The book review digest, Volume 16, 1920
part 2 are: The supreme sin; Venus or Valkyr? The cardinal’s fiddle;
The vision malefic.
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“We find Mr Huneker unreadable. It is not only the rush and freshness of his style, which has all the marvellous energy of a woman in hysterics, that we find unendurable, but we can attach no meaning to what he says.”
− =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’19 280w
+ =Booklist= 16:270 My ’20
“He has a marvellous power of suggesting, of stimulating, of suddenly burbanking widely separated notions and as suddenly dissociating them. As some one said about him, his brilliancy and versatility hide his profundity. ‘Bedouins’ is a book without a desert.” B: de Casseres
+ =Bookm= 51:231 Ap ’20 900w
“James Huneker’s writing is full of sound and fury but it signifies a good deal. His criticism is backed by a real knowledge of most of the arts in most of the centuries.”
+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 120w
“Maeterlinck wrote: ‘I have marvelled at the vigilance and clarity with which you follow and judge the new literary and artistic movements in all countries.’ ‘Bedouins’ is a new illustration of this vigilance and clarity. His pages on Anatole France, though different in style, are worthy of being included in Henry James’s little read but wonderful book on ‘French poets and novelists.’” H: T. Finck
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 580w
“Mr Huneker is, to me, the greatest master of English prose living today, and ‘Bedouins’ shows no weakening of his hand.” B: de Casseres
+ − =N Y Times= 25:144 Mr 28 ’20 1000w
“Mr Huneker’s enthusiasm and good nature win acceptance for his literary caprices; he is always to be distinguished from his imitators of the Mencken-Nathan order.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 650w=
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p515 Ag 12 ’20 1450w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=Yale R= n s 10:187 O ’20 250w
=HUNEKER, JAMES GIBBONS.= Steeplejack. 2v il *$7.50 Scribner
20–16114
“Mr Huneker has been for many years one of the best known of the music and dramatic critics in New York. These volumes give an entertaining running account of his relations with musicians, artists, men and women of the stage, and authors, both here and in Europe.”—R of Rs
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“Whatever the talk, the brilliant style, the startling paradoxes, and the individuality of the writer’s reactions make it interesting.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“His book is the romance of the year.” B: de Casseres
+ =Bookm= 52:267 N ’20 800w
“Mr Huneker is seen in his confessions as a very human being, rich in experience and mellow in philosophy. His narrative becomes by turns merry, stinging, meditative, instructive; but never dull, hypocritical, or self-laudatory. He has performed a difficult task with the utmost skill, albeit with no dainty hand.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 140w
“Through all the disjointed mass of youthful recollection Mr Huneker has never been dull. Only when he gets onto the current era, in volume two, does his blast of steam become inconsequential. He pounds his fists, strikes his favorite pose, gesticulates and roars; but when he discusses his contemporaries—puff; his charm is gone. His autobiography as well as his career is for the most part distinctive, versatile, individual.” J. B. A.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 1350w
“It is easily the non-fiction book of the year in this country, where there are so many persons and so few individuals. It is the challenge of a cultured superman to his generation. And withal a profoundly human book.” B. D.
+ =N Y Times= p8 S 12 ’20 2000w
“In a less ebullient individuality the cultivation of the ego would make for boredom; in the case of Mr Huneker a conscious and concentrated development of personality has enriched our insight into contemporary peregrinations of the spirit.” L. R. Morris
+ =Outlook= 126:469 N 10 ’20 1650w
“The first impression left by this stimulating and quite unconventional autobiography is that of a personally conducted tour thru the literary and artistic ‘Who’s who?’ of the past fifty years. One’s second thought is an involuntary wish, not that Mr Huneker’s life had been less rich in varied scenes and privileged friendships, but that he had given us a narrower and more selective perspective. Yet it would be the sheerest ingratitude to imply that other methods and proportions would have made a better book.” F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub W= 98:662 S 18 ’20 500w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:292 O 6 ’20 450w
“‘Steeplejack’ should appeal to anyone who cares to recall the artistic, musical, literary, and journalistic history of America in the past thirty years.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 140w
“Both volumes well repay perusal.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 50w
“It is a gay, happy, animated recital, not of high importance as intellectual biography, but preserving a good many recollections worth preserving and giving a full-length picture of a temperament which the reader will agree with possessor in calling more continental than American. ‘Steeplejack’ takes us to three cities—Philadelphia, Paris and New York. Will one’s taste be indictable for dulness if it selects Philadelphia as the most interesting?”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1700w
=HUNGERFORD, EDWARD.=[2] With the doughboy in France. il *$2 (2c) Macmillan 940.477
20–20074
“A few chapters of an American effort” the author calls this book, meaning the work of the Red cross, which seemed to him such an outpouring of affection, of patriotism, of a sincere desire to serve, as he had never before seen. It is not a consecutive narrative but a series of descriptions, well illustrated, under the headings: America awakens; Our Red cross goes to war; Organizing for work; The problem of transport; The American Red cross as a department store; The doughboy moves toward the front; The Red cross on the field of honor; Our Red cross performs its supreme mission; The Red cross in the hospitals of the A. F. F.; “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag”; When Johnny came marching home; The girl who went to war.
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“If one desires to know what our Red cross men and women did for their country, he will find the story here.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 580w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ja 30 ’21 700w
+ =R of Rs= 53:223 F ’21 140w
“The method of the book is to recount in a chatty, journalistic way the general experiences of the Red cross, and, incidentally, of the armies. The total effect, unfortunately, is of triviality.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 180w
=HUNT, H. ERNEST.= Self-training. *$1.25 (3c) McKay 131
(Eng ed SG19–89)
In laying down the lines of mental progress it is the object of the book to teach men how to become master workmen in the art of living by building up correct dominant ideas into the subconscious. He describes the important part played by the subconscious mind, how our health and our activities are constantly under the control of an accumulated stock of ideas and how this stock of ideas can in turn be controlled by a conscious effort of the will. Contents: The nature of mind; Mind at work; Thought and health; Suggestion; Training the senses; Memory; The feelings; Will and imagination; The machinery of nerves; Extensions of faculty; Self-building; The spiritual basis.
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“Good for the discouraged person who is capable of taking himself in hand.”
+ =Booklist= 16:326 Jl ’20
=HUNTER, GEORGE MCPHERSON.= When I was a boy in Scotland. (Children of other lands books) il *$1 (4c) Lothrop 914.1
20–7945
The author, who is now a clergyman in the United States, writes of: The place where I was born; My schools and school-teachers; Our games and play; Tales of my grandfathers; High days and holidays in Scotland; Days on the beach and among the heather; Tramps in and around Glasgow, etc. The last chapter tells how he went to sea, returned to Glasgow university, and then came to America.
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+ =Booklist= 16:353 Jl ’20
“To read this book is not only to know a real Scotch lad but to learn many things in a pleasing way.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 24 ’20 180w
=HURLEY, EDWARD NASH.= New merchant marine. il *$3 (3½c) Century 387
20–11687
This is the second volume in the Century foreign trade series. The author was formerly chairman of the United States shipping board and has written “The awakening of business” and other books. In the present work he sketches the history of American shipping but devotes most of his space to future problems of foreign trade. Among the chapters are: Our past glories on the sea; Organization of the United States shipping board; Preparing for ship construction under war conditions; Methods by which tonnage was acquired; The new merchant marine; American commerce in the western hemisphere; American commerce in Australia and the Far East; The economical operation of ships; Reaction of ships upon national industries; Americanization and re-orientation. The book is illustrated, has two appendices and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
=R of Rs= 62:224 Ag ’20 110w
“The book contains a wealth of timely suggestions and detailed instruction in practice and methods.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 190w
=HUSBAND, JOSEPH.= Americans by adoption. il $1.50 (4c) Atlantic monthly press 920
20–10511
The volume contains biographical sketches of nine prominent, foreign-born “Americans by choice” with an introduction by William Allan Neilson, himself a foreigner, and president of Smith college. He holds that what men want most is “to count among their fellows for what they are worth.” That America is giving its citizens of foreign birth this opportunity is the underlying reason for the book. Each sketch is accompanied by a portrait and the subjects of the sketches are: Stephen Girard; John Ericsson; Louis Agassiz; Carl Schurz; Theodore Thomas; Andrew Carnegie; James J. Hill; Augustus Saint-Gaudens; Jacob A. Riis.
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“An interesting addition to any public or high school library.”
+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20
“Mr Husband’s book, however flowery some of its phraseology may be, is yet a trumpet call.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1100w
“Now, I am convinced that these interesting records will ‘inspire,’ in the matter of Americanism, only those who are inspired already. Mr Husband does not seem to realize, in the first place, that it is quite impossible for people nowadays to admire very greatly such heroes as Stephen Girard, James J. Hill and Andrew Carnegie. It is an old fallacy of ours to suppose that we alone have produced men of this kind. But Mr Husband makes a virtue of every accident.”
− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“This little volume, beautifully introduced by W. A. Neilson, should have its worthy place in any bibliography of Americanization.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 80w
“The book is highly appropriate as a high-school reader or reference book.”
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 90w
“The book is based on pure fiction, so far as America is concerned. In the first place, since the constitution does not provide for conferring the freedom of the nation on foreigners, there are no ‘Americans by adoption.’ Mr Husband’s portraiture is rather in keeping with the ideas propounded by Mr Neilson in the preface; his heroes are made to look like ‘Efficiency Edgar.’” B. L.
− =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w
=HUTCHINSON, EMILIE JOSEPHINE.= Women’s wages. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$1.50 Longmans 331.4
19–18237
“This book, submitted as a doctor’s thesis to Columbia university, is a painstaking, clearly written analysis of the wages of women and the factors affecting them. Nearly half the space is given to a discussion of minimum-wage legislation and its possibilities. Trade unionism and vocational training are included with minimum-wage laws as the chief methods of raising the present low standards. The facts presented are drawn almost exclusively from reports prepared before the war, and although occasional references are made to the work of women during the war, and their position after it, the discussion seems not to have been influenced by the changes in the aspects of labor problems since 1914.”—Am J Soc
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“The postponement of the publication of this useful laboriously prepared study makes the data seem curiously obsolete.” Edith Abbott
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:609 S ’20 450w
“It is unfortunate that certain old opinions, which have never had satisfactory statistical proof, such as ‘from five to seven years is the average length of the girl’s wage-earning life,’ are repeated without supporting evidence. As a history of data and opinions before the war the book is useful, and with the persistence of many of the same tendencies in women’s work, it will have continued value.” Mary Van Kleeck
+ − =Am J Soc= 25:497 Ja ’20 200w
=Booklist= 16:262 My ’20
“‘Women’s wages’ is encouraging in its wholesome lack of optimism.”
+ =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 220w
“A unique and much needed piece of work.” Signe Toksvig
+ =New Repub= 21:84 D 17 ’19 1200w
“This admirable study digests with fairness and with intelligence the available data concerning women’s wages in this country. The book she has produced excellently covers its field.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 43:781 Mr 20 ’20 300w
=HUTCHINSON, HORATIO GORDON.= Portraits of the eighties, il *$4 Scribner 920
(Eng ed 20–22470)
“Since the Right Hon. George W. E. Russell has himself written about so many of his contemporaries, it is fitting that he should hold the place of honor, with a frontispiece portrait, in Mr Hutchinson’s ‘Portraits of the eighties.’ After this introductory chapter dealing with Mr Russell we are given a graphic series of pen portraits of men of such diverse interests as Gladstone, John Bright, Parnell, General Gordon, Archbishop Temple, Professor Huxley, William Morris Swinburne, George Frederick Watts, Sir W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde and W. G. Grace, Mr Hutchinson’s survey of English personalities extending thereby from statesmanship to cricket-playing.”—Boston Transcript
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“There are too many (over 30) portraits and groups attempted in these 300 pages; comparatively few lines can be given to each, and Mr Hutchinson is not master of the economy of telling and characteristic strokes. The fortuitous medley of the scrap-book may, however, afford entertainment, and even a degree of instruction.” F. W. S.
+ − =Ath= p830 Je 25 ’20 550w
“The book is full of important facts brought together in an accessible form. But Mr Hutchinson has little penetration and suffers in any comparison that is drawn between his work, which may be admitted to be good, and the work which is entitled to be called excellent of some recent writers.” Theodore Maynard
+ − =Bookm= 51:682 Ag ’20 650w
“As an abstract and brief chronicle of its decade, Mr Hutchinson’s book fulfils the promise of its title.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 1350w
“The book does not possess the brilliant style or keen analysis of Mr Strachey’s ‘Eminent Victorians,’ but is discriminating and, if not characterized by any remarkable insight is generally fair in its judgment.”
+ =Outlook= 125:541 Jl 21 ’20 60w
“Mr Hutchinson is an impressionist, working with a broad and sometimes rather careless brush, yet seldom failing to make his portrait live. A gentle judge of the private characters of his subjects, he is a circumspect critic of their public activities.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 1350w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Happy house. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–1214
Happy house the young bride called her new home, but it soon became a euphemism. Violet Walbridge slaved with her pen to give without stint to a worthless husband and a large thoughtlessly exacting family. As the quality of her novels is falling off into mere rubbish, and with it the quantity of her income, a young journalist discovers her rare character as a woman. He also falls in love with her youngest daughter but the course of his true love does not run smoothly. During his devious courtship of Grisel, his friendship for his would-be-mother-in-law becomes a rejuvenating elixir for the latter and enables her to write a real true-to-life modern story, that reinstates her in the good graces of her publishers.
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“A pleasant character study of an interesting group.”
+ =Booklist= 16:281 My ’20
“The plot itself might well have been composed by its heroine.” M. E. Bailey
+ − =Bookm= 51:204 Ap ’20 400w
“In ‘Happy house,’ Baroness von Hutten has written a story which should not by rights be readable, but into which she has managed to infuse a certain amount of vitality. It is a ghost but there are moments when its gestures are sufficiently life-like, and despite its rattling bones we follow its motions.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 450w
“As a whole, the book is decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary.”
+ =Cath World= 111:407 Je ’20 210w
=Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
=Lit D= p97 S 18 ’20 2650w
“‘Happy house’ is a quiet little story of the domestic type, but Oliver Wick and Violet Walbridge make it worth while.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:116 Mr 14 ’20 600w
“The novel is entertaining rather than deep.”
+ =Outlook= 124:562 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“Towards the end of the book a few incredible things happen, but one forgives these in gratitude for the careful and convincing character drawing.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:41 Ja 10 ’20 220w
“In the tragedy of a once popular novelist, who has become something of a fallen star, and in the very casual way in which, even when her star was at its zenith, she has always been regarded by her own family, there are great possibilities. But the Baroness von Hutten scarcely makes the most of it, and dares so little to rely on it that she introduces two sub-plots which, though mechanically linked with this main theme, have no artistic bearing upon it.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 280w
=HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG, BETTINA (RIDDLE) freifrau von.= Helping Hersey. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–26758
A book of collected short stories from the pen of this author of many popular novels. The title story is a study of two women, mother and daughter, in their relation to one man, an American, who at first misjudges both and is later led to reverse his opinions. First place in the collection is given to Peterl in the Black forest, a sketch written in 1913 with all the marks of a study from life. The other titles are: In loving memory; Ker Kel; Mrs Hornbeam’s headdress; The common man’s story; The iron shutter; Two Apaches; The principino; Three times; A Berlin adventure.
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“Slight but entertaining.”
+ =Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
“It is decidedly agreeable to find such a variety of stories bound in one volume by one author.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 360w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“The Baroness von Hutten’s latest collection of tales displays, as it were, her familiar super-mediocre versatility. And yet to me the most distinguished pieces of writing in the volume are the plotless sketches, ‘Ker Kel,’ a little picture of Brittany, and ‘Peterl in the Black Forest.’” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 100w
=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Leda. *$1.50 Doran 821
20–16190
In this collection of poems the title poem describes the Olympian love episode with singular beauty of diction as well as mundane realism. The other poems, some of which are poetic prose, all betray more or less of sardonic humor, as when the poet suddenly finds himself sobered from the “intoxicating speed” of the merry-go-round when he perceives “a slobbering cretin grinding at a wheel and sweating as he ground, and grinding eternally.” Some of the other titles are: The birth of God; Male and female created He them; Life and art; First—Second—Fifth—and Ninth philosopher’s song; The merry-go-round; Last things; Evening party; Soles occidere et redire possunt.
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“We cannot accept it. The elements that Mr Huxley has desired to combine, the precious esoteric beauty and the ugliness which were to be blended into a new comprehensive beauty in whose light nothing should appear common or unclean, are still as unmixed as oil and vinegar. If Mr Huxley wishes to be judged, he should elect to be judged, not by ‘Leda,’ nor by any of the shorter poems in this book, but by ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt.’ As for two-thirds of the shorter pieces, we think he would have been well advised never to print them.” J. M. M.
− + =Ath= p699 My 28 ’20 1500w
“Aldous Huxley exposes the fallacy that the imagination needs any special material in which to exercise the creative spirit of poetry. His book opens with a successful and beautiful poem on a mythical legend. The book closes with an elegy for a friend lost in the war, and here the elements are, one might say, sardonically modern, the very naked realities of life gathered up and fused with a temper that makes the spirit of poetry no less golden than the substance in the more remote Hellenic rumor of the seduction of Leda by Zeus in the form of a swan.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 1850w
“When he is complaining or mocking Mr Huxley can rise to real heights of bombast; at such times he writes good mouth-filling stuff with a little of the Elizabethan spirit, but with more acidity. It is for his satires, then, that he is to be valued, rather than for any gropings toward a philosophy; for his prose poems as long as they are satires; for ‘Soles occidere et redire possunt’ as long as it remains a criticism and a complaint. Most of his other work must be disregarded.” Malcolm Cowley
+ − =Dial= 70:73 Ja ’21 1100w
“Mr Huxley has neither the courage to love his themes for their own sakes nor the imagination to get the better of them; therefore, he is not a poet, although every line of his book displays a determination to write something better than the conventional prettifications which people usually call poetry.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 680w
“In ‘Leda’ he offers a volume that will, with all probability, be quite the most unique and interesting addition to the sum total of English poetry for the year. Indeed, it is a book that is unapproached in certain of its manifestations.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p24 S 19 ’20 1250w
=HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD.= Limbo. *$1.75 Doran
20–12115
A book that introduces a new English satirist. It opens with Farcical history of Richard Greenow, a curious tale of dual personality. The shorter pieces that follow are: Happily ever after; Eupompus gave splendour to art by numbers; Happy families; Cynthia; The bookshop; The death of Lully.
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“‘Limbo’ is startling because it is young and sophisticated, ironic and malicious, delicately and forcefully written—qualities rare enough in the work of old masters, but apparently upsetting to critical standards when found in a first book. ‘Happily ever after’ is the masterpiece of the collection.” E. P.
+ =Dial= 70:107 Ja ’21 100w
“The one story that must be taken seriously in Aldous Huxley’s collection ‘Limbo’ is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’ Always the reader should bear in mind that the tragedy of Richard Greenow is as poignant as its humor is pungent, and that below the surface mockery lies a seriousness indicative of that most tragical of all causes of tragedy—social ignorance.”
+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 240w
“Mr Huxley has fulfilled the promise that he intimated in his earlier books to the few who knew him, and demonstrated that he is one of the finest writers of prose in England today. He is finished and fastidious, sophisticated and diverting, an authentic figure of some actual importance and with many potentialities. That he must take a decided place among the younger contemporary writers in England is without doubt.” H. S. G.
+ =New Repub= 24:172 O 13 ’20 1550w
“In lines, sometimes in paragraphs, and in general atmospheric suggestion, there appears to this reviewer a likeness between Mr Huxley and Max Beerbohm. The mental attitude of the two men is dissimilar in many ways. But through them both runs that great streak of urbanity, of sophistication, of what might almost be termed jadedness at times. ‘Limbo’ is a book of definite promise and of a certain achievement.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 650w
“Mr Huxley has a very readable and diverting narrative style, a style with journalism in the first story and literature in the second, and with full permission, but no obligation, to the reader to climb the stairs. Mr Huxley’s low estimate of human nature does not tame the effervescence of his spirits.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 300w
“The death of Lully is the only story in which it may occur to the reader that after all Mr Aldous Huxley is sometimes actuated by the ideals and sympathies which move ordinary human beings.”
− + =Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 140w
“The most remarkable story in the book is ‘The farcical history of Richard Greenow.’ There is a blunt boyish ring to this which oddly enough induces the uncanny effect that many writers wallow in melodrama to obtain. But Mr Huxley’s product is uneven. ‘Happily ever after’ is as humdrum as the preceding story is distinguished.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 460w
“Instead of saying that there are seven short stories in ‘Limbo’ which are all clever, amusing, and well written, and recommending the public to read them, as we can conscientiously do, we are tempted to state, what it is so seldom necessary to state, that short stories can be a great deal more than clever, amusing, and well written. There is another adjective—‘interesting’; that is the adjective we should like to bestow upon Mr Huxley’s short stories, for it is the best worth having.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p83 F 5 ’20 800w
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=IGLEHART, FERDINAND COWLE.= Theodore Roosevelt: the man as I knew him. il $1.50 Christian herald pub.
19–14241
“This life by Dr Iglehart is written from one predetermined viewpoint. He recognizes the strong religious convictions of Roosevelt and working from this fact he has interpreted his entire life as the life of a man all of whose actions are dominated by his religious life.”—Boston Transcript
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“The book is very unevenly written. It is exceedingly entertaining in parts, while elsewhere the author has allowed his easy rhetorical English to run away with him. It is equally true there are parts of the book which will not fit in very easily with the general idea of Roosevelt’s personality.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 11 ’20 160w
=Nation= 109:688 N 29 ’19 220w
“A badly arranged mixture of eulogy, biography, and anecdote; but, for him who will dig for it, it contains much that is interesting, notably in regard to Roosevelt’s religious views.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:292 O 13 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 62:419 O ’20 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 My 4 ’20 180w
=ILCHESTER, GILES STEPHEN HOLLAND FOX-STRANGWAYS, 6th earl of.= Henry Fox, first lord Holland, his family and relations. 2v il *$12 Scribner
(20–4450)
“The title of Lord Ilchester’s book is a misnomer. It will suggest to most people a book of private life and family gossip. But not one twentieth part of what he has written is occupied with these things. What he has given us is far nearer being a political history of England from 1739, when Henry Fox obtained his first office, that of surveyor of the works, till his death in 1774. Of course, the history is primarily a biography. But during at least the first five-and-twenty of these thirty-five years Henry Fox played an important part, either as one of the principal actors or as a spectator on whom the principal actors were obliged to keep watchful eyes, in nearly all the changing scenes of ministerial tragedy and comedy. Lord Ilchester has had access to a great deal of material which has never been used before. Letters and papers at Holland House, at Melbury, at Bowood, and elsewhere have provided a mass of evidence, much of it in Henry Fox’s own hand, as to his motives and opinions at various points in his career. Occasionally they enable Lord Ilchester to correct the statements or judgments of previous historians. But on the whole they only fill out the old picture, without altering its main lines.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Lord Ilchester’s volumes are strictly a biography. One might feel at times that Fox’s associates are little more than shadows in the background of the hero’s portrait; but the character and activities of the statesman himself are interestingly unfolded on almost every page. The subject is also presented with studied impartiality.” T. W. Riker
+ =Am Hist R= 26:87 O ’20 750w
+ =Ath= p206 F 13 ’20 1700w
“Amongst historians, Macaulay, Lord Fitzmaurice, and Lord Roseberry, have written these thirty years down to the bone. Even his exceptional sources of information have not enabled Lord Ilchester to tell us anything new about Henry Fox or his contemporaries of sufficient importance to justify this biography; and we must be forgiven for saying that Lord Ilchester’s skill and style as a narrator only suffer by comparison with the great writers we have mentioned.”
− + =Sat R= 129:163 F 14 ’20 650w
“The memoir is most interesting and valuable. It not only throws new light on Fox himself and on the early days of his unlucky son, Charles James Fox, but it also illustrates from another standpoint the difficulties—admirably described by Lord Roseberry in his ‘Chatham’—which Pitt had to surmount before he could become minister in the crisis of the Seven years’ war.”
+ =Spec= 124:211 F 14 ’20 1450w
“The book is well written and well arranged. The writer knows his subject and his period and can use his knowledge effectively.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p73 F 5 ’20 3650w
=In= the mountains. *$1.90 (3c) Doubleday
20–19505
The scene of the story is a little house in the Swiss Alps, to which an English woman, in some more than ordinarily tragic sense, bereaved by the war, comes to forget her sorrow. It had been her home in happier days and is to her a house of memories, but the story, which starts out with every indication of tragedy, turns out after all to be a very pleasant little comedy. The change comes with the appearance of the two uninvited guests, Mrs Barnes and Mrs ‘Jewks.’ They bring diversion. provocation and eventually healing. The story of the mistress of the house is only suggested but that of Dolly. Mrs ‘Jewks,’ which Mrs Barnes strives so faithfully to hide, is fully revealed and it is Dolly, whose name should be spelled Juchs, who is the book’s real heroine. The story is interspersed with comments on life and books.
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“She has a delicate pen that lovingly shapes her phrase, and an instinct that keeps it true to experience. Perhaps the most interesting thing about her equipment, her composition, her make-up, is the slight instability in the mixture of her elements. She is profoundly a sentimentalist, and her sentimentality keeps jumping out in spite of all the ironical detachment she can muster against it.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p272 Ag 27 ’20 550w
+ =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“There is distinction, delicacy, and deft handling throughout. ‘In the mountains’ may not command a large number of readers, it will have value, however, in selective readers’ eyes.” R. D. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 O 16 ’20 520w
“Remarkable for its sweet and gay philosophy of life, keen sense of humor, novel turns of thought and great facility of expression. Thought to be by the author of ‘Elizabeth and her German garden.’”
+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 50w
“It is the author’s wayside observations and the unexpected utterances of the other characters that count so mightily. The story is simple enough; it is the way it is told that is so engrossing.” W. A. Dyer
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 580w
“Whoever she may be, the author of ‘In the mountains’ writes in a finished style that almost precludes the possibility that her present book is her first.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 3 ’20 500w
“Both widows are, in their different ways, triumphs of characterisation, but the preeminence must certainly be assigned to Mrs Barnes. The devastating influence which genuine unselfishness, not qualified by intelligence, can exercise on the happiness of others is illustrated by her example with unsurpassable delicacy and sureness of touch.”
+ =Sat R= 130:242 S 18 ’20 680w
=Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w
“Told with an unaffected simplicity which is apparently artless, its charm and sweetness steal upon the mind as with the spell of a delicate September day that suddenly surprises by its summery heat and power.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p551 Ag 26 ’20 1000w
“Dolly, the younger of the two (she is forty), is something delightfully new in heroines and the study of Mrs Barnes, as an example of the tyranny of unselfishness, is a skillful piece of analysis.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w
=INCHBOLD, A. CUNNICK (MRS STANLEY INCHBOLD).= Love and the crescent; a tale of the Near East. *$1.25 (1c) Stokes
20–11299
The scene of the story is laid in an Armenian village during the war. It relates the trials of a beautiful girl, daughter of a distinguished Armenian physician, and her family and tells of horrors, flights, deportations, miraculous rescues, heroic defences and Veronica’s final reunion with her French lover and their safe arrival in France. The deep-dyed villainy of a German consul is dressed up in suitable romantic garb in contrast to which the Turk appears as a humanitarian.
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“In the portrayal of some of the characters, sometimes in the description of a scene, or again in the narrative which carries the story on, the author frequently drops into conventional, mechanical methods, and so lowers the grade of what would otherwise be a very excellent novel. But even so its construction is good, its movement rapid, its story interest well maintained, and its varied scenes are full of life and color that seem true and are certainly very interesting.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:29 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“There are incidents in abundance. But Mrs Inchbold has not been entirely successful in blending them into a clear-cut story. The characters seem to walk mechanically across the pages, and there is scarcely one of them that at the end the reader feels he knows as a real live human being.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p58 Ja 30 ’19 110w
=INGALESE, RICHARD.= History and power of mind, new and rev ed *$2.50 (3c) Dodd 131
20–10777
The book is the second printing of a collection of lectures on occultism and the power of the mind. The author asks the reader to hold himself agnostically until the course is finished holding in mind always that if occultism is true it can be demonstrated, for truth is always demonstrable. The book commends itself to the investigator of psychic phenomena and of mental therapeutics and the ground covered is well indicated in its table of contents, viz: Occultism: its past, present and future; Divine mind: its nature and manifestation; Dual mind and its origin; The art of self-control; The law of re-embodiment; Colors of thought vibration; Meditation, creation and concentration; Lesser occult or psychic forces and their dangers; Hypnotism, and how to guard against it; Higher occult or spiritual forces and their uses; The cause and cure of disease; The law of opulence. There is an index.
=INGE, WILLIAM RALPH.= Outspoken essays. *$2.25 (*6s) Longmans 204
20–18249
“The dean of St Paul’s has reprinted in this volume ten articles from the reviews, three dealing with patriotism, the birth-rate, and the future of the English race, and seven with ecclesiastical questions. To these he has prefixed an essay on ‘Our present discontent.’”—Spec
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“He writes as powerfully and learnedly almost as Swift. He is also as skilful and as unfair a controversialist as Swift. In ‘The future of the English race’ he handles the results of modern ethnological research with easy mastery, and it is only the most careful of readers who will observe what a hiatus lies between the well-marshalled facts and the conclusions that insidiously follow.”
+ − =Ath= p1167 N 7 ’19 250w
“Among Dr Inge’s many virtues, which include critical acuteness, epigrammatic power and a remarkable ability to be fair to persons as distinct from causes that offend him, must be reckoned his fearlessness.”
+ =Ath= p1253 N 28 ’19 1400w
+ =Booklist= 17:49 N ’20
“What, however, makes his writing so intolerable is his patronizing way and his spirit of hauteur, as he stands aloof and with the unction of superiority passes judgment on men and things in the dogmatic spirit which he censures in others. Whatever may be said about his interpretations, we must recognize in him a prophet of candor, who utters the burden of truth with sublime disregard to personal consequences.” O. L. Joseph
+ − =Bookm= 51:237 Ap ’20 700w
“This book is replete with worth-while observations by a man of the world, able to see weak points, yet genially willing to accept conditions as in a large measure inevitable.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 300w
“There is so much excellent modern rationalism in Dean Inge’s commerce with facts and tendencies that one cannot well forgive him for living emotionally in the dingy atmosphere of the century-old Malthus.”
+ − =Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 100w
“The chief paradox of all is that a scholar whose culture is as broad as the world should have sympathies even narrower than his native island. The masterpiece of the whole volume is the attack on the ‘Anglican Catholic’ party in the Established church. In all the controversy that has raged since the Tracts for the Times, there has never been so witty and so merciless a diatribe as that in which the author exposes the pretensions of the Anglican Catholics.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:729 My 29 ’20 1050w
“Here, as a free-lance, as a critic of life, men, morals, institutions, dress, foods, the labor party, political economy and literature, Dean Inge is his true and powerful self. The scholar, the citizen and the preacher blend, and the acute observer joins them.” D. S. M.
+ =New Repub= 24:197 O 20 ’20 2600w
“Whatever may be thought of his scepticism and of his own attempt to rise through doubt to a position of inexpugnable faith, his destructive analysis of the various other attempts of the sort is the work of a master hand. The religious papers in this volume display what is rare in contemporary English literature, a highly trained philosopher in the pulpit. Dean Inge has written a remarkable book.”
+ =Review= 2:396 Ap 17 ’20 1400w
+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 150w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 13 ’19 580w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19)
“It is a work of rare excellence and importance. We have failed if we have not made clear that it contains a mature and comprehensive Christian philosophy. It shirks no difficulties, concedes nothing to popular sentiment, has the sternness of Jewish prophecy.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 N 6 ’19 2050w
=INGERSOLL, ERNEST.= Wit of the wild. il *$2 Dodd 591.5
“This collection of sketches deals for the most part with familiar birds, animals, fish, and insects—the weasel, wasp, copperhead, whip-poor-will, and a score of others. It ranges widely from menhaden and muskrats to tree toads and the Portuguese man-of-war.” (N Y Evening Post) “There are chapters on animals that advertise, animals that wear disguises, animals that form partnerships with other animals, animals that set traps and animals that bluff.” (N Y Times)
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“It is popular natural history at its best. The book is abundantly and excellently illustrated.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 160w
=N Y Times= p10 O 10 ’20 500w
=INGPEN, ROGER=, ed.[2] One thousand poems for children. *$2.50 Jacobs 821.08
20–19453
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a former volume of “a choice of the best verse old and new” (Sub-title) which aims to provide poetry that is both pleasant to read and profitable to remember. The selection is graded according to the ages of children, ranging from the very little tot to the average child of fifteen and the poems are grouped under the headings: Rhymes for little ones; Cradle songs; Nursery rhymes; Fairy land; Fables and riddles; The seasons; Fields and woods; Home; Insects, birds and beasts; Humorous verse; Poems of patriotism and history; Ballads; Girlhood; Poems of praise; Miscellaneous. There are indexes of authors, first lines and titles.
=INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVEMENT. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY.= Report on the steel strike of 1919; with the technical assistance of the Bureau of industrial research, N.Y. *$2.50 Harcourt 331.89
20–16529
In this report by the Commission of inquiry of the Interchurch world movement, the basic facts of normal steel employment conditions are presented with the commission’s findings from a Christian viewpoint. These findings justify the strike in its central phase and substantiate the claim that conditions after the strike have remained the same—a situation characterized as a state of war that threatens the industrial peace of the nation. The first two chapters dwell on the inauguration of the inquiry, its scope and method, its conclusions and recommendations and on the general ignorance of the real conditions. The rest of the contents are: The twelve-hour day in a no-conference industry; Wages in a no-conference industry; Grievances and control in a no-conference industry; Organizing for conference; Social consequences of arbitrary control; Concluding (Christian findings); Appendices and index.
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“The report is a challenging document and raises fundamental questions concerning industrial relationships which need to be raised.” G: M. Janes
+ =Am Econ R= 10:877 D ’20 1900w
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“One of the most important documents in the history of American industry. The report is crowded with revealing statistics and other important information, but its supreme value proceeds from the fact that its conclusions have been reached by investigators appointed by organizations that are ordinarily anything but friendly to labour.” W: Z. Foster
+ =Freeman= 2:44 S 22 ’20 850w
“This report is a splendid example of scientific investigation in a field where prejudice and hysteria make rational judgments difficult. This work is invaluable.” James Oneal
+ =N Y Call= p11 D 12 ’20 370w
Reviewed by L. K. Frank
+ =Pub W= 98:663 S 18 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 90w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
“If we had greater faith in the efficacy of education by coercion we should like to make two books compulsory reading for every clergyman, newspaper editor, politician, and employer in the United States. These two books are ‘The great steel strike’ by W. J. Foster and ‘The steel strike of 1919,’ the report of the Interchurch world movement’s commission.”
+ =World Tomorrow= 3:349 N ’20 560w
=INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS.= Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians. 6v $3; ea 75c Womans press 613
20–15934
The proceedings of a conference held under the auspices of the National board of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city, Sept. 17–Oct. 25, 1919. “The conference met in response to a conscious need on the part of the women physicians in America for free discussion of those problems that relate to the maintaining and improving of health by education and other constructive means.... The word ‘health,’ was to be taken in its fullest sense as meaning the well-being of the entire personality.” (Preface) The proceedings, issued in six volumes, contain the addresses of distinguished physicians and specialists, men as well as women, bearing on all aspects of the subjects of health of women and children, sex and marriage, social morality, etc. The six volumes are devoted to: General problems of health; Industrial health; The health of the child; Moral codes and personality; Adaptation of the individual to life; Conservation of the health of women in marriage.
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“Both the physician and the layman can profitably read these discussions.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:39 O 20 ’20 110w
=IRWIN, FLORENCE.= Poor dear Theodora! *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
20–6636
Theodora has race but no money. Her genteel family has all the pride of their poverty and Theodora shocks them by breaking away to earn her own living. She goes through a variety of experiences from companion to an invalid old lady and mother’s helper in a feminist’s household to war-worker. She has been dismissed from her first position because the old lady suspects her favorite nephew of being in love with her. She becomes engaged to a “newly rich” philanderer and breaks it off before it is too late. At last true love “will out” like murder and the old lady receives her with open arms. Incidentally the book abounds in reflections on current opinions, tendencies and fads.
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“Theodora appeals to us, because of the sturdy independence of her mind and her conduct. Her natural individuality is developing. The novel excels in the delineation of character types.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 20 ’20 950w
“The story is well written and will be enjoyed by those who care for this sort of fiction. Its chief fault is its length, which exceeds 400 pages.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 600w
=Spec= 125:539 O 23 ’20 60w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p442 Jl 8 ’20 170w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Suffering husbands. *$1.75 (1½c) Doran
20–10767
A collection of short stories, first copyrighted by the Curtis Publishing Company. Contents: All front and no back; Monkey on a stick; Peaches and cream; Thunder; The goat; The light that paled; Free; Gasless Sunday; Mother’s milk.
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=Booklist= 17:33 O ’20
=Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 30w
=IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.).= Trimmed with red. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–6843
A farcical story involving parlor Socialists and society Bolshevists. Rosamonde Vallant, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged and choleric husband, has just gone thru a course in esoteric eastern philosophy and wearying of it, has turned to revolution. Her cousin, Emily Ray, who is in love with Oliver Browning, uses Rosamonde’s house as a convenient meeting place. Oliver is a soldier who has been wounded in the service of his country, but alas the wound had come from the kick of an army mule and Aunt Carmen refuses to see him in a romantic light. Emily becomes deeply involved in bolshevist plots and a revolutionary professor falls in love with her, but she returns in the end to Oliver and his mules.
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+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
=Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 60w
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 370w
“Pure farce, but most of it is really funny.”
+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“He had a ‘grand and glorious’ opportunity to create another droll classic out of the materials used in this book. He did make an attempt in this direction—an attempt that is well worth reading. Measured by what it might have been, however, the book is a failure.” Ralph Cheyney
− + =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 550w
“Though the book is much too long and its humor of the most obvious kind, it is amusing, and no more absurd than the idiotic antics it is intended to caricature.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:310 Je 13 ’20 450w
“Mr Irwin injects a lot of fun into his tale.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 190w
=ISE, JOHN.= United States forest policy. *$5 Yale univ. press 634.9
20–8898
“After an interesting historical account of forestry in the United States, the author discusses the development of an interest in forest conservation, the legislation dealing with the forests and the many unwise laws under which the forest lands have been stolen or the forests destroyed.” (Springf’d Republican) “Dr Ise shows how intricately the utilization of this great branch of natural resources has been bound up with the nation’s commercial development.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
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“Thoroughly documented. Better for reference than for reading.”
+ =Booklist= 17:58 N ’20
“Books like this by Mr Ise will contribute to the growth of public sentiment. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that professional historians may sometimes hear about it and include instruction in this phase of our economic history.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 480w
“A well written and nontechnical book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 24 ’20 260w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p480 Jl 29 ’20 460w
=IVES, HERBERT EUGENE.= Airplane photography. il *$4 (3½c) Lippincott 778
20–7599
Although airplane photography is of military origin, it has been the writer’s endeavor to treat the subject as a problem of scientific photography applicable to mapping and other peace-time pursuits. “It is assumed that the reader is already fairly conversant with ordinary photography. Considerable space has indeed been devoted to a discussion of the fundamentals of photography, and to scientific methods of study, test, and specification. This has been done because aerial photography strains to the utmost the capacity of the photographic process, and it is necessary that the most advanced methods be understood.” (Preface) 208 illustrations help to elucidate the text and there is an index.
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=Booklist= 16:268 My ’20
“While not pretending to be exhaustive, it offers much interesting and useful information.”
+ =Cleveland= p88 O ’20 30w
“This thorough technical treatise may be used as a practical manual for class or self instruction.”
+ =Outlook= 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 50w
+ =Spec= 124:625 My 8 ’20 130w
=IVEY, PAUL WESLEY.= Elements of retail salesmanship. *$2.25 Macmillan 658
20–3332
“Professor Ivey explains to the student first that he should know the goods that he intends to sell, and gives many useful hints as to the character of this knowledge. Next he expatiates on the necessity of his knowing and studying his customers. He picks out the elements of personality which make a successful salesman; these include enthusiasm, honesty, tact, courtesy, promptness and cheerfulness. He describes in detail the selling processes as well as store systems and methods, warning the student against many common errors and slips.”—N Y Evening Post
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“An interesting and practical book for department store classes. Addressed to more mature minds than Norton [‘Text book on retail selling’] and more concerned with psychological principles.”
+ =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20
“The information is put clearly and intelligently and the book is a good one of its kind.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 150w
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=JACKSON, ABRAHAM VALENTINE WILLIAMS.= Early Persian poetry. il *$2.25 Macmillan 891.5
20–7452
“From the beginnings down to the time of Firdausi” (Sub-title) is the ground covered by this book, which aims “to give succinctly the main outlines of the several early periods, ... and to illustrate, by translations made from the original Persian, the characteristics of the various authors.... Many of the citations are only small fragments of verse from Persian poets so long dead that they have been evoked almost as shades from the far-distant past.... Some of the reliques of their works, however, are longer and have a fuller metrical tale to tell. The episode of Suhrab and Rustam, moreover, is a well-known classic in literature.” (Preface) Contents: Persian poetry of ancient days; The new awakening of Persian song after the Muhammadan conquest; the Tahirid and Saffarid periods; Rays from lost minor stars: earlier Samanid period; Rudagi, a herald of the dawn; Snatches of minstrel song; from the later Samanid period to the era of Mahmud of Ghaznah; Dakiki; The round table of Mahmud of Ghaznah: court poetry; Firdausi, and the great Persian epic; The Shah-namah; some selections translated; Epilogue. There are illustrations, a list of works of reference, a list of abbreviations, an alphabetical list of poets, a note on Persian pronunciation and an index.
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+ =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20
“Much as we must admire Professor Jackson’s zeal and fervor ... yet one can not but feel a sense of disappointment at the amateurishness of some of his versions, with their often clumsy use of ‘did’ and their woodeny structure.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 10 ’20 650w
“Professor Jackson has added immeasurable value to his book by a large number of original translations that are skillfully done and still retain poetry in their phraseology. The author’s hope of carrying on his work is commendable, and it is to be desired that circumstances make it possible.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 200w
=JACKSON, BENNETT BARRON, and others=, comps. Thrift and success. il *$1.25 Century 331.84
19–12737
A compilation arranged by the superintendent and two teachers of the Minneapolis public schools. “Several selections are devoted to the general aspects of thrift, but the editors have wisely included a considerable number of selections describing such thrift agencies as savings banks, farm mortgages, postal savings banks, life insurance, and government bonds. The opportunities for wise investment, as well as the necessity for saving, are thus brought clearly to the reader’s attention. The book includes several little plays which teach a thrift lesson. There are, too, inspiring talks intended to stimulate children to make a success of themselves. A number of biographical sketches of prominent Americans of the past and present are included.” (Survey)
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“A valuable occasional reader or teacher’s manual.”
+ =Booklist= 16:151 F ’20
“All the selections teach definite, crisp lessons, and teachers interested in thrift instruction will find the book extremely suggestive.” G: F. Zook
+ =Survey= 42:760 Ag 23 ’19 140w
=JACOBS, EDWIN ELMORE.=[2] Study of the physical vigor of American women; pref. by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. $1.50 Jones, Marshall 612
The author presents the results of some statistical studies made among college women. The outcome of the study is to show “that there is no real evidence of the decline in the physical vigor of the women of America.” And arguing that “the male half of the population of a country can neither be very far ahead or behind the female part in its general health,” he holds that his conclusions may apply to the population as a whole. The investigation was carried out along four lines: fertility, longevity, anthropological measurements and women’s athletics. There is a five-page list of references.
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=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20
=JACOBSEN, JENS PETER.= Niels Lyhne; tr. from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen. (Scandinavian classics) $2 (2½c) Am.-Scandinavian foundation
20–1700
A novel by the author of “Marie Grubbe.” It has been called a spiritual autobiography and in her introduction the translator sketches the relation of the novel to Jacobsen’s own life. It is the story of a dreamer who always falls short in his contacts with reality. Niels Lyhne’s mother spends her life in one long day dream, broken by disillusionments from which she hastens to take refuge in still further dreams. The infusion of this temperament in her son, though mixed with his father’s sterner stuff, renders all his efforts futile. The story opens with a beautiful account of Niels’s childhood with its friendship for two boy companions, and is carried through two love episodes, and a short period of happy marriage to his death in the war of 1864.
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“The novel has the quality of a late autumn afternoon, a windless, tranquil hour of waiting, when both strong desire and strong regret are absent, and when in a mood of reverie and forgiveness we let the world glide from us. A sense of something honey-sweet, faded, and delicate pervades it. How deeply Jacobsen was the literary artist the Larsen translation unfortunately little reveals. Though it is more faithful to the original than the general run of translations to which we here in America have become accustomed, its prosiness and stiffness, its air of being all too patently the translation, prevent it from representing Jacobsen quite fairly.” Paul Rosenfeld
+ − =Dial= 68:644 My ’20 2150w
“The account of Niels Lyhne’s boyhood has a depth of insight even in matters of sex that is rare in the romance writers. Later the narrative seems a little hurried and huddled as though vitality to exhaust his subject had gradually failed the author. But this uncommonly sensitive translation of a memorable book is cordially to be welcomed.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 200w
=JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON.= New Mexico; the land of the delight makers. (See America first ser.) il *$5 Page 917.89
20–6434
This is the third book about the southwest, a land he knows intimately, that Mr James has contributed to this series. California and Arizona were the subjects of the first books and he has found in New Mexico a theme of equal interest. As set forth in the long subtitle the aspects of New Mexico covered include “the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life, and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate accounts of its progressive counties, cities and towns.” Two interesting chapters deal with literature and art and among the illustrations are a number from paintings by artists of the Taos colony. There is a bibliography and the book is indexed.
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“Like others of the series, a beautiful picture book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
=JAMES, HENRY.= Letters of Henry James. 2v il *$10 Scribner
20–6773
In editing these volumes of letters, Mr Percy Lubbock has had a wide field for selection. For, as he says of Henry James, “He was at all times a copious letter-writer, overflowing into swift and easy improvisation to his family and to the many friends with whom he corresponded regularly. His letters have been widely preserved, and several thousands of them have passed through my hands, ranging from his twenty-fifth year until within a few days of his last illness.” (Introd.) In addition to the introduction which opens volume 1, the editor has contributed brief illuminating prefaces to the sections into which the volumes are divided. These divisions, for volume 1, are: First European years: 1869–1874; Paris and London: 1875–1881; The middle years: 1882–1888; Later London years: 1889–1897; and Rye, 1898–1903. Volume 2 comprises: Rye: 1904–1909; Rye and Chelsea: 1910–1914; and The war: 1914–1916. Notes are often provided for individual letters and an index adds to the value of the admirably edited work.
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Reviewed by Sydney Waterlow
+ − =Ath= p537 Ap 23 ’20 2350w
“The portrait they paint of the novelist and his surroundings is so clear that the editor has needed merely to add here and there a prefatory note. These and the introduction are finely appreciative and adequate.”
+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20
“The editor, Mr Lubbock, has compassed a dangerous undertaking in his selection and, while he offers many letters which illustrate the social side of his hero, he justly lays stress on the inclusion of literary themes. These letters bid fair to become a classic in English literature.” J. G. Huneker
+ =Bookm= 51:364 My ’20 2700w
“Throughout them we find an abundance of literary comment upon his fellow writers which is pungent and vigorous, even if not always convincing.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 10 ’20 1500w
Reviewed by Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:83 Jl ’20 3700w
“Mr Lubbock tells us that James left behind him scarcely a document that revealed any trace of the origins of his work. Of the origins of his spirit, his point of view, he yields us scarcely more in the way of documentary evidence. One apprehends him here indeed in certain aspects of intimacy as the son, as the brother, as, if not the friend, at least the fellow-artist, as, perhaps most warmly, the uncle. It is only—only—as the man that he foils our question.” V. W. B.
+ − =Freeman= 1:164 Ap 28 ’20 1700w
=Lit D= p89 Jl 10 ’20 3450w
“All the more, however, finding him thus restricted as to race and sympathies and images, do we find ourselves admiring the magnificent passion with which he worked at his art. His famous prefaces to his novels and tales are accepted as an indispensable handbook to the art of fiction. No less may his letters be considered indispensable to those serious students and fellow-artists who wish to observe a genius massively revolving and tirelessly experimenting.” C. V. D.
+ =Nation= 110:690 My 22 ’20 2000w
* =Nation [London]= 27:178 My 8 ’20 1550w
“I am brash enough to venture the prediction that the best book of Henry James’s, the one with the widest appeal, the one with the most permanent interest, the one most easily read, is not to be found among those which he wrote for publication, but is this collection of his correspondence. What these letters bring before us vividly is a warm-hearted James, devoted to his family and dowered with the gift of friendship.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:151 Ap 4 ’20 2750w
“Whatever has been deleted does not harm that which gives pleasure and delight, surprising us by the clarity and directness of its style and by the warm sentiment of its friendship.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 380w
“For half a century Henry James poured himself out to his friends in letters that are matchless for their prodigal and eager flow of sympathy, their inexhaustible kindliness, their ample and exquisite tenderness, their beautiful generosity. These letters are priceless.” Lawrence Gilman
+ =No Am= 211:682 My ’20 3000w
“We have joked so long about the obscurity of his style as a novelist that this conception of him has become a habit with us. But now that his letters are published, we must alter our portrait.” M. J. Moses
+ =Outlook= 125:167 My 26 ’20 2200w
“He has been fortunate in an editor who understands and relishes the peculiarities of the case. There is one general criticism to be made of the exhibition. The letters seem to have been edited, perhaps unconsciously, to emphasize the completeness of James’s English adoption.” S. P. Sherman
+ − =Review= 3:706 Jl 7 ’20 2350w
“We can only warn the reader who takes up these remarkable volumes that he will not find in them pretty anecdotes or gossip about notabilities: but he will find much excellent criticism and psychology, and he will find copiously and minutely displayed an intellect massive and yet subtle, and a character as nobly dignified as it was humanly attractive.”
+ =Spec= 124:691 My 22 ’20 1500w
“One of the many rich interests of these volumes is to discern the reflection of the person written to, in the letter written.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 1400w
=JAMES, HENRY.= Master Eustace. *$2 (3½c) Seltzer
“The five stories in this volume, together with the four included in ‘A landscape painter,’ appeared originally in American periodicals, but for some unknown reason were never issued by Henry James in book form in this country. The present volume, along with ‘A landscape painter,’ makes accessible to the American public the nine short stories of Henry James which hitherto have been accessible only in English editions of his works.” (Preface) The five stories, all written later than “A landscape painter” are: Master Eustace; Longstaff’s marriage; Théodolinde; A light man; and Benvolio.
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“It is not to be imagined that because the stories in this collection are primarily concerned with the interplay of character they are slow-moving narratives, with a tendency to be diffuse. On the contrary, they are well-knit and direct in conception, and executed with richness, deftness in phrase and mood, and a quiet but keen wit.” Lisle Bell
+ =Freeman= 2:381 D 29 ’20 540w
“No one need look for masterpieces among tales that Henry James declined to put between covers. The poorest inclusion in the book, and one of James’s very poorest bits of writing, is ‘Theodolinde.’ The book is valuable but not invaluable.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 320w
“They are written in a style transparently clear and straightforward, and are decidedly romantic in substance and form. Nothing in this book is equal to the stories in the preceding volume.” W: L. Phelps
+ =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 160w
=JAMES, HENRY DUVALL.= Controllers for electric motors. il *$3 Van Nostrand 621.317
20–174
“A treatise on the modern industrial controller, together with typical applications to the industries.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of articles originally published in the Electric Journal, with the addition of some new material. Partial list of contents: Introduction; Historical; Design details: How to read controller diagrams; Methods of accelerating motors; Starting characteristics of motors with different methods of control; Methods of speed control and dynamic braking; Direct current magnetic contactor controllers; Alternating current controllers; Resistors; Protective devices. There are 259 illustrations and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:99 D ’20
=JAMES, WILLIAM.= Letters. 2v il *$10 Atlantic monthly press
20–23198
“It is, naturally enough, less the scientist and thinker than the man which is revealed in ‘The letters of William James,’ now edited, with all the necessary explanatory material by his son Henry James. This is as everybody should wish. For he was one of the greatest Americans in personal qualities as well as in powers of mind and these letters reveal him as he was. The energy and range of his mind and the prodigious richness of his personality are truly revealed in these two volumes. There are not a few valuable critical comments—such as his estimate of Santayana’s ‘Life of reason’—which are not otherwise accessible to the public, and there are no end of vivid impressions brilliantly or tenderly phrased.”—Springf’d Republican
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+ =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“These letters—arranged in two comely volumes by the sure and skilful hand of William James’s son—are full of wise and occasionally profound little annotations upon contemporary American life and manners. They will be treasured for the simple and delightful bits of self-revelation that they afford.” H: H. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 52:557 F ’21 1150w
“Letters rarely disclose so much of a man in his entirety as do these. They are eloquent in manner and equally eloquent in their self-revelation. They are not merely ‘The letters of William James’; they are the record of an epoch in the history of philosophy and the chronicle of a notable family.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 2150w
“Although the correspondence with his colleagues all over the world will be perhaps most eagerly read, the family letters are the most beautiful. But there are some letters which should never have been printed. In moments of heat and irritation James said things about persons he met and even about his colleagues at Harvard, which should not have been preserved in cold type.” W: L. Phelps
+ − =N Y Times= p2 D 12 ’20 1650w
“Whether we are seeking enjoyment or mental and spiritual uplift, we may approach these letters with assurance.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 98:1894 D 18 ’20 470w
“As there has been no other American, and indeed, no other man, like William James, so there can never be another collection of letters like his, full of a unique and precious personality. All who care for genius in its most human and most winning manifestations will find the book a treasure-house.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 2600w
=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Book of Job; its origin, growth and interpretation. *$4 Lippincott 223
20–27474
The author regards the Book of Job as the most celebrated of the books of the Bible and the literary masterpiece of the Old Testament, and the object of the present volume is to aid in the better understanding and appreciation of the original, which has hitherto been blocked by defective translations and insufficient consideration of its composite authorship. The contents of Part 1, The origin, growth and interpretation of the Book of Job, are: The folktale of Job and the Book of Job; The three strata in the Book of Job; Changes and additions within the original Book of Job; How a skeptical book was transformed into a bulwark of orthodoxy; The Book of Job as philosophy and literature. Part 2 is then devoted to a new translation of the Book of Job, with plentiful annotations.
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+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
“The work shows wide scholarship and in many passages the new version is impressive and beautiful. Yet, after all is said, in spite of the incorrectness of the King James version, in which, according to Dr Jastrow, one line in ten is wrong, one cannot help liking its style better than that of the new version.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 8 ’20 1150w
“Professor Jastrow’s view will have to overcome not only traditional prejudice but also strong emotional attachment to the older view. But his volume is one which students of the Bible cannot ignore.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:767 D 29 ’20 380w
“This is a vastly interesting and important book, and it isn’t a book for preachers only, but for everybody who makes any pretence at all to an interest in good literature.” R. S. Lynd
+ =Pub W= 98:1892 D 18 ’20 330w
=JASTROW, MORRIS, jr.= Eastern question and its solution. *$1.50 (6c) Lippincott 327
20–7859
The author holds that the problems of the Near East will continue to be a menace to the peace of the world until they are properly settled; that they cannot be properly settled without the cooperation of America, that America can only help by avoiding two contingencies—political complications and the dispatching of a large army across the sea—that mandatories involve both these contingencies and that the only satisfactory solution lies in the creation of international commissions. The last chapter is devoted entirely to a discussion of this solution. Contents: The failure of European diplomacy in the Near East; The present situation; Mandates not a solution of the eastern question; Internationalism as a solution of the eastern question; Insert map of Europe after the great war.
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=Booklist= 16:299 Je ’20
“The fact that Professor Jastrow’s scheme has not been adopted does not in the least detract from its merits, in these days of flux and change; and a book like his is well worth while, if it helps to educate public opinion in this country on a question that involves us all, whether we like it or not.” C. R. H.
+ =Freeman= 2:282 D 29 ’20 210w
“Optimism breeds optimism. Idealism is contagious. Such noble faith as Dr Jastrow’s is a real world asset.”
+ =N Y Times= p4 Ag 15 ’20 600w
=Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w
Reviewed by M. H. Anderson
=Pub W= 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 170w
=JAY, WILLIAM.= War and peace. *$1 Oxford 341.6
20–3783
As one of its publications the Carnegie endowment for international peace has issued a reprint of “War and peace,” published in 1842, with an introduction by James Brown Scott. William Jay, the author, was the son of John Jay, who helped frame the first peace treaty with Great Britain. Of his plan for maintaining peace, Mr Scott says, “Starting from the premise that we are free agents, that war is an evil, William Jay maintains that the extinction of other evils shows that war itself may be eliminated by the gradual growth of a public opinion against it and by the creation of agencies which nations can create and use just as individuals have created and used them.” The plan he outlines involves the creation of an international tribunal with power to arbitrate.
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“The book still has its importance, and the plan proposed has in fact made its way into many treaties.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p243 Ap 15 ’20 120w
=JEAN-AUBRY, G.= French music of today; tr. by Edwin Evans. (Lib. of music and musicians) *$2 Dutton 780.9
(Eng ed 19–17080)
“The first two sections deal with French music and German music and The French foundations of present-day keyboard music. Among the composers touched on in two sections called Studies and physiognomies and Sketches for portraits are Massenet, Debussy, Roussel, Chabrier, D’Indy, Chausson, Duparc, Dukas, Ravel, and de Sévérac. A section on Music and poetry contains essays on Baudelaire and music and Verlaine and the musicians; the concluding section is on French music in England; and to this little volume M. Gabriel Fauré adds a preface.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “Only the first chapter of the book is new, the others ranging over various periods, and in some cases dating as far back as 1906 and 1907, when the modern French achievement was virtually an unknown quantity in England.” (Ath)
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“Makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in clarity.”
+ − =Ath= p114 Mr ’19 60w
“M. Jean-Aubry is one of those enthusiastic apologists who almost disarm criticism by their sheer ingenuousness. Were it a volume of recent production, and a serious attempt at criticism, one would indeed be compelled to call his judgments in question on almost every page. A pamphlet which was opportune in 1909 may be rather tiresome ten years later.” R. O. M.
− + =Ath= p757 Ag 15 ’19 550w
“The critical judgments of some of the older chapters and the propagandist tendency make the book somewhat untimely.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:13 O ’19 30w
“M. Jean-Aubry has given us the point of view of the modern French composer toward his art. The value of this contribution alone more than offsets any charge of propagandism that the book may bring forth, a charge that is partially refuted by the very fact that much of its contents was written long before the war.” Henrietta Straus
+ =Nation= 110:527 Ap 17 ’20 650w
Reviewed by C: H: Meltzer
=Review= 2:630 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“This is eminently a book for the layman, for M. Jean-Aubry avoids technicalities.”
+ =Spec= 122:264 Mr 1 ’19 1250w
“Mr Jean-Aubry is necessarily but not unfairly prejudiced in favor of his native music. Delightful and refreshing are the studies and sketches—for preserving whose charm, by the way, the reader is indebted to the translator, Edwin Evans—of contemporary modern French composers, which occupy the greater portion of the book.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 24 ’20 480w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p35 Ja 16 ’19 80w
“The merit of this book is that it is not afraid of pressing into the service of music everything that can be a symbol; its weakness is that positive statements about the music swim rather sparsely in a whirlpool of words.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p43 Ja 23 ’19 1450w
=JEFFERY, GEORGE H. EVERETT.= Brief description of the Holy sepulchre. il *$3.50 Putnam 726
20–9215
The complete title of this work, a reprint from the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects for 1910, is “a brief description of the Holy sepulchre, Jerusalem, and other Christian churches in the Holy city, with some account of the mediæval copies of the Holy sepulchre surviving in Europe.” Part 1 is devoted to the history, part 2 to the description of the monument, part 3 to the lesser shrines, and part 4 to the reproductions in various parts of Europe. There are numerous illustrations and diagrams and the work closes with chronological tables and index.
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“Mr Jeffery writes two particularly interesting chapters on the reproductions of the Holy sepulchre as a pilgrim shrine. The illustrations might have been improved, especially in the way of enlargement.”
+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 100w
“We must be content to say that the book is of great interest and value, and that it should be read by intelligent tourists before they go to Jerusalem and after they return.”
+ =Spec= 123:778 D 6 ’19 160w
“It is careful and learned and very fully and well illustrated.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p676 N 20 ’19 20w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 1150w
=JEFFERY, JEFFERY E.= Side issues. *$1.90 (3c) Seltzer
20–14708
A volume of short stories dealing with side issues of the war. With the exception of two which are reprinted from the Cornhill Magazine, they appear here for the first time. The titles are: Angèle, goddess of kindliness; A quiet evening; Services rendered; A lost soul; Noblesse oblige; The altar of drums; My lady of Hoxton; Equality of sacrifice; The heirloom; In token of gratitude; Generalities; The revellers; Dam’ good fellers; A tap at the door; Confessional—by way of epilogue.
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“The best sketch from a literary point of view, is ‘Angèle, goddess of kindliness.’”
+ =Ath= p527 Ap 16 ’20 130w
“Beneath all the wounds of circumstance a deep sobriety of spirit curbs the author’s temptation to sacrifice truth to effectiveness and persuades him to set down only the permanent and permanently human.”
+ =Nation= 111:596 N 24 ’20 420w
“The book is quietly and earnestly written, and has an authentic ring of sincerity. It is, I fancy, a genuine human document, and like all such genuine documents, well worth attention.” W. P. Eaton
+ =N Y Call= p11 D 19 ’20 210w
“In these sketchily constructed stories, by an officer of the old army, the ugliness of war and the injustices that accompany demobilization are set out with considerable effect and an evident attempt at fairness, though with a tendency towards rhetoric.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 160w
=JENKIN, A. M. N.= End of a dream. *$1.75 (3c) Lane
20–7429
Shell shock and its terrible possibilities are the theme of this story. Before he went to war Arnold Cheyne had been deeply in love with Nadina, a beautiful dancing girl. When the latter, not yet ready to abandon her career, refused him, he entered into a loveless marriage with Sheila Maclaren. Under the influence of shell shock he no longer recognizes Sheila and thinks of Nadina as his wife. The doctor of the hospital, having been told Arnold’s history and his want of love for his real wife, advises Nadina to humor him in his hallucination. With a nervous patient’s cunning Arnold escapes from the hospital and flees with Nadina into Cornwall. There the end is a double murder, the first of the man who has followed the couple, intent on making trouble, and the second, under the influence of a dream taking him back into the horrors of trench warfare, of Nadina herself.
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“The symptoms of the hero are well described; but Mr Jenkin lacks literary skill and seems to find it very difficult to cope with his plot.”
+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 130w
“For a book with a live theme, the effect of shell shock and the social and legal problems arising from that effect. ‘The end of a dream’ is amazingly dull.” R. D. W.
− =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 400w
“In this vividly written story of the possible effects of shell shock the author has unfolded a dramatic story of intense interest and downright awful power.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 700w
“The last scene is terrible in its realism. The book should certainly be kept out of the hands of sufferers from the milder forms of this affection.”
− =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 40w
“Disappointing in effect. The author saddles a plot of undoubted interest and merit with principals of a featureless type.”
− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 320w
=JENKINS, J. T.=[2] Sea fisheries. il *$10 Dutton 639.2
“A copiously-illustrated volume, the author of which is professionally associated with the Lancashire and Western sea fisheries joint committee. Dr Jenkins describes from personal knowledge the mystery of the fishers’ craft. An account is given of the methods of fishing adopted in the North sea, and the narrative deals with the rise of the herring fisheries, as well as with the development of steam trawling. Public fisheries for shellfish are described: and an important chapter deals with individual fish, such as the sole, plaice, haddock, and herring. Foreign and colonial fisheries are considered in the last chapter.”—Ath
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+ =Ath= p782 Je 11 ’20 100w
“This is rather a Gradgrindian book for a compatriot of Charles Dickens to have written. It is full of useful statistics and little else. His photographs carry more of the romance of the sea than his text.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p27 O 23 ’20 280w
“We strongly commend Dr Jenkins’s scientific and instructive book to the consideration of all who wish to understand the urgent problem of utilizing the harvest of the sea to the best advantage, though its more controversial parts are no doubt open to discussion.”
+ =Spec= 124:796 Je 12 ’20 870w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p249 Ap 22 ’20 1700w
=JENNINGS, ARTHUR SEYMOUR.= Paints and varnishes. il $1 Pitman 667
20–18167
The book comes under the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series and deals with the properties and uses of paints and varnishes from a purely commercial and professional point of view. Their quality, the quantity required to cover given surfaces and the determination of probable durability are dealt with at some length. The process of manufacture is only described when it becomes necessary to differentiate between grades or qualities of the same material. Contents: The characteristics of a good paint; The principal pigments used in paint making; The thinners used in paint; Paint-mixing—the application of paints, etc.: Whitewashes and distempers; Service tests of paints and varnishes; Machinery used in paint-making; Varnishes and enamels; Tables, etc.; Index and illustrations.
=JENSEN, ALBRECHT.= Massage and exercises combined. il $4 The author, box 73 G. P.O., N.Y. 613.7
20–19054
“A new system of the characteristic essentials of gymnastic and Indian Yogis concentration exercises combined with scientific massage movements.” (Sub-title) The author lays stress upon the therapeutic effectiveness of the combination of massage and exercises. The system is intended chiefly for home use and requires no gymnastic equipment and no expenditure. The contents in part are: Resultant bad effects from the use of heavy apparatus, weights and too strenuous exercises; Special benefit to women from the use of these exercises; The construction and characteristics of the combined massage exercises; General and detailed description of the combined massage exercises with their analyses and effects; Proper breathing: How the number of exercises for one performance can best be decreased; How the exercises may be utilized in some diseased and disordered conditions of the body. There are eighty-six illustrations.
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+ =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 70w
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 16 ’21 270w
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 60w
=Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 160w
=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Loudwater mystery. *$2 (3c) Knopf
20–22232
When Lord Loudwater is stabbed to death and investigations are begun, it is discovered that there is a quite disconcerting wealth of possible suspects. Lord Loudwater was of such a nature that his actions might supply the motive for murder to any one of his family or household or even remoter connections. For instance, on the day of his murder, he had threatened to divorce his wife, he had quarreled violently with Colonel Grey, who had been seen paying attentions to Lady Loudwater, he had discharged his butler in a fit of anger, and he had halved the allowance of a mysterious woman who had sued him for breach of promise. So the doings of these various people at the time of the murder are thoroughly combed over. When these clues lead to nothing but a blank wall, with the story almost at an end, the suspense is finally ended by the discovery of one forged check which gives the actual murderer away.
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“We close the book with a genuine regret that a gift so real as Mr Jepson’s cannot be more economically used.”
+ − =Ath= p1210 N 14 ’19 140w
“The action never lags, and the ending is rather out of the ordinary.”
+ =Booklist= 17:158 Ja ’21
=Boston Transcript= p6 O 16 ’20 520w
“Mr Jepson has not been entirely successful in keeping up the tension of the mystery. There are lapses of several months each in the narrative, which break the emotional flow. But the large number of readers who seek to qualify as amateur Holmeses, Craig Kennedies, and Dupins, by vicarious solutions of murder mysteries, will find plenty of opportunities here.”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 S 5 ’20 420w
“If some of the devices are familiar, most of the characters have—what is rare in novels of the kind—an unmistakable touch of life, and much of the dialogue has—what is still more uncommon—a sprightly turn.”
+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 200w
=Spec= 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w
“A detective story of exceptional merit.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p677 N 20 ’19 170w
=JEPSON, EDGAR.= Pollyooly dances. *$1.25 (2c) Duffield
20–3191
Mr Jepson’s young heroine has grown up and in this novel appears as a successful dancer. She is on her way to New York when the story opens and her guardian, the Honourable John Ruffin, is traveling by the same boat on business of his own. He has successfully evaded military service and is an object of scorn to all patriotic Britons on board. But of course, as the reader well knows, he is in government service and his business has to do with German spies. Indeed, throughout, the story is more concerned with German spy plots than with Pollyooly’s dancing.
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“It has always been our opinion that Mr Edgar Jepson’s best period was that of ‘No. 19’ and ‘The mystery of the myrtles,’ and we regret that he should have bartered his heritage of fantasy touched with horror for machine-made private detectives and angel children who blossom into popular ballerinas.”
− + =Ath= p475 O 8 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“A more than ordinarily entertaining detective story.”
+ =Ind= 103:322 S 11 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 70w
=JESSE, FRYNIWYD TENNYSON.= Happy bride. *$2 Doran 821
20–20439
The first poem of this collection is based on an old Cornish custom: “In Cornwall, when an unmarried girl dies, she is borne through the streets followed by her girl friends dressed in white and singing a hymn of which the refrain is ‘O happy bride.’” Cornish legend also furnishes the motive for St Ludgvan’s well, The forbidden vision, The droll-teller, and Jennifer, Jennifer. Other titles are: Towers of healing; A little dirge for any soul; Youth renascent; Where beauty stays her foot; Lover’s cry.
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“Of contemporaries, Miss Tennyson Jesse is closely related to Mr Bridges. She approaches him in the purity of her verse, the felicity of her phrase, in her rhythm and her descriptive quality. At no point, perhaps, does she attempt or achieve sublimity, but for evenness of accomplishment few living poets surpass her work.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p299 My 13 ’20 680w
=JESSUP, ALEXANDER=, ed. Best American humorous short stories. (Modern lib. of the world’s best books.) *85c Boni & Liveright
20–12376
“To the Modern library has been added ‘Best American humorous short stories,’ a selection from the writings of Poe, Curtis, Hale, O. W. Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry and others, including several whose names are still familiar in the magazines. The editor is Alexander Jessup.”—Springf’d Republican
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“The compiler steers a safe, somewhat academic course, and there are inevitably some inclusions of historical rather than hilarious interest.”
+ − =Dial= 69:103 Jl ’20 50w
“The book is both valuable and interesting. The tired business man will revel in it.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= p8 Ag 1 ’20 220w
“The editor shows that mingled understanding of past and present which alone gives value to critical pronouncements or editorial work involving critical selection.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 20 ’20 120w
=JOAD, CYRIL EDWIN MITCHINSON.= Essays in common sense philosophy. *$2 Harcourt 192
(Eng ed 20–6885)
“In ‘Essays in common sense philosophy’ C. E. M. Joad of Balliol college, Oxford, gives us a rethinking of contemporary metaphysics, in which his titular claim rests on the views that we do actually perceive things as they are, that apparent differences and discontinuities in experience are real and that the Hegelian theory of the state is essentially wrong, inasmuch as the state is only a subordinate institution within the larger whole of human society. The first point is made out on the basis of Meinong’s Gegendstandstheorie, which, even if it be accepted, is not obviously the reasoning of common sense. Similarly, the defense of pluralism, based on Russell’s treatment of relations, comes indeed to the plain man’s conclusion, but by a tortuous path. Two other important essays in this book are those on truth, and on universals.”—Springf’d Republican
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“As with all books of this kind, the author’s treatment can be considered adequate only by those who agree with him. To others it will appear that the points neglected by the author are more important than those noticed by him.”
+ − =Ath= p539 Je 27 ’19 80w
“Mr Joad’s book is readable, interesting, and quite remarkably intelligible. There is an avoidance of technical jargon, and an admirable lucidity. It is a book which can be read with much profit by all who are interested in philosophy without being professional philosophers.” B. R.
+ =Ath= p652 Jl 25 ’19 1800w
=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 170w
=Brooklyn= 12:28 N ’19 50w
=New Repub= 24:150 O 6 ’20 430w
“His book, though unsatisfactory to any student of philosophy who possesses a philological conscience and a critical historic sense, does in some sort canvass a number of the problems that we can escape only by refusing to speculate at all. It will serve as well as another to satisfy the commonplace metaphysical instinct. And the student who takes it up for this purpose will receive from it a fair measure of initiation into the study of philosophy, and of orientation and stimulus of his own reflections.”— Paul Shorey
− + =Review= 3:232 S 15 ’20 1100w
“This book should be widely read. It deserves close and careful study as an indication of the best lines of the metaphysical thought of today.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 1 ’20 300w
“His book is a real stimulus to thought.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p492 S 18 ’19 1000w
=JOHNSEN, JULIA E.=,[2] comp. Selected articles on national defense. v 3 (Debaters’ handbook ser.) $1.80 Wilson, H. W. 355.7
This volume, consisting of brief, bibliography and reprints, covers the subjects. The army, The navy, Military training, Military service, Disarmament and peace. Volume 1, by Corinne Bacon, was published in 1916; volume 2, by Agnes Van Valkenburgh, in 1917.
=JOHNSON, ARTHUR.= Under the rose. *$1.75 (2½c) Harper
20–15533
The titles of these stories are: The princess of Tork; Riders in the dark; The one hundred eightieth meridian; Mr Eberdeen’s house; The two lovers; The visit of the master; The little family; His new mortal coil; How the ship came in. The stories are reprinted from Harper’s and other magazines. The visit of the master appeared in the 1918 volume of Mr O’Brien’s “Best short stories.”
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“‘Under the rose’ contains some charming tales. The happy whimsicality of expression in a number brings to mind similar happy whimsicalities of Henry James.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 2 ’20 400w
“This is a bewildering collection of stories, effective and yet at the same time not wholly satisfying. The themes treated are many, the transition from story to story sometimes marking a leap of mood difficult to achieve. Almost every story is successful by itself; and this, after all, is a great deal to demand of fiction.”
+ − =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 420w
=JOHNSON, CLIFTON.= What to see in America. (American highways and byways ser.) il *$3 Macmillan 917.3
19–19488
“The book is concerned with the human interest of our country in nature, history, industry, literature, legend, and biography. It is intended for travelers who visit the places of interest in person, and also for those other travelers whom chance or necessity keeps at home, but who travel far and wide on the wings of fancy.... Under each state is included such things as the first settlement, the capital, the largest city, the highest point, and facts of general interest concerning its past and present that add to the traveler’s zest in visiting it.” (Introductory note) Each state in the Union has a chapter and there are 500 illustrations including several maps.
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“Rather too brief for the intensive sightseer. No index, but full contents by states with mention of attractions.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:200 Mr ’20
“Mr Johnson has an observant eye, and he knows what he wants to say, but he is frequently unable to express himself in straightforward English.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 7 ’20 400w
“Somewhere between a guide book and travel essays. Useful for reference.”
+ =Cleveland= p43 Ap ’20 40w
“The pictures are better than the history, and the history is better than the opinions, but there are few opinions and only enough history to add the right tincture of romance.”
+ =Nation= 111:163 Ag 7 ’20 190w
“His 500 illustrations are well chosen, well engraved and well printed; and they are frequently alluring. Probably there are few of those who read Mr Johnson’s book who will not feel a desire to let their own eyes gaze upon the wonderful spots which are here photographed.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The numerous pictures are well selected. The traveled reader is sure to find new things as well as old in the volume, and the ‘stay-at-home’ will find here new zest for fireside travels.”
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 80w
“Travelers may make good use of this volume, and it may be commended to public-school geography classes.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:221 F ’20 140w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 70w
=JOHNSON, ROBERT UNDERWOOD.= Collected poems, 1881–1919. *$4 Yale univ. press 811
20–1009
The collection comprises the poet’s former volumes together with some new material. The contents are: The winter hour, and other poems; Songs of liberty, and other poems; Italian rhapsody, and other poems; Moments of Italy, and other poems; Saint-Gaudens: an ode; Later poems of occasion; Poems of war and peace; Poems of the great war; Poems chiefly of friendship or admiration; Later poems of the great war; Miscellaneous poems; Poems of Italy in war-time; Latest war-time poems.
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“Many of his poems are occasional in character, and in these he displays his happiest inspiration. He has the professional after-dinner speaker’s talent for saying the right, the tactful thing about any person or event. Mr Johnson would make an excellent laureate.”
+ =Ath= p622 My 7 ’20 120w
“There is much sweetness—which never descends to mere prettiness—much grace and a good deal of fine thought finely expressed in melodious verse. Mr Johnson has long and deservedly enjoyed a special place of distinction in modern American poetry of the conservative tradition.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:214 Ap ’20 60w
“To enjoy this volume you do not need to belong to any ‘school,’ nor to hold any poetic theory. All you need is to love poetry as the interpreter of the best things in nature and life.” H: Van Dyke
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 1900w
“All the poems are not of equal value. But the omnipresent dignity of Dr Johnson’s muse, his understanding love for Italy, and his unfailing respect both for his medium and his reader, bespeak alike the scholar and the citizen of the world.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:700 Ag ’20 150w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 60w
=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Medal collector. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 Dodd 737
The book furnishes a guide to naval, military, air-force and civil medals and ribbons in the following order: The pioneer medals of England; Early medals of the Hon. East India Co.; Peninsular awards; Waterloo awards; The naval general service medal; Campaign medals; British orders and their insignia; The Victoria cross; Service medals for bravery, etc.; Commemorative medals; Medals for long service, good conduct, etc.; Regimental medals; Civil medals; Medals of the United States; Foreign awards. The book contains eight plates in color and numerous other illustrations and has appendices, a bibliography and index.
=JOHNSON, STANLEY CURRIE.= Stamp collector; a guide to the world’s postage stamps. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 383
The author rates the hobby of stamp collecting highly from an intellectual, an economic and a commercial point of view, but first and foremost as a pastime full of charm and fascination. Since there is so much that can be collected and so much that ought not to be collected he offers this guide which equally satisfies the beginner and the more advanced collector. The first few chapters deal with philately on general terms. They are: Planning and arranging the collection; Specialised collections; Technical matters; Stamps, desirable and otherwise; Forged and faked stamps; Sir Rowland Hill and other pioneers. Then a number of chapters are devoted to a description of stamps of definite areas and the last four are: The stamps of war; Rare stamps; Philately for the young; A glossary of philatelic terms with a bibliography and an index.
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“If the author’s line of demarcation between stamps desirable and otherwise is rather arbitrary, his advice as to the best method of forming and continuing a stamp collection is at least accurate.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p10 Ja 1 ’20 550w
=JOHNSON, THOMAS COSTELLO.= Irish tangle and a way out. *$1.50 Gorham 941.5
20–5597
“Mr Johnson is an American clergyman (Church of the Holy Spirit, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, N.Y.) who went to Ireland in 1918 to give lectures about America’s part in the great war. The larger part of the book is historical—from early times to recent developments. Mr Johnson’s own solution is—with educational reform and the development of resources—federal government with parliaments for England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and a central parliament at Westminster.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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Reviewed by Preserved Smith
=Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 280w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p191 Mr 18 ’20 100w
=JOHNSON, WILLIS FLETCHER.= History of Cuba. 5v il $45 B. F. Buck & co., inc., 156 5th av., N.Y. 972.91
20–10078
“Taking San Salvador as his point of departure, the writer follows the narrative of the discoverer, in which he traces his course from one island to another, and by this means identifies the place of landing of Columbus on the shores of Cuba. Thus is begun the history of the island. With the fourth chapter, Dr Johnson abandons travel for science, and enters upon geological and topographical history of the great island. Dr Johnson traces the history of the early years of Spanish settlement in Cuba, with great particularity down to the close of the sixteenth century.... Subsequent passages relate the military operations of an expedition under Admiral Vernon and the British plans for the conquest of Spanish America, the attack upon Havana and its capture; and finally, the negotiations which resulted in the return of the island to Spain. The story follows of the American war for independence and the rise of the Republic of the United States and its influence upon Cuban affairs.... The fifth and final volume of the series is concerned with the natural resources of Cuba today. This volume has been compiled under the auspices of the Cuban department of agriculture, commerce and labor.”—Boston Transcript
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“There seems to be no feature in Cuban history and character left untouched in this scholarly and comprehensive presentation of a subject until now neglected.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1750w
“It is on the whole well proportioned. If this history were condensed into a single volume it might serve a useful purpose. Its faults would appear less glaring. But for the general reader it is too long and costly, and as an accurately conceived and scholarly account of Cuba it is simply a waste of good paper such as the trade at this moment can ill afford.” C. H. Haring
− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 O 30 ’20 1550w
“Dr Johnson has looked at the facts, it may be said, from a Cuban point of view, and at the same time with a sense of proportion that is continental and international. He has produced not merely a manifesto of Cuban patriotism, nor on the other hand, a coldly detached compilation of facts, but a true national record. His work is not only a valuable archive or work of reference, but also a treatise of vital interest and importance to the people of this country.”
+ =No Am= 212:279 Ag ’20 2800w
“A well-written history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:446 O ’20 20w
=JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON.= Mrs Warren’s daughter; a story of the woman’s movement. *$2 Macmillan
20–7923
“In his first novel, ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ Sir Harry Johnston undertook to show us the second generation, the descendants of Walter Gay and Florence Dombey. Now he comes forward with ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter,’ taking up the history of Vivie Warren and of her mother at the point where George Bernard Shaw left it. When the novel begins, Vivie and her friend Honoria Fraser compose the firm of ‘Fraser & Warren, consultant actuaries and accountants.’ They are doing very well, but find themselves perpetually hampered by the regulations and laws forbidding women admission to various professions. In a spirit of revolt against these man-made restrictions, Vivie decides to cut her hair, don masculine apparel and become David Vavasour Williams.... In 1910 she finally drops Mr David Vavasour Williams and begins to take an extremely active part in the militant suffragist movement.... Mrs Warren had taken up her residence in Brussels, and that was how it came about that when Vivie was released from prison during the first days of the world war she went straight to Belgium to join her mother. The description of the experiences of these two women especially during the months of von Bissing’s ‘terror’ is very interesting and well done.”—N Y Times
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“Whimsical, entertaining and clever. Readers who liked ‘The Gay Dombeys’ will like this.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
“The incidents of the masculine masquerade partake more or less of the nature of a fairy tale, but even though they are not credible, they are delightful in their humor and their vigorous views of passing phases of this world of English art, science and society. Nothing human is alien to Sir Harry Johnston.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 My 29 ’20 2100w
“The single compelling section of the book is the middle one, in which the effects of the Pankhurst leadership are given with circumstantiality; but this is brief, and the rest falls away from it both in matter and tone. It seems curious that Sir Harry could have found so rich a pocket of ore and not have tried to mine it to the rock. ‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ is a too-simple sketch of a notable subject, and it is nothing more.” C. M. R.
− + =Freeman= 1:597 S 1 ’20 280w
+ − =Lit D= p97 O 9 ’20 1700w
“In ‘The Gay-Dombeys’ there was the high gusto and boyish delight of a gifted man’s successful experiment in a new form of activity. His second book is notably less fresh and engaging.”
+ − =Nation= 110:950 Je 26 ’20 550w
“Those who knew the zoological, geographical, anthropological, and other learned London societies some thirty or forty years ago will read these books with a double interest, for they will find that Sir Harry’s characters resuscitate past chapters in the history of scientific life in London. The author, it is needless to say, uses a light and nimble pen to draw word-pictures seen from a highly individualistic Harry Johnstonian angle.”
+ =Nature= 106:339 N 11 ’20 360w
“Judged as a work of art the book fails. The structure is stumbling and plodding: the style second-rate journalism. The characterization, with the admirable exception of the redoubtable Mrs Warren herself (she shows Sir Harry’s loving study of Dickens), is singularly superficial and conventional.” S. C. C.
− + =New Repub= 23:157 Je 30 ’20 800w
“Unfortunately, it puts not its best but its worst foot foremost, the poorest part of it being the first, in which occurs Vivie’s preposterous masquerade. It is not until the last third of the book and its sixteenth chapter are reached that the novel really begins to be distinctly interesting. This sixteenth chapter is headed ‘Brussels and the war: 1914.’”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:280 My 30 ’20 1200w
“The interest is of a queer nature, but it certainly exists.”
+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 140w
“‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ by contrast [with ‘The Gay-Dombeys’] is a laborious invention.” H. W. Boynton
− =Review= 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“We move in an atmosphere of sentimental romance, by no means disagreeable, but miles apart from everything which we associate with the initials G. B. S.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:456 My 15 ’20 450w
“On many matters of social interest he is fluent and furious, and those who like this style of thing will doubtless be thrilled. We, unfortunately, were unable to find anything like so many nice and amusing people here as there were in ‘The Gay-Dombeys,’ and must absolutely refuse to swallow Miss Warren.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 580w
=JOHNSTON, MARY.= Sweet Rocket. *$1.65 (4c) Harper
20–18509
The strain of mysticism revealed in Miss Johnston’s previous novel is very evident in this book. Of story in the conventional sense there is none. Richard Linden has returned to Sweet Rocket, the home of his family before the war. Richard is blind, and Marget Land, who had been born on the place as the overseer’s daughter, acts as his secretary. There is a curious bond of unity between the two which has no relation to earthly love and both are bound to Sweet Rocket by deep spiritual ties. The spirit of the place is such that all who come to it, friends or strangers, fall under its spell. There are beautiful descriptions of the country alternating with discussions of a psychic and spiritual nature.
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Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Bookm= 52:342 Ja ’21 470w
“Miss Johnston has revealed with keen perception the idea of individual growth and expansion toward Godhood, and the setting of her book is of idyllic beauty.” F. M. W.
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 4 ’20 520w
“Though some of Miss Johnston’s readers may be pleased that ‘Sweet Rocket’ is written in the same mystical vein and in furtherance of the same spiritual quest as ‘Foes’ and ‘Michael Forth,’ the majority will, at this third blow, relinquish with regrets the hope that she may ever again give us a novel in the manner of ‘To have and to hold.’”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 270w
=N Y Times= p21 N 21 ’20 400w
“It is not enough to be sensitive to the beautiful—one must have a sense of relativity, of proportion. Miss Johnston here makes a too conscious effort at poetic expression.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 10 ’20 250w
=JOHNSTON, ROBERT MATTESON.= First reflections on the campaign of 1918. *$1.50 (11c) Holt 940.373
20–5656
The author, who was attached to the general staff at General Pershing’s headquarters in France for twelve months, where he had every opportunity of observing the working of our war machine, offers his reflections as a “constructive criticism of our combat army.” He points out the flaws, due to our neglect of national preparedness, and how they can be avoided in the future. As he foresees that the competition of highly organized industrial communities, for markets and for raw material, is about to produce a series of wars over the whole surface of the globe, he pleads for the highest possible efficiency and combination of naval and military power. Contents: The U.S. army before the war; Leavenworth; The conduct of war; The rank and file; The regular officers; The national army officer; The National guard officer; The general staff; General Pershing; Tactics; The replacement system; Our army of the future.
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=Booklist= 16:300 Je ’20
=N Y Times= p27 O 10 ’20 400w
=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 50w
=JOHNSTON, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Mystery in the Ritsmore. il *$1.75 (3c) Little
20–10309
The murder of a beautiful girl in the hotel apartment of a newly married couple takes place on the third day of their honeymoon. A young guest at the hotel, Anne Blair, is drawn into the case by her love of excitement. The mystery is apparently quickly solved by the police, and they let the matter drop. But Anne is not convinced it is so simple and, aided by John Rush, secretary to the millionaire, Harrison Hardy, keeps up independent investigations of her own. Her quest leads her into a maze of clues, which broaden out into a plot of international significance, in which great sums of money are involved. Although the plotters are clever, Anne Blair proves cleverer in the end, when she foils their schemes.
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+ =Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“It is an excellent mystery tale. As is often true of detective stories, the finale is something of a disappointment.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 180w
“‘The mystery in the Ritsmore’ is an entertaining, ingenious and well-told yarn, which holds its secret up to the very end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 350w
“The story is episodical, but is well enough knit to interest.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 130w
=JONES, ELIAS HENRY.= Road to En-Dor. il $2 (2c) Lane 940.47
20–7946
This book, “being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom,” (Sub-title), is incidentally an exposé of spiritualism. The author, in conjunction with a brother officer and prisoner, Lieutenant Hill, began his experiments in spiritualism in good faith, but soon saw a possibility of escape through skillful manipulations. They came to the conclusion that spiritualism has a most deplorable effect even on people whose mental powers one admires, causing them to lose hold of the criteria of sane conclusions. “The messages we received from ‘the world beyond’ and ‘from other minds in this sphere’ were in every case, and from beginning to end, of our own invention.” Yet through them it was possible “to convert intelligent, scientific, and otherwise highly educated men to spiritualism, by means of the arts and methods employed by ‘mediums’ in general.” Although the incidents described in the book may seem preposterous, the author vows for their truthfulness. The book is illustrated by Lieutenant Hill and has a postscript and appendices.
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“To have made such an exposure at the present time is to have done a real and lasting service.”
+ =Ath= p195 F 6 ’20 100w
“Interesting as a war narrative, though told somewhat too much in detail. Also interesting propaganda for anti-spiritualists.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:308 Je ’20
“The book abounds in excellent and vigorous writing.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 430w
“The reader who begins ‘The road to En-Dor’ after dinner will probably be found at one o’clock in the morning still reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:111 Ja 24 ’20 1700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 380w
=JONES, SIR HENRY.= Principles of citizenship. *$1.25 Macmillan 320
20–12226
“This little book is intended for the use of such men as attended the Y. M. C. A. lectures in the British army abroad. The purpose is to give a general view of the duties and rights of citizens; and the language is, therefore, simple and expressive. An initial distinction is drawn between two conceptions of the state. The non-moral idea is said to be German. Suggestions are then made as to the problem of individuality which are held to refute the pacifist.”—Int J Ethics
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“The author of this book is amiable and high-minded, but seems out of place in the stern modern world, a belated Victorian.” B. R.
− + =Ath= p270 My 2 ’19 530w
=Int J Ethics= 30:115 O ’19 160w
“Must irritate any reader who really looks for some kind of serious thought in Great Britain. Sir Henry Jones might quite decently have left Hegel in his grave instead of serving him up to the Y. M. C. A. by way of education for the British army. He ingeniously combines several fallacies in one. In the first place, what he calls the state is really the nation. In the second place, the ‘good life’ is no more the object of one nation than another, and when a league of nations is in being the ‘good life’ might be supposed to have an international flavour about it. In the third place, no nation is worth its salt if the forces of improvement do not originate with individuals but derive their origin and impulse from politicians and bureaucrats.”
− =Sat R= 127:507 My 24 ’19 300w
“Sir Henry Jones has a firm grasp of moral principles, sadly neglected or defied by many people nowadays, and his exposition of his argument is singularly clear.”
+ =Spec= 124:355 Mr 13 ’20 200w
=JONES, HENRY ARTHUR.= Patriotism and popular education. *$4 Dutton 370
20–10632
“‘Patriotism and popular education; with some thoughts upon English work and English play, our evening amusements, Shakespeare and the condition of our theatres, slang, children of the stage, the training of actors, English politics before the war, national training for national defence, war and design in nature, the league of nations, the future world policy of America, capital and labour, religion, reconstruction, the great commandments, social prophets and social prophecy, competition and co-operation, the biologist and the social reformer, hand labour and brain labour, school teachers and rag-pickers, internationalism, and many other interesting matters, in a letter to the Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, president of the board of education.’ (Sub-title) The eminent playwright fully describes his book on the title-page, and it remains only to add that he pleads for practical education which would turn out good carpenters and good citizens, and has no patience with modern ideas that, as he considers, have put the majority of working-men ‘in open rebellion against the plainest economic laws.’”—Ath
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=Ath= p283 My 2 ’19 170w
− =Ath= p589 Jl 11 ’19 1100w
“Seems rather an outburst of annoyance than a constructively thought out criticism.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:94 D ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:83 F ’20 40w
“As an experienced writer he can express himself vigorously in from two to a dozen ways, can produce many interesting, many wise, many suggestive, many amusing, and many provoking paragraphs. But if one is looking for help in dealing with either educational problems or the problems of state, he will find many smaller books much more helpful.”
+ =Nation= 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 190w
“Suggestive as are Mr Jones’s opinions and arguments, stimulating as they are and thought-provoking, they are calculated for the meridian of Greenwich and not for that of Washington—which may make them a little less useful to us, although none the less entertaining.”
+ − =N Y Times= 24:389 Ag 3 ’19 2100w
“Throughout the book there are passages that deserve a praise that cannot be accorded to the whole as a statement of first principles or as a treatise upon education.”
+ − =No Am= 212:428 S ’20 1850w
“He can not write either lifelessly or tediously. He can not write foolishly, either; and, although you may now and again disagree with him, you will hardly find him repellently unsympathetic. On the other hand, you may be apt to feel, he does not leave you much of anywhere.”
+ − =Review= 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 500w
+ =St Louis= 18:56 Ap ’20 40w
“Mr Jones is in the mood of a man who has had a bad piece of work palmed off on him and writes an indignant letter to the Times about it. His book is a whole collection of indignant letters. The truth is that Mr Jones has not thought out his arraignment.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 1100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Ap 17 ’19 540w
=JONES, HERBERT.= Well of being. *$1.50 Lane 821
20–7866
A book of poems composed of two parts, the first a series of love sonnets, the second, “O mistress mine!” a long narrative poem telling a story of youth and love in Vienna in the old light-hearted days of that city.
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Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 52:63 S ’20 30w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 200w
“Mr Jones writes love sonnets with ease and skill; sometimes with a truly graceful aptness. Sometimes he drops to what is merely trifling, or strikes a false note. The same may be said of the long poem which fills the rest of the book.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w
=JONES, JOSHUA HENRY, jr.= Heart of the world. *$1.25 Stratford co. 811
19–16027
The title poem was inspired by the speech of President Wilson in Boston on his first return from Europe in 1919. Among the other titles are: The pine tree; The parting; With you away; In summer twilight; Easter chimes; They’ve lynched a man in Dixie; Gone west; The universe; A southern love song; The potter and his ware.
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“Fortunately we are not compelled to judge Mr Jones poetically by such a piece [the title poem]. With many another subject he is happier in both conception and execution. He has a broad range of interest and sympathies; has a discerning eye for nature and a warm emotion for simple experiences and personal associations.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 Ja 31 ’20 550w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Service of love in war time. *$2.50 Macmillan 940.47
20–10376
“Rufus Jones’s ‘A service of love in war time’ is, as he says, ‘something more than the story of an impressive piece of relief work; it is the interpretation of a way of life.’ It is the story of the Quakers who found opportunity to express their pacifist convictions in reconstruction service in France. Incidentally it is a record of our War department’s methods in dealing with the conscientious objectors. Indeed it is this record of the religious objectors in the draft camps which is the most vivid part of Rufus Jones’s book—for he was the chief representative of the Quakers in long and painful negotiations with the military authorities. His account is a necessary corollary to Captain Kellogg’s book on the conscientious objector.”—Nation
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“We commend this book to anyone who desires to read a story of singular and effective devotion and courage.”
+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 200w
=Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
+ =Nation= 111:277 S 4 ’20 280w
“Can be recommended as an earnest, straightforward, well-detailed account of a great work.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 13 ’21 170w
“It is easier to sigh for the book which this might have been than to criticize Mr Jones’s book for what it is. I could wish less emphasis on the inner experience and more details as to the outward work; less emphasis on individual conscience and more on the general lessons to be drawn from great experiences corporately shared. I could wish, too, for a less sentimental title.” E: E. Hunt
+ − =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 380w
“The account [of the conscientious objectors] is instructive in many ways; it is free from any disposition to exaggerate such abuses of authority as occurred, and shows on the author’s part an admirable perception of the intricacy of the various interests and principles at stake. Yet we cannot but regret that he did not treat his part of his story more summarily.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p690 O 28 ’20 1250w
=JONES, RUFUS MATTHEW.= Story of George Fox. *$1.50 Macmillan
19–1571
“A volume in the series of ‘Great leaders’ lives.’ It is the story of a hero who for more than two hundred years has figured in histories and religious works, but whose personality has never been clearly outlined in popular literature. In this instance, at least, his biographer has succeeded in giving his subject a fair degree of definition.”—R of Rs
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“Good concrete example of the ideals of the Friends, well written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:202 Mr ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 3 ’20 180w
“Narrow as is its scope and unpretentious the style of this short biography written for young people, it portrays the founder of the Society of Friends with masterly art.”
+ =Nation= 110:269 F 28 ’20 400w
“A compact and well-written volume.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
=JONES, SUSAN CARLETON (S. CARLETON, pseud.).= La Chance mine mystery. il *$1.75 (2c) Little
Nicky Stretton, in the midst of his rough life as a miner, holds the vision of the wonderful “dream girl” who will some day come into his life. At the end of a day of discouragement, he comes home to find her, as beautiful as he had pictured her, seated by his fireplace. But it must not be supposed that they at once settle down to a life of sweet domesticity. On the contrary there are grave obstacles in the way. In the first place it appears that she is engaged to Nicky’s partner, and secondly, there is some mystery about her identity and her past which project an enemy into her present. Nicky is a bit slow about grasping the situation, but when he and the enemy finally come to grips, there is plenty of excitement and a startling number of hairbreadth escapes before his “dream girl” becomes his in reality.
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“The tale is well told, skilfully setting forth a highly improbable action without letting us acknowledge to ourselves, while it is going on, that it is absurd.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 170w
“This is a novel of excitement in which neither characters nor setting are neglected for the sake of mere plot.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 8 ’20 520w
“Full of tender, whimsical sentiment that will make its appeal to men and women alike.”
+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 50w
“For plot and swift action ‘The La Chance mine mystery,’ with its charming love romance, in the setting of frozen forests, with their howling wolf packs, is a story of the great out-of-doors that will satisfy the most blasé reader.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:230 My 2 ’20 300w
Reviewed by Joseph Mosher
=Pub W= 97:997 Mr 20 ’20 250w
=JONESCU, TAKE.= Some personal impressions. il *$3 (6¼c) Stokes 923
20–3876
The author of this volume was former prime minister of Roumania. Of this English version Viscount Bryce writes in the introduction: “the descriptions it contains are for the most part vigorous sketches rather than portraits. Some, however, may be called vignettes, more or less finished drawings, each consisting of few lines, but those lines sharply and firmly drawn. Intermingled with this score of personal sketches there are also a few brief essays or articles which set before us particular scenes, little fragments of history in which the author bore a part, all relating to the persons who either figured in the war, or were concerned with the intrigues from which it sprang.” Contents: Monsieur Poincaré; Prince Lichnowsky; Count Berchtold; The marquis Pallavicini; Count Goluchowsky; August 2, 1914; Kiderlen-Waechter; Count Aehrenthal; Count Czernin; Count Mensdorff; England’s antipathy to war; The responsibility for the war; King Charles of Roumania; Herr Riedl; Count Szeczen; Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace; Baron Banffy; Roumanian policy; Tragedy; Count Tisza; Talaat Pasha; Prince von Bülow; Taticheff; France and the Teuton; A cousin of Tisza; New Italy; Why four last Germans; Eleutherios Venizelos; The kaiser.
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“Some light is thrown on the events immediately preceding the war, and although the book is almost diplomatically polite, we see once more of what poor quality these official great men usually are.”
+ =Ath= p1387 D 19 ’19 50w
+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
=Dial= 68:665 My ’20 50w
+ =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 80w
“Through all the back-stage chat which a diplomat loves we catch sharp flashes which throw into new relief many of the great events connected with the war.” H. F. Armstrong
+ =Nation= 110:658 My 15 ’20 520w
+ =R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Je 8 ’20 400w
“The book, being what it is, naturally does not contain or profess to contain the matured contribution to the history of the last decades which we hope some day to have from his pen; but none the less it will be useful to many and can be read with pleasure by all.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p704 D 4 ’19 1300w
=JOSEPH, MRS HELEN (HAIMAN).= Book of marionettes. il *$5 Huebsch 792
20–26461
“The puppet show has flourished among many races and in different ages; it is primarily an outgrowth of the taste of the common people, though it has also entranced courts and kings. The range of interest that it has evoked is well set forth in this book, which also goes into the methods of constructing the puppets and the manner of operating them.”—Outlook
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“The author is evidently so in love with her subject that her style assumes something of the charm and lightness of the puppets themselves.”
+ =Booklist= 16:268 My ’20
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:347 D ’20 60w
“Helen Haiman Joseph and B. W. Huebsch have made their ‘Book of marionettes’ a treasure and a keepsake for children of all ages.” Maurice Browne
+ =Freeman= 2:18 S 15 ’20 1600w
“The history and aspect of the puppets are both charmingly recorded by Mrs Joseph in her ‘Book of marionettes.’ She writes with a fantastic, airy touch that suits her subject, and her illustrations are chosen with admirable erudition and taste.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 110:597 My 1 ’20 1300w
“Her book is a labor of love by an amateur who has the necessary affection for her subject, but who does not pretend to the indispensable erudition.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 4 ’20 2500w
“Amusing and whimsical book.”
+ =Outlook= 125:28 My 5 ’20 330w
“As the first book in English on an important and neglected subject, it is surprisingly good and doubly welcome.”
+ =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:256 Jl ’20 310w
=JUDSON, CLARA (INGRAM) (MRS JAMES MCINTOSH JUDSON).= Junior cook book. $1.25 Barse & Hopkins 641.5
20–10578
The book teaches children of twelve, or under, to cook good, plain, nourishing food without any other help than the directions given. Special attention is given to vegetables and inexpensive dishes that have meat value. It is the author’s opinion that the boy as well as the girl ought to learn how to cook as a part of good citizenship. Every other page of the book is left blank for additional recipes and the last pages are devoted to suggested menus for breakfast, luncheon and dinner. The contents are divided into: Meats and dishes that have food value of meat; Vegetables; Breads, muffins, wafers and cookies; Salads and salad dressings; Desserts; Sandwiches; Jams and conserves; Good things to drink; Breakfast food; Confections.
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“The selection of recipes is a sensible one for a general cook book.”
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 40w
=JUDSON, JEANNE.= Stars incline. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2647
Upon the death of her mother Ruth Mayfield is sent to New York city to live with an aunt whom she has never seen, who is a celebrated, emotional actress, and who has the unique distinction of having divorced three husbands. Ruth in her early teens, dabbled below the surface of mysterious, occult things; to her amazement she discovers an actively evil hypnotic influence among her aunt’s servants. George, the powerfully built, red-eyed Hindu, not only very nearly kills Gloria Mayfield’s first husband by his mystic power of thought and faith, but also comes close to wrecking Gloria’s future. Ruth, however, quietly intervenes, and after much anxiety, has the happiness of seeing Percy Pendragon, Gloria’s first husband, miraculously restored to health; Gloria restored to Percy, and George’s sinister power utterly broken. Ruth’s own love affair together with her frustrated ambition to be a great artist, offset the mystic atmosphere that hangs over Gloria and her household.
=Booklist= 16:244 Ap ’20
“An amusing improbable tale, with a quasi-psychic twist that should create for it a furor among the many followers of the various cults now in vogue.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 28 ’20 60w
=JUTA, RÉNÉ.= Cape Currey (Eng title, Tavern). *$1.75 (3c) Holt
20–13976
The story transpires in Cape Town, around 1820, and involves much political history in the telling. It contains the mysterious figure of Surgeon-Major James Barry, and a mysterious garden to whose secret gate Barry has a key. A beautiful Dutch girl of the colony, Aletta, discovers the garden and its captive, an extraordinarily beautiful young man. To break through the wall is now the one desire of both. At the moment of success, when they are about to rush into each other’s arms, a pistol shot from the ever watchful slave, Majuba, kills the young man, and Barry, arriving opportunely upon the scene, tells Aletta that his son (rather her son, for Barry turns out to be a woman) was a leper.
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“To offer criticism of such a clever and at the same time, such an original book, is difficult, yet one wishes that Réné Juta’s narrative was a trifle more coherent, in its first chapters at least. Nevertheless, ‘Cape Currey’ is an extraordinarily well written book.” G. M. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 460w
“It is evident that she knows its history so well that she can write of life there a hundred years ago with as sure a touch and as vivid a pen as if she were writing about her own garden. There are still greater skill and knowledge and noteworthy insight in the portraying of the characters.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 650w
=Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 40w
“The style of the performance is a little overelaborate, somewhat early Hewlettian in manner, but with a flavor of its own.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w
“This story of Cape Town a hundred years ago has sufficient merit to make us wish that it had still more. The language and spirit of a bygone day are sometimes effectively suggested. But we are repelled by the general crudeness of style, and deficiencies in construction.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:122 Ag 7 ’20 100w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 200w
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=KAHN, OTTO HERMANN.= Our economic and other problems. *$4 (3½c) Doran 304
20–11152
A series of papers embodying a financier’s point of view on business and economics, war and foreign relations, and art. The book opens with an address on Edward Henry Harriman, characterized as the last figure of an epoch, delivered before the Finance Forum in New York, January 25, 1911. Among the papers on business and economics are: Strangling the railroads; Government ownership of railroads; High finance; The menace of paternalism; France; When the tide turned; Great Britain, and America and the League of nations are among the subjects considered under war and foreign relations, and there are three papers on art: Some observations on art in America; An experiment in popular priced opera; Art and the people.
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=Am Econ R= 10:810 D ’20 30w
=Booklist= 17:13 O ’20
“The chapter on the railroads will be of less interest, though of great importance in itself, than that on labour and capital.”
+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 140w
“The book will prove interesting and profitable to all seeking instruction from a source at once modest and authoritative. Mr Kahn is an actor in international finance as well as a writer upon it, and his book has the quality which results from doing things rather than thinking about doing them.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ag 29 ’20 250w
“In general spirit and point-of-view, Mr Kahn’s book may be characterized as soundly optimistic. It is the expression of a mind neither ‘stand-pat’ nor ‘radical.’ Upon Mr Kahn’s mastery of the special topics with which he deals there is no need to enlarge.”
+ =No Am= 212:426 S ’20 1350w
“On matters of business and finance Mr Kahn speaks with knowledge that is both practical and complete. The chapters on taxation are particularly good.”
+ =Review= 3:154 Ag 18 ’20 300w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 15 ’20 420w
=KALPASCHNIKOFF, ANDREW.= Prisoner of Trotsky’s. *$2.50 (3c) Doubleday 947
20–14311
The book has a foreword by David R. Francis, formerly American ambassador to Russia, in which he describes the author as a member of the American Red cross mission to Rumania with the incidents leading to his arrest and his five-months’ imprisonment in the fortress of St Peter and St Paul. The author declines going into the causes that led to the general breakdown of Russia, and claims to confine himself strictly to what he himself has undergone as a prisoner of the bolshevist régime. Many of his accounts, however, are not based on personal experience but on the stories of “eye-witnesses.” He feels nothing but horror for bolshevism which he describes as a revolutionary sickness through which Russia is passing and happily already approaching the convalescent stage. He pins his faith on Russian patriotism and religion and heralds the orthodox church as the deliverer.
=Booklist= 17:142 Ja ’21
Reviewed by W: Hard
* =New Repub= 24:75 S 15 ’20 1650w
“The value of this volume, however, lies ... in the analysis—as a rule without self-consciousness or effort—of the Russian character as affected by the revolution and of the effect of the Russian character and temperament on the revolution.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 2050w
“One’s general notion that Russia is the home of real-life melodrama appears to be justified by most that one reads about that country. It is, in fact, somewhat difficult at times to realize that Mr Kalpaschnikoff’s narrative is not simply lurid fiction. But the manifest sincerity and truthfulness of the author rapidly dispel any such illusion.”
+ =No Am= 212:431 S ’20 750w
“Colonel Kalpaschnikoff’s book strikes an entirely new note. In the first place, it is a narrative of the sort of personal experience from which few men have come out alive, and, in the second, it is as exciting as a sensational novel.” F. H. Potter
+ =Outlook= 125:646 Ag 11 ’20 1250w
=KANE, ROBERT.= Worth. *$2.25 Longmans 170
“In these thoughtful addresses, some of which were delivered in the Church of Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, Strand, the author at first deals with general principles, and discusses true and false standards of worth. He then treats of personality, intellectual excellence, the evolution of the soul, the worth of patriotism, and other topics.”—Ath
=Ath= p352 Mr 12 ’20 60w
“The book is replete with sound logic, sterling ideals and old-fashioned common sense; there are so many passages worth remembering and referring to, that it is to be regretted that an index has been omitted.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:825 S ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p159 Mr 4 ’20 70w
=KARSNER, DAVID.= Debs: his authorized life and letters from Woodstock prison to Atlanta. il *$1.50 (2c) Boni & Liveright
20–978
For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
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“Journalistic and based chiefly on interviews, but interesting as giving glimpses of the appealing personality of the man.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21
“While the book is entirely socialistic propaganda, it serves a useful purpose in giving a full delineation, from the Socialist point of view, of the make-up of this man, his ideas and the things for which he stands. For this reason, it is a useful contribution to the literature of the day.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:836 S ’20 160w
“Karsner’s memorabilia may some day prove ironically to be a contribution to the literature of American patriotism.”
+ =Dial= 68:402 Mr ’20 80w
“With a modesty becoming the true biographer, Mr Karsner has permitted Debs to speak for himself and to show us, through his letters and addresses, that a man may grow to maturity without permitting the cowardices and compromises of life to corrupt him.” Harry Salpeter
+ =Nation= 110:520 Ap 17 ’20 550w
“David Karsner, a true hero worshipper, has made a loving portrait, which, although idealized in many respects, is far from imaginary and is almost a work of art.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ − =Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 650w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 60w
“Mr Karsner tells a good story, apparently based on conversations he has had with Debs. His work is not critical, nor does he use the historical sources to the extent that he might under different circumstances. Of its own kind,—the quickly written journalistic biography founded chiefly on the interview—this life of Debs is excellent.” W. L. C.
+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 460w
“Not needed by all small libraries.”
+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:123 Je ’20 50w
=KARTINI, raden adjeng.= Letters of a Javanese princess. *$4 Knopf
20–20025
The letters are translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and supplied with a foreword by Louis Couperus. The Javanese women are still condemned by tradition and custom to a secluded prison-life, against which Kartini fought from early childhood. She was the first Javanese feminist and her letters voice her ardent longing for freedom for herself and countrywomen, and testify to her achievements in that direction.
+ =Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
“The book is astonishingly fresh and fascinating. It should be given to the woman who rejoices in every sign of the liberation of the woman-soul from the bondage of tradition and masculine domination.” Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 1100w
“The first of these letters, written in the Dutch language to friends in Holland, breathe the modern spirit. They unfold the story of the writer and show forth the Javanese life and manners in a vivid manner.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 30 ’20 600w
“Perhaps the greatest thing in her favour is that, as much as the worship of the shibboleth was in her blood, she did not blindly supplant the shibboleth of native practices with the shibboleth of European practices. On account of her excessive handicaps, however, her grasp of expression is by no means unusual; and as a result, the book is more valuable historically than as a piece of literature.”
+ − =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 100w
“As a picture of life in a remote corner of the world, the letters have real value, apart from their undoubted human appeal. It is sometimes difficult however to escape the feeling that the writer of them had an eye to their ultimate public appearance, when she grasped the pen, which may account for occasional lapses into a somewhat didactic and self-conscious style.” L. B.
+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 230w
+ =Nation= 112:sup246 F 9 ’21 450w
“Kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in native culture, but her spirit is no more alien or fantastic than Susan B. Anthony’s. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one forgets this shortcoming in admiring her as one of humanity’s vanguard.” S. K. T.
+ =New Repub= 24:304 N 17 ’20 580w
=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her folks. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday
20–18511
Elizabeth Swift spends her fourteenth summer with her grandparents on Cape Cod. She is not used to country life and at first feels herself a trifle superior to it. But she makes friends with Peggy Farraday, who is also summering there, and gradually realizes she is having a splendid time, until at its end she thinks it is the finest summer she has ever spent. It is saddened a little by her beloved brother’s illness, but that comes out all right, too, as his romance with Ruth, Peggy’s sister, promises to do, thanks to Elizabeth’s manipulation.
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“Excellent style and vigorous characterization place these books rather above the level of the average ‘juvenile.’ They are proof of the fact that a book for children need not seem to have been written by one.”
+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w
“There is plenty to keep a girl interested in these volumes, which are excellent portrayals of present-day girlhood and its interests.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w
=KAY, BARBARA.= Elizabeth, her friends. (Elizabeth, her books) il *$1.75 Doubleday
20–18510
After her summer on Cape Cod, described in “Elizabeth, her folks,” Elizabeth comes back to New York to live in a brand new apartment. She and her chum Jean decide to keep a diary, and many of her hopes and aspirations are poured into it. She has a busy winter, for Buddy, her big brother, gets married to Ruth Farraday, her friend Peggy’s sister, and of course the wedding keeps her busy and excited. Then there is the mystery in Jean’s household in which she plays an important part. And she has good times with other friends, boys as well as girls, and learns many valuable lessons about friendliness and comradeship.
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+ =Dial= 69:548 N ’20 40w
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 50w
=KAYE-SMITH, SHEILA.= Tamarisk town. *$2.50 Dutton
20–7297
“Tamarisk town, vulgarly known as Marlingate, was a small Sussex fishing village in 1857 when the story opens. Monypenny determined to make of it a rival to Brighton. And as the years go by, passing the milestones of a new novel by Dickens or another masterpiece from the pen of Mrs Henry Wood, Marlingate gradually turns into Monypenny’s dream—a watering-place of marvellous beauty and refinement. Enter now a woman, Morgan Beckett. They are rivals, Morgan and Marlingate, for Monypenny’s love; there is a contest; Monypenny cannot bring himself to desert the town that he has created. Morgan, in a fit of despair, puts an end to her life, and he, all his love for the town now turned to bitterness, sets himself deliberately to destroy Marlingate.”—Ath
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“Miss Kaye-Smith has written an interesting novel in ‘Tamarisk town,’ creating a world that is not exactly realistic, but consistent with itself—an invention rather than a copy.”
+ =Ath= p832 Ag 29 ’19 180w
“Were Miss Kaye-Smith a painter, we should be inclined to say that we do not feel she has yet made up her mind which it is that she wishes most to paint—whether landscape or portraits. Why should she not be equally at home with both? What is her new novel ‘Tamarisk town’ but an attempt to see them in relation to each other? And yet, in retrospect, there is her town severely and even powerfully painted, and there are her portraits, on the same canvas, and yet so out of it, so separate that the onlooker’s attention is persistently divided—it flies between the two, and is captured by neither.” K. M.
− + =Ath= p881 S 12 ’19 1200w
“Will be appreciated by those who like good character analysis and atmosphere conveyed by careful detail.”
+ =Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 D 17 ’19 600w (Reprinted from Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19)
“Her novel is characteristic of her, but it is thoroughly original and a strongly emotional presentation of the human spirit which seems to be governed wholly by fate. When we have read its last page we feel that Edward Monypenny’s life could have varied at no moment and in no detail from the novelist’s presentation of it.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 1500w
“‘Tamarisk town’ deteriorates slowly like the town it describes; the author seems a little uncertain when she dips into sociology instead of confining herself to the natural processes of the soil.”
+ − =Dial= 69:320 S ’20 70w
“Sheila Kay-Smith’s place in English letters since ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads’ has been peculiar. She has been visualized as a sort of female Thomas Hardy, an ironist dealing with elementals, making no compromises with the romanticism of the day. Yet her new book ‘Tamarisk town’ merely deepens the impression that she is a romanticist at heart.... The book is a compact, well-rounded piece of work. It intimates a vastness that is never definitely asserted.” H. S. G.
+ =Freeman= 1:550 Ag 18 ’20 350w
“It is a book surcharged with a great emotion, a worthy successor to ‘Sussex gorse’ and ‘The four roads.’ ‘Tamarisk town’ is a genuine work of strength, a novel with a Hardian touch, a work that will vastly move the reader.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 750w
“The tale has something of the magic of style and of mood which belonged to Stevenson’s fragmentary ‘Weir of Hermiston.’ For me it has the glamour of true story-telling, the creative reality which is so dismally absent from most studies of fact.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:654 Je 23 ’20 700w
“‘Tamarisk town’ is an original and striking story, in which observation and local knowledge are happily united to very considerable imaginative power. Moreover, though the action is spread over nearly forty years, the sense of continuity is well maintained.”
+ =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 550w
=KEABLE, ROBERT.= Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton
20–15963
“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary. When the British government brought a great number of the natives of this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he described his work among them and their reactions to their new surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England, in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times
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“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:257 My ’20 300w
“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:86 F 8 ’20 320w
=KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE.= Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580
20–10564
Both from an aesthetic and a botanical point of view the little book describes the autumnal flora which, says the author, “is interesting in that it holds to the poles of life; it bears in its bosom the dying and the dead, at the same time that it welcomes youth, insistent, omnipresent youth, roystering up and down the highways and byways in the persons of the sunflowers, the goldenrods, and above all the asters.” Among the contents are: Descriptions of autumn flowers; Autumnal foliage; October days; The kindly fruits of the earth; Herbaceous plants with conspicuous fruits; Nuts; November; Wild flower sanctuaries. There is a list of genera and species; six color and numerous half-tone plates and an index of Latin and one of English names.
+ =Booklist= 17:17 O ’20
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 160w
=KEITH, ARTHUR BERRIEDALE.= Belgian Congo and the Berlin act. *$6.75 Oxford 967
(Eng ed 19–12919)
“This work is concerned chiefly with the political history of the Congo and with an analysis of the international compact which regulates the government of the Free state. The work is elaborately annotated, and the Berlin act and other state papers of importance are reprinted in the appendix.”—Dial
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=Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 50w
=Dial= 67:386 N 1 ’19 50w
“Professor Keith’s history of the Belgian Congo is judicious, exhaustive, authoritative. Completed in September 1918, it necessarily wants sureness of touch in dealing with the present outlook, but a later edition will be able to supply an air of greater finality. An appendix comprises all relevant state documents. It would be an advantage if a map were added. The book is a carefully written and well-balanced history.” G. B. Hurst
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:290 Ap ’20 950w
Reviewed by W. E. B. DuBois
+ =Nation= 111:351 S 25 ’20 550w
“We need hardly say that Professor Keith’s history of the Congo state is exact and scholarly.”
+ =Spec= 122:833 Je 28 ’19 1350w
“It must be said, however, for Dr Keith that, although his preface is dated September, 1918, he has written about the future of Central Africa from a point of view that is already obsolete.... Dr Keith, in his strong condemnation of the abuses of King Leopold’s autocratic rule, has not failed to do full justice to that monarch’s extraordinary energy and strength of will, versatile capacity for affairs, and financial skill.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p371 Jl 10 ’19 1550w
=KEITH, ERIC A.= My escape from Germany. *$1.76 (2c) Century 940.47
20–2039
Mr Keith was an English business man living at Neuss, a town on the left bank of the Rhine, when the war broke out, and was promptly interned in the prison camp at Ruhleben. The book is an account of his three attempts to escape, once alone and twice with companions, of which the third was successful. This American edition of the book contains much matter which had to be omitted from the earlier English edition, printed while the war was still on. It contains a map of the route taken in the last successful attempt and the narrative is a plain statement of facts without any attempt at sensational trimmings.
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“Vigorously written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:275 My ’20
“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
+ =Review= 2:632 Je 16 ’20 440w
“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 N 28 ’18 70w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper
20–1213
Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact. But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.
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“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
“The story is improbable and the characters overdrawn, but the work is written in an entertaining vein.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 130w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Efficiency Edgar. il *$1.25 (6½c) Harper
20–7299
They called him Efficiency Edgar in the office in a derisive way, but then—had he not more than doubled his salary in two years? He was determined to order his life with efficiency. He decided that it was an efficiency measure to get married. He conducted his courtship as a sales campaign employing the “follow-up system” and the “intensive cultivation of prospects.” Mary thought it was lovely and signed the contract. Next came housekeeping by strict schedule which worked to perfection including Mary’s feigned sprained ankle—result a cook and exit schedule. It was reserved to Edgar Junior to prove to his efficient parent that “a baby isn’t a machine with gears and cranks and pulleys. A baby is a kid.”
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=Booklist= 17:34 O ’20
“One is inclined to wonder if, apart from Mr Kelland’s reputation as a short story writer, this particular tale would have had such wide appeal. There have been so many similar stories and, even possessed of willing mind, much of the material seems dull and hackneyed. Only in the courtship chapter have we a ghost of freshness.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 150w
“Clarence Budington Kelland has very cleverly ridiculed the overdoing of the efficiency idea.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 120w
=KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON.= Youth challenges. *$1.75 (1½c) Harper
20–18251
“Bonbright Foote, Incorporated” had gone through six generations without balking and with family tradition and business tradition fossilizing side by side. But Bonbright Foote VII balked. The result of the former was a family fortune of five millions, of the latter a disowned son cast off penniless. But as a further result Bonbright Foote, without the VII, applied to his father’s friend, the automobile king, for a job, donned overalls, began at the bottom of the ladder as a mechanic, climbed rung after rung and incidentally learned how an up-to-date business was conducted. After his father’s sudden death he takes hold of the fossilized concern of six generations, and makes it over on the five dollars a day minimum wage basis. On the day that the announcement of the plan averts a disastrous strike, Bonbright’s unhappy love affair also takes a turn. He not only finds his lost girl-wife, but finds that it is he and not another whom she loves.
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+ − =Booklist= 17:116 D ’20
“Not deep, not searching, the book because of its restraint and sincerity deserves respectful reading.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 100w
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 230w
=KELLEY, ETHEL MAY.= Outside inn. il *$1.75 Bobbs
20–7519
“Though it has the usual love story—three of them, in fact—and ends with the heroine clasped in the hero’s arms in the most orthodox manner, the real theme of the tale, that one upon which the interest of the novel depends, is not love but—food. We cannot at the moment recall any recent book in which there was so much and such good eating as there is in this tale of a tea room. The greatest desire of Nancy Martin’s life was to feed her fellow-mortals, men and women, on the proper kinds of nourishing foods containing the proper number of calories. Wherefore she opened the charming tea room which she called ‘Outside inn,’ engaged a French chef who was at once a genius and a true artist, secured several highly competent waitresses, and served excellent meals of the most abundant, varied and tempting food at a moderate, a very moderate price. Incidentally, Nancy Martin adopted a little girl and had an unhappy love affair before she found her real mate.’—N Y Times
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=Booklist= 16:313 Je ’20
+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 420w
“Altogether it is entertaining in its way, but it is to be hoped that American taste will sometime outgrow the romantic immaturity which can accept such a work as having any relation to life and character.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 420w
=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Bobbins of Belgium. il *$2 (6c) Funk 746
20–5590
“A book of Belgian lace, lace-workers, lace-schools and lace-villages.” (Sub-title) In the preface the author gives an account of the heroic efforts made during the war to continue the campaign, begun before the war, of restoring and developing the threatened lace industry. A brief survey of the history of lace-making is given in the introduction with a description of its peculiar milieu as a home industry and the more modern development into a craft through normal schools of lace-making. A separate chapter is devoted to each of the notable lace-villages. The differences between the various kinds of laces, needle laces and bobbin laces, are more fully described and their stitches illustrated, in the appendix. The contents are: Introduction; Turnhout; Courtrai; Thourout-Thielt-Wynghene; Grammont; Bruges; Kerxken; Erembodeghem; Opbrakel; Liedekerke; Herzele; Ghent; Zele. The book is profusely illustrated and there is an index.
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“Author is as much interested in the lace makers us in methods and designs, and writes a humanly interesting rather than technical book.”
+ =Booklist= 16:269 My ’20
“So far as the study of lace itself goes, the book is not too technical, and it furnishes a convenient handbook for those who would possess a passable knowledge of the principles of lace making.”
+ =Boston Transcript= My 19 ’20 230w
+ =Cath World= 112:398 D ’20 170w
Reviewed by Ruth Van Deman
+ =J Home Econ= 12:425 S ’20 340w
“The book contains much valuable technical detail, including many illustrations of lace patterns, but also gives vivid pictures of convent life and the sturdy Franciscan sisters as they pass on the secrets of their exquisite craft to their young charges.”
+ =Nation= 110:661 My 15 ’20 300w
+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w
“The illustrations will delight the lover of lace.” J. G.
+ =St Louis= 18:223 S ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 O 26 ’20 840w
=KELLOGG, CHARLOTTE (HOFFMAN) (MRS VERNON LYMAN KELLOGG).= Mercier; the fighting cardinal of Belgium. *$2 (4½c) Appleton
20–5667
The author is well known for her work with the Commission for relief in Belgium. Brand Whitlock has written a brief foreword for her book, parts of which have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Outlook and Delineator. There are ten chapters: The fighting cardinal; From boy to cardinal; Pastoral letters to an imprisoned people; The cardinal and Rome in war-time; The good shepherd; The cardinal versus the governor general; The cardinal at home; After the armistice—the visit to America; Trenchant sayings of the cardinal; Text of the Christmas pastoral, patriotism and endurance. A short bibliography of Cardinal Mercier’s works concludes the book.
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=Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
“The book is brilliantly written and is of the deepest interest.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 350w
“Much of it is fresh, vivid material; and all of it is presented in a delightful manner. The author has a literary gift that enables her to express herself gracefully and concisely; with taste and discrimination, she has also grasp of spiritual values.”
+ =Cath World= 111:687 Ag ’20 380w
“Mrs Kellogg’s little book, with its personal touches, forms a useful pendant to the Cardinal’s letters.” Muriel Harris
+ =Nation= 110:771 Je 5 ’20 160w
“An authentic and illuminating biography.”
+ =N Y Times= p11 O 17 ’20 70w
+ − =Outlook= 124:766 Ap 28 ’20 100w
“The book is brief. The material seems to have been hastily thrown together, with obvious paddings. To Catholic readers the book should especially appeal, for it is written with a spirit of devout reverence.” M. K. Reely
+ − =Pub W= 97:609 F 21 ’20 220w
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 120w
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Herbert Hoover; the man and his work. *$2 (2c) Appleton
20–8244
A biographical sketch written by a man who was closely associated with the relief of Belgium. A preliminary chapter, headed “Children,” describes Mr Hoover’s arrival in Warsaw. This is followed by the sketch of early years, with chapters on: The child and boy; The university; The young mining engineer; In China; London and the rest of the world; The war: The man and his first service. The remaining chapters are devoted to the relief of Belgium, the American food administration, and the American relief administration. Four appendices give extracts from Mr Hoover’s reports, writings and speeches.
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+ =Booklist= 16:344 Jl ’20
=Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 80w
“It is a magnificent picture of the most truly American figure of our time.”
+ =Ind= 102:373 Je 12 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 280w
=R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 70w
=KELLOGG, VERNON LYMAN.= Nuova; or, The new bee; with songs by Charlotte Kellogg. il *$2.25 (9c) Houghton
20–17603
A note to this “story for children of five to fifty” says: “Most of this that I have written about bees is true: what is not, does not pretend to be. Some of the true part sounds almost like a description of what human life might in some respects be, if certain social movements of today were followed out to their logical extreme. I suppose that in this likeness lies the moral of the book.” The part of the story that isn’t true and doesn’t pretend to be has to do with the revolt of Nuova against bee traditions. Nuova is a new bee, she grows tired of working and begins to ask the meaning of things in bee society. She takes an interest in the drones and even falls in love with one of them. She meets the fate of all nonconformists and is about to be driven from the hive to her death when a fortunate turn of chance spares her and brings a happy ending.
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+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
“Children will not get the satire, but they will find much useful information as well as much fancy in the text.”
+ =Lit D= p96 D 4 ’20 60w
“There are no danger signs to warn the child reader when he is following fancy away from the true path. Nor will its failure as a child’s book insure its success with the grown-ups.” M. H. B. Mussey
− =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 180w
“Those who know Mr Kellogg’s other books and like them, will like this. It will lure many to thinking about the bees who never cared for nature lore before.” Robert Hunting
+ =Pub W= 98:1201 O 16 ’20 250w
“Younger readers—indeed the very youngest—who read this book will be less concerned with the fact that the author’s bee-lore is absolutely authentic than with the realization that he knows how to make a true story more entertaining than the average fairy tale.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 18 ’20 120w
=KELLY, FRED CHARTERS.= Human nature in business; how to capitalize your everyday habits and characteristics. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
A20–714
“This book contains articles which excited a good deal of interest when first they appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals. In them the author tells ‘how to capitalize your every-day habits and characteristics.”—Survey
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“Interesting but rather obvious.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:265 My ’20
“This book which at least is diverting and suggestive, is replete with incidents of one kind or another illustrating the unconscious elements of conduct.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 260w
“Apart from their original purpose, the studies are interesting as sidelights upon crowd psychology.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 44:291 My 22 ’20 60w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 30w
=KELLY, HOWARD ATWOOD, and BURRAGE, WALTER LINCOLN.= American medical biographies. $15 Norman, Remington co. 926
20–14756
To a certain extent this work is a revision of Dr Kelly’s “Cyclopedia of American medical biography,” published in 1912. He says in the preface: “Dr Walter L. Burrage and I have worked for several years to produce the present volume, deleting from the former book fifty-one biographies not coming up to our standard, replacing with new biographies sixty-two others, revising and correcting from original sources nearly all, and adding 815 new ones, besides those that have replaced the old ones. Thus our book contains 1948 biographies and is carried through the year 1918. In addition there are about eighty references to individuals mentioned biographically in the main biographies.” The principle of selection has been “to include every man who has in any way contributed to the advancement of medicine in the United States or in Canada, or who, being a physician, has become illustrious in some other field of general science or in literature.” Living men are entirely excluded. A list of works consulted occupies nine pages and there is a local index, by states, in addition to the general index.
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“The catholicity of judgment shown in their preparation and the discrimination in the selection of names chosen for reference place ‘American medical biographies’ on a very high plane indeed.” Van Buren Thorne
+ =N Y Times= p14 O 31 ’20 2500w
=KELLY, THOMAS HOWARD.= What outfit, Buddy? il *$1.50 (3c) Harper
20–3794
As this narrative stands it is Jimmy McGee’s story—“Jimmy McGee, a real, regular fighting Yank who has seen his share of la guerre”—and his story, says the author “is merely the universal version of the great adventure as held by legions of his comrades.” Inseparable from Jimmy is his pal the O. D., who never went back after “la guerre finee” to his mother and Mary but left Jimmy to break them the news of the grave in France.
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+ =Booklist= 16:282 My ’20
“The whole volume is rather an interesting experimentation in values which, helped by the delightful illustrations, is, on the whole a success.” I. W. L.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 800w
=KEMP, HARRY HIBBARD.= Chanteys and ballads. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–12187
“The book contains rough out-door poems of land and sea, songs of sailors at sea driving to strange lands, and impressions of tramps by campfire and their visions of the Christ, and many others.” (St Louis) “Most of the sea poems were written long after Mr Kemp had ceased to sail before the mast, but the impressions that those early years made upon him have hardly faded.” (N Y Times)
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“For those who know that splendid play Mr Kemp wrote on Judas when he gave his version of Judas’s purpose in the betrayal will find his poems of New Testament life full of power and a strange loveliness. If one had a doubt as to whether Mr Kemp would finally reach a development of his gifts where he would no longer be accepted with qualifications, that doubt, it seems to me, vanished with this volume.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 1300w
=Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 40w
“One can not share Mr Kemp’s expressed conviction that he has found ‘the immortal meaning of it all.’ At least, if he has found it, he has not succeeded in transferring it to the assorted verses which are gathered here.” L. B.
− =Freeman= 1:622 S 8 ’20 210w
“Mr Kemp’s new volume is a disappointment. He was fastidious before, though generous enough in thought and gesture; now he finds room for commonplace and cant, complacency and swagger.” Mark Van Doren
− + =Nation= 111:sup414 O 13 ’20 100w
“Full of buoyancy and swinging rhythms.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 160w
=St Louis= 18:247 O ’20 30w
=KENDALL, RALPH SELWOOD.=[2] Luck of the mounted. *$2 Lane
20–17967
“The scene of this story is the great Canadian Northwest, the principal part of it being laid in the vicinity of Calgary, where the author was for a time stationed as a member of the Royal Northwest mounted police. A particularly baffling murder case is the theme of the tale and the culprit is a man with a strange and adventurous past. A second killing, with a curious chain of circumstances connecting it with the first one, is, in the end, solved and the murderer brought to justice.”—N Y Times
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“The story is devoid of romance, but it is told in such a gripping, straightforward manner as to give it the earmarks of truth.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 160w
“Sergeant Kendall writes about the Royal Canadian mounted police with inside knowledge. That makes his story more convincing than most narratives of this type. The background of snowy Canadian scenery, admirably painted in, lends a touch of poetry to the tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p801 D 2 ’20 80w
=KENEALY, ARABELLA.= Feminism and sex-extinction. *$5 Dutton 396
(Eng ed SG20–92)
“Dr Kenealy has elaborated the truth that men and women inherit the characteristics of both sexes into an extreme doctrine which she uses as a weapon to attack feminism and the ‘unwomanly woman.’ She heads a chapter, ‘One side of the body is male, the other side is female’; and the next, ‘Masculine mothers produce emasculate sons by misappropriating the life-potential of male offspring.’ Feminist doctrine and practice are disastrous to human faculty and progress. She is in dread of ‘the impending subjection of man,’ because it will be a calamity for woman as well as for man.”—Ath
=Ath= p621 My 7 ’20 120w
“It is a sad spectacle to see a helpless fact writhing under the disapproval of Dr Kenealy.” C. P. Gilman
− =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 30 ’20 1300w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 140w
“The problem of physical and psychic duality is discussed at length, and it is here that Miss Kenealy’s assumptions are seen to rest on dubious foundations. Her hypothesis of the necessity of ‘two modes of vital energy,’ for instance, is not fortified by facts. The common sense view of female capabilities tallies, however, in many instances with Miss Kenealy’s quasi-scientific postulates.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:436 My 8 ’20 800w
“Dr Arabella Kenealy states the case against ‘suffragetism’ and against the masculinization of women with considerable vigour and unquestionably with considerable truth, but it is so fatally easy to pick holes both in her logic and in her facts that the reader will probably find it difficult to do justice to the truth of her ideas.”
+ − =Spec= 125:20 Jl 3 ’20 500w
=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Goldoni and the Venice of his time. il *$6 Macmillan 852
20–8020
Goldoni, the famous Italian playwright, 1707–1793, is an impersonation of the Italian modern character, says the author of the present volume. “In him, Italians are pleased to see ... an idealised image of themselves ... humanized by touches that endear it both to those who trace out of it a resemblance to their own soul, and to those who, across his charming personality, are desirous to comprehend the soul of modern Italy.” Much of the material of the book is taken from Goldoni’s Memoirs. Beginning with a chronological summary of his life, a bibliography and a list of his plays, the first chapter is devoted to the historical and literary background of Goldoni’s life and work, the five following chapters to the life itself, six chapters to the plays and the conclusion to a general appreciation. The book has an index and three illustrations.
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=Ath= p266 Ag 27 ’20 2150w
+ =Booklist= 17:62 N ’20
“He has succeeded in presenting a human and sympathetic person, not obscuring his faults or exaggerating his virtues.... Mr Kennard’s book is entertaining, but it abounds in misprints, especially in the French and Italian citations.” N. H. D.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 900w
“It is a painstaking, if somewhat loosely discursive production.”
+ =Nation= 111:511 N 3 ’20 250w
“It will win a place as an excellent biography, constructed in a workmanlike manner and written in an easy, enjoyable style.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 720w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 125:476 O 9 ’20 180w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p547 Ag 26 ’20 1250w
=KENNARD, JOSEPH SPENCER.= Memmo. *$2 (2c) Doran
20–19583
The story is one of love and crime in modern Italy, but true to old traditions. Daniele Sparnieri, an upstart Jew, steeped in all iniquity, from illicit amours with women to criminal grasping in finance, murders an already dying relative and steals his will. Thus enabled to disinherit and make an outcast of the old man’s grandson, Memmo, he makes himself the head of the Sparnieri banking firm and Clara, the old man’s granddaughter, and in reality Daniele’s illicit daughter, the greatest heiress in Venice. He separates Clara from her cousin, Memmo, whom she loves and forces her to marry a profligate and impoverished member of the oldest aristocracy of Venice. Later he causes Memmo’s imprisonment on a criminal charge of bomb throwing, but when nemesis overtakes him in the vengeance of his numerous victims, and the dying Count D’Abbie, Clara’s husband, confesses Memmo’s innocence, true love comes to its own.
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“The style is adequate—that is, it maintains a sense of suspense, an essential in a story of this nature—and with its fair proportion of properly used adjectives brings to the reader the atmosphere of modern Italy.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 90w
“Not the least interesting feature of the narration is the intimate presentation of various picturesque Jewish customs maintained by the orthodox from the days of Moses. The book will appeal to lovers of well-written sensational fiction. And certainly the author does know his Venice.”
+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 470w
=KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN.= Army with banners; a divine comedy of this very day, in five acts, scene individable, setting forth the story of a morning in the early millennium. *$1.50 Huebsch 822
20–6980
An allegorical play of continuous action, altho arrangement is made for division into the usual five acts. The theme is Christianity, and among the characters are Mary Bliss, a woman of simple faith who grows steadily younger as the play progresses until she passes from age to radiant girlhood, and Tommy Trail, a revivalist of the Billy Sunday type, determined to save her soul. The others, with the exception of Dafty, also a symbolic figure, represent various types of worldliness.
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=Booklist= 16:271 My ’20
=Nation= 110:435 Ap 3 ’20 260w
“Its spirit is beautiful and profoundly right. But its method is that of allegory gone mad, jumbling touches of realism with the maddest fantasy, so it is perplexing and ineffective even to read, and, in the theater, quite hopeless.” W. P. Eaton
− + =N Y Call= p10 Ap 18 ’20 520w
“There are greater achievements doubtless in the world of drama than Mr Charles Rann Kennedy’s ‘Army with banners’ but one doubts if there are greater exploits. It blends incongruities and actualizes fantasies in a manner that allows no rest and sets no bound to admiration. As a play it is far from exemplary. It is long and its action is naught, and the culmination has the effect of being prostrated by the fatigues of its journey.”
− + =Review= 2:400 Ap 17 ’20 380w
“In ‘The army with banners’ one finds an art so completely intellectual that one’s interest, trained to emotion and sentiment, falters at times: the high finish, brilliant and sustained as it is, is brittle almost to the cracking-point. Of plot—well, Mr Kennedy would never be passed by Professor Baker, and this reviewer has a suspicion that a bit of concession to story-interest would have helped over the two or three undeniably dull spots in the book.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:255 Jl ’20 380w
=KENNEDY, HARRY ANGUS ALEXANDER.=[2] Theology of the Epistles. (Studies in theology) *$1.35 Scribner 230
20–15157
“One of a new series of aids to interpretation and Biblical criticism for students, the clergy, and laymen. Dr Kennedy’s book is divided into three parts, the first of which relates to Paulinism. The second part deals with phases of early Christian thought in the main independent of Paulinism. In the third part the author discusses the theology of the developing church.”—Ath
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=Ath= p1016 O 10 ’19 60w
“There is a useful bibliography and the indexing is thorough. The treatment of the theology of Paul is excellent.”
+ =Bib World= 54:644 N ’20 240w
=KENT, CHARLES FOSTER, and JENKS, JEREMIAH WHIPPLE.= Jesus’ principles of living. (Bible’s message to modern life) *$1.25 Scribner 232
20–12830
“In the words of the authors, ‘the aim in this volume has been to interpret the teachings of Jesus frankly, simply, and constructively in the light of modern conditions, and to make clear the trail that Jesus blazed by which each man may find the larger life in union and coöperation with the eternal source of all life.’ The two distinguished university professors, one in Biblical study and the other in political science, have worked together to expound the teachings of Jesus to our modern world. They have seen that ‘a yearning for social justice, for brotherhood, and for spiritual satisfaction filled the hearts of men’ in the first century, and that the present century manifests the same yearning.”—Boston Transcript
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“Any teacher looking for a textbook for a Bible class should see this volume.”
+ =Bib World= 54:649 N ’20 180w
“The authors are singularly free from those obsessions of so many theologians and political scientists, the fallacies of the universal and of the abstract.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 470w
“The book abounds in beautiful platitudes.”
− =Cath World= 112:257 N ’20 100w
“Certain aspects of the subject are treated in many cases without sufficient recognition of such real conflicts of responsibility as are involved in modern social relationships. Nevertheless, the book is thoroughly wholesome in essentials and promotes thought in the reader.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 210w
=KENT, ROCKWELL.= Wilderness; a journal of quiet adventure in Alaska. il *$5 Putnam
20–6728
Rockwell Kent is an artist who spent one autumn and winter on an island in Resurrection bay, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in company with his nine year old son. Since his return he has exhibited the paintings that are the fruit of those months. This book, published with an introduction by Dorothy Canfield and illustrations from the author’s drawings, is a record of “quiet adventure,” telling of the daily life of the two, father and son, with their one companion Olson,—a perfect companion for great solitudes. Of what the experience meant to both man and boy, the artist writes, “It seems that we have both together by chance turned out of the beaten, crowded way and come to stand face to face with that infinite and unfathomable thing which is the wilderness; and here we have found ourselves—for the wilderness is nothing else. It is a kind of living mirror that gives back as its own all and only all that the imagination of a man brings to it. It is that which we believe it to be.”
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“Mr Kent’s journal makes pleasant and easy reading; but it is obvious enough that the letterpress in this rich volume is little more than an excuse for the drawings. It is as a pictorial artist that Mr Kent asks for criticism and admiration, not as a writer. If Blake had never lived, the art of Rockwell Kent would not have been what it is. All of Blake that can be made into a convention he has conventionalized. But when we look for the force that can turn a convention into living art, we look almost in vain.” A. L. H.
+ − =Ath= p172 Ag 6 ’20 650w
+ =Booklist= 16:309 Je ’20
Reviewed by H: McBride
=Dial= 69:91 Jl ’20 800w
“The result of their year at Fox Island is the startlingly beautiful series of drawings reproduced in the text and the ‘Journal of quiet adventure’ itself, an important event for many reasons but perhaps chiefly for its unparalleled record of a year of perfect happiness and freedom in the life of a child.” Martha Gruening
+ =Freeman= 1:165 Ap 28 ’20 550w
“To what can we compare this very beautiful and poignant record of one of the most unusual adventures ever chronicled? It is not like ‘Walden,’ it is not like any other diary of experiences in the wilderness.” M. F. Egan
+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 120w
“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’ is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys is not a mere surmise.”
+ =Outlook= 125:506 Jl 14 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is ‘Wilderness.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 8 ’20 500w
“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a born, though very unequal draughtsman.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p469 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
=KEON, GRACE.= Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair
20–5124
“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and felt that she really could not take him into her household of six small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father, Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times
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“Delightful is the one adjective that best describes the book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 120w
“Told agreeably, with humor as well as sentiment.”
+ =Cath World= 111:696 Ag ’20 120w
“Nice little story which will probably please dog lovers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:329 Je 20 ’20 500w
=KEPPEL, FREDERICK PAUL.= Some war-time lessons. *$1.50 (7½c) Columbia univ. press 940.373
20–3590
Three lectures by the third assistant secretary of war, the first delivered at the General theological seminary, the second at Columbia, and the third at Michigan university. Contents: The American soldier and his standards of conduct; The war as a practical test of American scholarship; What have we learned?
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=Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 150w
=KERLIN, ROBERT THOMAS.= Voice of the nero, 1919. il *$2.50 Dutton 326.1
20–13602
“What the negroes are now thinking, saying, and doing, as reflected in their press, is shown in this volume, ‘The voice of the negro,’ by Professor Robert T. Kerlin, of the Virginia Military institute. Nearly the whole of the book consists of clippings, with just enough explanatory matter to give them a proper setting. It is a digest of negro opinion on the aftermath of the war, labor unionism and radicalism, riots, lynchings, exploitation and exclusion from the franchise, along with a brief summary of the race’s recent progress in education and industry. Notable, as might be expected, is the volume of protest against the treatment the negro soldier has received following a war to make the world safe for democracy—a war in which he bore so wholly creditable a part.”—Review
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=Booklist= 17:53 N ’20
“Readers will find this book to be a great clarifier of ideas.”
+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 400w
“It is not pleasant reading, but useful, in that it shows the negro’s growth in self respect, and that it is a frightful and unanswerable indictment of the American people who suffer these wrongs to exist, not only without effective protest but largely with their acquiescence.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:309 D ’20 260w
“Few white Americans but will be astonished, perhaps, at the volume and the eloquence of that voice as here reported with praiseworthy fairness; still fewer, doubtless, but will wonder at the shrewdness with which these negro editors survey the problems of their race.”
+ =Nation= 111:736 D 22 ’20 120w
“The book should be read by every one interested in the welfare of the country and in the cause of justice.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p7 Ja 9 ’21 170w
“Whoever thinks that the negro is not foully abused will find Professor Kerlin’s book wholesome, though unpleasant, reading.”
+ =No Am= 212:575 O ’20 300w
“A valuable volume for the study of the negro question in America. Typographically the book is not attractive.”
+ =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 100w
“A most interesting and worth-while volume.”
+ =Review 3:538 D 1= ’20 300w
“The excerpts presented do not all rank equally in weight of thought or of rhetoric. But they are symptomatic and in that respect the compilation is invaluable since it points the finger of warning. If instead of appointing a committee of a hundred and more to investigate the wrongs of Ireland we should establish a commission to investigate honestly and diligently the causes underlying this composite of fire and bitterness, a great and overshadowing disaster might be peacably turned aside.” Jessie Fauset
+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 260w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Spiritualism; a personal experience and a warning. *60c (7½c) Revell 134
20–17391
Spiritualism is an obsession, says the author, by which a person relinquishes his will-power into other and unknown hands—always a very dangerous thing to do. He believes that any attempt to unlock the door which separates this life from the next is “an unseemly intrusion upon the sanctity, the august majesty, of which we are conscious in the presence of our dead. Spiritualism vulgarizes that which is holy, while adding to our knowledge no single word of real help or worth.” Contents: Spiritual housebreaking; A personal experience; Some comments on my first séance; Telepathy; The barrenness of spiritualism; Sin begins in want of faith; A will o’ the wisp.
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“The description of his own experience at a séance is certainly interesting, but as usual in such narratives, too vague in its details.”
+ − =Ath= p93 Ja 16 ’20 50w
+ =N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 80w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ’20 300w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 60w
=KERNAHAN, COULSON.= Swinburne as I knew him. *$1.25 (4½c) Lane
20–8544
This second installment of the author’s recollections of Swinburne—the first appeared in “In good company”—contains some hitherto unpublished letters from the poet to his cousin, the Hon. Lady Henniker Heaton. After Mr Gosse’s “Life and letters of Swinburne,” the author of the present volume considers reserve no longer necessary and has therefore written more freely than in his first volume. Contents: Letters from A. C. Swinburne to his cousin; The story of a dear deceit; “Oh, those poets!”; George Borrow in a frock-coat; “In the days of our youth”; Philip Marston’s “Hush!” story; A. C. S. and R. L. S.; The laureateship—a cartoon in the Pall Mall Gazette—and some woman poets whose work Swinburne admired; A sonnet in the Athenæum and more “dear deceit”; “Puck of Putney hill”; A paragraph in the Westminster Gazette; “All my memories of him are glad and gracious memories.”
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=Ath= p1275 N 28 ’19 40w
+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
=Bookm= 51:569 Jl ’20 920w
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 My 15 ’20 1450w
“This little book is of considerable value as a supplement to Gosse’s ‘Life’ of the poet and the collection of ‘Letters’ edited by his biographer in collaboration with T. J. Wise.”
+ =Cath World= 111:831 S ’20 90w
“The fact is that his reminiscences are meager in the extreme. There is much good humor and kindliness in the book and a certain ability to exhibit the weaknesses of famous men without destroying the impression of their real greatness.”
+ − =Nation= 110:861 Je 26 ’20 220w
“Mr Kernahan’s book is a witty and spirited trifle, by no means destitute of revealing touches.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 650w
“The interest of Mr Kernahan’s little book lies in the fact not that he knew Swinburne but that he knew Swinburne’s friend [Watts-Dunton].”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p730 D 11 ’19 750w
=KERR, R. WATSON.= War daubs. *$1 Lane 821
20–5692
This collection of war poems reveals the agonized soul of a poet amid the horrors of war for which he has nothing but a curse. He does not see in it “a glorious, cleansing thing” and scorns to speak with easy eloquence of “war and its necessity” or “war’s magnificent nobility.” Some of the titles are: From the line; To a sorrowing mother; The gravedigger; A dead man; Home; Faith; In bitterness; Escape; Prayer.
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=Booklist= 17:22 O ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w
“Imperfect assimilation might be diagnosed as the chief malady of these sketches from dugout and camp. The author has completely digested neither his war experiences nor the aesthetic of the new poetry. Despite his force and sincerity, he is treading a little too closely in the footsteps of a more famous contemporary.”
− + =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 80w
“Mr Kerr sees the war somewhat as does Siegfried Sassoon, but without the same power of satirical observation, without the detachment of an intellectualism that gives Sassoon’s verse its especial vigor. But there is a power in the very literalness of his depiction, a certain honesty in visualization that gives them a graphic interest.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 My 8 ’20 220w
=N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 140w
“A genuine vital sincerity beats through them and helps to fashion the verse into a real and true medium of expression.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p634 N 6 ’19 60w
=KERR, SOPHIE (MRS SOPHIE [KERR] UNDERWOOD).= Painted meadows. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran
20–7762
Seth Markwood, the shy, sober, inarticulate young lawyer, had loved Anah Blades since childhood, but when Gilbert White, tall, handsome and gay, returned to his home town after a ten year’s absence, he took Anah’s heart by storm and they were married. Seth stood by with a hungry pain in his heart and watched over Anah. Gil was weak and ungrown and his passionate love for Anah did not prevent him from straying on forbidden paths. A fall from his horse killed him and Seth became Anah’s mainstay. In due time he urged his love, urged it vehemently almost forcing her to become his wife before disillusionment had broken through her sentimental, almost morbid loyalty to Gil. So strong was her dream life that the son she bore to Seth resembled Gil and the imminence of a tragedy to both is only averted by the accidental discovery, on the part of Anah, of Gil’s unfaithfulness.
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=Booklist= 16:348 Jl ’20
=Bookm= 52:253 N ’20 120w
“It is simply told, effectively, poignantly. The three chief characters are very real.”
+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“It is unfortunate that the authoress should have marred her otherwise graceful and unsensational story by a digression into the subject of prenatal influences. However, it gets into the book too late and gets out too promptly to make any real difference. The fact remains that ‘Painted meadows’ is a story full of genuine feeling and excellent craftsmanship.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 450w
“The only jarring note in ‘Painted meadows’ is an excursion into the subject of pre-natal influences. While this adds a degree of suspense and uncertainty to the situation, it is undeniably an artificiality. Perhaps the best work comes in the early stages of narrative, which embodies excellently described local scenes and characters.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 300w
“The notion of a wife clinging to the memory of her first (unworthy) husband until she finds the true value of the lover who had been faithful to her throughout is worked out with all the quiet conscientiousness and studious portrayal of character which is so attractive a feature in some American novels.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 Jl 1 ’20 80w
=KERSHAW, JOHN BAKER CANNINGTON.= Fuel, water and gas analysis for steam users. 2d ed. rev and enl il *$3.50 Van Nostrand 543
The preface states that with the increasing necessity for economy in the use of fuel, the subject with which this book deals, efficiency in the working of steam boilers, becomes of more urgent importance. The new edition has been prepared to meet this situation. “The author has made use of the opportunity to add chapters upon ‘Fuel-sampling’ and upon the ‘Calorific valuation of liquid and gaseous fuels.’... The chapter dealing with continuous and recording gas-testing apparatus has been brought up to date by the addition of much new matter.” (Preface to the second edition)
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“The present work meets a well-defined want in that it gives trustworthy and up-to-date technical methods. It can be recommended to every industrial chemist.”
+ =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 180w
=KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD.= Economic consequences of the peace. *$2.50 (3½c) Harcourt 330.94
20–2057
As chief representative of the British treasury at the peace conference and member of the Supreme economic council of the allied and associated powers, the author can be considered an authority on his chosen subject. In effect the book is a severe stricture on the peace conference’s failure in its task to “satisfy justice” and to “re-establish life and to heal wounds.” It points out both the injustice and the impracticability of the terms of the peace treaty and how wide-spread economic ruin in all countries will be the result of any attempt to carry them out. “The treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe,—nothing to make the defeated central empires into good neighbors, nothing to stabilize the new states of Europe, nothing to reclaim Russia; nor does it provide in any way a compact of economic solidarity amongst the Allies themselves. On the contrary ... men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.” The contents are: Europe before the war; The conference; The treaty; Reparation; Europe after the treaty; Remedies.
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“The prime importance of the work consists in its vivid sense of the growing moral and economic solidarity of the world, and particularly of Europe and its detailed search for a sound economic basis on which a peace settlement can really be made, in view of that solidarity.” C. J. Bushnell
+ =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 640w
“This is a brilliant, penetrating, stimulating, book; but it is also unbalanced, inconclusive, and unconvincing.” F: A. Ogg
− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 750w
“The book over-emphasizes the relative power and importance of individuals.” C. L. King
+ − =Ann Am Acad= 90:173 Jl ’20 300w
“This book comes like a douche of bracing cold water after years of hysterical talk about making democracy safe, the war to end war, and the vindication of the principles of freedom and self-determination. In the emotional pitch of his argument Mr Keynes has wisely chosen a middle course. He has resisted, if he ever felt it, the temptation to boom which usually besets the expression of righteous indignation; he knows that severe judgments are all the severer for being rapped out with tight lips, not thundered.... In the ardour of his desire to bring the world back to hard facts, he speaks as if the tragedy had been prepared by the play of economic factors alone. Yet surely it is not so. It is at least equally a question of the blind movements of generations building up passionate illusions of nationality and domination.”
+ + − =Ath= p105 Ja 23 ’20 1800w
“Written with unsparing and convincing frankness and a beautiful clearness, it is arousing a great deal of comment and controversy because of its intrinsic value and also because of its appeal to widely differing political factions.”
+ =Booklist= 16:199 Mr ’20
“The book compels attention. The reading of it can hardly be avoided by anyone deeply interested either in the economic chaos of Europe or in the nature of the treaty of peace. There will be many who will disagree with the remedies that Keynes proposes, but none of these critics can deny that the book is an example of most brilliant economic exposition.” F. A. Vanderlip
+ =Bookm= 51:226 Ap ’20 2250w
“If men and women exist who do not wish to see the entire structure fall, carrying with it every hope of humanity, they will read this book with a little more attention to its thesis and a little less suspicion of its motives. In spite of his felicity of style Mr Keynes expresses himself badly.” Sganarelle
+ − =Dial= 68:517 Ap ’20 2100w
“Mr Keynes is one of the half-dozen men who know not only what happened in the meetings of the council of four but also what the multitudinous provisions of the treaty actually mean. The subtle sophistries and complex circumlocutions of the Paris draughtsmen have been reduced by Mr Keynes to plain, lucid statements which any man may understand.” W: C. Bullitt
+ + =Freeman= 1:18 Mr 17 ’20 4000w
=Lit D= p101 Mr 13 ’20 4800w
“This is a very great book. If any answer can be made to the overwhelming indictment of the treaty that it contains, that answer has yet to be published. Mr Keynes writes with a fullness of knowledge, an incisiveness of judgment, and a penetration into the ultimate causes of economic events that perhaps only half-a-dozen living economists might hope to rival. The style is like finely hammered steel. It is full of unforgettable phrases and of vivid portraits etched in the biting acid of a passionate moral indignation.” H. J. Laski
+ + =Nation= 110:174 F 7 ’20 2000w
+ =Nation [London]= 26:426 D 20 ’19 3750w
“I cannot leave the topic of reparation without expressing sharp dissent from Mr Keynes’s attitude toward the Belgian claims.... As against Mr Keynes’s brilliancy, insight, and courage, there must be put certain elements of strain, of exaggeration, of effort for dramatic consistency. But for all that his book is like nothing so much as a fresh breeze coming into a plain where poisonous gases are yet hanging.” A. A. Young
+ − =New Repub= 21:388 F 25 ’20 2300w
“In his last chapter, which is on remedies, Keynes is less convincing than in his earlier chapters. Here for the first time one feels the limitations of the academic mind. His remedies may be theoretically sound, but they do not seem to take into account the infirmities of human institutions.... The discussion of remedies is the least important part of Keynes’s book. Its importance lies in its demonstration of the unsoundness of the economic and financial provisions of the treaty and of the financial and economic chaos brought on by the war, which the treaty has failed to relieve. Keynes’s book will provide arguments both against and for the league of nations.” P. D. Cravath
+ + − =N Y Sun and Herald= p11 F 2 ’20 3600w
“If only Mr Keynes had occasionally shown an interest in the economic future of France, Italy, Poland and other countries equal to his interest in that of Germany, if, when he approached political questions as he constantly has done, he had shown more appreciation of their significance and more knowledge of facts, he might have given us a judicial and trustworthy survey of the existing situation. Instead he has written what is in large measure an acrimonious party pamphlet, and the party represented is, in terms of European usage, that of the ‘Extreme left.’” C: W. Hazen
− =N Y Times= 25:1 F 29 ’20 4600w
=N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 80w
“In estimating the value of the present sensational arraignment of the work of the peace council, it must be borne in mind that Mr Keynes is a leftwing Liberal, and by nature has a little of that slant of mind which we are accustomed in America to associate with the theoretical humanitarianism and internationalism of the New Republic school.... It is on the subject of the amount of the reparations that there is grave reason to doubt the soundness of Mr Keynes’s view.”
+ − =Review= 2:155 F 14 ’20 3000w
=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 210w
“We have not read a more acute and witty (in the old sense of the term) exposition of the economic equilibrium of Europe and the relation between capital and labour in England than the opening pages of this book.”
+ =Sat R= 129:85 Ja 24 ’20 1550w
Reviewed by Arthur Gleason
+ =Socialist R= 8:248 Mr ’20 1450w
“Mr Keynes is at liberty to say what he likes, and to denounce his former chiefs and colleagues to his heart’s content. Still, the effect of his book is weakened by the circumstances in which it came to be written. Mr Keynes says that he resigned his post on June 7th last, ‘when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of substantial modification in the draft terms of peace.’ The implication is that he could have made a better peace than that which the Allies proposed and the enemy accepted. We are bound to say that this seems to us improbable. Mr Keynes’s economic criticisms are in a different category. When he comes down to facts or estimates he deserves attention.”
− + =Spec= 123:861 D 20 ’19 1200w
“It is emotionally written, in passages where feeling broke bounds and Europe presented herself to Mr Keynes’s mind as a vision of all but consummated ruin. But in the main it is a model of careful and penetrating analysis. It is enough to add that Mr Keynes has said outright what other authorities like Gen. Smuts, Mr Hoover, and Lord Robert Cecil have half said, and wholly thought.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 17 ’20 400w (Reprinted from Nation [London] 26:426 D 20 ’19)
=Springf’d Republican= p5 Mr 29 ’20 250w
“It seems to us that the ultimate criticism of Mr Keynes’s book will be this, that it is the criticism of a man who is occupied with and interested only in one part of the work. For the political side he appears to have little interest or understanding.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p27 Ja 15 ’20 1900w
“This is far and away the most significant analysis of present conditions in Europe that has appeared. There is one omission from Mr Keynes’ analysis which seems somewhat remarkable. He nowhere speaks of the effect upon economic conditions now or in the future of the enormous expansion of the British and French colonial empires. Moreover, it seems to us that the situation Mr Keynes so vividly pictures requires more radical social, economic and spiritual treatment than he himself proposes.”
+ − =World Tomorrow= 3:94 Mr ’20 260w
“He writes in the style of a propagandist, albeit one more amusing than the average, and he displays the bitter propagandist’s predilection for the intermingling of true and false. Mr Keynes’s book is pernicious, for it spreads the impression that the entire work of the conference was rotten to the core, and it excites complete mistrust of the treaty.” C: Seymour
− + =Yale R= n s 9:857 Jl ’20 2500w
=KILMER, MRS ANNIE KILBURN.= Memories of my son, Sergeant Joyce Kilmer; with numerous unpublished poems and letters. il $2 Brentano’s
20–10008
“The ‘Memories’ consist of a faithful transcription of a mother’s diary to reveal her son’s ‘baby mind,’ a small budget of verse not given for their ‘worth as poems, but rather to show the throbbing of a mother’s heart’; and the letters of the son to the mother covering the years from 1906 up to within two days of his death in action on July 30, 1918. These form fully three fourths of the book.”—Boston Transcript
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=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 3 ’20 560w
+ =Cath World= 112:255 N 20 220w
“We hope not to violate the respect which the public is bound to pay, and is glad to pay, to maternal grief in suggesting that grief has a self-respect which is not always kept inviolable by the compiler of these memories.”
+ − =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 220w
=KIMBALL, EVERETT.= National government of the United States. *$3.60 (1½c) Ginn 342.7
20–5064
The book partakes of the twofold character of a textbook in which institutions are described and analyzed and of a source book in which appear the actual words used by the court in expounding or limiting the powers of government. As a textbook it shows the historical origins and the development of our national political institutions and the actual workings of government. As a source book it is mindful of the fact that the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that the interpretations of the Supreme court are, until altered, authoritative. For this latter purpose the opinions of the Supreme court are freely quoted, showing the process of arriving at conclusions or the reasons for dissent. A partial list of the contents is: Constitutional background; The evolution of the constitution; Political issues and party history; Party organizations; The election of the president; The powers of the president; The organization and functions of the executive departments; Congress at work; The judicial system of the United States; The war powers of Congress; Finance; Foreign affairs. The appendix contains the constitution of the United States and there is an index.
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“A book which has not been surpassed in the presentation of the fundamental facts concerning the government of the United States. The student who masters its contents will have acquired a grip upon the essential principles of our national political system which will give him a firm foundation for subsequent political thought and action.” Ralston Hayden
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:722 N ’20 880w
+ =Ath= p493 Ap 9 ’20 130w
=Booklist= 17:54 N ’20
“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is no new interpretation of our national system, but there is compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson
+ − =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:154 S ’20 620w
“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly, discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a reasonable degree of readability.”
+ =Review= 3:655 D 29 ’20 380w
+ =R of Rs= 61:560 My ’20 150w
=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 24 ’20 100w
“This book is not as technical as many texts on political science. Professor Kimball comes right down to earth with illustrations that even a layman without any training in political science can understand.” J: E: Oster
+ =Survey= 45:104 O 16 ’20 320w
=KING, BASIL.= Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper
20–14599
A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it, returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will open up to him.
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“Though not profound, a well-managed, interesting story.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:117 D ’20
“Mr King’s style is a delight and his narrative related with spirit; only his dénouement of a reconciliation with a colorless wife seems to be an error.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 170w
“The first part of the story many an experienced novelist might have written, but the second part is especially characteristic of Mr King, and it is in the second part that most of us will find our deeper pleasure. It is here also that he unfolds that philosophy of life which we feel is so important a part of his work.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 S 15 ’20 800w
+ =Cath World= 112:406 D ’20 320w
“This psychological problem of lost memory the author treats with much skill, bringing out its ever-present pathos and throwing on it now and then the high light of some spiritually dramatic situation, but dealing with it always with admirable reserve and with a distinction of manner that will make the novel doubly welcome to the mentally fastidious reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 900w
“The early stages of the story are deeply absorbing, but the fact should not be overlooked that Mr King is all the while working up to the development of his idea that service to the unfortunate should be the highest mission of the fortunate. If this is accepted by readers, the high merits of the narrative will be best appreciated.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 550w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 120w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:194 N ’20 180w
=KINGZETT, CHARLES THOMAS.= Popular chemical dictionary. *$4 Van Nostrand 540.3
(Eng ed 20–10609)
A work in which the author has attempted “to give in one volume, in compendious form, and in simple language, descriptions of the subjects of chemistry—its laws and processes, the chemical elements, the more important inorganic and organic compounds and their preparation or manufacture and applications, together with illustrated descriptions of chemical apparatus.” (Preface) The author has written “Chemistry for beginners and school use,” “Animal chemistry,” and other works.
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“The work, so far as it goes, is very complete. For purposes of strict reference this volume is far too ‘popular.’” G. M.
+ − =Nature= 105:228 Ap 22 ’20 190w
“In spite of its limitations, a handy reference book.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p25 Ap ’20 20w
=KIP, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.= Poems. *$1.50 Putnam 811
20–10006
Although religion and philosophy and life in its various moods and aspects inspire many of these poems such as The higher life, Eternity, Swedenborg, Sadness, A love lyric, Joy, Life’s triumph, most of them are out-of-door and nature pieces and offer a long list of flowers and birds in sonnet and short lyric form.
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“Mr Kip treads a little heavier in the fields and woodlands after the fancies of birds and flowers than does Mr John Russel McCarthy, but his haunts are more extended and his intimacies are more numerous.” W. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 340w
=KIPLING, RUDYARD.= Letters of travel. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday 910
20–9990
In this volume are brought together sketches of travel written between 1892 and 1913. They follow the letters written between 1887 and 1889 published in “From sea to sea.” The new volume is composed of three sections. The first, “From tideway to tideway,” opens with a New England sketch, In sight of Monadnock, and contains other papers written in the United States, in Canada and the East. Letters to the family, dated 1907, is a series of letters from Canada. Egypt of the magicians, the third section, is a series of seven sketches written in 1913.
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“All notebook literature produces the same effect of fatigue and obstacle, as if there dropped across the path of the mind some block of alien matter which must be removed or assimilated before one can go on with the true process of reading. The more vivid the note the greater the obstruction.” V. W.
− + =Ath= p75 Jl 16 ’20 1200w
+ =Booklist= 16:342 Jl ’20
“For a writer who has been in so many far-separated parts of the world, and who is himself more or less of a cosmopolite, Kipling develops a curious air of foreign complacency and self-satisfaction in his description of places and people strange to his eyes and mind.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 1350w
“Those written in 1913 reveal the same brisk and cocky adolescence as the group clattered off on the typewriter twenty-five years ago in America. These American records are precisely in the vein of ‘From sea to sea’; they suggest, in their peculiar preoccupation with the outsides of things, a somewhat rudimentary intellect and a highly over-stimulated nervous system.”
− =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 550w
“The pictures of Japan are full of color; the pictures of Egypt are full of age and mystery; the pictures of Canada are full of strength and freshness, but the very best of all is the winter scene ‘In sight of Monadnock.’”
+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 400w
=New Repub= 23:155 Je 30 ’20 1050w
“What is not a little curious is that the letters of 1892 are as brisk and as brilliant, as firmly planned and as effectively phrased as the letters of 1913, written more than a score of years later. In all these letters there is the same keen appreciation of nature and the same contagious interest in human nature. If he lacks understanding anywhere in his voyaging, if he is to a certain extent unsympathetic, not to go so far as to hint that he is intolerant, it is in the United States and more particularly in New York.” Brander Matthews
+ − =N Y Times= 25:291 Je 6 ’20 1300w
“Mr Kipling is here, as always, the courier of empire.... He never filches a quarter-hour from his responsibilities. To nurse a pleasant thought, to dally with it, to make it a companion and a playfellow, these are levities for the uncommitted or uncommissioned man. He is humorous with despatch, he is even pathetic with expedition.”
+ − =Review= 3:151 Ag 18 ’20 1200w
“In his description readers will find that beauty of language and those inimitable touches of humor that are Kipling’s own.” G. C.
+ =St Louis= 18:231 S ’20 60w
“As always in work of this kind by Mr Kipling, what holds us most is his power of interpretation. He is essentially the man who makes us see things and understand things.”
+ =Spec= 124:828 Je 19 ’20 1500w
“Where Mr Kipling allows his vigorous mind to absorb the surface aspects of a scene, he is at his best, for then the artist in him is congenially employed. In interpretation he is often amiss, as well as inevitably out of date.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 1800w
“His patriotism, which in other works has enriched the language with poems and sketches of character, tender and valiant, is apt in this book to take, not a positive, but a negative form. It is his patriotism, his love for England—a love intensified and made jealous by a recognition of all she lost when her American colonies seceded—that leads him to denounce New York as ‘the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance.’... But how persuasive he can be when he is not—if we may say it without offence—cross!”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p365 Je 10 ’20 1850w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 120w
=KIRBY, ELIZABETH.= Adorable dreamer. *$1.90 (3c) Doran
20–15953
Penelope Grey’s ardent young soul went out in quest of happiness. First she tried fame and wrote a naughty book which brought her ephemeral prominence and surrounded her with other literary aspirants and poseurs. She soon tired of the show and knew that in reality she wanted to be loved. Her lover however, fearful of chaining her genius, held her at arms length whilst he encouraged her to further production. Then she tried causes and found them all empty. She dallied with other loves up to the danger mark but finds her fairy prince at last.
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“The little tale has some pathetic and some whimsical bits, and Penelope herself, though a trifle absurd at times, is a quaint and appealing heroine, while the author’s style is agreeable.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 240w
“Often lately we have had ‘the new woman’ with her affectations and extravagances presented caustically and with insight; Miss Kirby presents her with no less insight, but with a sympathy which she compels the reader to share.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p440 Jl 8 ’20 460w
=KIRKALDY, ADAM WILLIS.=[2] Wealth: its production and distribution. *$2.25 Dutton 330
“A large part of the volume is taken up with discussions of land, labor and capital as factors in production. In his general editor’s preface, G. Armitage Smith says: ‘This book is designed to explain in a lucid and popular manner the fundamental facts in the production of wealth and the causes which regulate its distribution. It gives an analysis of the functions of nature, of man and of capital in the production of wealth; and it traces the conditions upon which the economic progress of mankind depends.’”—Springf’d Republican
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=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 8 ’21 100w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p621 S 23 ’20 70w
=KIRKLAND, WINIFRED MARGARETTA.= View vertical, and other essays. *$2 (3½c) Houghton 814
20–17902
Life and books form the background of these essays. In the initial essay the author compares our prevailing post-war frame of mind to a universal neurasthenia and insomnia, and discourses amusingly on the mental obscurity of the insomniac and the worthlessness of his conclusions. She pleads for the vertical position with “feet to the sturdy green earth, head to the jocund sun,” as the best antidote for the still lingering nightmares of the war. Whimsical humor is the keynote to all the essays whether treating of facts of everyday life or literary subjects. Some of the titles are: The friends of our friends; On being and letting alone; The perils of telepathy; In defense of worry; Family phrases; The story in the making: Faces in fiction; Robinson Crusoe re-read; Americanization and Walt Whitman; Gift-books and book-gifts.
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“Piquant essays happily turned and worded.”
+ =Booklist= 17:146 Ja ’21
“I have noted with pleasure the rightness of ‘Faces in fiction’: the particular thing has never, so far as I know, been said so clearly and directly. But my delight is in ‘Hold Izzy,’ which suits me as catnip suits a cat.”
+ =Bookm= 52:266 N ’20 130w
“Given ‘a shady nook’ and Miss Kirkland’s book of charmingly written essays one is sure of being delightfully entertained and at the same time given a good-humored push into the realm of thought.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 180w
“Miss Kirkland displays grace and facility, together with a keen perception of just what her own position ought to be.”
+ =Freeman= 2:260 N 24 ’20 370w
“She writes with greater ease than authority. She would be more impressive if she were more eclectic. Miss Kirkland writes with humor and common sense, and has the knack of every once in a while throwing off a happy epigram that challenges the attention.”
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=KIRKPATRICK, EDWIN ASBURY.= Imagination and its place in education. $1.48 Ginn 370.15
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“In keeping with the most recent aim and interest of educational psychology, this new book seeks both to describe the part the imaginative processes play in the common experiences and the normal development of the child and to show the peculiar relation of this intellectual process to his interest and achievement in the different school subjects. The book is divided into three parts. In Part 1, ‘Imagination and related activities,’ the author defines the imagination and explains its relation to the other mental processes.