time, around midnight on a rainy night in summer. With so much known, it is left to Jefferson Hastings, an elderly detective who happened to be staying at Sloanehurst at the time, to discover the murderer and the motive. Also at Sloanehurst as week-end guests were Berne Webster, Lucille Sloane’s fiancé, and Judge Wilton, Mr Sloane’s close friend. From circumstantial evidence, Webster seemed guilty, as he had recently discharged Mildred from his office and she had since annoyed him with threats of a breach of promise suit. But Hastings mulled over the case and was not satisfied with circumstantial evidence. He got in touch with Mrs Brace, the girl’s mother, and upon discovering what manner of woman she was, became convinced that she held the key to the mystery in her hands. He played on her weakness, love of money, and eventually brought to light the facts that he had been sure existed—which completely cleared Webster and brought the criminal to justice.

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“The story holds interest throughout, though it is of rather commonplace people, and devoid of dramatic circumstances, until the moment of fastening the guilt on the unexpected person.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 420w

“It is no better and no worse than the general run of detective stories that will stand beside it on the booksellers’ shelves. Its author’s faults are typical of contemporary detective fiction. Of these faults, the most glaring is Mr Hay’s failure to arouse interest in his automaton-like characters.”

+ − =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 300w

“A cleverly constructed detective story, but one with very little genuine human interest.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w

=HAYDEN, ARTHUR.= Bye-paths in curio collecting. il *$6.50 Stokes 749

20–15722

“This is another of Mr Hayden’s useful books. He classifies a heterogeneous collection of objects in a practical, if slightly unscientific way under such headings as ‘Boxes,’ ‘Man and fire,’ ‘The land,’ ‘The boudoir,’ etc.” (Ath) “Among the less usual antiquities to be collected, which Mr Hayden describes, are tobacco-stoppers, early examples of which embody portraits of King Charles I.; keys, many of them beautifully decorated, playing-cards, children’s toys, and tea-table accessories.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“There is a fairly good index. Mr Hayden’s advice is sound, and his insistence that the function of the curio collector is to rescue works of art is welcome in these days of indiscriminate high prices. The half-tone illustrations are clear.”

+ =Ath= p193 F 6 ’20 90w

“Always delightful is Mr Hayden, and in this latest book of his, he is just as charming and even more discursive. Like most English writers, too, he has the advantage of a very firm historical basis.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 400w

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 400w

“An introductory note to the book, written with the grace and charm of a delightful essay, is full of lively comments on collecting in general. Fascinating information on a wide miscellany of subjects peeps at us from every paragraph of ‘Bye-paths in curio collecting.’”

+ =N Y Times= p10 S 12 ’20 2250w

“Mr Hayden belongs, quite frankly, to the sentimental school, finding, if not beauty, at least a genuine charm in the chattels of our forefathers; and his book, without being exactly ‘popular,’ is of human rather than technical interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p757 D 18 ’19 3050w

=HAYES, CARLETON JOSEPH HUNTLEY.= Brief history of the great war. *$3.50 Macmillan 940.3

20–8603

The author states that he has essayed to sketch tentatively what seem to him to be the broad outlines of the war, the “domestic politics of the several belligerents no less than army campaigns and naval battles,—and in presenting his synthesis to be guided so far as in him lay by an honest desire to put heat and passion aside and to write candidly and objectively for the instruction of the succeeding generation.” (Preface) After giving in due order the various events and phases of the war the last chapter—A new era begins—is devoted to the settlement, the losses and the landmarks of the new era. The three appendices contain: The covenant of the league of nations; American reservations to the treaty of Versailles; and Proposed agreement between the United States and France. The book contains a select bibliography, an index, ten maps in color and numerous sketch maps.

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“This is the best single-volume history of the great war which has so far appeared, and it is one of the very few which deserve serious consideration by professional students of history. It is written with a high degree of scientific responsibility, and not for mere purposes of journalism or propaganda. At present it holds practically a unique place for fullness of information, fairness, balance, and accuracy.” W: S. Davis

+ =Am Hist R= 26:91 O ’20 1250w

“Useful as a school text or reference.”

+ =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20

“In mastery of detail, in perspective, in proportion, in perspicuity, in philosophic grasp of his subject as a whole, he outclasses all rivals, whether they have written in English, in French, or in German. Even his faults, such little ones as may be picked out here and there, are but the excesses of his virtues. Thus, in his desire to make everything perfectly clear, he verges on the pedagogical. Certainly, by his lucidity and his impartiality he has attained a result unsurpassed by the poets and thinkers who have written on the war, by Sassoon or Barbusse, by Keynes or Bertrand Russell.” Preserved Smith

+ − =Nation= 111:46 Jl 10 ’20 850w

Reviewed by C: A. Beard

=New Repub= 25:114 D 22 ’20 880w

“Considering the time and the circumstances under which it was composed, Professor Hayes has written a good brief history of the war.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 O 23 ’20 850w

“As a book of reference it will be highly useful, for it has an admirable index, abundance of maps and sketches, a good bibliography, and its table of contents, with the titles of chapters and sub-chapters at once suggests the true proportion of the different events of the war. But the breath of life is lacking which would convert these cold recitals into a vivid picture of the war as a whole.” F. V. Greene

+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Jl 11 ’20 1900w

“The author’s acquaintance with European politics enabled him to supply the appropriate background for his pictures.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 100w

“Well adapted for use in the schools. While it does not attain at all times to scientific objectivity of view, it shows a broad and judicial comprehension of events, and is as strong on the military side as the political. The bibliography is very faulty.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 280w

“It is written with a commendable absence of subjective theory or tendency and will be of value as a textbook when, owing to changes in popular sentiment, other war ‘histories’ written so soon after the events will have proved little more than political treatises. In short, a book worthy of a permanent place in any library.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:501 Jl 3 ’20 120w

“Will be found useful for general readers and students.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w

=HAYES, ELLEN.= Wild turkeys and tallow candles. *$2.50 Four seas co. 977.1

20–19252

A book in which the author, formerly professor of astronomy in Wellesley college, recreates something of the atmosphere of pioneer days in Ohio, drawing on printed records and her own memories. In explanation of her title she says, “The turkey and the candle serve fairly well to indicate the early and the late colonial times. With the passing of the candle and the coming of the kerosene lamp modern life was fairly introduced. As my own memory runs back to a prekerosene time I am able to describe at first hand some phases of Granville township life that were essentially pioneer.” Part 1, Wild turkey period, has chapters on Early Ohio; The pioneer journey; The wilderness home, etc., and among the chapters of Part 2, Tallow candle period, are An octagon of education; The Wolcott homestead; The year around; The county fair; A child of the Ohio eighteen-fifties.

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“The effect achieved is a brilliant painting of sturdy scenes that linger in the imagination after the book is laid down.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 200w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 50w

“This book should have three classes of readers, those who are interested in the early settlement of Ohio, those who like small history personally written, and those who are quite justifiedly interested in the early life and background of Ellen Hayes.” M. C. C.

+ =Survey= 45:329 N 27 ’20 300w

=HAYNES, EDMOND SIDNEY POLLOCK.= Case for liberty. *$2.50 Dutton 323.4

(Eng ed 19–19932)

“Mr Haynes here develops the argument which he outlined three years ago in ‘The decline of liberty in England.’ He associates himself, subject to some reservations, with Mr Belloc in restating the case for personal liberty in the old radical sense. ‘The vitally important aspect of liberty today,’ he says, ‘is its function in combating the sort of anarchy which threatens civilization all over the world; for this anarchy is the inevitable result of war lords and their imitators despising the normal aspirations of the individual human being to a brief period of normal happiness.’ The book is in the main a review of the more recent tendencies of politics in England with the object of showing that the individual human being is marked for destruction as such by the plutocrat on one side and the collectivist on the other. The political remedies he proposes are the referendum and the revival of the process of impeachment.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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=Nation= 112:90 Ja 19 ’21 410w

“His little book is replete with rare and robust commonsense; his reasoning is consequent; and his illustrations are occasionally witty.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:201 Ag 30 ’19 1300w

+ − =Spec= 122:220 Ag 16 ’19 180w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 13 ’19 290w (Reprinted from the Times [London] Lit Sup p415 Jl 31 ’19)

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 470w

“Mr Haynes’s book will not command universal agreement, but it is a real contribution to current political discussion.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 31 ’19 280w

=HEAD, JOSEPH.= Everyday mouth hygiene. il *$1 Saunders 613.4

20–1616

The author, dentist to the Jefferson hospital, Philadelphia, sounds a serious note of warning against imperfectly cleaned teeth, which, through infection, cause “directly or indirectly one-half of the fatal diseases.” Rheumatism, heart disease, ulcer of the stomach and many other fatal diseases can be reduced fifty per cent if decay of the teeth and gum infection are stayed. How this can be done the book tells minutely in word and picture. It contains besides some closing remarks on the irregularity of children’s teeth and has an index.

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=Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20

“Considering the appalling prevalence of digestive and nerve diseases due to bad teeth, the detailed instruction here given for tooth preservation deserves wide circulation.”

+ =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 80w

=HEADLAM, ARTHUR CAYLEY.= Doctrine of the church and Christian reunion; being the Bampton lectures for the year 1920. *$4 Longmans 280

20–18237

“Dr Headlam is Regius professor of divinity in the University of Oxford. He traces the doctrine of the church from the four gospels down to the Lambeth conference. He says that Christ ‘created the church as a visible society. He instituted ministry and sacraments. He gave authority for legislation and discipline.’ ‘But he gave no directions as to the form or organization of the new community, and the actual organization which was ultimately developed was different from anything which he personally established.’ Episcopacy ‘was the creation of the church.... It had its origin in the apostolic church; it represents a continuous development from apostolic times; but we cannot claim that it has apostolic authority.’ Dr Headlam defends the historic episcopacy and the Nicene creed as a basis for organic church union, not on the ground that they have the direct authority of Jesus Christ, but because their value has been recognized by an overwhelming majority in the Christian church from a very early age.”—Outlook

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“The writer, condemning himself, well says; ‘Only too often the professed adoption of the historical method appears to be but a device for concealing one’s bias’; for on page after page he misrepresents and misinterprets the evidence that lies plainly before him.”

− =Cath World= 112:543 Ja ’21 600w

Reviewed by Lyman Abbott

+ =Outlook= 126:689 D 15 ’20 390w

=Sat R= 130:459 D 4 ’20 1650w

“It should not only be read, but studied; and, in particular, it should be in the hands of every member of the Lambeth conference.”

+ =Spec= 125:779 D 11 ’20 2000w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1150w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p486 Jl 29 ’20)

“No other recent book on the church and its ministry matches this volume in importance. It brings out the essential elements of the problems with which it deals clearly and dispassionately. Students of this subject will appreciate the fact that there is apparently not a single ambiguous sentence in the book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p486 Jl 29 ’20 2200w

=HEAGLE, DAVID.= Do the dead still live? or, The testimony of science respecting a future life; new foundations for man’s great hope. *$1.50 Am. Bapt. 218

20–9221

The purpose of the book is to present in popular form all the arguments in support of a belief in human immortality. The sources drawn from are science, philosophy and religion, but the scientific proofs are especially enlarged upon. The book has an introduction by Bishop Samuel Fallows who calls it a whole library of condensed information on the subject. The discussion is outlined in the first chapter—Preliminaries. The rest of the contents are: The older arguments, from philosophy and religion; The argument from biology—from physics—from physiology—from psychology (normal and abnormal)—from spiritism scientifically examined; Conclusions, and possibilities of further discovery; Supplement—related matters and objections, with opinions of eminent philosophers and scholars; Notes and a bibliography.

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=Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 400w

“An earnest and well-meaning intention will not atone for the lack of critical discrimination. The book is an unfortunate example of juggling with incommensurables.” Joseph Jastrow

− =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 210w

“The work is, perhaps, unique in its comprehensive and succinct survey of the argument for personal survival after death.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 240w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

=Review= 3:41 Jl 14 ’20 80w

=HEARN, LAFCADIO.= Talks to writers. *$2 Dodd 814

20–19452

These chapters are reprinted from the author’s “Interpretations of literature” and “Life and literature”—lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo. Hearn writes as a craftsman and looks upon literature as an emotional art, a moral art and one requiring unceasing discipline. He insists on clearness of vision, on exactness in the use of words and holds that literature must grow out of the vernacular. He advises translating as a literary practice and preliminary discipline. The book is edited with an introduction by John Erskine and is indexed. Contents: On the relation of life and character to literature; On composition; Studies of extraordinary prose; The value of the supernatural in fiction; The question of the highest art; Tolstoi’s theory of art; Note upon the abuse and the use of literary societies; On reading; Literature and public opinion; Farewell address.

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“The content, not the style, is here of first importance; these lectures, as they stand, not only furnish light on an interesting side of Hearn’s personality, but represent adequately his point of view as it had been ripened by study and thought.” F. N. A.

+ =Freeman= 2:501 F 2 ’21 360w

“Addressed to alien students, they are necessarily often elementary in subject matter and always simple in style. Out of the latter necessity Hearn made a virtue and achieved a naive charm, so that, as writing, the lectures are, like everything else he wrote, beautiful.”

+ =Nation= 112:sup248 F 9 ’21 340w

“No one who is beginning to write, or who is a student of composition, can afford to miss these lectures.” W. P. Eaton

+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 290w

=N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 190w

“There is real suggestiveness and stimulation in these dissertations.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w

“The first three chapters, which deal more directly with the workmanship of good writing and good books, contain more common sense on the subject than all the books on ‘how to become a writer in 30 lessons’ on the market.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 11 ’21 220w

=HEATLEY, DAVID PLAYFAIR.= Diplomacy and the study of international relations. *$3.75 Oxford 327

20–4112

“The purpose of this book, as stated by its author, is ‘to portray diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy from the stand-point of history, to show how they have been analyzed and appraised by representative writers, and to indicate sources from which the knowledge thus acquired may be supplemented.’ The first third of the volume consists of an essay of a general character on Diplomacy and the conduct of foreign policy, written from a British point of view. The remaining two-thirds of the book consist of a general discussion of the literature of international relations.”—Am Hist R

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“The bibliography on treaties, maps, and supplementary reading is rather scanty. It should be added that, whatever may be the estimate of this volume in other respects, its tone is scholarly and gives evidence of much painstaking in its preparation.” D: J. Hill

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:698 Jl ’20 1000w

“A valuable and scholarly work.”

+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 80w

=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20

“This is a very valuable source book for students of international law. This is a book for the student, not for the general reader—a record of careful, conscientious scholarship, containing new material, but somewhat dry in style.” M. R. F. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 700w

“The arrangement of ‘Diplomacy and the study of international relations’ is so far from orderly that its usefulness is very much impaired, and one has even some doubt as to what the author really aimed at doing. Much of the matter thus put together is of great interest, but as the book stands at present, it is rather a note-book than a finished work.”

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:629 O ’20 170w

“A repertory of historical information that is not easily found elsewhere.”

+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 170w

=HEATON, ELIZA OSBORN (PUTNAM) (MRS JOHN LANGDON HEATON).= By-paths in Sicily. il *$3.50 Dutton 914.58

20–12460

“The late Mrs Heaton was a clever New York journalist who for reasons of health had to spend seven years in Sicily. She devoted herself to the study of the Sicilian peasantry, their customs and their dialects. We are told that after the Messina earthquake this American lady was called in as an interpreter between Italian officers from the North and the peasants. Her book shows that she made many close friends among the poor and gained an unusual knowledge of their ways. Six of the chapters are given to descriptions of fairs and festivals.”—Spec

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“The author was a gifted writer whose perceptions struck far below the surface and who could see her material in historical perspective as well as with rare human understanding.”

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 40w

+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 280w

“A book which possesses both charm and real value. The high quality of the vivid and sympathetic realism with which the scenes and characters are described recalls the best regional writers of Italy.”

+ =Review= 3:390 O 27 ’20 660w

+ =Spec= 125:282 Ag 28 ’20 190w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p528 Ag 19 ’20 900w

=HEIDENSTAM, KARL GUSTAF VERNER VON.= Birth of God. *$1.25 Four seas co. 839.7

20–6852

This one act play, translated from the Swedish by Karoline M. Knudsen, is a symbolic presentation of the human soul’s eternal search after God. It is a moonlit scene in the street of the Sphinxes at Karnak, where a modern and an ancient man meet on the same quest with the old animal idols dancing about. The quest comes to an end when they both realize that it is in their faith in the unknown God and their search for him that they possess him and build him altars and sacrificial fires.

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=Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 150w

“The dialogue is not ineffective and von Heidenstam punctuates it adequately with stage effects. Yet its rather oratorical progress is not entirely convincing.” F. E. H.

+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 130w

Reviewed by Ludwig Lewisohn

=Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w

Reviewed by O. W. Firkins

=Review= 2:609 Je 5 ’20 100w

“‘The birth of God’ is possibly less direct than its predecessor, ‘The soothsayer.’ The movement is slow. Nor is the treatment as striking in originality.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 580w

=HEILNER, VAN CAMPEN, and STICK, FRANK.= Call of the surf. il *$3 (4½c) Doubleday 799

20–16781

This is the first book on surf fishing and its authors are enthusiasts for the sport. The purpose of the book is threefold: “to afford some small entertainment to brother fishermen on those long evenings when the north wind howls and winter’s sleet drives against the window pane; to attract the stranger to a sport in which the authors have found a vast measure of happiness, and to make somewhat smoother his trail to the Big-Sea Water.” (Authors’ note) The illustrations are from photographs and from paintings by Frank Stick. Contents: Surf fishing; In quest of the channel bass; Gold medal fish and others; Down Barnegat way; The tiger of the sea; With the tide runners of the inlets; On the offshore banks; The channel bass of Gray Gull Shoals; The smaller brethren; By western seas; Beach camping; Equipment.

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“The delights of surf fishing are shown forth after the manner of an accomplished essayist, in the opening chapter. Others than fishermen will find much pleasure in reading this book.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 600w

“It is written with a threefold purpose, which it triumphantly achieves. Both Mr Heilner and Mr Stick are surfmen whose enthusiasm for the sport about which they write is most contagious. They won one convert in the reviewer; he’s going a-fishing with them next spring ‘when the red gods call.’”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 1050w

“With three good sports collaborating in this friendly fashion the book ought to be pretty good—and it is.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 340w

=HENDERSON, ARCHIBALD.= Conquest of the old Southwest. il *$3 (5c) Century 976

20–8247

It is “the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740–1790,” (Sub-title) now known as the old Southwest, that is told in this volume. The author points out two determinative principles in the progressive American civilization of the eighteenth century as: the passion for the acquisition of land; and wanderlust—the inquisitive instinct of the hunter, the traveler, and the explorer. They gave rise to a restless nomadic temperament which in its turn formed the sub-soil of a buoyant national character. What it did for democracy in the second half of the eighteenth century is the theme of the book. The contents in part are: The migration of the peoples; The cradle of westward expansion; The back country and the border; The Indian war; The land companies; Daniel Boone and wilderness exploration; The regulators; Transylvania—a wilderness commonwealth; The repulse of the red men; The lure of Spain—the haven of statehood; List of notes, bibliographical notes, index and illustrations.

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“One expects from Mr Henderson a well-told story, and this volume realizes this expectation. The narrative will interest the scientific historian as well as the lay reader. It is evident that there are grave limitations to Mr Henderson’s interpretation of old Southwest history.” C. W. Alvord

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:116 O ’20 580w

“An interesting economic and social story to all who know the Mississippi valley settlements mainly as exploits of Boone and George Rogers Clark”

+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20

“This volume is a very condensed history, with a great number of witness-references showing the care with which Mr Henderson has done his work. He has added a valuable and convenient treatise concerning a somewhat overlooked section to the group of histories of the states, and to the history of the formation of the United States of America.” J. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 650w

=Freeman= 2:69 S 29 ’20 190w

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ag 29 ’20 2550w

“All in all, this is a book to be strongly recommended.” G. I. Colbron

+ =Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 350w

=R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 60w

“An important contribution to history.” C. L. Skinner

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:183 O ’20 940w

=HENDRYX, JAMES BEARDSLEY.= Gold girl. il *$1.75 (3c) Putnam

20–6633

Following her father’s death, Patty Sinclair goes West to locate his claim. She has only his map with the directions she is too unskilled to read to guide her, but she follows his example in playing a lone hand and will not ask advice. She soon learns that her movements are watched and that in her absence her cabin is being searched. Suspicion might fall on two men and she picks the wrong one. Vil Holland knows that she distrusts him but that makes no difference in his attitude toward her. He knows too her opinion of the brown jug she has seen attached to his saddle, but out of perversity he continues to carry it. In the end the true villain is unmasked and the race for the registry office that follows her finding of the claim has a different meaning and a different outcome from the one she had anticipated.

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“Bright and interesting story.”

+ =Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 70w

“The book is colorful and well written.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 340w

“We should like to believe that the book gives a picture of life anywhere or at any time, but somehow the author fails to convince us.”

− =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 50w

“The plot of the story is one to intrigue the interest from the outset.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 130w

=HENRY, AUGUSTINE.= Forests, woods and trees in relation to hygiene. (Chadwick library) il *$7.50 (*18s) Dutton 634.9

(Eng ed Agr20–233)

“The book is an amplification of the Chadwick lectures delivered by Prof. Henry at the Royal society of arts in 1917, and the author no doubt looks upon it in large measure as propaganda in the cause of tree-planting on a national scale. The first three chapters, however, deal with matters of profound scientific importance—the influence of forests on climate, the sanitary influence of forests, and forests as sites for sanatoria. The greater part of the volume is devoted to a question of national importance—the afforestation of water-catchment areas, with particulars of the extent to which the work has already proceeded.”—Nature

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+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20

“Prof. Henry has read up the subject widely, but the nature of his book makes it impossible for him to focus the results sharply enough. He does, indeed, direct the attention of his readers to many recent investigations which it is most useful to have brought together, and for this guidance the student who wishes to go farther should be sincerely grateful.” H. R. Mill

+ − =Nature= 105:158 Ap 8 ’20 1250w

=HENRY, ROBERT MITCHELL.= Evolution of Sinn Fein. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 941.5

The book is a complete survey of the historical struggle of the Irish for independence. The author asserts that at no time did the English government aim at anything less than the complete moral, material and political subjugation of Ireland—nor did the Irish at any time yield in their assertion of their national independence. How this spirit of independence finally culminated in the birth of the Sinn Fein movement and in the course of the war developed into open rebellion is the subject of the book. The introductory deals with Irish nationalism before the nineteenth century and the chapters following are: Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century; Sinn Fein; The early years of Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein and the republicans; The volunteer movement; Ulster and nationalist Ireland; Sinn Fein, 1914–1916; After the rising; Conclusion.

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“It displays generally the gift of patient research into the details of the newest development of revolutionary Ireland, and in this respect supplies much information from the writings and ideals of the present leaders which must be of considerable value to future historians. From the historic point of view the weak point is that the case of England—politically and strategically—is hardly considered at all.” P. B.

+ =Ath= p507 Ap 16 ’20 1850w

“As a history of the party, it makes very good reading, but unfortunately the author is partisan, almost blindly so, and Sinn Fein is the only matter in Ireland that he finds for praise.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 200w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 80w

=HENRY, STUART.= Villa Elsa. *$2 Dutton

20–2260

“‘Villa Elsa’ is the actual, everyday family life of the middle-class German before the war—nothing glossed over, nothing exaggerated or fanciful. It is Mr Henry’s personal experience expressed in the form of a novel. The Bucher family lived in Loschwitz, a suburb of Dresden. Herr Bucher, the father, is a stolid, unwashed, collarless, healthy and obese German ‘Vater’; his wife, Frau Bucher, is coarse, red-faced, heavy-handed, snarling and shouting, at the top of her lungs, her fierce hatred of England. Elsa, the only daughter, has the usual tow hair, is stupidly healthy, reads Heine, tries to be sentimental, but is essentially matter of fact. Rudolph, the eldest son, is in secret a government spy, reporting upon their visitor, Gard Kirtley, from America. He is a spruce young engineer, militaristic, dissolute, despising all decent women, and continually hinting of Der Tag. Ernst, a pale boy of fifteen, studies eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, quotes falsified history, and particularly discredits all American institutions. Gard Kirtley believes he has fallen in love with Elsa, but her stolid indifference and phlegmatic stupidity finally overpower him.”—Bookm

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“The chief merit of the book is that the reader is bound to feel its truth. There is no attempt at fine writing or that easy familiarity with aristocratic court life, so often affected by English novelists, which, while it adds a gloss to the story, never wears the features of actual experience.” J: S. Wood

+ =Bookm= 51:361 My ’20 1600w

“While the story is not uninteresting in itself, it loses both in vividness and in artistic value by being constantly kept subservient to the author’s determination to inform and to teach.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 1000w

=Review= 2:436 Ap 24 ’20 180w

“For English readers this book has probably come to birth too late by some six years. His picture is unconvincing too, because it is the outcome of a mood which, in this country at least, has exhausted itself.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p13 Ja 6 ’21 450w

=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Proofs of the truths of spiritualism. 2d ed, rev il *$2.50 Dodd 134

An inquiry into, and exposition of the nature of spiritualism, with its abundant material for evidence discussed and described in detail, such as automatic handwriting, apports, poltergeists, levitation, spirit lights, spirit clouds, “spirit-controlled” painting and drawing, psychographs, etc. Some of the chapter titles are as follows: Practical methods of substantiating the truths of spiritualism; Testing the spirits’ sight; Babies, children and adult spirits, reappearing as children; The gradual development of spirit photography; Psychographs across ordinary photographs of sitters; Materialisations. A religious atmosphere pervades the book. The text is supplemented by fifty-one illustrations, some of them reproductions of spirit-photographs.

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“From a scientific point of view Professor Henslow’s book is utterly valueless, as it is evident from the opening of his first chapter that he himself is a spiritualist of the most pronounced type. But as an extraordinarily definite account of experiments and results with all the various phenomena of the reputable private seance room, the book is as marvelous as an Arabian nights’ story and much more satisfactory because such things actually happened.” C. H. O.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 580w

“His book, slovenly as it often is in statement, is another moment in the accumulating mass of evidence which can not be laughed or sneered or denounced away.”

+ − =Review= 2:337 Ap 3 ’20 250w

=HENSLOW, GEORGE.= Religion of the spirit world; written by the spirits themselves. *$2 Dodd 134

20–15944

The book is a compilation of famous communications from the spirit world for the purpose of proving their religious significance. The author’s object is to show that the life beyond is but a continuation of life on earth, that we reap what we have sown, that every character development here on earth counts beyond and that, in a certain sense, there is a judgment day awaiting us. The contents are in part: The necessary pre-acquired mental conditions for securing happiness in the next world; The laws of eternal life; The gospel of character, preached and practised in the next life; The acquisition of the Christ-like character and conduct is everything hereafter, and must be striven for on earth; The true spiritual meaning of “heaven” and “hell”; The fate of the suicide—a terrible warning; The nature of man, here and hereafter.

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“He gives out matters of opinion constantly as matters of faith. If such a world as the contributors to this volume depict really existed, the fact ought to be concealed, in the interests of the preachers of immortality.” M. F. Egan

− =N Y Times= p17 S 26 ’20 160w

=HENSON, HERBERT HENSLEY, bp. of Hereford, and others.= Church of England; its nature and its future. *$1.75 Macmillan 283

(Eng ed 20–16630)

“Those who arranged this series of lectures took care to secure a thoroughly representative group of English clergymen. Their live lectures taken together set out with considerable force the views of high, low, and broad churchmen, with two academic pronouncements from a couple of Oxford professors. The Rev. W. R. Matthews, dean of King’s college, London, where the lectures were delivered, in a short preface, states that their purpose was to bring together exponents of the different tendencies within the church and to secure from them full and frank statements of their views on the great problem which gives its title to the book.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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=Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 250w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p173 Ap 3 ’19 650w

=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Bomber gipsy, and other poems. *$1.50 Knopf 821

(Eng ed 20–1081)

With a few exceptions these poems are reprinted from Punch. They are spirited and humorous pictures of life at the front. Besides the title poem some of the pieces are: Ballade of incipient lunacy; The rest-rumour; At the dump; The atrocity; The ballad of Jones’s Blighty; The trench code; The mischief-makers; The deserters; Free meals; The cookers: a song of the transport; A song of plenty.

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+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“Because he has a sense of humor, a great deal of common sense and the good sense to make what is merely good verse and in no way pretends to be serious poetry, Mr Herbert has given us a very likable book about the Tommy.” Marguerite Williams

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 160w

=HERBERT, ALAN PATRICK.= Secret battle. *$2 (4c) Knopf

20–628

He was a sensitive, romantic and imaginative lad, lacking confidence in himself but pathetically eager and conscientious about doing the right thing, not to make a mess of it, to measure up and more than measure up to what was required of him. He always exacted a bit more of himself than could reasonably be expected. He distinguished himself at Gallipoli in the most trying part of the war until he was carried down to the ship in a high fever. Later in France, his record was the same, always doing the over and above his power of endurance that was bound in the end to undermine his power of existence. When the strain had become too great and petty jealousies of fellow officers and the bullying arrogance of the commander had done their deadly work, the fatal move was made and one of the bravest men the war knew was shot for cowardice.

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“Mr Herbert’s is one of the most interesting and moving English war books.”

+ =Ath= p572 Jl 4 ’19 180w

“The story is told with a quiet restraint, with no attempt to pile up horrors, but with a relentless insistence on the central tragedy. Very fine work with a limited appeal.”

+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:78 Mr ’20 580w

“It is simply and vividly told. It reads not like fiction but like fact, which perhaps it is.”

+ =Ind= 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 280w

“He evidently and perhaps rightly considered that to draw any ultimate consequences from his story in the world of conduct would have diminished its inherent force. That force is very great.”

+ =Nation= 110:115 Ja 24 ’20 500w

“Very simply, very quietly and naturally, the author builds up the structure of events, some of them apparently trivial at the time, but destined later to become of dreadful portent, which at the last crushes and breaks Harry’s nerve. The logic of it all is unassailable and perfectly convincing.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:11 Ja 11 ’20 1100w

“Vivid, convincing, written in a style at once strong and flexible and revealing an unusual gift for character portrayal. ‘The secret battle’ is one of the few really big novels of the world war.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 200w

“Being the work of a cultivated Englishman, it has the restraint of the famous public-school tradition. It wishes to betray too little rather than too much feeling. Its manner is tense with sympathy, but its matter approaches dryness.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 2:257 Mr 13 ’20 350w

=Spec= 122:800 Je 21 ’19 100w

“The indictment against the verdict is stated quietly and without passion. The issue it raises is of interest to all ex-service men; how far must the army treat men as things, how far can and should it treat them as persons?”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 5 ’20 320w

“Needless to say, it is a painful book. Comfortable people who do not like their feelings harrowed will no more find it to their taste than they found ‘Justice’ or ‘Jude the obscure’, to their taste. To the former, indeed, the last part of ‘The secret battle’ offers a striking parallel. Not in detail, for it is pitched in a quieter key, and its author expressly states that he is not attempting to indict a system.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p356 Jl 3 ’19 500w

=HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.= San Cristóbal de la Habana. *$3 (4c) Knopf 917.29

20–21412

In a passively receptive mood the author went to Havana and drifted thru his days taking in impressions of the city, of the people, of the social atmosphere, of its all-pervading romance. “There was never a more complex spirit than Havana’s, no stranger mingling of chance and climate and race had ever occurred; but, remarkably, a unity of effect had been the result, such a singleness as that possessed by an opera.... It was its special charm to be charged with sensations rather than facts; a place where facts ... could be safely ignored.”

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“Mr Hergesheimer, translating the spell of Havana into words of great imagery and color, has visualized its wonderful charm.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 70w

“Half the time we see the city through his meticulously observant eyes, and the other half he plays Boswell to his own personality and ideas. The result is an engaging series of vignettes, a most understanding interpretation, and a remarkably honest human document.” J. S. N.

+ =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 230w

“A production at once original and excellent. Mr Hergesheimer possesses to an extraordinary degree the power of subjectifying the objective, which is another way of saying that he can make external realities his very own. In consequence of this happy ability his book is about one-tenth Havana and nine-tenths Hergesheimer.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 D 12 ’20 2000w

“Not the least interesting of Mr Hergesheimer’s remarks refer to the creation of literature, his own and others.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 7 ’20 350w

=HERRICK, CHEESMAN ABIAH.= Outstanding days. *$1.25 Am. S. S. union 394

20–4985

A book of selections for readings and recitations for day school and Sunday school. Each section is prefaced by a discussion of the origin and meaning of the special day under consideration. “A collection of nearly a hundred literary selections is presented in connection with the several studies. Some of these are old favorites which can never be out of date. Others are relatively recent, furnishing an expression of the thought and feeling of the present on the subjects discussed.” Contents: Place of special days; New Year’s day; Lincoln’s birthday; Washington’s birthday; Good Friday; Easter Sunday; Mother’s day; Memorial day; Children’s day; Flag day; Commencement day; Independence day; Labor day; Beginning school; Thanksgiving day; Christmas day.

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+ =El School J= 20:795 Je ’20 100w

=HERRICK, GLENN WASHINGTON.= Insects of economic importance. *$2 Macmillan 632.7

20–12386

These “outlines of lectures in economic entomology” are a revised edition of a previous volume. Space considerations prevent the inclusion of all insects of economic importance. “However, the principal pests of our important fruits, vegetables, cereals, farm animals, shade trees, and of the household are discussed. A brief summary of the life habits of each, so far as they are known, is made, and the latest methods of control are outlined. In addition, a concise discussion of insecticides is given together with formulæ and directions for making and applying them.” (Preface) The first twelve chapters are: Losses caused by insects; Useful insects; Entomological literature; Natural methods of insect control; Artificial methods of insect control; Poison insecticides; Poison baits; Contact insecticides; Fumigating substances; Miscellaneous means of insect control; Dusting; Quarantine and insecticide laws. The remainder of the book is devoted to the special insect pests and their victims and an index.

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=Booklist= 17:165 Ja ’21

=R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 40w

=HERRINGHAM, SIR WILMOT PARKER.= Physician in France. (Liverpool diocesan board of divinity publications) *$5 (*15s) Longmans 940.475

(Eng ed 19–19873)

“Preliminary to this narrative the author discusses the surprise of the English at the sudden outbreak of the war. After this preliminary discussion he, in his fifth chapter, begins his personal narrative and relates the early operations of the medical corps in England at the beginning of the war, showing us how the thing was done and the sanitary precautions that were made against sickness among the forces. Continuing, he tells of the organization and work of the Field ambulance corps; of the clearing stations; of the work of transporting the wounded and of the base hospitals and nurses. He then discusses some phases of medical work, especially the management of cases of enteric and other fevers, and of shell shock. He talks of the advance of medicine in the war, of the operations on the plains of Flanders: of the medical headquarters at Hesdin. Diverging, the author, drawing from his experiences abroad, tells of education and the religious question in France and of some interesting contrasts between French and English people, in domestic manners and management and in human characteristics.”—Boston Transcript

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“The reasons for his popularity will be apparent to anyone who reads his book, for it exhibits in an attractive form the qualities of his mind and general outlook.”

+ =Ath= p1401 D 26 ’19 520w

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 F 21 ’20 480w

“It is written in ordinary, straightforward language, free from those amateur attempts at the literary manner which make most books written by doctors so tedious. Much of the book is political, and this, except as throwing light on the character of the author, is the least important part. The most entertaining part of the book consists in the record of the author’s observations of French life and its contrasts with our own.” H. R.

+ =Nation [London]= 26:360 D 6 ’19 1350w

“Entertaining and instructive. The purely medical chapters of the book have their value as a lucid exposition calculated to enlighten the layman and to enlist his sympathy.”

+ =Sat R= 129:37 Ja 10 ’20 1350w

“In the opening chapters, devoted to a consideration of the causes which led up to the outbreak of the great war, the author exhibits a fine patriotism tempered by broad-mindedness. The book will enhance the author’s reputation, and prove most welcome reading after the publication of so many self-centred memoirs.”

+ =Spec= 124:245 F 21 ’20 1050w

“Unfortunately, the opening chapters are platitudinous and have nothing to do with the author’s real theme; but the book improves as he gets into his stride, and is best of all in the later chapters, devoted to the differences between the customs and viewpoints of the French and ourselves, which are handled at once frankly and with comprehension and discretion.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 1250w

=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Light heart. *$2 (5c) Holt

20–8858

This tale is a story of men’s friendships. Thormod, of the light heart, is a poet who easily wins the love of women, but his real devotion is given to men, first to his friend Thorgar, whose death he avenges, then to King Olaf. In his preface the author says, “Of this heroic, naked story, three fragments survive in ‘Origines Islandicæ,’ that learned repository; but to compound one plain tale of them it has been necessary to go for the catastrophe to the Saga of King Olaf. As a result of my hunting and piecing I am able to give an orderly account of the life of a young man which, I think, justifies the title I have given it.”

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=Ath= p559 Ap 23 ’20 40w

+ − =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

“While ‘The light heart’ is far less interesting and far less stirring than either ‘Gudrid the fair’ or ‘The outlaw,’ it has one truly splendid moment—that in which Thormod swears his allegiance for life and death to King Olaf.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 900w

“I confess that for me the starkness, the frugality, the astringency of this tale render it a tougher morsel than some of the Norse fables Mr Hewlett has previously wrought from similar materials. For his sources he shows a reverence almost excessive.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 340w

“The story is good and unusual. But above all we would commend Mr Hewlett’s short introduction on the nature of the Sagas.”

+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 100w

“The story has retained the legendary atmosphere of the twelfth century Iceland and Norway. The book is written with Hewlett’s usual romantic touch. It is interesting mainly on account of the unusual setting and the strangeness of the characters treated. The author sacrifices plot to faithfulness to his sources.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 480w

“Colloquial and prosaic though the telling is—prosaic even in describing dreams and visions—there shines through it a spirit which is high and beautiful.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p255 Ap 22 ’20 1000w

=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Mainwaring. *$2 (4c) Dodd

20–19506

The story portrays two extremely opposed types, a man and a woman. Mainwaring is a genius of a sort, grasping everything to himself, ambitious, a demagogue, reckless and unmoral. From obscurity he rises to political power and is only stayed from achieving the highest rung by disease and death. He burns himself out prematurely. While still quite young and out of his mastering passion of grasping everything he wants, he forces a beautiful young working girl to marry him. Lizzy in her selflessness, her poise and sincerity, her obedience to duty, is his opposite. She endures starvation with him but when he asks her to follow him into high life she refuses. She has seen through it at a glance and hates it, and prefers the duties of a housemaid to those of hostess at his banquets. He subjects her to every indignity but willingly accepts her services as a nurse during his last days.

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=Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“Mainwaring stands before a dull gray background, which is rather bad for the story, but serves the purpose of the novelist in making Mainwaring a crimson figure against this same gray. As usual, Mr Hewlett is fascinatingly facile with his pen, but this same smooth style cannot wholly atone for a very flimsy plot and a succession of avowed characters that are of no more use than a Greek chorus.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 390w

“Lizzy is a human being, strongly conventional in her sense of duty, yet as freshly natural in emotional values as Eve strayed from the garden. On the whole, however, ‘Mainwaring’ is a disappointment as a novel. The author too apparently is doing over again with unconvincing dexterity things once well accomplished in ‘Rest Harrow’.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 300w

“The sharp contrasts between these well-drawn figures, whose souls are silhouetted by the tragic circumstances in which the author places them, afforded Mr Hewlett equal opportunity to display his powers of creating and analyzing character. The artistry and dignity of the story he has written around them make ‘Mainwaring’ a worthy addition to the novels bearing his name.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 S 26 ’20 560w

“The political part of the story is not excessively interesting, although it has capital pen sketches of Disraeli and Gladstone under slight disguises. Like all Mr Hewlett’s writing, the literary execution of the book is admirable in its finish and quiet effectiveness.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 170w

“A brilliant study in its kind; but some of us will feel as we have often felt with Mr Hewlett, that the childlike creature woman rather than the childish creature man gives the story its charm. Mainwaring’s Lizzy is a girl to be remembered.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 340w

“The two characters are analyzed in vigorous fashion and will stand as examples of Mr Hewlett’s most finished work.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 450w

=HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY.= Outlaw. *$1.75 (3½c) Dodd

20–4

This is the fifth of Maurice Hewlett’s saga tales retold. It is the story of Gisli and of Grayflanks, the sword on which a curse was laid when it was turned against its owner. Young Gisli is a craftsman and man of peace, who nevertheless is fated to be the slayer of men, to flee from Norway to Iceland, to become an outlaw, and to die fighting with his back against the wall, his wife, Aud, beside him.

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“We cannot help wishing that he had been a great deal more lenient with himself. For the tale, as it stands, is so exceedingly plain, and the fights, murders, escapes and pursuits described upon so even a breath, that it is hard to believe the great, more than life-size dolls minded whether they were hit over the head or not. There is no doubt that the very large number of words of one syllable help to keep the tone low. They have a curious effect upon the reader. He finds himself, as it were, reading aloud, spelling out the tale.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 2 ’20 600w

=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20

“None of his stories out of the Icelandic sagas is as spirited as ‘The outlaw.’ The vein of romance discovered in them by Mr Hewlett seems to be inexhaustible.” E. F. E

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1150w

“‘The outlaw’ is a noble tale fully and in the main nobly told.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 500w

“A grim tale, full of strong passions and desperate fighting, is this of ‘The outlaw.’”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 1000w

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w

“Needless to say, it is masterly in its art and vividness; yet many of the author’s admirers would welcome his return to that type of writing that gave us ‘Half-way house’ and ‘Richard yea-and-nay.’”

+ − =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

“Mr Hewlett tells a tense dramatic story, reveals studious research of ancient lore and a singular gift for vitalizing the remote scenes of a vanished civilization. This is no mere approximation of what the Vikings were and what they did. It is a lifelike recreation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 550w

“In reproducing the old story Mr Hewlett mediates with his usual skill between the Scylla of excessive modernity and the Charybdis of an obsolete idiom. It is, however, questionable whether he might not without harm have ventured even closer to Scylla.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 N 13 ’19 600w

=HEYDRICK, BENJAMIN ALEXANDER=, ed. Americans all; stories of American life of today. *$1.50 (1½c) Harcourt

20–14759

The editor of this volume of short stories states in his preface that he believes that the short story is the form which can best stand as the adequate expression in fiction of American life. He says “If it were possible to bring together in a single volume a group of these, each one reflecting faithfully one facet of our many-sided life, would not such a book be a truer picture of America than any single novel could present? The present volume is an attempt to do this.” Contents: The right Promethean fire, by George Madden Martin; The land of heart’s desire, by Myra Kelly; The tenor, by H. C. Bunner; The passing of Priscilla Winthrop, by William Allen White; The gift of the Magi, by O. Henry; The gold brick, by Brand Whitlock; His mother’s son, by Edna Ferber; Bitter-sweet, by Fannie Hurst; The riverman, by Stewart Edward White; Flint and fire, by Dorothy Canfield; The ordeal at Mt Hope, by Paul Laurence Dunbar; Israel Drake, by Katherine Mayo; The struggles and triumph of Isidro de los Maestros, by James M. Hopper; The citizen, by James F. Dwyer. There is a sketch of the author following each story, and at the end a List of American short stories classified by locality, and Notes and questions for study.

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“An interesting group of stories.”

+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

=Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 280w

“Only two stories in the volume, Myra Kelly’s ‘Just kids’ and William Allen White’s ‘Society in our town,’ have grown instead of being made after a model.”

− + =Nation= 111:692 D 15 ’20 420w

“Literary merit aside, however, the authors all have a place in a book which seeks not to present the best short stories but rather different phases of American life. ‘American life of today,’ however, is a misnomer. In their steadfast sometimes sentimental idealism, in their passionate belief in democracy, the stories are obviously and pathetically stories of life before the war.” Marian O’Connor

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 13 ’20 850w

“An unusually excellent anthology of American short tales.”

+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 120w

“Considered merely as a vehicle of recreational reading ‘Americans all’ answers its purpose well; for the one who desires to combine recreation with study of the successful short story the text is well selected.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 30 ’21 270w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 190w

=HIBBEN, PAXTON.= Constantine I and the Greek people. il *$3.50 (3½c) Century 949.5

20–10649

The book was written in the spring of 1917 after the author had been in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and constitutes another postwar revelation. It is stated that “during the war and after our entry into it as an ally of France and Great Britain, without our knowledge and consent the constitution of a little, but a brave and fine people was nullified by the joint action of two of our allies: the neutrality of a small country was violated, the will of its people set at naught, its laws broken, its citizens persecuted, its press muzzled. By force a government was imposed on this free people, and by force that government has been and is today maintained in absolute power.” (Foreword) The contents is in three parts: Intrigue; Coercion; Starvation; and there are an epilogue and appendices.

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“Interesting to read as a sequel to Mrs Brown’s ‘In the heart of German intrigue.’”

+ =Booklist= 17:25 O ’20

“This fascinating story of political and military intrigue makes poor reading for those who blindly felt the Allies did no wrong. It constitutes a bitter arraignment of Venizelos.”

+ =Cath World= 112:691 F ’21 480w

=Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 140w

“The book, as a whole, is well done. It is written in a clear, readable style, is carefully documented, and is unusually free from errors. Particularly good are the analysis of diplomatic situations, the different attitudes of parties and foreign powers being excellently portrayed. The book’s only noticeable defects arise from the reflexes of the author’s own temperament. Obviously a man of strong feelings, Mr Hibben seems occasionally to be slightly carried away by them.” Lothrop Stoddard

+ − =New Repub= 24:48 S 8 ’20 1600w

“Mr Hibben’s book has the defect, on the surface, of being too much of an apologia.... Mr Hibben has given us one of the torches; it does not always burn clearly; he waves it in the air too violently at times: but it is a torch, and its light may help to show how little we understand the temperament and the good qualities of the Grecian people.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p4 Ag 1 ’20 2850w

“The writer of this book had a full opportunity to study the Balkan situation and above all the Greek question. Unfortunately, all this unusual opportunity has been wasted on a book so full of inaccuracies that it is difficult to determine whether it is the mere result of journalistic carelessness or a calculated attempt to palliate truth.” A. E. Phoutrides

− =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 900w

“The story is told with great skill and lucidity, and the volume is one of the most readable that has come out of any of the so-called side-shows of the war.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 350w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 5 ’20 110w

=HICHENS, ROBERT SMYTHE.= Snake-bite, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

19–11943

“‘Snake-bite’ is a collection of six stories, three in the approved Robert Hichens style, one an excellent little mystery, one a story of a faith healer, and one a dainty little war-time sketch. You have your choice of the familiar East or the unfamiliar West, with or without a touch of colour.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) The titles are: Snake-bite; The lost faith; The Hindu; The lighted candles; The nomad; The two fears.

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=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

“As a teller of short stories, Mr Hichens reveals in this collection another phase of his skill. In each he shows his mastery of place and people, and his command of the illusory effects of atmosphere.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1450w

“In the matter of atmosphere and sustained mood, comparable with his best work.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 30w

“Of the six short stories two are dominated by the desert, while one might almost be called a plain ghost story, and these three are so markedly superior to the others that they are quite in a different class.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 F 22 ’20 900w

+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 50w

“We doubt if Mr Hichens has ever done better work than in ‘The snake bite’; the African color and atmosphere are admirably rendered.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 70w

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 480w

“These stories are well told, with a brisk, practised pen. The dialogue is interesting, and the touches of light and shade well done.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p311 Je 5 ’19 400w

=HICKS BEACH, SUSAN EMILY (CHRISTIAN) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK HICKS BEACH).= Shuttered doors. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane

20–7653

A story that covers several generations in the life of an English family. The figure of outstanding interest is Aletta Hulse, who is strongly influenced by association in childhood with her aunt, Ann Duller of Duller Place. Aletta inherits a fortune from an old Boer uncle, marries and brings up a family of three children, who in their turn marry. Interest in the latter part of the story centers in Andrew, one of the grandsons, to whom his grandmother bequeaths Duller Place. Andrew is killed in the war leaving an infant daughter to carry on the family tradition.

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=Ath= p194 F 6 ’20 80w

“‘Shuttered doors’ presents one of those pictures of English life before which Americans can only stand and wonder. Perfection of detail in living has not yet been attained by us to such a degree that an entire novel can be built about it with little attention paid to plot, and not even much to characterization.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 20 ’20 260w

“This long, slow story of ‘upper middle-class’ life in England never rises above the deadly commonplace. Andy Duller is the most human character in the novel.”

− + =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 330w

+ =Sat R= 129:478 My 22 ’20 90w

“Most people will not have very much sympathy with Aletta Hulse, later Aletta Picard, but at any rate her character is consistent to the smallest detail, and the author succeeds in creating a living figure.”

+ − =Spec= 124:314 Mr 6 ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 300w

=HICKS, FREDERICK CHARLES.= New world order. *$3 Doubleday 341

20–14528

The book is the outcome of a course of lectures on International organization and cooperation, delivered at the summer session of 1919, in the department of public law, Columbia university. “The general purpose was to examine the League covenant analytically in its relation to (1) international organization, (2) international law, and (3) international cooperation, using the comparative method whenever precedents could be found.” (Preface) The author’s personal conviction is “that the League of nations should be supported not merely because it provides means for putting war a few steps farther in the background, but because it emphasizes the necessity for cooperation between sovereign states.” (Preface) In strict accordance with the general purpose the contents are in three parts and the appendices contain, besides a complete draft of the treaty of peace with Germany: The Triple alliance; Russo-French alliance; The Holy alliance act; Central American treaties, December 20, 1907; Hague conventions and drafts, 1907; Treaty for the advancement of peace between the United States of America and Guatemala, September 20, 1913; Bibliography and index.

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=Booklist= 17:52 N ’20

“A useful reference manual.”

+ =Ind= 163:442 D 25 ’20 70w

“For college classes studying the legal aspects of international organization Mr Hicks’s book will doubtless be very useful. The pedagogical apparatus and Mr Hick’s treatment of the problems he discusses are unexceptionable. ‘The new world order’ is an excessively pretentious title for a volume dealing with the League of nations. Such a utopian nomenclature would have prejudiced the case for international organization even if idealism has been triumphant; under existing circumstances it is little short of absurd.” Lindsay Rogers

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 23 ’20 1000w

“From the legal and historical points of view, an important exposition of the Versailles treaty has been gathered, coordinated, and written by Columbia’s law librarian.” Walter Littlefield

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1600w

“The scope of Mr Hicks’s plan is so impressive and his workmanship is so excellent that it is greatly to be hoped that his volume will not be allowed to fall into oblivion, whatever the outcome of the struggle over the League in this country.” E: S. Corwin

+ =Review= 3:382 O 27 ’20 800w

+ =R of Rs= 62:668 D ’20 180w

+ =Survey= 45:221 N 27 ’20 120w

=HILL, CONSTANCE.= Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings. il *$6 (*21s) (7c) Lane

20–12406

“The name of Mary Russell Mitford—the author of ‘Our village’—is dear to thousands of readers, both English and American, for she has enabled them to see nature with her eyes and to enter into the very spirit of rural life.” (Chapter 1) She was born December 16, 1787, and was a versatile writer not only of stories, but of poems and successful dramas, performed in London with John Kemble and Macready in the leading parts. Many quotations and extracts from her writings acquaint the reader with her style. The book is illustrated with drawings by Ellen G. Hill and has an index.

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“Speaking truthfully, ‘Mary Russell Mitford and her surroundings’ is not a good book. It neither enlarges the mind nor purifies the heart. There is nothing in it about prime ministers and not very much about Miss Mitford. Yet, as one is setting out to speak the truth, one must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. To come to the point, the great merit of these scrapbooks, for they can scarcely be called biographies, is that they license mendacity.” V. W.

− + =Ath= p695 My 28 ’20 2400w

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“Miss Hill has compiled an entertaining volume of literary personalia, and its attractiveness is increased by numerous drawings from her sister’s pencil.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 10 ’20 1300w

“As an introduction to Miss Mitford’s work and personality Miss Hill’s book is an admirable achievement. It presents the women perfectly and brings before the reader again the age wherein she lived.” H. S. Gorman

+ =N Y Times= p2 Ag 29 ’20 1500w

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 50w

“Our feeling on laying it down is that we had better have spent our time in reading Miss Mitford’s own account of herself in ‘Recollections of a literary life.’ Nevertheless, the book is a nice book, a very nice book (if it is largely paste and scissors).”

+ − =Sat R= 129:454 My 15 ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 19 ’20 450w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p283 My 6 ’20)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p283 My 6 ’20 1150w

=HILL, DAVID JAYNE.= American world policies. *3.50 (7c) Doran 341.1

20–11020

As the author points out in his preface, the idea of a league of nations is so generally acceptable that many persons overlook the fact that the covenant prepared at Paris is not a “general association of nations,” but rather “a limited defensive alliance for the protection of existing possessions, regardless of the manner in which they were acquired.” The purpose of this book is to show that the proposed league “not only repudiates the ideas underlying our traditional foreign policy as a nation but presents a contradiction of the fundamental principles upon which our government is based.” The book is composed of eight chapters and as many documents. The chapters, which are reprinted from the North American Review are: Disillusionment regarding the League; The un-American character of the League; The president’s hostility to the Senate; The struggle of the Senate for its prerogatives; The eclipse of peace through the League; The covenant or the constitution? The nations and the law; The solemn referendum; and Epilogue. Among the documents are President Wilson’s “points”; The covenant of the League of nations; The Senate’s reservations of November 19, 1919, and of March 19, 1920. The book is indexed.

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=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

“Dr Hill’s argument is presented with all the skill of an experienced political writer but the impression is conveyed that he is putting a microscope upon the covenant of the League and is looking for trouble in every line, without offering anything more constructive than the old order in return.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:399 D ’20 550w

=Freeman= 2:93 O 6 ’20 210w

“His negative part is well done and thoroughly worth consideration. His discussion, while at times heated and failing in logic, is thoughtful and provokes thought.” C. R. Fish

+ − =Nation= 111:sup426 O 13 ’20 600w

“It is the familiar Republican argument, but it is stated with a force, clearness, and plausibility which do not always characterize that argument. In short, if Senator Lodge could talk as clearly and convincingly as Dr Hill writes, this would make an ideal speech by him.”

− =N Y Times= p5 S 5 ’20 2450w

“To say that the book is clarifying, enlightening, high-minded, and therefore of a value far transcending that of most political discussions, is only to make a legitimate critical pronouncement.”

+ =No Am= 212:424 S ’20 1150w

“We do not know of any book so valuable as this for the information of editors, legislators, or other students of the league problem who wish to get in clear and authoritative form the objections to the Wilson or Paris league.”

+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 160w

“The termination of the campaign against the League of nations as proposed will take from Dr Hill’s book much of its current value; yet when the history of the struggle over the Wilson league comes to be written, the discerning historian will accord to Dr Hill’s labors an important place among the efforts of those who fought to assert the belief that American independence and true internationalism are not incompatible things.” E: S. Corwin

+ =Review= 3:381 O 27 ’20 1400w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 140w

=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= High school farces. *$1 Stokes 812

20–19677

A foreword says: “The scarcity of short farces, suitable for junior amateurs seems to justify the publication of this little volume.... The three simple little farces included herein were written for a boys’ club and a boy scout troop.... As they require very little study and a minimum of ‘properties and effects,’ it is thought they may prove useful to those in search of such material.” The first play, “Dinner’s served,” represents a southern scene near a camp during the Spanish American war and introduces two negro characters. The second, “A heathen Chinee,” is set in California, with cowboys, miners and a Chinese cook among the characters. The third, “A knotty problem,” is a boy scout play.

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“It is with deep regret that one lays down this book from the pen of the gifted writer of those fine stories, ‘On the trail of Washington’ and ‘On the trail of Grant and Lee,’ for something better had been anticipated.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p15 N 13 ’20 130w

=HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR.= Tales out of court. *$1.60 (3c) Stokes

20–18659

The book is a collection of lawyers’ stories of legal cases and court-room scenes and of unusual incidents and characters. The stories are: Exhibit No. 2; The shield of privilege; The woman in the case; Two fishers of men; The unearned increment; The judgment of his peers; Of disposing memory; Submitted on the facts; The personal equation; In the presence of the enemy; A debt of honor; The weapons of a gentleman; Pewee—gladiator; Peregrine Pickle; Charity suffereth long; War.

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“His touch is sure, his pen facile, his plots unusual and fascinating.”

+ =N Y Times= p19 N 28 ’20 230w

=Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w

“The plots are so cleverly manipulated that the reader is sure to get a number of surprises, about at the denouement of each story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 4 ’21 190w

=HILL, HIBBERT WINSLOW.=[2] Sanitation for public health nurses. *$1.35 Macmillan 614

19–19494

“The development of public health nursing in the United States has naturally created a demand for books on the subject. The book written by Dr Hill endeavors to give in a brief and concise manner the elements of sanitation and public health, with which a nurse must be acquainted in her work.” (Survey F 14 ’20) “It is devoted chiefly to the problems of isolation and immunology and touches but lightly upon such great modern movements as the infant welfare campaign and the campaign for better nutrition among school children.” (Survey S 15 ’20)

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“A survey of hygiene and immediately related medical procedures which can be heartily recommended.”

+ =Review= 3:112 Ag 4 ’20 80w

“Too much space seems to be given to infectious diseases of which the nurse must necessarily learn from a study of other sources, while too little space is devoted to the important questions of food, water, milk, etc., and no space at all to dietetics.” G: M. Price

+ − =Survey= 43:592 F 14 ’20 170w

“His chapters on the general course of an infectious disease, on the diagnosis and etiology of the commoner specific communicable diseases, on immunity and on epidemiology are sound in substance and brilliant in form.” C. E. A. Winslow

+ − =Survey= 44:732 S 15 ’20 330w

=HILL, JAMES LANGDON.= Worst boys in town, and other addresses to young men and women, boys and girls. $2.50 (2½c) Stratford co. 252

20–3809

A collection of addresses, given in all parts of the United States, on righteous moral living for young people, each address based on an appropriate scriptural text. Partial list of contents: The clean sporting spirit; The morals of money; The stick girls of Venice; The sound and robust have no monopoly; Becoming a lady; A difference in cradles; Doing the handsome thing; Modern methods of Christian nurture. Dr Hill is author also of “Favorites of history”; “Memory comforting sorrow”; “The scholar’s larger life,” etc.

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+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 6 ’20 470w

=HILL, JOHN ARTHUR.= Psychical miscellanea. *$1.35 (3c) Harcourt 130

20–26542

“Being papers on psychical research, telepathy, hypnotism, Christian science, etc.” (Subtitle) They are a collection of articles, each dealing with some aspect of psychical research, which have appeared in various periodicals. As a psychical investigator his treatment of every subject is sympathetic even where he suspends judgment. This is the case in his attitude towards Christian science to which he is not an adherent, but towards which he keeps “an open mind” for, he says, “I do believe that the power of the mind over the body is so great that almost anything is possible; and I think that the medical advance of the next half-century will be chiefly in this hitherto neglected direction.” Contents: Death; If a man die, shall he live again? Psychical research—its method, evidence, and tendency; The evolution of a psychical researcher; Do miracles happen? The truth about telepathy; The truth about hypnotism; Christian Science; Joan of Arc; Is the earth alive? Religious belief after the war.

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“Interesting, but not a representative work to be required by most small or medium sized libraries, although coming from an authoritative source.”

+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

“Mr Hill knows the temper of science and presents a brief which the advocate of the opposite view can respect, while he is convinced that it is penetrated with fallacy and shot through and through with an unwarranted personalism.” Joseph Jastrow

+ − =Dial= 69:206 Ag ’20 400w

− =Nation= 111:49 Jl 10 ’20 290w

“The papers are all of a popular quality, skimming lightly and gracefully over the surface of their subjects and carrying what frequently passes as a literary atmosphere derived from numerous quotations of both prose and verse.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’20 50w

=HILL, JOHN WESLEY.= Abraham Lincoln, man of God. *$3.50 Putnam

20–21413

The object of the book is not to be a biography of Lincoln, but to reveal his deeply religious soul. “A candid examination of the evidence will show that the religious element in Lincoln’s life was its dominant factor; that his character as a politician and as a statesman was determined by his character as a Christian; and that he drew from the story of the ‘Man of sorrows’ the conclusion that God rules the world in a personal way.” (Preface) The book contains a tribute by Lloyd George, a foreword by Leonard Wood and an introduction by Warren G. Harding. There are appendices, a bibliography and an index.

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“If the book had been written solely to prove that Lincoln was an orthodox Christian it would not have been worth the writing or the reading, and the few chapters that Dr Hill devotes to that unprofitable subject are the least worthwhile in the whole work. But the bulk of Dr Hill’s book is of much value.”

+ − =NY Times= p1 D 5 ’20 800w

=R of Rs= 53:222 F ’21 190w

“Abraham Lincoln has been written about in so many books that the average American would know Lincoln if he met him on the street. Dr Hill in this book has gone a step further and has given an insight into his real character which is worth while. The chapter on ‘The education of a president’ is of especial interest to Americans today. ‘A Christian view of labor’ also is timely.” J: E: Oster

+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 180w

=HILL, OWEN ALOYSIUS.=[2] Ethics, general and special. *$3.50 Macmillan 170

20–15460

“From the point of view of Catholic doctrine the author of this work discusses what’s wrong with man and the world as they are determined by modern philosophy and ethics. ‘The whole trouble with modern philosophy,’ he says, ‘is rank subjectivism, and subjectivism is, perhaps, most destructive in the domain of ethics.’” The first half of the work dealing with ‘General ethics,’ discusses the general nature of humanity in its attitude towards morality and in relation to final destiny; the second half discusses ‘Special ethics’ as applied to individual responsibility consequent upon his belief in an acceptance of religious duties.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 270w

“The question of Woman suffrage might have been treated more sympathetically and Dr Bouquillon’s treatise on the school question discussed more fairly.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:690 F ’21 100w

“The style is bright and easy and the English is clear and vigorous. The spirit of Catholicity of course, pervades the whole book. It is the teaching of such men as St Augustine, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and Liguori crystallized in twentieth century English.” C: A. Dougherty

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 8 ’21 610w

“The whole book is well written, fresh and lucid, and in its way thoroughly scholarly, but its main appeal must be to Catholics.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 240w

“The book affords interesting light on the workings of a trained, devout mind. There are Roman Catholic writers on social problems whose views offer in the main much more salutary guidance than Father Hill’s.” H: Neumann

+ − =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 180w

=HILLIS, NEWELL DWIGHT.= Rebuilding Europe in the face of world-wide bolshevism. *$1.50 (3c) Revell 940.314

20–2359

The author calls his book “a study of repopulation.” His motives are hatred for Germany and fear of bolshevism. Contents: Germany: her human losses and the reflex influence of the war upon her people; France: the rebuilding of her people; Great Britain: her losses upon land and sea, and her new position among the nations of the earth; Russia, and the fruits of bolshevism; Rebuilding the little nations of the East; The crime of Bolshevists in alienating Americans from America; The United States; and reasons why our citizens should love their country; Notes, and references to authorities.

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=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 40w

“Making all allowance for rhetorical effect, and discounting errors due to haste and careless work, the fact remains that America needs several persons of this type to serve as prophets of the greatness of this country and the sanity and sanctity of its fundamental principles.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 23 ’20 520w

=HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN.= Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811

20–7792

“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons, Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable, from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican

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+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 5 ’20 1300w

“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 24 ’20 1050w

“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold (and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is especially successful in the sonnet.”

+ =Cath World= 112:118 O ’20 90w

“‘The five books of youth’ is marked by a beauty of phraseology and an authentic valuing of poetic qualities that give it a distinct place among the books of the season.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 230w

“Mr Hillyer has skill and conscience, is metrist, artist, atmospherist, and the thoughtful, or at least pensive, melancholy of his lyrics rises on occasion to undoubted charm.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 120w

“There is poetry of great promise as well as actual achievement in ‘The five books of youth.’ Mr Hillyer writes with fluency of phrase and cadence and with dignity; he has technical mastery of verse forms and an adequate vocabulary to express his rich sensuous perception.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 24 ’20 150w

=HINDUS, MAURICE GERSCHON.= Russian peasant and the revolution. *$2 (2c) Holt 914.7

20–14675

In order fully to understand the Russian revolution and its ultimate destiny, says the author, we must understand the Russian peasant who constitutes by far the most important element, and the mightiest force in Russian life. He maintains that the current opinions of him are utterly and thoroughly false. Although ignorant and oppressed by centuries of despotism, he is highly intelligent and has a will and a goal of his own, which has played a part in the revolutionary movement and is destined to play a part in the future of Russia. Contents: The peasant at home; Under serfdom; Education in the Russian village; The legal and social position of the peasant; The peasant as a farmer; Taxation; Home-industries and wage-labor; The other alternatives; The ideology of the peasant (1) political, (2) social; Battling for land; The cadets and the peasants; The social-revolutionaries and the peasant; The bolsheviki and the peasant; The gist of the peasant problem; The co-operative movement and the peasant; Bolshevism, the American democracy and the peasant; Bibliography.

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“The best chapters are the first eight, which depict the economic and the social life of the peasants.” M. Rostovtsev

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:364 Ja ’21 490w

“Considering the general demand for information, it must be said that, excellently and sympathetically written as it is, Mr Hindus’s book, ‘The Russian peasant and the revolution,’ is a failure. It is a failure because it contains hardly a word that helps us to understand what is now going on in Russia.” M. L. L.

− + =Freeman= 2:334 D 15 ’20 360w

“We need this book to get the full significance of the numerous and contradictory reports about Russia that are published in our daily press. For only when we know what the status of the Russian people was before the war can we judge whether conditions in Russia are improved or made worse by the Soviet government. Another signal service that Mr Hindus has performed is the dissipation of the illusions about the soul or the character of the Russian peasant.” J. J. S.

+ =Grinnell R= 16:307 D ’20 560w

“Such bias as he has is valuable, being the result of his own peasant origin and early associations. There are lucid and concrete chapters, without sentimentality, as remote as possible from the moonshine with which Stephen Graham for some years saturated English readers.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ =Nation= 112:19 Ja 5 ’21 340w

“The reviewer has not been able to detect a trace of propaganda in it, and can find nobody but the observer and historian. Not that Mr Hindus is colorless. Without becoming a mere annalist, it is hard to see how a writer could be fairer or more impartial.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 22 ’20 3050w

=HINE, REGINALD L.=[2] Cream of curiosity: being an account of certain historical and literary manuscripts of the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. il *$6 Dutton 040

20–18243

“‘The cream of curiosity,’ by Reginald L. Hine is an account by the author of several manuscript collections in his possession. The most interesting of them appears to be the Heath papers, extracts from which throw a true ‘Sidelight on the Civil war.’ The extracts from Harpsfield’s life of Sir Thomas More are familiar. Two of these papers have already appeared in Blackwood; those dealing with Monmouth and Sir Justinian Pagitt. A collection of epitaphs is exceptionally good.”—Sat R

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“For the most part the manuscripts which he prints are heavy work. Nor is he always over-happy in the presentation of his documents: the humour drags. Yet he deserves well of readers in general: he sets a liberal example for other owners of mss.; and his book is in its externals one of the best for many months.”

− + =Ath= p170 Ag 6 ’20 570w

“Possessing a sense of humor, an ability to appraise human nature, and a profound respect for truth, he has given enough of these old manuscripts to reproduce for us a picture of the times in which their writers lived. These papers are not without value to the historian.” G. H. S.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 22 ’21 560w

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:622 O ’20 400w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 180w

“The book is very well illustrated and printed and will be found an excellent thing to dip into and dally with in the spirit in which it was written. It is a book for the country house table.”

+ =Sat R= 130:463 D 4 ’20 100w

“His book demands not so much to be read from cover to cover as to be kept within easy reach of one’s most comfortable chair, to be opened at random, and browsed upon in the leisurely, epicurean way in which we can picture the author himself perusing his manuscripts. Nor are they altogether without their value for the historian.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p393 Je 24 ’20 1350w

=HINKSON, KATHARINE (TYNAN) (MRS HENRY ALBERT HINKSON).= Love of brothers. *$1.75 (2c) Benziger

20–3710

Sir Shawn O’Gara had upbraided his dearest friend, his brother in affection, for having ruined—as he thought—a young girl of the people; and enraged beyond control at Terence Comerford’s careless laugh had lashed the spirited horse, Spitfire, Terence was riding, thus sending him to his death. The shadow of his remorse haunted Sir Shawn throughout his subsequent, unusually blest married life. Retribution overtook him when his own son fell in love with Terence Comerford’s supposedly illegitimate daughter, Stella, and when his horse Mustapha, grandson of Spitfire and as spirited as his ancestor threw and apparently killed him. But he lived and Stella was proven legitimate and of exceedingly fine metal for standing up for and openly loving her mother while still in disgrace.

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=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

“Her mastery of her material is complete; she shapes it into fresh form, leaving no suggestion of the hackneyed or the improbable.”

+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 160w

“After the production of some sixty-four novels, it is something yet to be able to achieve a story which shows no signs of a worn-out imagination, but a decided quickening of spirit. Katharine Tynan tells her tale simply and with economy of words; yet there is real originality of plot and individuality of outlook, the whole showing a definite form, finely moulded.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p518 S 25 ’19 220w

=HISTORY= of the American field service in France; Friends of France, 1914–1917; told by its members. 3v il *$12.50 Houghton 940.373

20–15471

“Four years ago, while yet our armies were in the field, was published a volume entitled ‘Friends of France,’ which contained numerous accounts of the work done by American soldiers in France who wore the blue of the poilu. The war was still in progress and some of our regiments were still on the way overseas in danger of submarines and anticipating the serious work which was to follow. The volume, ‘Friends of France,’ was therefore more or less provisional and incomplete. This publication then is designed to supersede the former work; its aim, as expressed by the publishers, is to fill in the gaps and finish the story, to give the final record of all the sections, new as well as old, and of the work of the many hundreds of younger volunteers as well as of the pioneers of 1915 and 1916.”—Boston Transcript

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“Very carefully have the selections been made and they are edited with rare skill and discrimination.” E. T. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 700w

=R of Rs= 62:445 O ’20 130w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 70w

=HOBBS, WILLIAM HERBERT.= Leonard Wood, administrator, soldier, and citizen. il *$2 (4½c) Putnam

20–6726

The emphasis of this account of General Wood’s career is put on his advocacy of military preparedness. The author of the book sees as much danger in pacifism and internationalism as opposed to national preparedness, now as before and during the war. Henry A. Wise Wood writes a foreword to the book in the same spirit. The contents under the two divisions of: The soldier and administrator; and Prophet and organizer of preparedness, are: An American soldier; The builder of republics; Roosevelt’s estimate of Wood; Organizing the American army for defence; The fight against pacifism; The darkening of counsel; “Broomstick preparedness”; At war; A soldier’s reward; Addendum; Partial list of writings of General Leonard Wood; Books and articles concerning General Leonard Wood.

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“The book is obviously a campaign document and not a very good one. It is so fulsome in its eulogy of its hero and so bitter in its denunciation of all who disagree with him, but above all of President Wilson, that it overshoots its mark in both directions.” L. B. Evans

− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:719 N ’20 310w

=Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 160w

“Serviceable and readable volume.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 70w

=HOBHOUSE, STEPHEN.= Joseph Sturge. *1.50 Dutton

“A short biography (198 pages) of this earnest-minded Quaker, social reformer, and Chartist, who died in 1859, a year after he had been appointed President of the Peace society (British).” (Brooklyn) “Among the big things which he looked after were temperance, anti-slavery, Chartism and reform, free trade, education, international arbitration and peace.” (Ath)

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“Mr Hobhouse has performed his task adequately, with a conscientious enthusiasm for his subject. But it must be confessed that his book is a little heavy, a little leaden.” L. W.

+ − =Ath= p207 Ap 18 ’19 1050w

=Brooklyn= 12:68 Ja ’20 30w

=Review= 3:95 Jl 28 ’20 90w

=Spec= 122:433 Ap 5 ’19 300w

=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Morals of economic internationalism. (Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade) *$1 (2½c) Houghton 172.4

20–21968

“It ought not to be the case that there is one standard of morality for individuals in their relations with one another, a different and a slighter standard for corporations, and a third and still slighter standard for nations.” That this, however, actually is the case is the book’s contention. The author makes a plea for an emergency commerce and finance agreement between nations by way of preventing economic ruin and starvation in the war-stricken countries of Europe. “For morality among nations, as among individuals, implies faith and risk-taking.”

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=Nation= 112:sup245 F 9 ’21 370w

=Survey= 45:468 D 26 ’20 230w

=HOBSON, JOHN ATKINSON.= Taxation in the new state. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 336.42

(Eng ed 20–114)

The author holds that the war’s legacies of indebtedness and its large sudden demands of state expenditure for reconstruction, calling for an enormous increase in tax-income, necessitates a re-examination of the principles of tax policy. “Recognizing that the normal annual tax-income can only be derived from the incomes of the several members of the nation ... we are confronted first with the necessity of distinguishing the portions of personal incomes that have ability to bear taxation from those that have not such ability.” (Preface) The object of the book then is to arrive at a clear definition of ‘ability to bear’ and to ascertain the reforms needed to conform the demands of taxation to this principle. The book falls into two parts. Part 1: Principles of tax reform, contains: Ability to pay; The taxable surplus; The shifting of taxes; The taxation of income; Reforms of income-tax: Death duties; Supplementary taxes; Tariffs for revenue. Contents of part 2, Emergency finance, are: Our financial emergency; A levy on war-made wealth; A general levy upon capital; Relations of imperial to local taxation; Index.

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“We no doubt adopt philosophies to justify what we want to do or have decided to do, not as a means of ascertaining what we ought to do. By working out the philosophy to justify the tax system which England is apparently heading toward, this book by Professor Hobson will be of outstanding influence.” C. L. King

+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 700w

=Ath= p570 Jl 4 ’19 40w

=Booklist= 16:330 Jl ’20

“Worth the attention of all students of economics, legislators and taxpayers in the United States as well as in Great Britain.”

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 19 ’20 70w

“Of the ways and means of ascertaining the taxable capital and of collecting the levy, Mr Hobson does not say as much as one would like. But he is dealing primarily with principle rather than with practice.” R. R.

+ − =Nation= 110:431 Ap 3 ’20 1000w

“That Hobson has few illusions regarding the nature of the present regime, is clearly evident in the second, more interesting half of this volume.” L: Jacobs

+ − =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 1300w

Reviewed by H. P. Fairchild

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 Ap 24 ’20 100w

“That his discussion slips into a discussion of British taxes in particular lessens the value of his conclusions little, if any, so nearly alike is the condition of nations in general as a result of war burdens.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 15 ’20 1450w

Reviewed by Lawson Purdy

* + =Survey= 44:287 My 22 ’20 2800w

“The book is full of assumptions that propositions have been proved when they have only been asserted, and of insinuations regarding facts and inferences from them which it is impossible to make good. The case is, indeed, put before us with an ingenuity which might almost be called Jesuitical, if Mr Hobson were not so audaciously open, and even truculent, in his demand for the increase of the ‘public’ income at the expense of the ‘private surplus,’ in order to supply the assumed ‘needs’ of the state.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Jl 24 ’19 1850w

=HOBSON, S. G.= National guilds and the state. *$4 (*12s 6d) Macmillan 338.6

(Eng ed 20–16216)

“The first part of this book is devoted to a theoretical discussion of the relations between producer and consumer, and their joint relations with the state. It is presupposed that readers are acquainted with the principles and purposes of the national guild movement. The argument is largely the outcome of controversy between the author and Mr G. D. H. Cole, in which different stresses were laid upon the status of the consumer, ‘and, in consequence, upon the structure of the state.’ At the end of the second part, which deals with ‘transition,’ Mr Hobson avers his belief that national guilds are inevitable. ‘There is no student of industry,’ he declares, ‘who ... would deny the possibility of a revolution’; and the author expresses his belief that wage-abolition, with its logical sequel of an infinitely more humane structure of society, will mark a great epoch in the history of western civilization.”—Ath

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“This study marks a distinct advance in our knowledge of guild proposals.” J: G. Brooks

+ =Am Econ R= 10:858 D ’20 750w

=Ath= p383 Mr 19 ’20 150w

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

“Mr Hobson in the first chapter of this book is guilty of substituting dialectic for honest examination. Few better analyses of the shop-steward movement and the tendencies of the unions have been written. They are full of rich thinking and are highly suggestive.” G: Soule

+ − =Nation= 111:73 Jl 17 ’20 800w

“Continentals and Americans born west of New England will hardly be able to grasp Mr Hobson’s analysis. The present reviewer, not being a theologian, confesses hopelessness in the presence of it. The trouble with Mr Hobson and his brethren is that they are looking for exactness where none can exist, for the separation of that which never can be separated. They are modern utopians. They seek finality.” C: A. Beard

− + =New Republic= 25:50 D 8 ’20 1900w

“The idea of receiving wages for work done seems to give him positive pain, but his attempt to formulate a practical alternative is a sad failure, though it is veiled in obscure terms.”

− =Spec= 124:281 F 28 ’20 200w

“Admirably argumentative book.” W: L. Chenery

+ =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p111 F 12 ’20 40w

“It is long, controversial, ill-knit; lacking in clarity of thought and expression, and in consecutive argument. It gives the impression of being made up largely of fragments written at different times and strung together, not worked out in logical sequence. The writer seems to be striving all the time to get his own thoughts clear as he goes along, and to find the right words for them.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p132 F 26 ’20 1050w

=HOCKING, JOSEPH.= Passion for life. il *$1.90 (1c) Revell

Francis Erskine was given a year to live by his doctor and chooses the Cornwall coast to pass this year in quiet rural seclusion and in finding out, if possible, if there is any hope for a life beyond. He is an unbeliever and has no faith whatever in immortality. His secluded hut on the cliffs turns out to be almost directly over a cave used by the Germans for their secret operations and he soon begins to sense the presence of German spies. He spends his time between cultivating the village folk and clergy, in his quest for a life after death, and in trying to discover what the Germans are doing at the cave. To this last he consecrates himself in patriotic fervor, and succeeds, but apparently dies in a struggle with a spy. During his death trance he has a vision of the two worlds and becomes conscious of the presence of God. He awakes to find that an operation has been performed on him and that a new life and even love is waiting for him.

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“There is material for a really worth while book in this novel of Mr Hocking’s and the tale begins well. If the author had only been able to restrain his fondness for sugar and sentimentality he might have been able to maintain the whole at the level of the beginning.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 440w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 140w

=HODGE, ALBERT CLAIRE, and MCKINSEY, JAMES OSCAR.= Principles of accounting. *$3 Univ. of Chicago press 657

20–17381

Three classes of students of accounting are considered in this volume: those who aim at understanding its use as a means of social control over business activities—consisting mostly of students of economics; those who expect to qualify as certified public accountants; and those who expect to become business executives of one kind or another. Contents: The meaning and function of accounting; The relationship of accounting to proprietorship; The balance sheet; The statement of profit and loss; The account as a means of classifying information; The construction and interpretation of particular accounts; The construction and interpretation of accounts; The trial balance; The adjusting entries; The closing entries; The source of the ledger entries; Some special forms of the journal; The use of the general journal; Business vouchers and forms; The accounting process; Business practice and procedure; Books of original entry; Controlling accounts; The construction and interpretation of accounts; Accruals and deferred items; The adjusting and closing entries; The classification of accounts; Financial reports; The graphical method of presenting accounting facts; Appendix.

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+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 50w

=HODGES, FRANK.= Nationalisation of the mines; with foreword by J: R. Clynes. (New era ser.) $1.75 Seltzer 338.2

(Eng ed 20–6078)

“Mr Hodges’s case is, briefly, that there is inevitably waste in the production, in the consumption, and in the distribution of coal under the present system of private ownership. He insists that the coal industry should be regarded as a whole; that the accidental frontiers of private ownership are not geological frontiers: that the prime consideration of an industry developed by shareholders’ capital, namely, that a certain monetary return should be obtained within a certain time, is not compatible with the most efficient and scientific development of that industry; and that different and competitive systems of distribution involve needless expenses for superfluous labour. His conclusions are based on figures, and the figures are taken from government reports. His argument is, in fact, the old argument that one great trust controlling a whole industry can work more efficiently and economically than a number of small and overlapping concerns. Here he develops his second argument. We have to consider the psychology of the miners. Rightly or wrongly, they are now reluctant to work for the purpose of creating private profit. No system of profit-sharing will content them; they insist on the dignity of being regarded directly as servants of the community; they have lost all faith in the divine right of employers. That is why the country, and not a trust, must own and develop the coal-mines.”—Ath

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“He has arranged his matter in a logical sequence, he confines himself to essentials, and he writes throughout with, at least, an appearance of scientific detachment.”

+ =Ath= p369 Mr 19 ’20 670w

“The little book is worth reading if only because it shows the extremely vague and unpractical nature of the scheme which Mr Hodges and his colleagues propose to force upon the government and the nation whether they like it or not.”

− =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 240w

“Mr Hodges is studiously moderate in tone and not unmindful of the rules of logic.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 750w

=HOERNLÉ, REINHOLD FRIEDRICH ALFRED.= Studies in contemporary metaphysics. *$3 (3½c) Harcourt 104

20–4123

The author calls his studies “chips from a metaphysician’s workshop” and in the opening chapter explains what this workshop implies, at the same time justifying its existence in the midst of the vital problems and perplexities of our age. He asserts that there are evidences in plenty of a vigorous philosophic life; that speculative interest and activity have been of recent years increasingly varied and enterprising; and that there has been no lack of originality. What is needed is to understand its spirit, which the author defines as the spirit of wholeness, the attempt to view the universe as a whole in the midst of shifting appearances and accumulative experiences. The contents are: Prologue—the philosopher’s quest; The idol of scientific method in philosophy; Philosophy of nature at the cross-roads; On “doubting the reality of the world of sense”; “Saving the appearances” in the physical world (note on John Locke’s distinction of primary and secondary qualities); Mechanism and vitalism; Theories of mind; The self in self-consciousness; Epilogue—religion and philosophy of religion; Index.

* * * * *

“Good reading for those interested in modern thought movements.”

+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20

Reviewed by H. B. Alexander

+ =Nation= 110:sup482 Ap 10 ’20 1250w

“A book like the present one should go far to supply the real need of a clear and convincing statement of what is admitted to be the most difficult of all philosophical systems. Mr Hoernlé is to be congratulated on a work of permanent value.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 900w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 100w

=HOFFMAN, CONRAD.= In the prison camps of Germany. il *$4 Assn. press 940.472

20–21330

Mr Hoffman, of the University of Kansas, went abroad in 1915 to do relief work. He reached Berlin in August of that year and remained in Germany as Secretary of the War prisoners’ aid of the Y. M. C. A. thruout the war. He then staid on for eight months after the armistice to continue the work in behalf of the Russian prisoners still held in Germany. Among the chapters are: First impressions of Berlin; The Britishers at Ruhleben; Christmas in a prison hospital; Prisoners at work and hungry; Help in both worship and study; Working under surveillance; The day of food substitutes; Visiting the first American prisoners; Real Americanism in evidence; First days of the German revolution; Russian prisoners and their guards; A concluding judgment. In one of the appendixes Mrs Hoffman writes of the experiences of an American woman in Berlin.

=HOFFMAN, MARIE E.= Lindy Loyd; a tale of the mountains. *$1.75 Jones, Marshall

20–8234

“The southern mountains of the Blue ridge, presumably, where the moonshiners find inaccessible places to hide their illicit stills from the ever-vigilant ‘revenoors,’ are the scene of ‘Lindy Loyd.’ Against their background with alluring descriptions of their wild scenery, their birds and animals, the rushing of the mountain torrent, and the tinkling of the hidden stream, Mrs Hoffman places the love story of Lindy Loyd, the course of which, perfect in its beginning, encounters the traditional rough places over which true love is doomed to pass.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The author knows well the mountains, knows, too, the mountain people, and pictures with fidelity the characteristics, manners and customs engendered by the ruggedness, almost inaccessibility of their environment.” F. M. W.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 400w

“Less melodramatic than many of its kind and notable for its true local color.”

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w

=N Y Times= p17 Je 27 ’20 270w

=HOFMANNSTHAL, HUGO HOFMANN, edler von.= Death of Titian. (Contemporary ser.) *75c Four seas co. 832

20–6845

This dramatic fragment, written in 1892, was translated from the German by John Heard, Jr. The prologue was added in 1901 when it was acted in Munich as a memorial to Arnold Böcklin. It depicts a scene on the terrace of Titian’s villa, in 1576, at the time of Titian’s death.

* * * * *

“After all, what interest one may have in the play lies in the excellence of the translation, for, as a play, there is no blood in it.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 270w

“The dramatic form, unfortunately for the translator, is only skin-deep. Essential drama, apart from its verbal expression, loses nothing in a new language: poetry, and ‘The death of Titian’ in particular, lose most everything.”

− =Dial= 69:322 S ’20 50w

“This group of monologues of the old master’s pupils gathered about his death-bed possessed the ecstatic phrasing and the comparative aimlessness of youthful genius. Over all there is a blue-bronze atmosphere which John Heard has not completely lost in his English.” E. E. H.

+ − =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 150w

“Hofmannsthal fashioned those incomparable verses (which Mr Heard has sensitively read but quite failed to render) because the very pang of beauty wrung them from him. No wonder that such verses are not written today either in Vienna or elsewhere.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 111:18 Jl 3 ’20 110w

“The slow movement and sluggish dialog give to this little fragment a funereal as well as a memorial aspect. There is too little of the pageant, too much of the orator. Words cloud illusions and crowd out the sympathetic play of the individual imagination.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 S 14 ’20 150w

=HOLDEN, GEORGE PARKER.= Idyl of the split bamboo. il *$3 Stewart & Kidd 799

20–21340

While the author’s previous book, “Streamcraft,” deals mainly with the open season and actual streamside technic, this one is more a book for winter evenings and the fireside and for the workshop. Building a split-bamboo rod is an operation, the author avows. He describes this operation in every detail but he prepares the reader’s mind for this more tedious process by a long chapter on “The joys of angling.” Nine chapters of the book are devoted to the rod-making. Edwin T. Whiffen contributes a chapter on “Cultivating silkworm-gut at home,” and the two remaining chapters are on Landing-nets and other equipment and The angler’s camp. Besides many full-page illustrations there are diagrams showing the different stages of rod building and details of camp outfit.

* * * * *

“Both the expert and the tyro will find good fishing in these attractive pages.”

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 60w

=HOLDING, ELISABETH SANXAY.= Invincible Minnie. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–5229

As her central figure the author presents one type of the eternal feminine, the ruthlessly domestic and womanly woman who takes what she wants for herself regardless of the results to others. Minnie hasn’t even beauty or charm, but she takes away her sister’s lover, marries him and wrecks his life, marries a second man while the first still lives, bears him a child and accepts his support for the child of the first man, justifies herself when her guilt is discovered and forever after lives on the bounty of the man she has wronged. She is an incompetent housekeeper and a criminally bad mother but she succeeds in creating the impression that she is the true woman, and perhaps she is, writes the author, “perhaps those others, with hearts, with brains, with souls, are ... only the freaks of nature.”

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+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

=Bookm= 51:440 Je ’20 150w

“Only a degree less arresting than her character building, however, is the author’s method of telling the story.” C. M. Greene

+ =Bookm= 51:565 Jl ’20 550w

“Minnie is real, in life, but she has not been made real in the American fiction of our day until Elisabeth Sanxay Holding created her for us in these pages. Minnie Defoe takes her place as the true American cousin, also the only American cousin, of Ann Veronica, Hilda Lessways, Sonia O’Rane.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 7 ’20 1300w

“‘Invincible Minnie’ is an astounding person. It is no use to say that she is impossible; that is one of the most terrifying things about her, she isn’t.”

+ =Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 200w

“Mrs Holding writes coldly, warily, ruthlessly. She is beyond any passionate concern in the matter. She has moments of a cosmic tolerance for Minnie. But how Minnie must have made her suffer! It is only when we get to the other shore of suffering that we can see with eyes so penetrating and so passionless.”

+ =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 750w

“It has various minor faults. The scourge of revision has not been ruthlessly enough applied, and the style is marred here and there by a loose carelessness. What makes one indifferent to these defects is the author’s marvellous ability to record and analyze Minnie. Minnie may not be the artistic equal of Becky Sharp, but she is far nearer our common experience.” Signe Toksvig

+ − =New Repub= 22:357 My 12 ’20 1650w

“It is all done with an art-concealing simplicity and frankness the study of which will repay the best of our modern English ‘realists,’ though they will find it hard to analyze and still harder to imitate.” Oliver Herford

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 750w

“We can recall no piece of fiction, with the exception of Sudermann’s masterful short story, ‘The purpose,’ which portrays the unmoral woman more unflinchingly than Elisabeth Sanxay Holding has done in her vivid novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 600w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

=Pub W= 97:1290 Ap 17 ’20 350w

“A bitter book, remorselessly written, and quite against the current stream of tolerance for all human creatures. Perhaps it is wholesome for us to turn now and then from the genial process of admiring the best of us in the worst of us, and to behold how a Minnie looks, pinned fairly on the slide and set under a ruthless lens.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:602 Je 5 ’20 550w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 100w

=HOLDSWORTH, ETHEL.= Taming of Nan. *$1.90 (2c) Dutton

19–19359

Here’s another tale of the taming of a shrew. She is a Lancashire working woman full of primitive savagery which she lets out in explosions of fiery temper towards her good-natured giant of a husband and her pretty pleasure-loving daughter. When both of the giant’s legs have been cut off by a train, she hammers away at him still, to break him still more, and not until he has found a new strength and a new independence do the fates discover her vulnerable spot and begin the breaking and taming process on her. And not until she has almost lost her soul and her daughter does she find the only outlet for the fierce life-force within her to be love and the ministrations of love.

* * * * *

“This is the old story of the reclaiming of a virago retold with considerable power.”

+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 120w

“For those readers who like character studies as well as plots.”

+ =Booklist= 16:204 Mr ’20

“‘The taming of Nan’ is a very different kind of story from ‘Helen of four gates.’ It is with less concentration but it is constructed upon a broader basis and the whole atmosphere of it is more human, more genial, less tense and stormy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:43 Ja 25 ’20 750w

“While Ethel Holdsworth’s second book, ‘The taming of Nan,’ is less striking and peculiar than her first [‘Helen of Four Gates’], it is more genial and shows growth and a broader knowledge of life.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w

“It is as a study of Polly’s emergence from the blurred prettiness and apparently unprotected amativeness of girlhood to real achievements in character and happiness that the book may especially commend itself to the confirmed yet still hopeful novel reader.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 340w

“The characterisation is admirable, if slightly idealised, and the book is, as a whole, quite admirable.”

+ =Sat R= 130:379 N 6 ’20 90w

“The story is wanting in the continuous strength found in the preceding novel. As usual, Mrs Holdsworth reveals keen insight into human nature and does not shrink from picturing the truth however brutal or sordid. But she leans less towards crude realism than heretofore.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 28 ’20 600w

“A study of Lancashire working folk by one who evidently knows them intimately enough to give a genuine picture of them. The whole is by no means lengthy, but it is not less complete on that account. It is the result not only of intimacy on the part of the writer, but of an ordered perception which is not afraid either of cruelty or kindness, but sees in both the movement of life.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 O 9 ’19 460w

=HOLLAND, FRANCIS CALDWELL.= Seneca. il *$4 (*10s) Longmans

20–12858

“Mr Holland’s biographical essay, originally designed to preface a translation of Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, is now allowed to appear ‘on the chance that here or there some readers may be found to share my interest in the subject.’ Into the long and interesting story of Seneca’s literary fortunes it is no part of Mr Holland’s task to enter. He is placing the story of his life against the background of Julio-Claudian Rome. His tone is that of a discriminating apologist.”—Review

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“The historical narrative is well written. With regard to the estimate given of Seneca’s character and the view taken of the literary and philosophic value of his works, Mr Holland presents what will seem to many too favourable a picture.” H. E. B.

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:467 Jl ’20 460w

“The grave dignity of Mr Holland’s style has somehow the fine sound of the best translations from the Latin, the spirit of his enterprise is ripely philosophical.”

+ =Nation= 110:828 Je 19 ’20 320w

“His full and agreeably written narrative of the life of the philosopher-statesman should win readers for Seneca.” H. M. Ayers

+ =Review= 2:521 My 15 ’20 1300w

“If we had more such books, the classics would stand on a firmer footing of human interest, instead of appearing to exist chiefly for the purpose of adding to the incomes of publishers, dons, and schoolmasters.”

+ =Sat R= 129:350 Ap 10 ’20 1200w

“Mr Francis Holland retells his story in a volume of lively and picturesque narrative. If it adds nothing to the knowledge of the subject for the specialist student, the story is one of interest to any man of liberal education, and a book which tells it over again so agreeably and judiciously may be just the book which many people want.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p345 Je 3 ’20 2350w

=HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT.= Refugee rock. il *$1.75 (3c) Jacobs

20–17657

Three American boys cruising along the coast of Maine land on what is supposed to be a deserted island and find it inhabited by a charming mannered young foreigner, his two servants and his dog. The stranger, Pierre Romaine, is practicing fencing strokes when the boys first come upon him and he at once arouses their curiosity and admiration. They find that two other groups of men are interested in the island, the first, the crew of a fishing smack, the second, a party of three foreigners, apparently Russians. The secret of their interest is solved, Romaine’s enemies are driven off, the treasure he is guarding is saved, and he consents to join his new friends on their cruise.

=HOLLIDAY, CARL.= Wedding customs then and now. *75c (7c) Stratford co. 392.5

19–13678

This entertaining little volume harkens back to old customs and usages, quoting the opinions of pessimist and optimist alike and has nothing to do with scientific sociological research. Contents: Marriage by force; Buying wives; Marriage taxes; Ancient ceremonies; The wedding feast and wedding cake; Wedding presents; Wedding festivities; Her trousseau; Gretna Green; The best time; The wedding ring; The old shoe; Proverbs.

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“There is little that is unfamiliar in Mr Holliday’s recital, but there is much that is interesting in his somewhat flippant narrative.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 120w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 F 26 ’20 180w

=HOLLIDAY, ROBERT CORTES.= Men and books and cities. *$2.50 (5½c) Doran 917.3

20–20548

Papers that appeared in the Bookman under the pseudonym Murray Hill, Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles are the cities, and among the men met on these desultory journeyings were Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, E. V. Lucas, William Marion Reedy and Carl Sandburg, and various literary editors and book sellers and others.

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+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21

“No one else has quite Mr Holliday’s faculty for his own particular type of essay. He has captured the art of saying the forever unexpected. He rambles as freely through his pages as one might see him wandering about a city, with his stick upon his arm.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 950w

“It resembles a certain coat of many colors in its diversity of interests, and is to be recommended to him of human interests, rather than to the zealous seeker after exact and correlated knowledge.”

+ =Cath World= 112:692 F ’21 320w

“Seeking to be spirited, informal and impressionistic, Mr Holliday has fallen into the error of self-consciousness. He keeps himself so assiduously in the limelight, that one only catches such gleams of other personalities as may filter through his bulk.” Lisle Bell

− =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 120w

“All in all, this is quite an amusing book that manages to cover a surprisingly wide area with a limited stock of vital ideas. And that is where Elia and Murray Hill part company.” Pierre Loving

+ − =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 440w

“Although Mr Holliday displays a humane temper and gives some pleasure by telling of his travels from city to city and from one barber to another, yet his style, his imagination and his humor are hardly sufficient to justify bringing these random pages between book covers.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 17 ’21 210w

=HOLLINGWORTH, HARRY LEVI.= Psychology of functional neuroses. *$2 Appleton 616.8

20–17971

The book deals with those psychoneurotic manifestations that are susceptible to the modifying influences of suggestion, motivation, analysis and reeducation and to the numerous techniques of psychotherapy which the study of these manifestations has developed. As director of the psychoneurotic army hospital at Plattsburg, the author had cognisance of 1200 cases that were examined and treated there. Among the contents are: The mechanism of redintegration; Redintegration in the psychoneuroses: The intelligence of psychoneurotics; The rôle of motivation in the psychoneuroses; Irregularity of profile (scattering) in the psychoneurotic; A statistical study of psychoneurotic soldiers; Reliability of a group survey in the determination of mental age; Mental measurement, methods, and standards; Psychological service in a neuropsychiatric hospital; Index.

=HOLME, JOHN GUNNLAUGUR.= Life of Leonard Wood. il *$1.50 Doubleday

20–5732

A biography written frankly in the interests of General Wood as a presidential candidate. Contents: Early boyhood and school days; Soldier and surgeon; With Cleveland and McKinley; Commander of the Rough riders; The rescuer of Santiago; Governor and business manager of Cuba; Pacifier of the Philippines; Chief-of-staff of the U.S. army; The awakener of the nation; The champion of law and order. There are four illustrations from photographs.

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“The author is a newspaper man, well known in Washington, and he has had access to many sources which makes his work authoritative.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 160w

=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w

=HOLMES, CHARLES JOHN.=[2] Leonardo da Vinci. (British academy. Fourth annual lecture on a master-mind. Henriette Hertz trust) *90c Oxford 759.5

20–2853

“In this lecture, delivered on the four hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death, Mr Holmes sets out to show that Vasari’s judgment of the master—‘an artist of marvellous gifts who frittered them away on toys and trifles’—is wrong. Today we know more of Leonardo’s mind than did Vasari, so that we may ‘reverse the traditional formula and regard him as a very great man of science, who made a living by his talent as an artist and an engineer.’ Mr Holmes supports his contention by numerous and interesting quotations from Leonardo’s note-books.”—Ath

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=Ath= p1049 O 17 ’19 100w

=Spec= 122:584 N 1 ’19 160w

“A brilliant, though concise, study.”

+ =Nation= 110:660 My 15 ’20 460w

=HOLMES, JOHN HAYNES.= Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes? *$1.25 (5c) Dodd 331

20–7773

Is violence the way out of our industrial disputes, which the war, far from curing as it was hoped, has aggravated into a condition of chaos comparable only to the military chaos that went before? In the three addresses in the book, originally prepared for the Community church of New York, the author outlines a doctrine of non-resistance which alone can solve the problem satisfactorily. Between the struggle of capital and labor there can be no compromise. Labor must win but neither can win through violence. The presence of certain psychological elements, not impossible of achievement, are necessary to solve the problem: co-operative good-will on the part of labor, renunciation and confidence on the part of capital, and on both a viewpoint of human relationships taught by the prophet of Nazareth. Contents: The answer for capital; The answer for labour; The better way; Conclusion.

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=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20

=Freeman= 2:46 S 22 ’20 270w

=Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 30w

“Mr Holmes is nothing if not forthright. His mind works through his topic from start to finish with a steady momentum; there is no beating about the bush, no dallying finesse of language, no straining after mere rhetorical or stylistic effect. Even if you are not convinced, you instinctively recognize that you have been listening to the passionate and able pleading of an incorruptible mind.” R. R.

+ =Nation= 111:220 Ag 21 ’20 600w

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 50w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 3 ’20 250w

Reviewed by Alexander Fleisher

=Survey= 44:638 Ag 16 ’20 130w

=HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL.= Collected legal papers. *$4 Harcourt 340

20–22316

These papers are of general interest and consist of speeches and articles collected from various publications between 1885 to 1918. They are: Early English equity; The law; The profession of the law; On receiving the degree of LL.D; The use of law schools; Agency; Privilege, malice and intent; Learning and science; Executors; The bar as a profession; Speech at Brown university; The path of the law; Legal interpretation; Law in science and science in law; Speech at Bar association dinner; Montesquieu; John Marshall; Address at Northwestern University law school; Economic elements; Maitland; Holdsworth’s English law; Law and the court; Introduction to continental legal historical series; Ideals and doubts; Bracton; Natural law.

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“Every paper has its own virtues, but there is one which they all share, a rare and delicate charm. These papers bring the touch of romance to philosophy but this must not detract from our realization that the philosophy itself is fine and deep.” S. L. Cook

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w

Reviewed by T: R. Powell

+ =Nation= 112:237 F 9 ’21 2250w

“The forbiddingly colorless title does grave injustice to an extraordinary book of thoroughly matured human wisdom.” M. R. Cohen

+ =New Repub= 25:294 F 2 ’21 2450w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 40w

=HOLT, HENRY.= Cosmic relations and immortality. 2d ed 2v *$10 Houghton 134

20–26562

“Mr Holt’s two volumes on ‘The cosmic relations and immortality’ are a new and enlarged edition of the two-volume work he published just before the breaking out of the war under the title ‘On the cosmic relations.’ He has added a new preface and several new chapters and has modified and brought to date the final summary of the subject in his last section. In the new chapters he takes up what he considers the three most important developments during the years since the work first appeared, which, in his opinion, ‘have added force to the spiritistic hypothesis.’ These are, first, the investigations and conclusions of Dr William J. Crawford, the well-known physicist of Queen’s university, Belfast; second, the appearance of many new sensitives, whose manifestations differ much from one another and from their predecessors; third, the agreement of these sensitives in depicting virtually the same future state.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:356 Jl ’20

“He guesses frequently and variably; he admits uncertainty; he has a vigorous prejudice against dogmatism. But this philosophy takes its form as rigidly from these bantering guesses, as though other guesses did not exist.... The consequences are lamentable. Standards of credibility are abandoned; subjectivism replaces criticism; and miracles are rampant.” Joseph Jastrow

− =Dial= 69:204 Ag ’20 820w

“The notable thing about this book, now as in the earlier edition, is the nobility of spirit which informs it.”

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 130w

=N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 370w

=HOLT, LEE.= Paris in shadow. *$2 Lane

The author’s novel “Green and gay” was published in 1918. The present book is written in the form of a diary, but it is not possible to determine whether it is an authentic record or a fictional device. A “portrait of the author,” printed as a foreword, says: “In the diary which follows he has noted down the trifling happenings of every day, those little events which more than all show the true spirit of the time. He writes from the standpoint of an American who has lived in France most of his life, but still retains a deep love of his own country. The book was not written in a spirit of criticism, merely to describe the everyday Paris as it was in 1916–1917.”

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“It is written with a good deal of literary charm and may fittingly be described by that much abused expression, a ‘human document.’”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p16 D 4 ’20 80w

“The book is written in an agreeable style, but contains little matter of first-rate interest.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 100w

=HOLT, LUTHER EMMETT.= Care and feeding of children. *$2 (4½c) Appleton 649.1

20–7343

The preface to the tenth edition of this well-known work says, “The constant use of the catechism as a manual for nursery maids has shown the need of fuller treatment of several subjects than was given in the earlier editions.... In this edition a considerable amount of new material has been introduced relative to the growth, nutrition, diet and supervision of older children, thus attempting to fill a need often expressed by mothers who have relied upon the manual as a guide for the period of infancy.”

=HOME=—then what? the mind of the doughboy, A. E. F. *$1.50 Doran 940.373

20–4692

The Comrades in service company club was started at Gievres, France by Dr O. D. Foster. In May, 1919, a movement was started in the club by Capt. Leon Schwartz to offer three prizes for the three best essays on the topic “Home—then what?” The three prize essays, a number of selected essays, and selected extracts constitute this volume. They have been collected and arranged by James Louis Small, and John Kendrick Bangs has written an illuminating foreword. The prize essayists are: Marcelle H. Wallenstein; Joshua B. Lee; and George F. Hudson.

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=Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 350w

=HOOKER, FORRESTINE COOPER.= Long dim trail. (Borzoi western stories) *$2 (2c) Knopf

20–17651

The story is a vivid picture of the life in the Arizona cattle country with its teeming beauty during prosperous seasons, its forlorn hope in times of drought, and the colorful variety of its human element. There is the sprinkling of college-bred easterners, the rough cow punchers with the warm loyal hearts, the Mexican, the Chinaman and the desperado. Between them all there is romance and thrilling adventure.

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“The suggestion of artificiality is pleasingly absent in ‘The long dim trail.’ The book’s greatest charm lies in the fact that its pictures of life on the cattle ranges of Arizona compel the conviction that they are as accurate as they are vivid.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 480w

“Lovers of stories of adventure, love, villainy and virile men and true women will find the ingredients mixed here in a manner above the average.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 120w

=HOPKINS, NEVIL MONROE.= Outlook for research and invention. il *$2 Van Nostrand 609

19–16654

The purpose of this book is to stimulate interest “not so much perhaps in what has been known as Yankee invention, but in the broader and more comprehensive American research.” There are eight chapters: The spirit of research; Men of research and their development; Some indifference of the past; American war research; The education for research; Some borderline limits; Research in the factory; The making and protecting of inventions. An appendix lists problems awaiting solution. The book is finely illustrated with a frontispiece and six portraits.

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“The book shows the author to be thoroughly familiar with the national and industrial need for research, for he tells in an immensely illuminating manner of what research accomplished during the war and how the need for industrial research still is a pressing one. The book is fascinatingly written and should appeal to anyone with the instinct for solving things.”

+ =Electrical R= 76:457 Mr 13 ’20 280w

“Research workers, inventors, educators, manufacturers and certain government officials and legislators of the higher type will find stimulus and suggestion in this readable volume. Most of the book is written from the viewpoint of the chemist and physicist rather than of the engineer and nearly all the research problems listed are in the two fields named, but the author writes with knowledge and appreciation of engineering.”

+ =Engin News-Rec= 84:581 Mr 18 ’20 110w

“Mr Hopkins’s book will be of special interest to young men and women who are interested in research and invention as careers, particularly if they happen to be without the advantages of higher technical education.” B: C. Gruenberg

+ =Nation= 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 320w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p14 Ja ’20 40w

“The volume belongs to a class of books which suffer somewhat in the appeal that they are capable of making to the humanistically trained intellectuals, because of a certain rawness of cultural outlook as tested by the conventional standards of the literary and humanistic critic. On the other hand, it is replete with indications of wide and substantial scholarship in various scientific branches, it is composed with a somewhat infectious enthusiasm for the beauties of science.”

+ − =Review= 2:488 My 8 ’20 750w

=HORNE, HERMAN HARRELL.= Jesus, the master teacher. *$2 Assn. press 232

20–14228

The book has to do with the pedagogy of Jesus, which, the author says, is a discovered and staked-out but unworked mine. The aim of the book is two-fold: “to see how Jesus taught, or is presented to us as having taught,” and “ultimately, to influence our own methods of teaching morals and religion,” and is primarily to be used as a guide to be followed in study classes. A partial list of the contents is: How did Jesus secure attention? His use of problems; His conversations; His questions; His discourses; His parables; His use of symbols; His imagery; Education by personal association; Did Jesus appeal to the native reactions? His attitude toward children; His qualities as teacher; The significance of Jesus in educational history. The appendix consists of topics for further study, and there are illustrations and a bibliography.

=HORTON, CHARLES MARCUS.= Opportunities in engineering. (Opportunity books) *$1 (5c) Harper 620

20–6879

This little treatise on engineering might well be called an epic, for it sings the praises of the engineer and his work in all its aspects. It is a wonderful profession, perhaps “the topmost of all professions” in its possibilities of world service, and the engineer is both a thinker and a doer and as such has more of the world under his control than falls to the lot of most men. Contents: Engineering and the engineer; Engineering opportunities; The engineering type; The four major branches; Making a choice; Qualifying for promotion; The consulting engineer; The engineer in civic affairs; Code of ethics; Future of the engineer; What constitutes engineering success; The personal side.

=Booklist= 16:334 Jl ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 100w

=HOWARD, ALEXANDER L.= Manual of the timbers of the world, their characteristics and uses. il *$9 Macmillan 691.1

“The book is intended to supplement the standard works on timber and aims at giving an account of the important timbers either on the market or likely to be of use to us in the future. The properties and characters of 500 of these woods are considered and suggestions made as to their practical utilization. Quite a large amount of information is given on the cultural conditions necessary for many of the best timber trees and on the possibility of growing them in this country. This special part of the work is followed by a more general one, dealing with the conversion and preservation of timber, specifications and conditions of contract; then comes a very important section dealing with the artificial seasoning of timber.”—Spec

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“On the subject of timbers he is a fanatic. His passion leads him into mistakes, but it leads him also into real appreciation of the beauty of woods, and into a prose style that conveys unexpectedly through the technicalities the charm of his subject.” Malcolm Cowley

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 27 ’20 570w

“The book is fully illustrated and well arranged; it will be of more use than its author modestly imagines.”

+ − =Spec= 125:640 N 13 ’20 620w

=HOWE, EDGAR WATSON.= Anthology of another town. *$2 (5c) Knopf

20–20449

A series of sketches, varying in length from a paragraph to several pages, describing characters from a middle western small town. The title suggests “Spoon River,” but Mr Howe writes in simple, direct prose and without irony. Many of the sketches go back to his boyhood and his own experience as a printer’s apprentice.

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“Consists of backyard gossip about the inhabitants of Atchison, Kansas; as such it is unexpurgated and entirely delightful. Mr Howe is not so cosmic as Mr Masters and he is a great deal easier to read.”

+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 90w

=HOWE, J. ALLEN.= Stones and quarries. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 Pitman 691.2

“In this small volume an attempt has been made to place before the reader a broad general view of the stone industry, to show what part it plays in the life of the community and to give an outline of the methods and machinery employed in its development.” (Preface) Chapters on The stone industry. Rocks, stones and minerals and Classification of stones are followed by six chapters devoted to the various types of stones and their modes of occurrence. Then come four chapters on the employment of stone, in building and engineering, roads, etc., and two concluding chapters on Quarrying and The preparation of stone for the market. There is a one-page bibliography and an index.

=HOWE, MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE.= George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. il *$5 (3c) Dodd

20–726

The book is based on a large collection of papers, in manuscript and in print, among them Mr Meyer’s diary. The contents are: Beginnings; Affairs and politics in Boston and Massachusetts; Ambassador to Italy; Ambassador to Russia; Postmaster general; Secretary of the navy; The final years. Illustrations and an index.

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“In the preparation of this work. Mr Howe has followed the golden rule for biographers, by allowing his subject, so far as possible, to tell his own story. Letters and diary entries constitute the record of an interesting, useful and busy life.” G: W. Wickersham

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:345 My ’20 1650w

“The conversations with the Czar and with the Kaiser will be especially interesting.”

+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20

Reviewed by Lindsay Swift

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 F 28 ’20 1900w

=N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 2000w

“The volume, while full, is not graphic, and does not reveal Mr Meyer as a deep or vivid reader of social reactions. It is even disappointing in the inside light it might throw on the official ‘family life’ of two presidents of the United States.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 130w

“Every chapter of this well-written biography is worth reading.”

+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 60w

Reviewed by E: G. Lowry

+ =Review= 2:308 Mr 27 ’20 1950w

=R of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 140w

“Because of its accurate and intimate picture of life behind the scenes in the great countries of the world for a period of approximately fifteen years, the work must certainly prove of value to historians in search of material upon which to base comprehensive studies of the world war.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 2050w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN=, ed. Great modern American stories. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–11148

“Twenty-four short stories, ranging from Edward Everett Hale’s ‘My double’ and Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’ of other days, to George Ade’s ‘Effie Whittlesy’ and Theodore Dreiser’s ‘The lost Phoebe’ of the present, make up the contents of an anthology of ‘The great modern American stories.’ The selection is made by none other than William Dean Howells, and to it he contributes an introduction which is by no means the least interesting feature of the volume. It is compressed within eight pages, and it forms a compact summary of the course of American short story writing during the past half-century and more.”—Boston Transcript

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“A fascinating collection. One finds old favorites almost forgotten such as ‘The little room,’ while the stories one looks for are here too.”

+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 14 ’20 700w

“Some of the stories which are given a place cause one to wonder on what possible basis Mr Howells made his choice. Their inclusion might be comprehensible were it not for the brilliant tales which they displace. Mr Howells’ omissions are indeed decidedly more striking than his selections.”

− + =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 240w

“A nice adjustment of personal preferences to inevitable inclusions is here revealed.”

+ =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 50w

“Short story writers may very well take a look at this book, with its soundly native material and integrity of approach. Only two or three of the collection can by any stretch be called great, but they cleave a way and accomplish a measurable result.” C. M. Rourke

+ =Freeman= 2:91 O 6 ’20 1200w

“No anthology, of course, is final: a dozen other candidates for this volume will occur to any reader at all expert; but if editing can be as nearly classical as writing, this collection may have to be called a classic.”

+ =Nation= 111:251 Ag 28 ’20 350w

“The two dozen stories all repay reading and reward re-reading; but none of them is more readable than the preface of the editor himself.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= 25:179 Ap 18 ’20 2900w

“The volume is undoubtedly interesting, though the kind of interest it begets does not leave one particularly impressed by the merits and dignities of the short story as a kind.”

+ − =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 550w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 280w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Hither and thither in Germany. (Harper’s travel companions) il *$2 (4½c) Harper 914.3

20–2699

Basil March, of silver wedding journey fame, has taken the cure at Carlsbad, and for an after-cure he and his wife do a bit of traveling about Germany. Their trip is described in the book, the chapters of which have been selected from the original volume.

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=Dial= 68:666 My ’20 1000w

“The deftest hand which ever drove an American pen has here cut away the meandering narrative of the original and has kept the descriptive parts. But what description this of Mr Howells’s—as easy as an eagle, as flexible as a serpent, as natural and clear as a brook going about its business!”

+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 280w

“In true Howells’ style the narrative rambles along, sometimes with full detail as if photographed, and again with an impressionistic summary of a whole experience in a few words. It may be that in the future, with the smoothing of asperities, the tide of the tourist travel will flow to Germany again. Then if not before, this book of Mr Howells’ should score a large popularity.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 340w

=HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN.= Vacation of the Kelwyns; an idyl of the middle eighteen-seventies. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–16794

Kelwyn, post-graduate lecturer on historical sociology, was rather theoretical than practical. Mrs Kelwyn was conventionally practical, always eager, theoretically, to be fair and generous, but rather fussy, withal; and both were typically New England. They rented an abandoned farm, with one of their “family” houses, of the Shakers for a year, had a farmer and his wife put in charge, and arranged to spend their vacation there. The farmers were shiftless and ignorant. In their world and the Kelwyn’s there was no common meeting ground and the latter’s summer turned out a tragicomedy. The situation was somewhat saved by their cousin, Parthenope Brook, and a stray teacher, a poetic dreamer and idealist and experimenter with life. His experiments even included the kitchen and the cooking of meals in which Parthenope joined him with the inevitable result.

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+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20

“Nowhere has Mr Howells shown more clearly his possession of the dual powers of the observer and the chronicler. Many novelists have either the one power or the other. Few possess them both equally, and Mr Howells is one of the few.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 1500w

“It must be admitted that ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ represents Mr Howells in his most uninteresting phase.” F. E. H.

− + =Freeman= 2:478 Ja 26 ’21 180w

“About this trivial theme play all the warmth and grace and gentleness which marked the later Howells.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 180w

“The trouble with ‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is that it makes too little out of the situation presented. The implications of the story hang at loose ends. Worse, the movements of the characters thus tangled in a web of intangible difficulties are not only too often trivial in themselves but they lack the symbolical significance which might have carried the observer into larger regions of reflection.” Carl Van Doren

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 O 23 ’20 1900w

“‘The vacation of the Kelwyns’ is a delightful example of Mr Howell’s method and (every creation being a form of confession) a vivid revelation of the man himself. It takes a simple situation, simple people; but this very simplicity makes us feel anew that the drama of human emotions is never simple.” Alexander Black

+ =N Y Times= p1 O 3 ’20 1950w

“It is a finely wrought out presentation of American life and character, with interesting sketches of the Shakers and of the reaction of their tenets and practices on the minds of ordinary Americans. It is quiet and restrained, but by no means boresome.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 80w

“The whole affair has the effect, at least, of something altogether casual and artless. Its range and theme are slight; but only one person could have told it, and we who loved that demure and faultless voice may well be grateful that fate has somehow saved one more hearing of it for us, as a surprise.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:534 D 1 ’20 850w

“The ambling graces of the narrative are not a great matter, but it is really interesting to see that a novelist of this true and distinguished talent, at the end of the long span of his career, had still the freshness and the good faith to tell a simple story with simplicity.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p829 D 9 ’20 850w

=HOWLAND, LOUIS.= Stephen A. Douglas. (Figures from American history) *$2 Scribner

20–7497

“A study of Douglas as a public character which is necessarily also a picture of his times. The author stresses the fundamental patriotism which the heated party controversies of the day often obscured. Sources are not cited.”—Booklist

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

+ =N Y Times= 25:9 Jl 4 ’20 80w

“Mr Howland leaves upon his readers a clear-cut impression of Douglas—of what he did and of what he failed to do. He knows his man and the times in which he lived. Slips are few.” J: C. Rose

+ =Review= 3:191 S 1 ’19 1700w

=HRBKOVA, SÁRKA B.=, tr. and ed. Czechoslovak stories. (Interpreters’ ser.) *$1.90 (2c) Duffield

20–8884

The author of these translations in a long introductory essay on the people and literature of Czechoslovakia, divides the literature into three periods: the early, the middle and the modern—the last dating from the close of the eighteenth century to the present day. The writers of the stories belong to the most modern group, from 1848 to the present day and consist of Svatopluk Cech; Jan Neruda; Franti[)s]ek Xavier Svoboda; Joseph Svatopluk Machar; Bo[)z]ena Víková-Kunĕtická; Bo[)z]ena Nĕmcová; Alois Jirásek; Ignát Herrman; Jan Klecanda; Caroline Svĕtlá. A short biography of the writer precedes each translation and there are appendices.

* * * * *

“Several in their simplicity and beauty are as fine and true as some of Selma Lagerlöf’s best peasant tales.”

+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20

=HUBBARD, GILBERT ERNEST.=[2] Day of the crescent; glimpses of old Turkey. il *$6 Macmillan 949.6

“In the library of the British Foreign office the author of this book stumbled upon a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books of Turkish travel, which had been bequeathed to the library by some noble diplomat of the last century who had been attached to the Constantinople embassy. ‘The authors were a cosmopolitan and heterogeneous lot, including among others such diverse characters as a Flemish diplomat, a French artist, a Polish soldier, a Venetian dragoman, and an English man of science. Their stories of how they travelled, painted, plotted, or fought according to their several capacities are full of color and romance, and worthy products of the age of adventure in which the actors lived.’ All these books pictured the ‘golden age’ of Turkey—an age that is almost unknown to us today—and Mr Hubbard decided that it would be a pleasant and profitable task to arrange and compress in one volume the most interesting portions from this collection of old narratives.”—N Y Evening Post

* * * * *

“He has certainly made no wide search for material, nor approached his subject in any critical way, nor attempted to give close unity to his scheme. Under these conditions Mr Hubbard has succeeded in presenting a vivacious, interesting, and thoroughly readable book.” A. H. Lybyer

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:129 O ’20 560w

“This is certainly the most picturesque of the scores of volumes of which the great war and its surroundings have been the occasion.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 900w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 180w

=Spec= 124:768 Je 5 ’20 150w

=HUDSON, HENRY, 2d., pseud.= Spendthrift town. *$2.25 (1c) Houghton

20–22444

New York city is the Spendthrift town of the title. Claire Nicholson is the central character, a young girl brought up in a conservative and aristocratic family who have never moved from their Ninth street house, and whose creed is “Work hard, take care of your property, increase it if you possibly can, and let all idealists and spouters and impractical people alone.” At twenty a series of misfortunes come upon the family, bringing death, dishonor and poverty into Claire’s experience of life, and when wealthy Dudley Orville asks her to marry him, she consents. It doesn’t take many years for her to discover that Dudley values material things too highly and his marriage vows not at all. But she has by now realized, too, that she loves Felix Malette, a young Englishman whom she had previously scoffed at for regarding material things too lightly. She realizes that she has wronged both Dudley and herself by marrying him and they separate, but she refuses to get a divorce as Dudley wishes. She is finally driven to doing so to obtain the allowance that she needs, but feels herself degraded in so doing, and feels that it would be impossible ever to make use of a freedom secured as she had secured hers. Nevertheless the closing page sees her sailing for Europe where Felix is.

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“‘Spendthrift town’ is one of the finest bits of realistic American literature which has come to my attention this year.” S. M. R.

+ =Bookm= 52:371 D ’20 130w

“The book, as a whole, has solid merit and abundant promise and should not be overlooked by readers who care for good work of native origin.”

+ − =Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 380w

“The caste, the manners of these people, suggest Scott Fitzgerald’s more earnest moments, but the story is altogether without that young gentleman’s vigor, ardor and wit.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 120w

“The real strength of the story is in the vivid picture it presents of certain phases of metropolitan life, which will be appreciated by New Yorkers as well as by those who know little of the great city.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 9 ’21 320w

“In fact all of the characters in the story appear weak, selfish and bored, and one following their apparently aimless existences has no difficulty in falling into the last-named condition, especially as the book is full of descriptions of a rather exhaustive nature.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 210w

=HUDSON, JAY WILLIAM.= College and new America. *$2 (5c) Appleton 378

20–12841

Social reconstruction, the author holds, requires the aid of the colleges and looks to them for skilled intelligence of a special sort. This requires reform and the first reform needed is that of the college professor himself. He outlines the nature of the college professor’s obligation to the social order, hardly recognized heretofore but upon which lies the ultimate hope of the college. Dr Henry Suzzallo contributes a foreword, and the contents are: The call of the new order; The academic mind; The defense of the academic mind; The obligation to the social order; The failure of the academic mind; How college professors educate; America as an educational motive; The truth worth teaching; Some next things in college education; The meaning of America; The college and American life; The largest terms of culture; How may these things be? Index.

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“Although written from the professor’s point of view, all who are interested will find profit in this clarifying consideration of aims.”

+ =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20

“We somehow feel that Dr Hudson’s ‘New America’ started about 1865, right after the Civil war; that he draws no distinction between what the conscious America of today is trying to be, and what it was permitting itself to be before the late unpleasantness in Europe. Also, though he points out with some acumen the faults of our present system of college education, he does not convince the reader that he has anything very substantial with which to remedy these faults.” J. W. G.

− + =Grinnell R= 15:261 O ’20 400w

“In formulating the educational problem of the colleges, Dr Hudson has performed a real service such as one could scarcely expect from any one but a practical-minded philosopher, at home alike with realities and with abstractions. Dr Hudson’s remedies are not so convincing as his criticism.”

+ − =No Am= 212:573 O ’20 1250w

“All in all, if Prof. Hudson’s book had been written before the war it would have come as a startling prophecy, but now it is in the position of the oracle which tells, in faltering accents, that which has come to pass.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 330w

“The book is likely to be subjected to the criticism that it does not tell us what to do. But as a definite challenge to university and college men who are not completely academic to undertake seriously the task of reconstructing the aims and instruments of higher education in America, this book must have wide and serious consideration.” J. K. Hart

+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 450w

=HUDSON, STEPHEN.= Richard Kurt. *$2.25 Knopf

A long novel concerned with the emotions and reactions of a young Englishman, particularly in his relations with his father, his wife, and a young Italian girl called Virginia. Between himself and his father there is a long standing antagonism. His wife, Elinor, is a woman of social aspirations with one set of values only. She is beautiful and he still apparently loves her, altho there is little sympathy between them. In Italy he meets Virginia, a girl of puzzling character, who alternately intrigues and repulses him. He is ready to leave his wife for her and cannot determine whether her pose of reluctance is the result of genuine naïveté or of deep-seated design. In the end repugnance overcomes him. He leaves her and accompanies his now aged father to London. Midway in the story there is a brief interlude of friendship with an intelligent American woman who exhorts Richard to “be a man,” advice he seems temperamentally incapable of following.

* * * * *

=Ath= p1153 N 7 ’19 460w

“Mr Hudson combines aloofness of attitude and a complete saturation with his subject. Rarely has a riper first novel appeared. It is solidly founded in its observation, built with a serene sureness of touch, careless of vain graces, disdainful of all appeals save that of its inner veracity.”

+ =Nation= 110:859 Je 26 ’20 320w

“The very long book is much of it well done. Many of the numerous descriptions are good, and, in short, the author shows himself to be possessed of talent which it seems rather a pity that he should expend on relating the detailed history of a man who was not only a drinker and a gambler, but a sponge, a spineless parasite and cad, too feeble and too monotonous in character to hold the reader’s attention.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w

“Three-quarters of the book is weak, trivial, negligible, and but for Virginia the rest would be the same. She alone is something more than an unpleasant hotel acquaintance. There is Virginia and one thing more, the last meeting between Richard and his father. This also, slight though it is, is touched with beauty.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p569 O 16 ’19 650w

=HUDSON, W. H.= Birds in town and village. il *$4 Dutton 598.2

20–2104

“Sketches of birds done with an intimate understanding of their habits and temperaments; chatty anecdotes and quaint legends, and the out-of-doors make this one of the author’s characteristically charming books. The first part is a revision of his earlier work, ‘Birds in a village,’ now out of print. Eight colored plates by E. J. Detmold.”—Booklist

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“Vivid and fascinating descriptions of bird life.”

+ =Ath= p1137 O 31 ’19 80w

+ =Booklist= 16:227 Ap ’20

“Mr Hudson is not an ordinary writer nor his book an ordinary book about birds. One is at loss to decide which is the greater charm of the books, the author’s mastery of style or his knowledge of the birds which he describes and makes real.” J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 730w

“This book is not so whimsical as Mr Hudson’s ‘The book of a naturalist.’ On the other hand, it is a closer and more charming study of natural history.”

+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 80w

“The essays are delightful, even in tone, but with only occasional bits that are Hudson at his best.”

+ =Review= 3:48 Jl 14 ’20 80w

“It is literary, of course: but the writing is based on solid fact, and though Mr Hudson is sensitive, he is not sentimental.”

+ =Sat R= 129:107 Ja 31 ’20 400w

“The book is well worth reading.”

+ =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 19 ’20 280w

“Though some of Mr Hudson’s contentions appear disputable, this book is full of his unsurpassed perception and unique charm.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p583 O 23 ’19 1000w

=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Birds of La Plata. il 2v *$15 Dutton 598.2

“The matter contained in this volume (which forms a companion to Mr Hudson’s famous ‘The naturalist in La Plata’) is taken from his ‘Argentine ornithology’ (1888–9), the matter contributed by the late P. L. Sclater, in order to make a complete list, being omitted along with the synonymy of the species described by Mr Hudson. Fresh species being continually added to the list, the work became out of date, the only thing of permanent interest being Mr Hudson’s account of the birds’ habits. There seems to have been no subsequent volume from any other source about Argentine birds.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 70w

“The two volumes are packed full of the little delightful personal touches which make Hudson’s descriptions always a delight. In this book are traces of the carelessness which sometimes appears in Hudson’s writings. The color-plates by Gronvold add much to the beauty of the book, and although not so spirited as those of our own Fuertes they are beautifully done.” S: Scoville, jr.

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 29 ’21 1300w

“Though the book thus forms no inadequate guide to the birds of at least a large portion of the Argentine territories, it makes a direct appeal to many bird-lovers who may never hope to see any of the species here described in their natural haunts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p715 N 4 ’20 1450w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 O 28 ’20 100w

=HUDSON, W. H.=[2] Dead Man’s Plack, and An old thorn. *$2.50 Dutton

20–23046

“‘Dead Man’s Plack’ is a story of a thousand years ago. The story is of Edgar the Peaceful, of Earl Athelwold, and of the beautiful Elfrida who so dreadfully became queen and again so dreadfully became queen mother, and is a simple, savage story of a simple, savage time. It is a happy fortune that has brought ‘An old thorn’ within book covers with ‘Dead Man’s Plack.’ This shorter story, which was originally published in The English Review a number of years ago, is probably the only narrative we have (the only one to Mr Hudson’s knowledge) which deals with ‘that rare and curious subject, the survival of tree worship’ in England. But it will live in the readers’ mind as a piteous and haunting human tragedy—the story of a young countryman who was hanged (and this was only a century ago) for stealing a sheep.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“In ‘An old thorn’ Hudson is at his best. He moves to his conclusion with that sense of inevitability that is the core of tragedy.”

+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 140w

“And just as ‘Green mansions’ glows forever with the brilliance of the tropical forest, so here in ‘Dead Man’s Plack’ a Saxon England is recreated for us, and can never die. This new book of Hudson’s must have a permanent place in our libraries.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 1050w

“There is a simple and plaintive charm in the narrative.”

+ =Outlook= 127:110 Ja 19 ’21 50w

“Here are two short stories by Mr Hudson, good enough for most writers, but not his best. We could praise them for many things; if they were by an unknown writer we should be content to praise; we should even enjoy them more than we do now, knowing the other works of their author; but, as it is, we are perhaps a little ungrateful for their many beauties because we cannot refrain from asking why the short story, even in ‘El ombu,’ does not quite suit Mr Hudson’s genius.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p823 D 9 ’20 960w

=HUEBNER, GROVER GERHARDT.= Ocean steamship traffic management. *$3 Appleton 387

20–9794

The book is one of a series of manuals for instruction in the various phases of steamship business. Its object is to give in systematic order all the facts and activities that come within the range of the ocean shipping business, for the guidance of individual students studying by themselves and for use as a class text-book. The contents are divided into three parts: Part I: The traffic organization of ocean shipping; Part II: Ocean shipping documents; Part III: Ocean rates and regulation. There is an index.

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“The material is exceptionally well arranged.”

+ =Am Econ R= 10:595 S ’20 80w

“Well organized; written with clearness and precision.”

+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20

+ =R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 40w

=HUEBNER, SOLOMON S.= Marine insurance. *$3 Appleton 368.2

20–16525

The volume is the first of a series of manuals designed to assist students training for the marine insurance, shipping and exporting business. It is adapted to the needs of beginners and does not aim to discuss highly technical or isolated aspects of the business, such as the specialist of long training may desire. Contents: Nature and functions of marine insurance; Types of underwriters; Types of policies; Analysis of the policy contract; Analysis of the perils covered; Total loss; General average; Particular average; Cargo insurance; Hull insurance; Freight insurance; Builders’ risk insurance; Reinsurance agreements; Marine underwriters’ associations; Rate making in marine insurance; Appendices (including specimens of the various types of policies); Index

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:141 Ja ’21

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 6 ’20 140w

“His book is comprehensive and well written and should prove helpful to large numbers of the young generation in the country’s marine insurance offices.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 170w

=HUGHES, ADELAIDE MANOLA.= Diantha goes the primrose way, and other verses. *$1.35 Harper 811

20–6682

The title poem depicts in free verse the drama of a woman who, turning away from her husband-friend to passionate love, sees that love die and leave her desolate. She seeks comfort in work and in an hour of mortal agony grasps the protecting hand of that husband-friend. The other poems are grouped under the headings: Ceremonials, and Beloved objects.

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Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 52:61 S ’20 580w

=Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 50w

=HUGHES, EDWARD ARTHUR.= Britain and greater Britain in the nineteenth century. *$1.60 (1½c) Putnam 942.08

(Eng ed 20–3437)

A book written “for the general public, as well as for the upper forms of schools.” The author is assistant master at the Royal naval college, Dartmouth. Part 1, devoted to Great Britain and Ireland, consists of the following chapters: Introductory; England from Waterloo to the great reform bill (1815–1832); English politics from the great reform bill to the outbreak of the Crimean war (1832–1853); The condition of England 1815–1853; Foreign relations to the end of the Crimean war; Palmerstonian England; Ireland 1800–1866; England and Ireland 1868–1885; England and Ireland 1886–1906; Social movements (two chapters). Part 2 devotes a chapter each to Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and Egypt, with a concluding chapter on The British empire. There is an index.

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“On the whole it is the best short history of modern Britain that has appeared. But there is one serious defect that greatly impairs its usefulness. Not only is there no bibliography but there are no references whatever. Good as it is, it is not particularly dynamic or illuminating.” C. F. Lavell

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:133 O ’20 350w

“Despite the absence of personal bias, rigorously to be suppressed in a book like this, and the compression of a large subject into 300 pages, we read ‘Britain and greater Britain’ through from start to finish with unabated interest.”

+ =Sat R= 128:491 N 22 ’19 1350w

=HUGHES, GLENN.= Broken lights. *$1.50 Univ. of Washington 811

20–11395

From the preface contributed to this collection of poems by Frederick Morgan Padelford, it is to be inferred that the poems were accepted by the English department of the University of Washington in lieu of a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts, on the ground that “the creation of art is at least as severe a test of culture and of refined and disciplined thinking as the ability to reason sagely upon the art created by others.” The poems are grouped under the headings; A garland for Euterpe; Remembrances: Eccentricities: Pro patria.

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“Our ‘strong’ young poets will doubtless see too much of softly falling rain or gently moving cloud to please them in the volume, too much of Mother Nature and too little of human nature.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 190w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= Momma, and other unimportant people. *$2 (2c) Harper

20–20946

Thirteen short stories with the titles: “Momma”; The stick-in-the-muds; Read it again; The father of waters; Innocence; The college Lorelei; Yellow cords; The split; A story I can’t write; The butcher’s daughter; The quick-silver window; The dauntless bookkeeper; You hadn’t ought to. The stories have appeared in Collier’s and other magazines.

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“If the people all belong to about the same class, the stories themselves are of very uneven merit, several of them being very good, while others are distinctly poor. The book gives, take it all in all, an accurate picture of certain phases of American life.”

+ − =N Y Times= p19 N 14 ’20 580w

=HUGHES, RUPERT.= What’s the world coming to? il *$1.90 (1c) Harper

20–8631

Bob Taxter, coming home from the war, learns that he has inherited ten thousand dollars. His first thought is that now he will be free to marry April, the girl he has loved and quarrelled with since childhood. But he finds that April too has inherited money, a much larger sum than his own. He straightway sets about making more and turns his attention to oil. And quite opportunely Joe Yarmy and his sister Kate appear on the scene. The old homestead in Texas is all ready to gush oil. They need only capital. Bob bites, but April is sceptical. They quarrel and she returns his ring. Bewildered, Bob finds himself engaged to marry Kate. But there has been another sceptic, old Uncle Zeb, family retainer of the Taxters, now a “professor of vacuum cleaning.” It is he who thwarts the wedding plans, redeems the ten thousand dollars and the Taxter diamonds. This is the story, but the book abounds in an astounding array of other matters, doggerel verses current at the time, statistics, price lists, quotations from the Brewers’ board of trade, and the author’s opinions on prohibition and social conditions generally.

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“The plot is fairly complicated, and interspersed with a very great deal of comment and of moralizing, some of which is worth reading, though most of it is exceedingly trite. The novel is inordinately long, but no doubt it will please Mr Hughes’s admirers.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1150w

“The story is a potpourri of post-war conditions and incidents loosely put together.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 190w

=HUGHES, TALBOT.= Dress design, il $4 Pitman 391

The book is one of the Artistic crafts series of technical handbooks edited by W. R. Lethaby, and is “an account of costume for artists and dressmakers.” (Sub-title) The object of the series is to encourage greater consideration for design and workmanship and the object of this particular volume is to emphasize the craftsman and artistic side of costume making and to “separate in some degree the more constant elements of dress from those which are more variable.” (Preface) Although cast into the form of history it is also a book of suggestions to modern dressmakers. The book is profusely illustrated with figures and full-page plates and a special feature has been made of supplying the maker or designer of dress with actual proportions and patterns, gleaned from antique dresses. Beginning with prehistoric dress, both male and female, successive chapters are given to the development of costume in the different centuries including the nineteenth. There is an index and a detailed list of patterns.

=HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER.= Paths of inland commerce. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 380

20–4902

“Professor Hulbert is well equipped for writing the story of the early development of the transportation routes of the United States, for he has already published sixteen volumes on the pioneer roads and canals, based upon personal observation and firsthand study. In the monograph under review the author has brought together the best results of his earlier labors and woven them into a connected narrative of the part which trails, roads, canals, and natural waterways have played in our commercial development.”—Am Hist R

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“The interest of the author in his subject has at times betrayed him into extreme forms of statement, but on the whole he has maintained a fair balance.” E. L. Bogart

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:145 O ’20 340w

“The progress both in historical scholarship and in the author’s knowledge is shown by a comparison of this mature and carefully wrought volume with the earlier ‘Historic highways of America’ published some fifteen to eighteen years ago by the same author. The enthusiasm has remained, and has deepened and broadened with the author’s enlarging acquaintance with the subject, until it has evoked a notable epic of transportation.” L. P. Kellogg

+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:153 S ’20 550w

“An extremely readable volume.”

+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w

=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 50w

=HUMPHREY, ZEPHINE (MRS WALLACE WEIR FAHNESTOCK).=[2] Sword of the spirit. *$2.50 Dutton

20–8516

“The novel begins with the marriage of a young couple well endowed with this world’s goods, who are ardently infatuated with each other. Every one looks upon it as a most desirable match in every way, and at first the young husband and wife are superlatively happy. Then the little rifts begin to appear. The girl is of a very spiritual nature. The husband lives upon a distinctly lower level, is frankly material in his enjoyment of life. The climax comes with some riotous living on his part, which includes too much toying with the wine cup. The barrier that has grown between them seems impassable, and wreckage threatens their marriage. The situations and developments by which the author chastens and humbles both of them and finally brings them together again are plausible and emotional.”—N Y Times

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+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21

“Miss Humphrey has shown no lack of temerity and assurance in handling the things of the spirit; but in so doing she has merely revolved around her subject without ever really grappling it. The novel, as a whole, is neither pleasing nor convincing.”

− + =Cath World= 112:544 Ja ’21 330w

“It is, perhaps, in construction and development and emotional tensity the best work she has yet done. There is, indeed, much fine and keen perception of spiritual beauty throughout the book.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 380w

=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) (MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Diana of the Ephesians. *$1.75 (1c) Stokes

20–2263

The hero of this story is the incarnation of egotism, self-conceit and arrogant, heartless megalomania. She is a Greek girl of doubtful parentage, her father an Englishman. Claiming the guardianship of an English professor she comes to England at the age of seventeen, consumed with ambition to become a great writer and under the delusion of being the daughter of some great personage. Rough-shod she walks over everybody in the home that has received her; wheedles herself into the good graces of an old lord; has a brief but dazzling and artificial career and sinks into oblivion as the bubble of her genius bursts and the true secret of her humble origin is revealed.

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=Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 40w

“The story is well written and entertaining, but endows the girl with improbable power.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20

“The leading character, though exaggerated and decidedly bizarre, is interesting and keeps the reader wondering what she will find to do next. The novel is interesting, and its plot is more than a little out of the ordinary.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:164 Ap 11 ’20 400w

“The story’s rapid action, its multitude of interesting detail, and the singular character of the heroine engage the reader’s attention throughout 500 closely printed pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 250w

=HUMPHREYS, ELIZA M. J. (GOLLAN) MRS DESMOND HUMPHREYS) (RITA, pseud.).= Truth of spiritualism. *$1.25 Lippincott 134

20–7778

“‘Rita’ has closely examined the different phenomena of spiritualism, with the result that she believes it does reveal more than the church has told us as to the condition of the departed; and that, though not ‘an orthodox religion,’ it is ‘the root and source of all religions.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“Rita’s denunciations will hardly make much difference, especially as they are often more eloquent than intelligible.”

− + =Ath= p1301 D 5 ’19 60w

“A maze of vague, incoherent, unproven assertions, a jumble of rambling nonsense, of stuffy, sickly sentimental Raymondiana, interspersed with impassioned tirades against Christianity as seen through the spectacles of ignorance, prejudice, and calumny, and hovering above all this the arrogant, self-canonized opinion of Mrs Humphreys, run amuck among truths beyond its grasp and appreciation, ignorant, irrational, defiant, indecent and sacrilegious.”

− =Cath World= 111:553 Jl ’20 320w

“The converted will no doubt read her disquisition with pleasure; but it cannot be said to add anything of importance to the controversy.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 60w

=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Bedouins. il *$2 (5½c) Scribner 780.4

20–5751

Some of Mr Huneker’s bedouins, in this collection of essays, are real and some are fictitious. A number of the essays are devoted to Mary Garden, whom the author admires as a “wonderful artiste” and an “extraordinary woman,” others to Debussy, Mirbeau, George Luks, Chopin, Caruso, Anatole France. All partake of the nature of extravaganzas, particularly the fiction. The book falls into two parts: Mary Garden, and Idols and ambergris. Under part 1 some of the titles are: Superwoman; The baby, the critic, and the guitar; The artistic temperament; The passing of Octave Mirbeau; Anarchs and ecstasy; Caruso on wheels; A masque of music. Among the contents of