Volume 2 completes the account of the Boer war and deals with India

and Egypt. Volume 3 is wholly devoted to the world war and closes with a chapter summing up personal traits. Each volume is illustrated with portraits and maps and there is a full index.

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“Sir George Arthur, it will be seen, leaves us with no real vision of either Kitchener or his work. But there is one characteristic which the unreality, the romantic haze, and all the clichés of this biography cannot conceal. Kitchener had a real simplicity and honesty of mind.” L. W.

− =Ath= p571 Ap 30 ’20 1800w

+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1400w

“The book is good history but not light reading for hero-worshippers.”

+ =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 100w

=Lit D= p86 O 9 ’20 2100w

“We have a genuine respect for the workmanship of this long-expected and interesting book, but it would be a mistake, we think, to ‘place’ it in the line of great biographies. And for a double reason. Kitchener was admittedly a two-sided man. Wanting the highest military talent, he was still the most conspicuous example since Wellington of the handy-man-soldier.... At the same time, he was capable of thinking and acting for her as a political and a moral force. But Sir George Arthur is the soldier pure and simple, and if politics talks to him at all, it speaks to him in the unsophisticated accents of the Guards’ mess. He is also an assiduous, if an extremely competent, hero-worshipper. There was no need for over-reverence about Kitchener. His character, built in the main on lines of simplicity, crossed with shrewd rather than subtle calculation, would well have borne a more detached view even of its excellencies than Sir George Arthur maintains.” H. W. M.

+ − =Nation [London]= 27:74 Ap 17 ’20 2400w

“The biography is presented with such vividness that the careful reader can discern the man apart from his work.”

+ =Nature= 105:319 My 13 ’20 1450w

“That Lord Kitchener served to the very limit of his powers is amply and nobly proved by these volumes. But they do not solve the deeper problem of the quality of his powers.” H. J. L.

+ − =New Repub= 25:174 Ja 5 ’21 1500w

“It is a plain, straightforward story of absorbing interest, told without hysteria, without malice, without criticism of others—differing so widely in this respect from the books of Lord French and Sir Ian Hamilton—but with sound judgment.” F. V. Greene

+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Je 27 ’20 2500w

=No Am= 212:567 O ’20 1400w

Reviewed by Archibald MacMechan

=Review= 3:68 Jl 21 ’20 1900w

+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 220w

“Furnished as he is with a keen sense of proportion and a wide knowledge of men and things, possessor of a literary style which is at once graceful and trenchant, and having at his disposal much documentary matter which few besides himself have seen, he was equipped with special qualifications for undertaking this memoir of one of the foremost figures of our time when he accepted the task. But the very fact of his intimate association with his late chief has in certain directions proved a handicap.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:390 Ap 24 ’20 1650w

=Spec= 124:552 Ap 24 ’20 1850w

+ =Spec= 124:583 My 1 ’20 1800w

“Sir George is no doubt better fitted than any other to weigh without undue bias the character and achievements of this outstanding British military figure. His devotion to his chief is revealed throughout, but at the same time he exercises calmness in weighing his strength and weaknesses.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 1550w

“Here, with its element of mystery, is a great theme for a master-biography. Sir George Arthur’s three volumes are not that. He is an easy writer with a simple, unaffected style, who for the most part contents himself with a plain narrative of concrete facts. He has, too, something of the reserve of his subject, and when one gets to the difficult and contentious passages in the life he is apt to become general and elusive, a bad fault in a biographer. But Sir George Arthur has the great virtue of honesty with his subject.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p245 Ap 22 ’20 4500w

=ASH, EDWIN LANCELOT.= Problem of nervous breakdown. *$3.50 (4c) Macmillan 616.8

(Eng ed SG20–45)

In writing this book on nervous disorders the author has had in mind “the family doctor, the trained nurse, and the anxious relative,” and his main purpose has been “to review the problem as it affects the individual and as it concerns the state; to discuss the origin of the more common disorders, and to indicate in what direction it is possible for us to redress the balance in favour of nerve and efficiency.” (Foreword) The four parts of the book are: The origins of nervous breakdown; the varieties of nervous breakdown: The hygiene of nerve; and The breakdowns of war. There is an index.

* * * * *

“The subjects are discussed temperately and sanely. He has no fads and attacks none, though the field is large.”

+ =Review= 3:562 D 8 ’20 840w

“Dr Ash’s book is a timely warning of the dangers of emotionalism as well as an important contribution to the subject of neurasthenia, and it is so free from medical terms that it can be understood by all.”

+ =Spec= 124:351 Mr 13 ’20 1400w

“This is a commonsense work on a subject which is of universal interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p22 Ja 8 ’20 70w

=ASHFORD, DAISY (MRS JAMES DEVLIN).= Daisy Ashford: her book. *$2 (2c) Doran

20–9783

A volume containing the remaining novels of the author of “The young visiters” together with “The jealous governes,” by Angela Ashford. Daisy Ashford’s works are: A short story of love and marriage; The true history of Leslie Woodcock; Where love lies deepest; The hangman’s daughter. They were all written before the author was fourteen. Angela Ashford’s offering, “The jealous governes, or The granted wish” was written by that young person at the age of eight. Irvin Cobb contributes an introduction to the American edition.

* * * * *

“We think that the author of ‘The young visiters’ has been unwise to respond to the greedy public’s desire for more. Her new book was bound to invite comparison with the other; it is not a patch on it.” K. M.

− =Ath= p111 Jl 23 ’20 600w

“Quite a tome in quantity compared to ‘The young visiters’ but except in the most childish efforts, not so happily naïve in quality.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:30 O ’20

“Nothing is to be found either in Sir James Barrie’s introduction to ‘The young visiters,’ or in Mr Cobb’s tribute to the author of these tales, to show us that they believe in the identity of Daisy Ashford or in the claim that their humor is a juvenile product. In fact, at times both seem to be writing in jest more than earnest, or with a superficial seriousness that scarcely attempts to cover up the jest. Sex is the basis of the humor in all these stories, as it was in ‘The young visiters.’” E. F. E.

− =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1150w

=Cath World= 111:836 S ’20 120w

+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 160w

“None is in the same class with ‘The young visiters,’ though each has here and there a touch worthy of her best year, her tenth, her annus mirabilis.” Silas

+ =New Repub= 23:258 Jl 28 ’20 100w

+ =N Y Times= p14 Je 27 ’20 1850w

“We doubt whether the book will repeat the success of its predecessor. It is hard to say why one doesn’t get as much out of it, but probably it is because a little of this sort of thing is amusing while a good deal palls.”

+ − =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 110w

“These five stories, with their deeply romantic titles, contain enough to give the admirers of the earlier book many of the same thrills of pleasure and amusement.”

+ =Review= 3:711 Jl 7 ’20 160w

“The present writer would unhesitatingly say that it is upon the subjects of meals and packing and costume that ‘Daisy Ashford’ shines pre-eminently.”

+ =Spec= 124:50 Jl 10 ’20 1100w

“‘A short story of love and marriage’ and ‘The jealous governes’ have the truly original ring of the book that made Daisy Ashford’s name famous and her identity wondered at. But the longer efforts of the new volume are merely uninteresting stories amateurishly told. The charm of the precocious but still unsophisticated mind is gone.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 250w

“None of the surviving products of Miss Daisy Ashford’s pen is quite up to the standard of ‘The young visiters.’ The longest, ‘The hangman’s daughter,’ contains some amusing passages, but it is a more ambitious work, written at a later age, and gives the effect of a burlesque of a ‘grown-up’s’ novel more than of a spontaneous efflorescence of childhood.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 140w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 50w

=ASHMUN, MARGARET ELIZA.= Marian Frear’s summer. *$1.75 (3c) Macmillan

20–10729

Marian Frear and her mother live together on an isolated little farm on the lake shore. They have been very happy together and keep busily occupied with the vegetable garden that supplies their living. But Marian misses the companionship of other girls and the lack of educational opportunities troubles both mother and daughter. Then a happy family of young people comes to spend a summer on the lake. Marian learns to play with other young people and in the fall finds the desired way to education open to her.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:120 D ’20

“A cheerful, wholesome, natural story for girls.”

+ =Outlook= 125:615 Ag 4 ’20 20w

“The young people are simple and natural and the incidents are never strained to produce dramatic effects, but those who have lived in the country may feel that the absolute superiority of Marian and her mother to all their neighbors is exaggerated.”

+ − =Wis Lib Bul= 16:197 N ’20 100w

=ASLAN, KEVORK.= Armenia and the Armenians from the earliest times until the great war (1914). *$1.25 Macmillan 956.6

20–1701

“In this little volume an Armenian historian gives a concise account of the rise and progress of his people, including the formation of Armenian royalty, the early religious ideas and customs, the conversion to Christianity, the dawn of Armenian literature, and finally the four centuries of bondage to the Turk. Many little-known facts have been gleaned from the somewhat obscure records of this long ill-treated people.” (R of Rs) “The work is translated from the original French by Pierre Crabites, whose introduction is an impassioned plea for Armenian independence.” (Dial)

* * * * *

“While at times the author seeks to present his nation in the most favorable light, as in the omission of any mention of the outrages perpetrated by the revolutionary societies at the close of the nineteenth century, his book is free from any attempt at propaganda. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of the preface written by M. Crabites.” D: Magie

+ − =Am Hist R= 25:748 Jl ’20 500w

“It is a concise and readable outline, giving not only the main currents of political development but also some information concerning economic and social organization.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:363 My ’20 60w

“Unlike most writings on the subject the history is stated in a matter of fact way free from propaganda.”

+ =Booklist= 17:23 O ’20

=Dial= 68:668 My ’20 40w

“There is grievous need of a map and almost equally of an index. But the book is good and solid, sober with historical sense and conscience.”

+ =Review= 2:604 Je 5 ’20 450w

=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 120w

“A carefully prepared, though naturally sympathetic, history.”

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

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 80w

=ASQUITH, MRS MARGOT (TENNANT).= Margot Asquith, an autobiography. 2v il *$7.50 Doran

20–20995

With astonishing frankness Mrs Asquith tells the story of her life and when she says in her preface that she has taken the responsibility of the telling entirely upon herself, one can easily believe her. Her dash and courage and unconventionality, her affectionate nature and clever wit, her social position and close association with events and people of prominence make the book unusual. In her own words, she has related of her “manners, morals, talents, defects, temptations and appearance” as faithfully as she could. Her reminiscences are all of a personal nature without reference to politics and public affairs. Both books are indexed and illustrated.

* * * * *

“Mrs Asquith is a sentimentalist, and a sentimentalist of the worst kind, one who keeps it all for herself. She imagines that she is a very rare, very misunderstood person. She has made a serious mistake in writing this book; in it she delivers up her secret to the first-comer. Her book is really a very dull one unless it is regarded as an unconscious self-revelation. From that aspect it is quite interesting though the type it reveals is not very intriguing.” J. M. M.

− =Ath= p610 N 5 ’20 1850w

=Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21

“The self-revelations of Margot Asquith and those of Benvenuto Cellini present more than one parallel. Margot Asquith’s autobiography is essentially human. She has painted a portrait of herself that will live, and she has filled in the background with pictures of many who are sure of a permanent place in the history of English literature and of the politics of England.” J. C. Grey

+ =Bookm= 52:356 D ’20 1250w

“Few writers have at once the intimate acquaintance and the analytic tendency to put forward such keen and living figures. We can hope to possess very few such living documents as is this record of the last forty years.” D. L. Mann

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 27 ’20 1400w

Reviewed by H: W. Nevinson

+ − =Nation= 111:sup657 D 8 ’20 1900w

“Being a woman born into a society where her game was to be charming, and where she had no chance to be seriously educated, we find her at the age of fifty-six publishing idiocies that Marie Bashkirtseff was too sophisticated to utter at fourteen, and never once attaining Marie Bashkirtseff’s noble realization that ‘if this book is not the exact, the absolute, the strict truth, it has no raison d’être.’” F. H.

− + =New Repub= 25:77 D 15 ’20 2600w

“Her lack of reticence is, plainly, offensive to good taste. It is not the less offensive because it is apparently entirely unconscious. The surprising thing is, however, that with all the material for interesting memoirs that Mrs Asquith should have stored away in her mind, she has given us relatively so little that is of any permanent value.” Stanley Went

− + =N Y Evening Post= p8 D 4 ’20 1700w

“The book is fascinating from the first page to the last.”

+ =N Y Times= p3 N 14 ’20 1650w

Reviewed by R. R. Bowker

+ =Pub W= 98:1883 D 18 ’20 150w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 500w

“It is after a fashion moral in tone, even religious, as is apparently, the writer’s character; it is reticent in political matters; and it is undeniably clever. With a little more pruning Mrs Asquith’s ‘Autobiography’ might have been a valuable and innocent record of a memorable society and an interesting period; as it stands, it is a scandal. Not, as we have said, for moral reasons in the narrower sense of the word, but for its wanton disregard of reticence and decorum.”

+ − =Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 1000w

“The fascination of the book lies in its bold defiance of British literary and social tradition, and its studied departure from the conventional.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 90w

“A book, particularly one written on some of the first figures in the country, should have some solid worth, and represent some substantial judgment. Mrs Asquith prides herself on saying exactly what she likes, on writing exactly what she thinks; but the result is not often judicious, nor of any importance, except as a tribute to the taste of the age.”

− =Sat R= 130:418 N 20 ’20 880w

“In spite of the errors in taste, and of certain occasional breaks in a style quite admirable when its purpose is considered, the book justifies those who have declared it to be ‘a true piece of literature’ with all that such words import.”

+ − =Spec= 125:598 N 6 ’20 3000w

“This autobiography is a revealing as well as an amazing book. The toes on which it treads are all English. Americans may not approve entirely of its material and its bumptious method, but they still find in it much significance and a great deal of entertainment.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 1350w

“Mrs Asquith has moved through great scenes; but the motion is a flitting, rather than an act of spiritual observation, and therefore when she sits down to recall her impression, it is apt to lack both sharpness and refinement.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 18 ’20 650w (Reprinted from London Nation)

“She is not well equipped for the panoramic display of the outer world, and the remarkable fulness of her opportunity in that direction is largely wasted. Mrs Asquith is no story-teller, it is not her line; she lacks the seeing eye and the vivifying phrase. And yet she elects to write a book that is all storytelling, all an attempt to reproduce the brilliant phantasmagoria in which she has lived.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 N 4 ’20 2200w

=ASTON, SIR GEORGE GREY.= Memories of a marine, an amphibiography. il *$5 Dutton

(Eng ed 20–8797)

“This volume is in autobiographic form and while it does not pretend to be a complete story of the author’s life it is written along autobiographic lines. The writer gives us some account of his subaltern days, when he was a student and then a budding naval officer. Then he recalls the period of the disturbances in Ireland and the Phœnix park murders. But he soon leaves this region for the East. It is the pleasant side of naval service that he shows us. After this sea experience, the writer tells of his transfer to the admiralty office in London and his experiences. He gives an agreeable account of Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee in 1887, at which the German Crown Prince Frederick, father of the recent Kaiser, was a conspicuous figure. Then, in 1889, Sir George though not then knighted—had an experience at the staff college. Then, later, there were some vigorous experiences to record in connection with the war in South Africa.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“The book is one to be read with enjoyment and interest.”

+ =Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 120w

“Sir George throughout his narrative is chatty, never tedious or prolix and intersperses his story with frequent anecdotes, which are always fresh and well told.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 450w

+ =Brooklyn= 12:132 My ’20 40w

+ =Sat R= 128:563 D 13 ’19 1200w

“Altogether, he has given us an exceedingly attractive addition to the literature of reminiscence.”

+ =Spec= 124:460 Ap 3 ’20 1650w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 N 13 ’19 750w

=ATHEARN, WALTER SCOTT.= National system of education. (Merrick lectures) *$1.50 Doran 377

20–4029

“Professor Athearn frankly states that the church cannot ask the state to teach religion, but the church can teach religion at odd hours during the week and on Sunday. The church can and must organize and administrate a national system of religious education that will parallel and correlate with the national secular system which is in process of formation at the present time. He regards the Smith-Towner bill as a large step in the direction of a unified, national, secular system of education, and accepts it as a challenge to the educational leadership of the church to produce a program which will be equally scientific, equally democratic, and equally prophetic. His discussion of national control, or direction, of a system of secular and religious education is extremely worth while at this, the most critical, time in the history of education in the United States.” (School R) “Bibliography on educational organization and administration.” (Booklist)

* * * * *

Reviewed by J. A. Artman

+ =Am J Soc= 26:240 S ’20 220w

+ =Booklist= 16:260 My ’20

+ =El School J= 20:633 Ap ’20 180w

=St Louis= 18:217 S ’20 70w

“Timely and vital book.”

+ =School R= 28:392 My ’20 400w

=ATTLEE, CLEMENT RICHARD.= Social worker. *$2.50 Macmillan 360

20–19448

“‘The social service library,’ of which this is the first volume, is issued under the ægis of the University of London Ratan Tata department of social science and administration. The subjects dealt with in order, each subject being treated under certain general sub-headings, are Social service and citizenship, Charities (these are classified, and one section discusses Waste and over-lapping), Organization, Social service in conjunction with central and governing authorities, the Qualifications and training of the social worker (a talk on the subject which would be of great value to all entering on social work), Religious agencies, The settlement movement (one of the subheads is, The school mission), Varieties of social worker; and there is an instructive chapter at the end on The social service of the working classes (The friendly society—The trade union—The cooperative society—The working men’s club—self-education).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

=Ath= p428 Mr 26 ’20 90w

=Cleveland= p92 O ’20 20w

“It is written in a philosophical spirit and with close-hand knowledge of the subject. Although its descriptions of the various agencies is based on British material, the book as a whole is bound to be useful for the American social worker and student of social problems.” J. H. T.

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 90w

“The book is full, racily written, and made alive with interesting first-hand illustration.”

+ =Nature= 106:498 D 16 ’20 350w

“To an American social worker possibly the chief interest of the book is the philosophy of the author. He reflects a modern faith in the power of the community as such to deal with the conditions that menace social welfare.” P. R. Lee

+ =Survey= 44:731 S 15 ’20 1200w

“The book is a singularly thoughtful and instructive study of a subject in which a widely interested public really needs well-considered guidance.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 320w

=AUDOUX, MARGUERITE.= Marie Claire’s workshop; tr. by F. S. Flint. *$2 (3½c) Seltzer

21–759

“Marie-Claire,” to which “Marie Claire’s workshop” is a sequel, was published in 1911. Marie Claire is now employed as a seamstress in a workshop in Paris, and the book describes her life and work there, with character studies of her shopmates. Monsieur and Madame Dalignac are the kindly proprietors and they are portrayed vividly as are Sandrine and Bouledogue and Duretour and her lover and Gabielle and the others. There is also Clement, Madame Dalignac’s nephew, who wishes to make Marie Claire his wife. The strain of working against time to fill a promised order, the monotony of the dull season when there is no work, the everyday contact of the girls, all enter into the picture.

* * * * *

“Very simple and very real, told with sympathy, grace and a fine, sure artistry, this picture of ‘Marie Claire’s workshop’ is a most appealing book.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 640w

“In short, this is a special type of realism, and the cumulative effect of it ... recalls as its nearest parallel, not prose but verse, Hood’s ‘Song of the shirt.’” Calvin Winter

+ =Pub W= 98:1195 O 16 ’20 280w

“This is a book for gentle souls; although it is too deeply human for the ingenuous.” A. G. H. Spiers

+ =Review= 4:59 Ja 19 ’21 1100w

“Possesses all the qualities of its forerunner, truth, serenity, freshness, keen observation, united with a deeper understanding of human nature and an even wider sympathy.”

+ =Spec= 125:708 N 27 ’20 540w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 30w

=AULT, NORMAN.= Dreamland shores. il *$3 Dodd 821

Poems for children with such titles as My dog, Clouds, Ducks, Pirate gold, The wind, The weathercock, The magic garden, Seasons, Noah’s ark, The moon’s adventure, The clock-man, Travels, A castle in the air, Tree-top. There are six colored plates and other illustrations by the author.

=AUMONIER, STACY.= One after another. *$2 Macmillan

20–15345

“Success jostles failure in the pages of Mr Aumonier’s latest novel. His hero is his own biographer, and we follow him through a picturesque childhood, along a divergent manhood, and into a more or less ebullient middleage. When the end of the story, but not the end of his life, is reached, we find that after adverse beginnings he has become a prosperous business man, whose temperamental sister has caused him more trouble than any of his own emotions, that he has been twice a happily wedded husband, that he is the loving father of a very desirable daughter, and the expectant grandfather of a child whose father has sacrificed himself to the god of battle in the great war. Except for that single episode near the end of the story, the chronicle has to do with the ways of national, if not individual peace.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“It is rich and poor, cold and hot, dull and deeply interesting. But the impression of the whole is of something which has just not succeeded.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 470w

“Readers who care for presentation of character rather than for plot, will like this, though some describe it as tedious. Not for the small library.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21

“Although his theme and the form of his story are conventional, Mr Aumonier has written in ‘One after another’ an unusual novel.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 1400w

“‘One after another,’ though reminiscent of Butler and Bennett, is of the very recent type, the vegetable school, that deals pleasantly with mediocrity at its best.”

+ − =Dial= 59:663 D ’20 70w

“By this sharp definition of the generations blended with his brooding sense of life’s fundamental continuance, Mr Aumonier has made his book as suggestive as it is entertaining and as philosophical as it is concrete.” L. L.

+ =Nation= 111:sup428 O 13 ’20 320w

“The novel is one whose appeal will be to those who care for style and thought rather than for plot and incident. It is a better book than ‘The Querrils.’”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 19 ’20 650w

“Naturally the interest is of the quiet rather than of the exciting order, but the situations are well thought out and the human interest and humor of sound quality.”

+ =Outlook= 126:333 O 20 ’20 90w

“Here is something to be read by both the new generation and the old, for it links them together, with a fine understanding of both.” D. W. Webster

+ =Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 240w

“The development of the narrator’s character is, to our mind, particularly well done—a very difficult task, and taken altogether the author more than justifies the high opinion we hold of his abilities.”

+ =Sat R= 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 90w

“The book tends more to reflection than to entertainment, and is considerably above the usual run of modern novels.”

+ =Spec= 125:408 S 25 ’20 280w

“Mr Aumonier in this work, while displaying a good deal of keenness alike of observation and thought, fails in the essential task of creating people that impress us as individual and significant. Mr Aumonier’s touch, however, is incisive and dramatic. And, in intention at least, he is not commonplace.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 240w

“The scenes are described with the ability which ‘The Querrils’ showed Mr Aumonier to possess; but the book is less carefully constructed, and the sense of incomplete finality which marred the effect of the earlier novel in this one is more obtrusive. Mr Aumonier studies situations rather than characters, and in contriving a situation with a climax that is dramatic but not ‘stagey’ he has a particular skill. At the same time, the book has a tendency to fall into vaguely connected episodes, while the characters approximate too closely to collections of impersonal attributes.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p351 Je 3 ’20 430w

=AUSTIN, MARY (HUNTER) (MRS STAFFORD W. AUSTIN).= No. 26 Jayne street. *$2 (2½c) Houghton

20–9713

The action of the story takes place in the year after America’s entrance into the war. Neith Schuyler, the heroine, has lived abroad with an invalid father for a number of years, and following his death has done relief work in France. She returns home hoping to learn to understand America. To come nearer to the problem she leaves the luxurious home of her two great aunts and takes a modest apartment on Jayne street, just off Washington square. Here she comes into contact with many shades of radical opinion and contrasts it with the “capitalistic” attitude of her own family and friends. Two men fall in love with Neith, Eustace Bittenhouse, an aviator, and Adam Frear, a labor leader. She becomes engaged to Adam and then learns that there has been another woman in his life, Rose Matlock, one of the radical group. The attitude of the two women, who represent the new feminism, puzzles Adam and he leaves for Russia. Eustace is killed in France and Neith is left to grope her way into the future alone.

* * * * *

“Rather obscure and vague in some places, it will not have many readers.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20

“Both in subject and in treatment, Mrs Austin’s work discloses its kinship to the social novel of Wells.”

+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 60w

“Mrs Austin’s is a sincere and intelligent handling of an intricate subject. Owing to her careful consideration and presentation of the attitudes of her characters the book moves slowly, but it is easy to feel the dynamic forces behind it.” H. S. G.

+ =Freeman= 1:597 S 1 ’20 680w

“Her attempt is original and subtle and its subtlety of presentation is heightened by the fact that, before writing this story, Mrs Austin seems to have steeped herself in Henry James.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ =Nation= 110:827 Je 19 ’20 550w

“One should not chide Mrs Austin too much for her somewhat blurred vision of the surface, since the greatness of her work lies in the much rarer faculty, which she possesses, of being able to focus on the inner significances.” J. C. L.

+ − =New Repub= 24:151 O 6 ’20 900w

“It gives you no more idea of conditions among New York radicals than do the New York newspapers. The story moves slowly and uninterestingly.” Henrietta Malkiel

− =N Y Call= p11 Jl 25 ’20 1000w

“The novel which is written primarily for some purpose outside itself is a novel which from the beginning is heavily handicapped. Usually the characters tend, in such instances, to become mere mouthpieces to express such divergent views as the author may wish to have uttered, and its situations are likely to descend into the condition of mere obvious illustrations. Mrs Austin’s new novel, ‘No. 26 Jayne street,’ has escaped none of these dangers. The book is very long, more than a little intricate, and at times profound.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:271 My 23 ’20 850w

+ =Outlook= 125:431 Je 30 ’20 50w

“Earnestness and background and an adroit hand belong to it, but all its data, its types, its ‘ideas’ are recognizable and timely. Its style may easily be called admirable. But its art conceals nothing. You do not lay down the book with the feeling that it is a big interpretation effortlessly embodied in its predestined form.” H. W. Boynton

− + =Review= 3:73 Jl 21 ’20 1050w

=AUTOBIOGRAPHY= of a Winnebago Indian, ed. by Paul Radin. (Publications in American archaeology and ethnology) pa $1 Univ. of Cal. 970.2

A20–741

“‘The autobiography of a Winnebago Indian’ is edited with explanatory notes by Paul Radin. A middle-aged Winnebago called ‘S. B.,’ who belongs to a prominent family of the tribe and has had typical experiences, relates them in considerable detail and with great candor. He tells of his youthful amusements and fasts, of his courting and his many affairs with women, of his various travels, of his time spent with shows and circuses, of his term in prison charged with murder, of his conversion to the peyote rite and of his subsequent visions of Earthmaker (God). The narrative extraordinarily adumbrates customs and sentiments which have almost always been studied from the outside but which here have the most intimate ring of actuality.”—Nation

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“A human document of extraordinary value alike for the ethnologist, the psychologist, and the lay reader.” R. H. Lowie

+ =Freeman= 1:334 Je 16 ’20 880w

“As ethnology the account is of great value, and merely as general reading it is highly delectable.”

+ =Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w

=AYRES, LEONARD PORTER.=[2] Index number for state school systems. 75c Russell Sage foundation 379

20–11840

“In ‘An index number for state school systems,’ Dr Ayres finds a single number which expresses the average of ‘ten different measures of the diffusion, the quantity, and the quality of the public education received by the children’ of the several states. The ten measures averaged into the index are: (1) the per cent of school population attending school daily; (2) average days attended by each child of school age: (3) average number of days schools were kept open; (4) per cent that high-school attendance was of total attendance; (5) per cent that boys were of girls in high schools; (6) average annual expenditure per child attending; (7) average annual expenditure per child of school age; (8) average annual expenditure per teacher employed; (9) expenditure per pupil for purposes other than teachers’ salaries: and (10) expenditure per teacher for salaries. The publication includes tables giving the index numbers of the several states for the census years since 1890 and for 1918, the resulting ranks of the states at the several periods, the correlation between the several items and the final index, and the correlation between the average of the five items that are based on attendance and the average of the five that are based on expenditure.”—School R

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=School R= 28:709 N ’20 420w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 360w

+ =Survey= 44:495 Jl 3 ’20 190w

=AYRES, RUBY MILDRED.= Richard Chatterton, V. C. il *$1.75 Watt

20–1371

“One fails to fathom the reason why handsome, indifferent Richard Chatterton, jilted as a slacker by millionairess Sonia, should extort an iron-clad promise from a nice old gentleman, never to tell of his departure as a private in the Blank brigade to France where he chums with his own valet and performs the double deed of heroism which wins him the most coveted of English decorations. One word of that and Sonia would never have thrown herself into the artful arms of his false friend Montague. When unavoidable evidence jams upon her slow credence the facts about Richard, she sees him in London, invalided home, and insane jealousy of his pretty nurse makes her conduct still more complicated. Later, the mistaken report of the hero’s death, the showing up of the villain in lurid tints and Sonia’s abrupt disappearance, get things into a grand tangle. The lovers show a genius for miscomprehension that keeps the action going strong until the pallid convalescent is accidentally discovered by Sonia in a convenient sitting-room, where fate and the author have to get behind the two and push them into each other’s arms.”—Pub W

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“The triteness of the story is unrelieved by any felicity of style; this is the sort of novel dashed off in a hurry to meet an uncritical demand.”

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“There are vivid scenes of departing troops, trench warfare and base hospitals, contrasted with gay glimpses of London society and country life. And pleasant is the mellow romance of the plump chaperone and the ‘God bless my soul’ old family friend—they at least have the saving grace of humor.” Katherine Perry

+ =Pub W= 97:177 Ja 17 ’20 300w

=AYSCOUGH, JOHN, pseud. (BP. FRANCIS BROWNING DREW BICKERSTAFFE-DREW).= Abbotscourt. $2 (2c) Kenedy

(Eng ed 20–8732)

This is preeminently a story of human kindness with enough of harshness in it to throw the kindly people and their doings into relief. The two sides of the picture are represented by two branches of the same family: the clerical, younger son side in spiritual and worldly prosperity throughout successive generations; and the baronet side in as steady degeneration. At last there is a reversion to type in Eleanor, the physically and mentally sound and beautiful daughter of the ramshackle Sir Anthony Abbot of Abbotspark, whom the Rev. Thomas Abbot of Abbotscourt heroically resolves to adopt into his family on her father’s death. The story revolves around poor Eleanor’s plight as a misfit both in the vicar’s family, surrounded by kindness, and in her dissolute brother’s house, exposed to his low designs. To escape both she flees into an unknown world and when her trials have reached their climax a veritable conspiracy of kindness and good will bring her back to life and love.

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“The story is a vivid picture, drawn with the author’s customary skill, of provincial social life in ecclesiastical circles and interest is well-maintained.”

+ =Ath= p1168 N 7 ’19 100w

“There is something delicately feminine about John Ayscough’s handling of his theme, his humor, his almost imperceptible irony. ‘Abbotscourt’ cannot be called a great book, nor would its author claim such a distinction for it. But it is worth reading for its style, its purity, and for that fragrance as of lavender and old lace which permeates its pages.”

+ =Cath World= 112:258 N ’20 220w

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 80w

=Spec= 123:819 D 13 ’19 60w

“It is worth dwelling on the method of approach to the characters; it differs so greatly from much that passes for character drawings now. It is open perhaps to a smile here and a shrug there, but it is supported nevertheless upon a basis of thought which though delicate is secure.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p629 N 6 ’19 580w

=AYUSAWA, IWAO FREDERICK.= International labor legislation. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics, and public law) pa *$2 Longmans 331

20–18736

“This book traces the origin and development of international labor legislation from the time of Owen (1818), with chapters on progress toward international agreements (1890–1900), labor conferences and treaties (1900–1913) and the labor development of the world war. Part 2 deals with the difficulties in international labor legislation and