Part 1, which is devoted to tackle, has chapters on The bait casting

rod; The casting reel; Terminal tackle; Casting lures; Housing the tackle; Repair kits and methods. Part 2, on Methods, has nine chapters: A first lesson in casting; Landing tools and how to use them; Fishing a wadeable stream; Fishing a river from a boat; Shore casting; Casting after dark; Lake casting from a boat; Spoons and how to cast them; Trolling for bass. There are fourteen illustrations. The author is angling editor of Outdoor Life, in the pages of which the chapters of the book originally appeared. He is also author of “Trout lore.”

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=Booklist= 17:103 D ’20

“A free and easy book full of authentic information given with the jocular assurance of the long-experienced angler.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 140w

“It is good reading; but it is meant primarily to be a guide to catching bass by casting, and such it excellently is. That it is well and heartily written is an added virtue.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 20 ’20 80w

=SMITH, WILLIAM WESLEY.= Pork-production. il *$3 Macmillan 636.4

20–12385

This volume of the Rural science series has been prepared by an associate professor of animal husbandry in Purdue university. “The material in the book has been drawn from three sources: from practical experience; experimental studies, particularly of feeding questions; and the results of research in the field of chemistry and biology.” (Preface) Subjects covered include handling and feeding of the herd, size of litters, forage crops, cereals, corn substitutes, cost of producing pork, marketing, judging, breeds and breeding. A chapter on The prevention of hog diseases is contributed by R. A. Craig. The volume is illustrated with eight plates and is indexed.

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=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 50w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 60w

=SMYTH, ETHEL MARY.= Impressions that remained. 2v il *$10.50 Longmans

20–3070

Miss Ethel Smyth is an English musician and composer. In this book of memories she writes of her childhood and girlhood in a typical Victorian household and of her musical life in Germany, more particularly in Leipsig where she went as a student in 1877. The story of her friendship with Elisabeth von Herzogenberg adds a dramatic element to the book.

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“Relentlessly truthful about herself, she refuses to say anything that could hurt others who still live. Her autobiography ends almost before her artistic career began; but even so it is a wonderfully fascinating record of a fierce, passionate and courageous life, told from the point of view of a woman who has reached a plane of rare serenity and detachment.” E: J. Dent

+ =Ath= p1294 D 5 ’19 1900w

“This book is a rich and irresistibly vivid panorama. The reader has the pleasure of it that he has of a portrait gallery whose subjects, interesting in themselves, are delineated with comprehension and an unerring instinct of reproduction.” Pitts Sanborn

+ =Dial= 68:637 My ’20 3300w

“No one can fail to be drawn by the record of that vanished Germany. The psychologist will study these fascinating pages for data of the artistic temperament, its force, its egotism, its limitations, of which it is not itself aware. But no one who begins the book can lay it aside until he reaches the end.”

+ =Review= 2:182 F 21 ’20 950w

“Of the earlier part we can say little. Despite the fact that the author has a nice turn for observation, an easy style, and a good memory, we feel that much of the material is of too private a nature. It is when the author goes to Germany that the chief interest in the book begins.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:sup14 N 29 ’19 900w

“She writes of herself for the most part as if she were writing of another person, with a detachment that is almost uncanny. And although music naturally plays a large part in the narrative, these memoirs can be read with the keenest interest by those to whom music is a sealed book.”

+ =Spec= 124:247 Ja 10 ’20 2000w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15a Ja 4 ’20 1600w (Reprinted from Ath and Observer [London])

“This is one of the most remarkable books of memoirs that has appeared in recent times. The intensity of the private life which she discloses, with something of Rousseau’s sensitiveness yet with a mixture of lively humour quite beyond his capacity, carries the reader away from the very outset. Without the descent into the abyss of the second volume there would have been matter enough for admiration in these witty pages; but it is that descent which gives the book a power of appeal which raises it far above the merely amusing and interesting.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p587 O 23 ’19 2350w

=SMYTHE, J. A.=[2] Lead, including lead pigments and the desilverisation of lead. il $1 Pitman 669.4

The author of this booklet in the Pitman’s common commodities and industries series assumes very little knowledge of chemistry and physics on the part of the reader and tells the story of lead from the time the ore is dug from the earth to its finished products. Contents: History of lead; Lead ores: their method of occurrence and mineral associates; The finding and mining of lead ore and the preparation of the ore for smelting; The chemical changes involved in smelting; Smelting in the ore-hearth; Smelting in the reverberatory furnace; Smelting in the blast furnace; Condensation of lead fume; Softening and desilverisation of work lead; Cupellation of alloys of silver and lead; Properties and uses of lead and its alloys; Compounds of lead—litharge and red lead; White lead and other lead pigments; Lead in medicine and lead poisoning; Index, map and illustrations.

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+ =Nature= 106:241 O 21 ’20 70w

=SNAITH, JOHN COLLIS.= Adventurous lady. *$2 (2c) Appleton

20–15066

Lady Elfreda Catkin was something of an imperious young lady. Her parents, owing to Lord Carabbas’, the father’s, impecuniosity, had decided on a wealthy marriage for her with the newly rich, new nobility. Lady Elfreda had decided on frustrating their plans. On the spur of a moment opportunity offers for an exchange of rôles between her and a poor shy little nursery governess. After a true comedy of errors the hoax comes to light with the result that little Miss Cass marries Lord Duckingfield and the now thoroughly emancipated Elfreda marries George Norris, grandson of the former butler of her ladyship’s grandfather and of a former ladies’ maid.

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“The adventures are very little adventures and dreadfully dull.” K. M.

− =Ath= p616 N 5 ’20 240w

“Gay, crisp comedy shot through with a thread of genial satire.”

+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“The adventures of Girlie Cass may not be morally significant to a universe in the throes of parturition, but they surely are jolly good fun, as Elfreda would say.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 1 ’20 520w

=Lit D= p95 O 23 ’20 1400w

“‘The adventurous lady’ is perhaps more nearly akin to the history of the delectable Araminta than to any other of Mr Snaith’s books—a social comedy, witty and amusing, light and sparkling as sunflecked foam. All this it is, and yet more—an admirable illustration of what a really good writer can do with a well-worn and somewhat trite plot.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 S 19 ’20 850w

“The tale is mildly amusing, but it is a pity that the author of ‘The sailor’ should think it worth while to write such a trifling farce.”

− + =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 50w

Reviewed by Katharine Perry

=Pub W= 98:659 S 18 ’20 290w

=Spec= 126:24 Ja 1 ’21 40w

“The story is obviously at variance with the class of work Mr Snaith has done heretofore. It is a sprightly tale, written to amuse.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 400w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p705 O 28 ’20 140w

=SNOWDEN, JAMES HENRY.= Truth about Christian science; the founder and the faith. $2.40 Presbyterian bd. 289.5

21–397

It is the object of the book to ascertain and state, as accurately and impartially and fairly as possible, the facts as to the founder and the faith of Christian science and to discriminate between the truth and error of the system. That it contains both is the author’s conviction. Contents: The subsoil of Christian science; Life of Mrs Mary Baker G. Eddy; Where did Mrs Eddy get her system of healing? “Science and health”: (1) the making of the book; (2) the contents of the book; Christian science teaching; The Christian science church; Mind healing and Christian science cures; The appeal of Christian science; Old truths newly emphasized; Index.

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“‘The truth about Christian science’ is for the layman. It may be heartily recommended.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 340w

“He has put together a very readable and useful account of the movement, together with a lucid examination of its doctrines, from the standpoint of an orthodox Christian theologist.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 300w

=SNOWDEN, JAMES HENRY.= Wonderful night. *$1.25 Macmillan 232

19–18544

“Egyptian history, old Greek and Roman, Persian, Phœnician, early Jewish, historic and prehistoric; all were preparation for the coming of Christ. Then came the first Christmas, the wonderful night. The writer of this version has undertaken to reconcile religion and science, to show that all thinking men could but have expected the thing which came to pass. It is an attempt to correlate the Christian story with ancient and modern history.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 600w

“If it must be done it could not be done in a more finished manner, with more attractive illustrations and illuminations.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 220w

=SODDY, FREDERICK.= Science and life. *$4 Dutton 504

(Eng ed 20–12133)

“Among the investigators of radioactive substances Professor Frederick Soddy shares with possibly half a dozen men a position of preeminence. To the general public he is best known through his readable little book on ‘Matter and energy’ in the Home university library.” (Freeman) ‘Science, and life’ is the outcome of Professor Soddy’s five years’ tenure of the chair of chemistry at Aberdeen; and the addresses, together with articles here collected with them, are devoted to two main themes—the vast significance and importance of radioactivity, and the need of more and better science teaching in school and university. The Evolution of matter is the subject of one of the chapters reprinted from the Aberdeen University Review. In appendices Professor Soddy criticizes the financial operations of the Carnegie trust for the universities of Scotland.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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“It is surely a great merit in Mr Soddy’s book that it awakens in us once more the feeling of adventure.... Being brought back to realities, and finding that they are purely ‘material,’ we can discover hope of essential change only in a profound alteration in the material basis of life. Mr Soddy’s book is exciting because this is exactly what he promises.” J. W. N. S.

+ =Ath= p301 Mr 5 ’20 900w

“The book is of special interest to men of science, because it brings out their immense burden of responsibility. The chapters on radioactivity are beautifully written, and, coming from Prof. Soddy, are authoritative.” Ellwood Hendrick

+ =Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering= 23:545 S 15 ’20 680w

“Given his lack of metaphysical subtlety, Professor Soddy can not be expected to say anything particularly new or enlightening on the relation of religion and science. Indeed, the essay devoted to that theme is singularly pointless. On the other hand, Dr Soddy is refreshingly clear and sound in his discussions of the relation of science and democracy.” R. H. Lowie

+ − =Freeman= 2:20 S 15 ’20 1000w

=Int J Ethics= 31:114 O ’20 260w

“The whole story [of research in radio-activity] is told in a condensed form in several of the essays in this volume, and it could not be told better. Those who are interested in such subjects should obtain the book and read it.” W. A. T.

+ =Nature= 105:1 Mr 4 ’20 1550w

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p65 Jl ’20 150w

=Review= 3:391 O 27 ’20 290w

“Professor Soddy, in urging the claims of the present and the future, seems unduly contemptuous of the past. He should leave it to undergraduates to make a bonfire of the ancient humanities, and should remember that the study of the past serves to guide the present and interpret the future.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:500 My 29 ’20 1150w

“Specially interesting to those who wish to know what light has been thrown upon the inmost secrets of matter in the last few years are the three papers entitled ‘Science and life,’ ‘The evolution of matter,’ and ‘The conception of the chemical element as enlarged by the study of radioactive change.’”

+ =Spec= 124:84 Jl 17 ’20 1050w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 90w

=SOME= British ballads.[2] il *$5 Dodd 821.08

(Eng ed 20–8033)

“Although this charming collection is entitled ‘British ballads,’ most of them are Scotch, but are none the worse for that. Indeed, we suppose it may be truly said that the best ballads are those of Scotland. There are here such old favourites as The lass of Lochroyan, Young Bekie, Chevy Chase, The twa corbies, Binnorie, and Get up and bar the door. There are eleven illustrations in colour by Arthur Rackham.”—Sat R

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“Everybody knows the drawings in color with which Mr Rackham is wont to embellish the classics. This new volume is, if possible, more exquisite than those preceding. It is all that heart could wish.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 160w

“It may be that when parents see Rackham’s dramatic picturing of the ballad of ‘The twa corbies,’ they will have some misgivings as to its suitability for young folks. For boys and girls of fourteen there is much to be missed, if ‘Chevy Chase,’ and ‘The duke of Gordon’s daughter,’ and ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ are passed by because of nerves or the difficulties of dialect. Rackham is always decorative, delicate, and dramatic.”

+ − =Lit D= p94 D 4 ’20 190w

“It is hard to decide which is the more attractive feature of this book—Mr Rackham’s paintings or the ballads themselves.”

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 26 ’20 500w

=Sat R= 128:615 D 27 ’19 70w

=SOMERVILLE, EDITH ANNA ŒNONE, and MARTIN, VIOLET FLORENCE (MARTIN ROSS, pseud.).= Mount Music. *$2 (*7s 6d) Longmans

20–2644

“‘Mount Music’ is a tale of Ireland in transition, beginning in the late ‘eighties’ and ending early in this century. The years in which the action takes place mark the passing of the old régime, incarnate in the person of Major Richard Talbot-Lowry, a genial, improvident, dashing, and artless sportsman. And the situation is complicated for him by the fact that his estate marches with that of a young kinsman, a Roman Catholic and a home ruler, the playmate, and in time the lover, of Dick’s daughter Christian. Larry Coppinger, the young home ruler, was ‘in tune with all the world’; and if Christian yielded to the wishes of her father when he was broken in health, she had personally no fear of a mixed marriage. They are both attractive and generous young people, but the finest portrait is that of Francis Mangan, the ‘big doctor like an elephant in his hugeness and suppleness, his dangerousness and his gentleness.’ His relations to his father confessor and his family, his social ambitions and real benevolence, make a wonderful amalgam.”—Spec

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“An Irish story, charming and wise and hard to classify because it is such a real book.” R. M. Underhill

+ =Bookm= 51:444 Je ’20 20w

“Her Irish characters are every whit as entertaining, and presumably as truthful as those of Mr Birmingham himself. There are none of the stereotyped good and evil persons of modern fiction here. Everyone is taken as he or she is, and Miss Somerville wastes no valuable time in moralizing over the foibles of her characters. A good story, excellently told.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 500w

“It is hard—nay, it is impossible—for an alien to write sympathetically or truthfully of things Catholic, especially if there be question of Catholic Ireland.”

− =Cath World= 111:410 Je ’20 150w

+ =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 30w

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w

“Alike in description, characterization, and dialogue preserves that unerring felicity of phrase, wide range of sympathy, and intrepid humour which were first exhibited in ‘An Irish cousin.’”

+ =Spec= 123:898 D 27 ’19 700w

“The authors have written many pleasanter books and many that will be more popular, but their genius has never been more unmistakable than in this picture of the ‘big doctor,’ so sordid and vulgar and crafty and with something so big in him.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p766 D 18 ’19 1100w

=SONNICHSEN, ALBERT.= Consumers’ coöperation. *$1.75 Macmillan 334

19–16460

“John Graham Brooks gives a brief introduction to this volume. The author gives a brief review of the history and explanation of the cooperative movement, developed extensively throughout Europe during the war and now being adopted to some extent in the United States, especially in the middle western and western sections. He asserts it to be the alternative, not an antidote, to bolshevism. The growing importance of the procedure is illustrated by statistics. Its object, the author shows, is to reorganize industry on a collective basis from the point of view of the consumer; to create a consumers’ industrial democracy. He points out that it proceeds by action, rather than by talk.”—Springf’d Republican

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“The value of the book consists in its giving the most adequate exposition of consumers’ coöperation yet given in this country,—a comprehensive story of the movement, the fullest in later years, and interesting suggestions as to future achievement.” E. P. Harris

+ =Am Econ R= 10:169 Mr ’20 450w

“The book is well written and is a clear exposition of consumer’s co-operation.” L. E. Hagerty

+ =Am J Soc= 26:371 N ’20 360w

“Students of the coöperative movement will find some useful information, lucidly set forth.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:363 My ’20 70w

+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20

“Informing and of general interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 30 ’20 450w

“Of singular interest in this book is the full description which it gives of the history of cooperation in the United States and its present status. We cannot, however, agree with the author in his interpretation of success and failure even though we take his statements of fact as accurate.” B. L.

+ − =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 80w

=SORLEY, CHARLES HAMILTON.= Letters; with a chapter of biography. *$5 Macmillan

(Eng ed 20–13569)

“It has been said that the death, in action, of Charles Hamilton Sorley constituted the greatest loss of the war to English literature. There may be some, perhaps, who will hardly commit themselves to this; but none will be so foolish as to deny that more than sufficient interest in his personality was kindled by the publication, in 1916, of his ‘Marlborough and other poems’ to justify the present appearance of this volume. These letters, edited by his parents with admirable restraint, form an invaluable commentary on the poems themselves. The letters really divide themselves into three groups: those written while at school at Marlborough; those while staying (and studying) in Germany, first at Shwerin in Mecklenburg and then at the University of Jena; and, lastly, those while in the army at home and in France.”—Sat R

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“We do not receive many such gifts as this wonderful book; the authentic voice of those lost legions is seldom heard.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p136 Ja 30 ’20 2500w

“His published book of poems is not alone evidence of his literary ability. His letters reveal exceptional powers and proclaim the man that might have been.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Mr 27 ’20 1300w

“One approaches them prepared to find little beyond promise—a hint of something fine cut down before fulfillment; they turn out to be very much more than mere promise; they are in themselves achievement, the expression of a rarely independent mind, humorous, rich and wise far beyond its years.” R. L.

+ =New Repub= 23:231 Jl 21 ’20 1250w

“Charles Sorley was a born letter-writer. As we read we feel ourselves to be wandering pleasantly among the green places of earth, with a brilliantly discursive boy at our side.”

+ =Sat R= 129:281 Mr 20 ’20 1000w

“They necessarily lose something of freshness and vividness when they are put together in a book, but they are full of amusing phrases and interesting comments.”

+ =Spec= 124:351 Mr 13 ’20 1400w

“Quite apart from any sentimental associations, it is a more entertaining book than the average, and it has been edited by Professor and Mrs Sorley with a perfect restraint which has been sadly lacking in certain other books of this kind.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p726 D 11 ’19 1050w

=SOTHERN, JOHN WILLIAM MAJOR.=[2] Oil fuel burning in marine practice. il *$7.50 Van Nostrand 621.12

“A manual of practical instruction in oil fuel burning: contains full and copiously illustrated descriptions of all modern oil fuel burning systems, together with exhaustive practical information relating to same; intended for the use of naval and mercantile marine engineer officers, etc.” (Sub-title) The book is in six sections; The properties and combustion of fuel oil; Fuel oil tests; Description of oil fuel fittings; Pressure systems of oil fuel burning; Faults in oil fuel burning; General notes on oil fuel burning. There are 102 diagrams and other illustrations. The author is principal of Sothern’s Marine engineering college, Glasgow, and member of the Institute of marine engineers, London, and of other engineering societies.

=SOUTHARD, ELMER ERNEST.= Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems. (Case history ser. Boston State hospital, Psychopathic dept.) il $10 Leonard 616.8

20–2508

“A comprehensive volume setting forth the conclusions of medical experts in a field which has recently undergone remarkable development is Dr E. E. Southard’s ‘Shell-shock and other neuropsychiatric problems.’ The data are presented in 589 case histories from the war literature—largely French and German—of the years 1914–1918, from these data Dr Southard draws about 70 pages of conclusions. The book has a bibliography by Dr Norman Fenton and an introduction by Prof. Charles K. Mills of the University of Pennsylvania.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 130w

“Primarily of value to physicians and army surgeons, the book is interesting even to the layman in its dramatic accounts of the soldiers who were victims of shell-shock.”

+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 110w

“Dr Southard presents his ideas not only with the thoroughness of the medical expert and scholar but with a certain humor and pungency, general literary culture and full appreciation of the relations of the subject to military service, and, incidentally, to everyday life.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 350w

“The book will stand as a monument to a man of many talents. Southard the scholar would not object to the statement that his book is as much a part of history as of medicine.” A. Myerson, M. D.

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 190w

=SPADONI, ADRIANA.= Swing of the pendulum. *$1.90 (1c) Boni & Liveright

20–774

Opening in San Francisco and ending in New York, this long novel tells the story of a woman’s life from youth to the beginning of middle age. The swing of the pendulum carries her from an unfortunate early marriage thru a passionate love affair with a man who is already bound by wife and child, to a safe and settled union based on mutual regard and need. Jean Norris graduates from the University of California, turns her back on teaching as a profession, enters library work, marries Franklin Herrick, follows Journalism, discovers the settlement movement, comes to New York as a social worker, plunges into civic reform, loves and loses Gregory Allen, forsakes her work to return to San Francisco, comes back and takes it up again, and after many emotional reactions marries her co-worker, Jerome Stuart.

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“There is a good deal of fine characterization in this book; the dialogue is extraordinarily natural. But the prevailing atmosphere is sultry with sex; the middle-aged reader, at least, may find the performance as a whole both strained and wearisome.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 240w

“This novel cannot be commended as a work of art. The story does not grip, several of its chapters are so episodic that they might be suppressed without loss, and the male characters are not men, but marionettes.”

− =Cath World= 111:700 Ag ’20 190w

“To hold the serious attention of serious readers through nearly five hundred pages argues at once a kinship with the wealthy mind of the true novelist. And such a kinship Miss Spadoni undoubtedly possesses.”

+ − =Nation= 110:208 F 14 ’20 300w

“Miss Spadoni’s imagination sends forth into a real, three-dimensioned world a troop of pale characters cursed with congenital indistinctness doomed from birth to wander unrecognisably in the fog of a common origin.” R. L.

− =New Repub= 23:209 Jl 14 ’20 500w

“It is sincerely conceived and written, it shows grasp of character and its development, and it unfolds its story interestingly. It has also its distinct crudities, technically and ethically. Like others of its numerous kind, its prolonged emphasis upon sex will condemn it for a large body of readers who will feel that it gives a distorted and unhealthy view of life.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 F 14 ’20 600w

“Any sincere study of ‘the woman alone’—to use Brieux’s phrase—is bound to be interesting, bound, indeed, to have a certain amount of value. In ‘The swing of the pendulum’ there is much that is crude, but there is real thought, real study and some vividness.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 750w

“Miss Spadoni has done some notable work in the past. Some of her short stories were of men and women, futile, and sordid, but she cut down beneath the events of their lives to the poetry of life. She has not, in ‘The swing of the pendulum’ kept the pace which she set herself in those tales.” Lucy Huffaker

+ − =Pub W= 97:175 Ja 17 ’20 700w

“There are evidences of cuts which in places make for uncertainty of delineation—the only blemish of an otherwise almost perfect work of its kind.”

+ − =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 150w

=SPARGO, JOHN.= “Greatest failure in all history.” *$2.50 (2c) Harper 947

20–14005

In this “critical examination of the actual workings of bolshevism in Russia” (Sub-title) the author claims to have assembled evidence which “must compel every honest believer in freedom and democracy to condemn bolshevism as a vicious and dangerous form of reaction, subversive of every form of progress and every agency of civilization and enlightenment,” and to show it up as “the curse which during less than thirty months has afflicted unhappy Russia with greater ills than fifty years of czarism.” (Preface) Contents: Why have the bolsheviki retained power? The soviets; The soviets under the bolsheviki; The undemocratic soviet state; The peasants and the land; The bolsheviki and the peasants; The red terror; Industry under soviet control; The nationalization of industry (I-II); Freedom of press and assembly: “The dictatorship of the proletariat”; State communism and labor conscription; Let the verdict be rendered; Documents; Index.

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“Although most of the evidence carries its own weight the disinterested reader will wish in many cases for some critical evaluation of authorities cited.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:55 N ’20

“Mr Spargo is a Socialist, and it is because he considers the doctrines of Lenin and his followers a ‘grotesque travesty of Marx’s teachings,’ and a blow to socialism, and the arch enemy of all democracy, political, and industrial, that he exposes it as it is. This is the great merit of the book. It compels the reader to look at bolshevism as it is.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 680w

“His latest volume attains a level of even greater detachment and cool judgment than its predecessors. The first uprush of hot revulsion of feeling against a false and violent philosophy, masked in the forms of the author’s own cause, has passed. Attacks upon the personal characters of bolshevist leaders are practically absent. The argument gains greatly in strength from this avoidance of personal invective.” M. W. Davis

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 S 25 ’20 780w

“Mr Spargo’s book is a stern book, but a just one. It was much needed, and it is especially timely now.” W: C. Redfield

+ =N Y Times= p6 Ag 8 ’20 2650w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 180w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p655 O 7 ’20 30w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 80w

=SPARGO, JOHN.= Russia as an American problem. *$2.25 (2c) Harper 947

20–3715

The author is a sworn enemy of Bolshevist rule and thinks that Russia is not ready for anything like a socialist state, lacking industrial development as she does. “At present she needs capital and capitalist enterprise.” This makes Russia an American problem and “there should be a very clear recognition, alike by the government and the people of the United States, of the great and far-reaching importance of securing for this country a very large share in the immense volume of trade which Russia’s recovery and economic reconstruction must inevitably produce.” Contents: Russia as an American problem; Russia and western civilization: Russia’s subjection to Germany; Japan as Germany’s successor; Japan and Siberia; Russia’s needs and resources; Postscriptum; extensive appendices and an index.

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+ =Booklist= 16:276 My ’20

=Lit D= p95 My 1 ’20 1400w

“The ultimate political advantage for the world of a Russia free from economic vassalage to militaristic neighbors is obvious, but Mr Spargo’s case would be equally strong if he did not magnify the danger of Russia’s position; for whatever may be the reality of Japan’s menace in Siberia the threat from Germany to European Russia or of a German-Japanese alliance belongs for the present in the realm of imagination.” Jacob Zeitlin

+ − =Nation= 110:730 My 29 ’20 2000w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ap 10 ’20 1250w

“Mr Spargo’s study is vitally interesting and illuminating, and it contains a wealth of precise information which will be priceless to business men in many lines when the time comes for meeting German commercial rivalry in her new Mitteleuropa.” J: Corbin

+ =N Y Times= 25:127 Mr 21 ’20 1600w

“Vital and patriotic book.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:196 Ap 18 ’20 100w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 9 ’20 620w

Reviewed by Reed Lewis

=Survey= 44:51 Ap 3 ’20 200w

=SPEARS, RAYMOND SMILEY.= River prophet. il *$1.50 (1c) Doubleday

20–10310

A story of the “Old Mississip” and of the vagrant population—shanty boaters, pot hunters, river pirates—that lives upon its broad waters. Parson Elijah Rasba, from the mountains, floats down the Tug river to the Big Sandy, down the Big Sandy to the Ohio, down the Ohio and out onto the great river, where he exclaims “If this is the Mississippi what must the Jordan be!” Parson Elijah is seeking a lost soul, Jock Drones, whose mammy wants him back in the mountains, and so he joins the motley throng that goes “dropping down” the lower river. Among the other characters are Nelia Carline, who has left her husband, Gus Carline, the husband in pursuit of her, Lester Terabon, a newspaper man in search of copy, Mame Coape of the many divorces, Buck the river gambler, and Jock Drones, the lost soul who turns back to his mammy.

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+ |=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

=SPENCE, LEWIS.= Legends and romances of Spain. il *$6.50 Stokes 863

20–26986

The literature of the romantic period in Spain treated by a folk-lorist, who says, “Since the days of Southey the romantic literature of Spain has not received from English writers and critics the amount of study and attention it undoubtedly deserves.... I have made an earnest endeavour to provide English readers with a conspectus of Spanish romantic literature as expressed in its cantares de gesta, its chivalric novels, its romanceros or ballads, and some of its lighter aspects. The reader will find full accounts and summaries of all the more important works under each of these heads, many of which have never before been described in English.” (Preface) Among the chapters are: The sources of Spanish romance; “Amadis de Gaul”; Catalonian romances; Moorish romances of Spain; Tales of Spanish magic and sorcery; Humorous romances of Spain. There are illustrations and a brief bibliography.

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“It is an honest attempt to interest the general reader in a delightful department of literature. A book of this sort is in special need of an index, especially as there are no detailed ‘Contents,’ only general chapter-headings. But though there is a useful short bibliography, there is no index at all.” G: Saintsbury

+ − =Ath= p516 O 15 ’20 900w

+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

=Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 60w

“Extremely readable.”

+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 60w

“The attractive page, the good print, the popular treatment, the fine coloured illustrations, render it exactly suitable for a present to an intelligent youth of either sex, while the accounts and summaries of all the important works under the various headings provide a real fund of instructive information.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 100w

“‘Legends and romances of Spain’ is not only a story book. There is a great deal of information in it and some real research. It is not quite up to date, perhaps.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p833 D 9 ’20 660w

=SPENCE, THOMAS, and others.= Pioneers of land reform. *$1.50 Knopf 333

This book is one of the series of economic reprints of the famous Bohn libraries. It contains an introduction by M. Beer, characterizing and comparing the three essays. The essays are: The real rights of man, by Thomas Spence; The right of property in land, by William Ogilive; and Agrarian justice, by Thomas Paine.

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+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p195 Mr 25 ’20 1200w

=SPENDER, HAROLD.= Prime minister. il *$4 Doran

20–22843

In writing this biography the author has drawn upon “the memories of twenty-seven years of unbroken friendship” and in summing up the characteristics of his friend he says: “It is this combination of the slow qualities, with the swift—of judgment with daring, of mercy with rigour, of slow reflection with swift attack, of the zeal of the Cambrian with the shrewdness of the Fleming—that marks him off from so many of his race.” The first thirteen chapters are devoted to Lloyd George’s childhood and youth and earlier career up to the beginning of the war and the rest of the contents is: A war man (1914–1915); East or west? (1915); Serbia (1915): Munitions (1915): The new ministry of munitions; Premiership (1916); The saving of Italy; The Versailles council; Victory; The peace conference; The new world; The man; Highways and byways; Through foreign eyes. There are illustrations, appendices and an index.

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“This record has the force of an autobiography rather than of a detached appraisal.”

+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20

Reviewed by D: J. Hill

+ =Bookm= 52:163 O ’20 1800w

=Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 1800w

“The book is pitched in a high dithyrambic key which is too laboriously sustained to be convincing and at last becomes exasperating. The literary frills are, moreover, a trifle cheap and shabby. Either the whole thing is the most flagrant and therefore self-defeating sort of pamphleteering or Mr Spender’s once robust literary sense is suffering a sad decline.” R: Roberts

− =Freeman= 1:571 Ag 25 ’20 1650w

“Mr Spender’s portrait of the Prime Minister can claim in one respect only to be a faithful one. It is Mr Lloyd George as he appears to himself—not to his Maker. Not merely by false interpretation of events but by false attribution of qualities and acquirements Mr Spender fabricates his hero.” J. A. Hobson

− =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 1400w

“It has none of the detached judgment of a historical appraisal of a completed career. Instead it has the militant interest of a brief presented in behalf of one of the most brilliant statesmen of modern times. It is not biography in the highest form of that art nor is it great literature. But Mr Spender’s work is not cheapened or vitiated by unseeing eulogy of his subject.” W: L. Chenery

+ =N Y Times= 25:3 Je 27 ’20 3550w

“Mr Spender knows no discrimination in his eulogy: whatever his hero has done is not only right but so conspicuously right that it needs neither apology nor explanation. The best we can honestly say of ‘The prime minister’ is that it will serve as a quarry from which some future biographer may draw useful materials.”

− + =Spec= 124:427 Mr 27 ’20 750w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 800w

“Much the most satisfactory part of the book is that which describes Mr Lloyd George’s birth and upbringing, his early political activities, his entry into Parliament, and the brilliant fighting years in which he marked himself out as a certain minister of the crown. The history of his career as a minister down to the outbreak of war is vague and scrappy and generally inadequate.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p189 Mr 18 ’20 350w

=SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH (PRESCOTT) (MRS RICHARD S. SPOFFORD).= Elder’s people. il *$1.75 (2c) Houghton

20–5405

Through these stories of old New England we look into the hearts of the country people, hear their gossip, learn to know their homely religion, their superstitions, see the struggles they have with their baser selves and glimpse their higher natures. We also learn to love the sturdy souls that recur in all the stories and embody the best that is in them all—Elder Perry, Old Steve, Miss Mahala, and others. The stories are: The deacon’s whistle; A change of heart; A rural telephone; The step-father; John-a-dreams; Miss Mahala’s miracle; An old fiddler; The blessing called peace; Father James; The impossible choice; A village dressmaker; Miss Mahala’s will; A life in a night; Miss Mahala and Johnny.

* * * * *

“Undramatic, but interesting.”

+ =Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20

+ =Lit D= p102 O 23 ’20 1200w

“Mrs Spofford is not by any means a great craftsman, her limitations are quite evident, but within her power—and she is never unduly anxious to achieve what is beyond her—she provides some interesting and entertaining bits of fiction.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 10 ’20 480w

“The series of short stories which makes up this chronicle contains nothing particularly new or striking, but the tales have quite a good deal of verisimilitude, and some of the characters are likable.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 280w

=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w

“Mrs Spofford has finely and strongly delineated a number of choice spirits here whom one will not easily forget. She has also incorporated much of the quiet humor of this type of people, and, all in all, has presented here not an especially great book but a very interesting one.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 9 ’20 250w

=SPRING RICE, SIR CECIL ARTHUR.= Poems. *$3 Longmans 821

20–17907

“Mr Bernard Holland reminds us in his preface that the late ambassador to the United States published two books in his lifetime, a book of verse with interludes in poetic prose ‘adapted from the Persian’ and a prose version of a Persian love tale with a veiled mystical meaning. Besides the Persian sonnets this volume contains ‘In memoriam, A. C. M. L.,’ and a number of miscellaneous poems.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“His poems are like his personality and please us by some charm which is not quite analysable. They are strangely different from the work of most men of action. There are only a few poems in this book which are absolutely bad, but, on the other hand, there is probably none which is not marked by some flaw.”

+ − =Spec= 125:782 D 11 ’20 850w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 720w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup O 14 ’20)

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p654 O 7 ’20 90w

“They are true poetry. The volume may not add one to the list of great English sonnets; but the beauty and the sincerity of these claim attention.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p664 O 14 ’20 720w

=SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER).= Cornelli; tr. by Elisabeth P. Stork. (Stories all children love ser.) il *$1.50 (3½c) Lippincott

20–17408

In his introduction to this story for children Charles Wharton Stork regrets that its author should be known for one of her books only, altho that one is the justly popular “Heidi.” In the present story, he thinks “we find a deeper treatment of character, combined with equal spirit and humor of a different kind.” It is the story of a happy-hearted little Swiss girl who is changed into a sullen, morose and unattractive child through the misunderstanding of two women in whose care her father leaves her. A woman of different type, the mother of a family of four, finds the secret of Cornelli’s unhappiness and brings back the old sunny disposition.

* * * * *

“There is a breath of the mountain freshness which suggests ‘Heidi.’ The translation of the children’s speeches into formal English gives them sometimes a rather stilted effect.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21

=SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER).= Toni, the little wood-carver; tr. by Helen B. Dole. il *$1 (9c) Crowell

20–15071

From earliest childhood Toni had carved animals out of wood and his dearest ambition is to be a wood-carver. But the cost of instruction is beyond his mother’s means and he is sent up into the mountains to herd the farmer’s cows. Here, overcome by the loneliness, he breaks down and falls into a lethargy from which nothing arouses him. He is taken to a great sanitarium where he finally recovers and finds a good friend who provides the money for the desired training.

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=Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 90w

=SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.).= Birds, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821

(Eng ed A20–244)

Birds, the first poem of this collection is based on the thought that the birds are older than man and that in the days of his infancy they built their nests in the self-same way and with the same perfection they do today. The other poems are: Processes of thought, Airship over suburb, Harlequin, Winter nightfall, Two songs, and A far place.

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“‘The birds’ is an interesting poem full of felicitous things. But it seems somehow to lack intensity. The three poems called ‘Processes of thought’ are naturally more personal, more intimately felt; for they are a record of introspection. In these we seem to be getting nearer our ideal of what the lyric inspired by science or philosophy should be like.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p783 Ag 22 ’19 1000w

“His nature minutæ, his tenderness, his color are Wordsworthian, with a drama, a music, a diamond-cut-diamond quality, as well as a quality of the noblest oratory, that the old bard never knew.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 D ’20 280w

“The poem after which the collection takes its name has a common idea but one which Mr Squire expresses with uncommon vigor and suggestion. The advantage of Mr Squire over the average American poet of similar gifts is his ability to express sentiment without sentimentalizing the mood.” W: S. Braithwaite

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 1500w

“The difficulty with his poetry, for there is a difficulty—lies in the unfortunate fact, that despite the obvious care he lavishes upon it, it is too lax, too impersonal. Like everyone else who has something new to say, Mr Squire has discovered that a new idea depends on a new form of utterance being found to fit it. It is only a pity that he has so few new ideas, and that he is content instead with writing poems in which neither the idea—nor the utterance—is of the slightest importance.” J: G. Fletcher

− + =Freeman= 2:284 D 1 ’20 900w

“His head is clearer than his poetry is fine; he is sober, and he has a vein of reflection not wholly resembling other men’s, but the strength that he has displayed rather than implied, and his metaphors, of which he apparently is proud, are painfully overdeveloped.”

− + =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 80w

“The writing of verse is only one of Mr Squire’s innumerable activities, and yet he is a poet of no small talent. Unlike most of his brother Georgians, he is at his best when he is most metaphysical. At his best he is fantastically powerful; at his worst he is florid and bombastic. The present volume shows him more in the latter mood.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 180w

“Mr Squire in his present volume has lost none of that quiet controlled distinction which was always his; but he seems to have got rid of the rather hard, metallic note which was noticeable in some of his former work. The most remarkable poem of the book is called ‘A far place.’ To us it seems one of the most original and absolutely successful and complete poems that Mr Squire has ever written.”

+ =Spec= 123:376 S 20 ’19 620w

“This little book is not merely a joy in itself and additional to what is now a considerable body of work, but extremely rich in promise.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p409 Jl 31 ’19 980w

=SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.).= Books in general. (2nd ser.) *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 824

20–16289

This is the second series of short essays, reviews and squibs on books and writers, collected from weekly contributions to the New Statesman. They are brilliant, witty and full of originality. Some of the topics are: The descendants of Shakespeare; Scientific management for Pegasus; The inferior poems of Keats; One’s favourite author defined; Shelley’s letters; The essay in America; The humours of hymnology; Dialect in literature; Verhaeren; On submitting manuscripts; Rupert Brooke in retrospect.

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=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

“Even more interesting than technical success, in this sort of thing, is the quality of mind we see at work. Mr Squire has an admirable sanity.” K. F. Gerould

+ =Bookm= 52:263 N ’20 780w

“Mr Squire’s style is distinctly conversational. The fluent grace of such table-talk, however, neatly disposes of the adage that all men talk in prose.”

+ =Dial= 69:665 D ’20 70w

“Somehow the sense of leisure in ‘Books in general’ is not richly filled; the notations are too fluent, the writing lacks spring, and more often than not it lacks the effect of enjoyment. Scarcely one of his papers can be read without expectancy. But the promise is seldom fulfilled.” C. M. R.

− =Freeman= 2:382 D 29 ’20 210w

“The comments on books, politics and things in general are thoughtful, amusing and suggestive, worth reading and thinking about.”

+ =Ind= 104:68 O 9 ’20 320w

“They are informative, witty, often merely playful. Critical acumen is shown at times, but more often the evident purpose of the papers is to amuse.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 8 ’20 550w

“Mr Squire mentions books and publications from this country only for the purpose of jeering at them; it is gently done, but still a jeer. ‘Books in general,’ however, includes such pleasing essays ... that most of us will forgive ‘Solomon Eagle’ for tweaking a feather or two of the American eagle’s tail.” E. L. Pearson

+ − =Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 180w

Reviewed by P. U. Kellogg

+ =Survey= 45:27 O 2 ’20 680w

=STARLING, ERNEST HENRY.= Feeding of nations. *$1.90 (*5s) Longmans 338.1

20–666

“This small book of one hundred forty-five pages contains a vast store of information concerning the principles of human nutrition and the application of these principles to the problem of feeding the community in times of peace and war.” (N Y Evening Post) “Dr Starling was chairman of the Food committee of the Royal society which took up the study of the problem of feeding the nation before the government realized that there was a problem, and afterwards scientific adviser to the ministry of food.” (Survey)

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“An extremely able and attractive presentation of a difficult subject.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 Mr 20 ’20 500w

+ =Survey= 43:656 F 28 ’20 1050w

=STEARNS, HAROLD EDMUND.= Liberalism in America: its origin, its temporary collapse, its future. *$1.75 (2½c) Boni & Liveright 321.8

20–1878

“The core of liberal philosophy” writes the author, “is respect for the individual and his freedom of conscience and opinion.” To trace the foundations of this philosophy in America and to account for its complete break-down during the war is the main purpose of this book. The ten chapter titles are: What liberalism is; The English heritage and the American development; American liberalism to the eve of the war; The emotional breakdown before warhysteria; Timidity and the seductions of office or career; President Wilson, the technique of liberal failure; Political symbolism and the mob; Débâcle of pragmatism; Leadership; The future. A bibliography of two pages follows. The author was formerly associate editor of the Dial.

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“His plea for tolerance is marked by intolerance, for good-nature with ungenerosity in weighing the motives of others, for nonpartisanship and detachment with evident animus and one-sided advocacy rather than fairness and breadth of vision. Hence the value of the work as a critique of American liberalism is very seriously impaired for the general reader and the serious student.” C. E. Merriam

− =Am Pol Sci R= 14:511 Ag ’20 520w

“While one cannot altogether agree with the conclusions of the author of this extremely readable exposition of liberalism, the arguments are in most cases clear, and fairly presented.”

+ − =Bookm= 52:173 O ’20 200w

“But for all the flat contradictions with which the book seems to abound, it is interesting for the variety of subjects of current interest it touches notwithstanding the author does not seem to have completely assimilated these—as, indeed, who has? One thing that can be said about the book in general is that it is liberal.” W. A. M.

− + =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 800w

“Herein lies the fundamental weakness of the discussion. One gathers no clearly defined impression of what liberalism is or expects to do, and who are the liberals. Mr Stearns writes impassionately and with a refreshing verve that carries the reader headlong with him.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:254 My ’20 340w

=Ind= 102:234 My 8 ’20 170w

“One inclines to a wish that the writer had brought to his task a little more sympathy, a little more humility, and a great deal more information, and the wish becomes very strong when one reaches his discussion of Mr Wilson. In a considered estimate by a liberal thinker one looks for a fair and balanced examination of causes and results. Mr Stearns simplifies the president’s problems so that any departmental clerk might have overcome them. He imputes low motives without the least apparent justification.” Jacob Zeitlin

− =Nation= 110:238 F 21 ’20 850w

“The book is of great value. Its analysis of American tendencies is more balanced and inclusive than any contemporary work upon the subject.” C. W.

+ =N Y Call= p6 Ja 9 ’21 230w

Reviewed by W. J. Ghent

− =Review= 2:229 Mr 6 ’20 1150w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 50w

“It is no engaging picture of our American war mind that Mr Stearns paints, and twenty months ago it would have been hotly resented by the great majority of our people. That the average man of intelligence is likely to find himself mainly in agreement with it now (although he may hesitate to admit the fact, even to himself) is the best evidence that the picture is essentially true.” F: A. Ogg

+ =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 350w

“As a volume of broad discussions, enriched by much reflection on books and events, and by brilliant insight into motives, this book is a success. Yet as an ordered analysis of the basic problem of liberty the book fails, and its chief value will be lost unless it becomes the starting point of a much needed discussion.” G: Soule

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:197 O ’20 500w

=STEBBING, EDWARD PERCY.= Diary of a sportsman naturalist in India. il *$5 Lane 799

20–22627

This diary is published with a purpose. The author says: “The sporting anecdotes and material selected from my note-books, which form the greater part of the book, are designed to lead up to and emphasize the necessity which exists of affording an adequate protection to the game and other animals of India.” (Preface) The book is in two parts: Sport in the big game jungles of India; and Game protection and the provision of sanctuaries for the preservation of the Indian fauna. There are illustrations from photographs and sketches by the author and others.

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“He describes his experiences fairly graphically, although, after a few pages, we have too much confidence in his shooting to be seriously alarmed for him.”

+ − =Ath= p473 O 8 ’20 260w

“There is a chapter on ‘Jungle lore,’ and several real tiger stories that outdo most of those common to fiction. All the photographs are very good, and the little pen and ink drawings, which are the productions of five different persons, while not equal to Mr Seton’s, carry their own individuality, and give new life to the already entertaining text.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 11 ’20 210w

“A most interesting collection of reminiscences. His tiger stories are capital.”

+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 250w

“As a faithful account of conditions as they have been during the last quarter of a century, Mr Stebbing’s book is likely to have a definite and permanent value; and he knows well how to entertain as well as to instruct.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p497 Ag 5 ’20 750w

=STEELE, DAVID MCCONNELL.= Papers and essays for churchmen; being a series of studies on topics made timely by current events. *$1.50 (2½c) Jacobs 204

20–1134

The only unity that the author claims for this collection of papers is that “they were all written to be read either to or by churchmen.” (Foreword) The author’s mental tenor is conservative and his thinking along the lines of his convictions is vigorous. He holds that the war has dispelled the mist of immoral emotionalism that had begun to envelop the churches, a form of this emotionalism being the literal interpretation of “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” He repudiates woman’s suffrage as wholly bad, hurls anathema against labor organisations and socialism and advises that the poor, as the “economically sick,” are properly the charges, not of the church, but of the state. The contents are: Effect of the war on religion; Wanted, an American Sunday; Woman suffrage and religion; Men’s clubs and the churches; The poor, with you always; The church and labor agitation; Socialism—Christian and pagan; Revelation—final or progressive; The Episcopal church; Change of name of the church; Proportionate representation.

=STEELE, HARWOOD ELMES ROBERT.=[2] Canadians in France, 1915–1918: with 8 sketch maps. il *$8 Dutton 940.371

(Eng ed 20–10382)

“A detailed history of the operations of the Canadian Army corps, consisting of four divisions and ‘corps troops.’ In writing this account Captain Steele is describing in the main events that occurred under his own observation in 1915 to the close of the war in 1918.”—R of Rs

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“Captain Steele has the gift of clear, straightforward description; and there is little to be desired in the succinctness and clarity with which he etches in a number of Homeric incidents.”

+ =Ath= p816 Je 18 ’20 80w

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 420w

=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w

“Captain Steele’s book is admirably written and full of vivid detail.”

+ =Spec= 124:49 Jl 10 ’20 200w

=STEINER, RUDOLF.= Four mystery plays. 2v *$3 Putnam 832

20–6848

H. Collison, one of the translators of these plays, describes them as representing “the psychic development of man up to the moment when he is able to pierce the veil and see into the beyond.” (Introd.) They embody the author’s occult philosophy and form one continuous series. The characters are represented on their physical as well as on their spiritual plane and include many types—the occult leader, the seeress, the artist, scientist, philosopher, historian, mystic, and man of the world, also the forces of evil in Lucifer and Ahriman. Collaborators with the translator are S. M. K. Gandell and R. T. Gladstone. The plays are: The portal of initiation; The soul’s probation; The guardian of the threshold; The soul’s awakening.

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“‘Four mystery plays’ will doubtless command the attention of the author’s disciples, but they are too formidable to win the interest of the average outsider. The blank verse translation is adequate, but hardly inspired.”

+ − =Dial= 69:321 S ’20 70w

“The only advantage gained by the play form is, perhaps, a little simplicity in the treatment of very abstract subjects.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 180w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p780 N 25 ’20 110w

=STEPHENS, JAMES.=[2] Irish fairy tales. il *$5 (6½) Macmillan

20–21207

The first of these ancient folk-tales tells of the subduing of Tuan mac Cairill, the powerful heathen, by Finnian, the Abbott of Moville. Finnian lays siege to Tuan’s stronghold by seating himself before its gates and fasting. Heathen etiquette forbade the attack of a defenceless man and heathen hospitality a man’s starving before the gates. So Finnian is admitted and at once proceeds to convert Tuan. Thereupon Tuan, the grandson of Noah, tells his story which dates back to the beginning of time in Ireland and is wonderful indeed. The other tales are: The boyhood of Fionn; The birth of Bran; Oisin’s mother; The wooing of Becfola; The little brawl at Allen; The Carl of the drab coat; The enchanted cave of Cesh Corran; Becuma of the white skin; Mongan’s frenzy. The full page illustrations in color and the chapter vignettes are by Arthur Rackham.

* * * * *

“This book is written by a man who has a touch a little beyond talent.” R. E. Roberts

+ =Ath sup= p783 D 3 ’20 180w

+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21

“It is unfortunate that in the arrangement of his book he does not give greater heed to the various cycles in which nearly all Irish stories belong. But lack of unity is almost the only adverse criticism that can be brought against the book. Mr Stephens has re-told Irish legends in a volume that should take a permanent place in literature.” N. J. O’Conor

+ − =Boston Transcript= p3 D 18 ’20 1350w

“James Stephens’ writing has the gift of everlasting youth. Arthur Rackham’s drawings have inherent magic. Wherefore the two are fortunately met in a new book, primarily for children, but also full of appeal to grown-ups with a sense of humor.”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w

“Though some of the stories as told by Mr Stephens appear to be more in the nature of historic legends rather than fairy tales, the collection provides good reading in which humour of a subtle kind abounds.”

+ =Int= Studio 72:206 Ja ’21 60w

“There is enough of the hard line of beauty in his work to make one rejoice in its amplitude.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 25:111 D 22 ’20 1700w

“Humor shines, here, riots in wild fancy, extravagance rides by the side of beauty.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w

“Stephens has put a lot of himself into the telling of these tales; they are moulded by his story-telling instinct, given finish by his English and burnished by his humor.” D. W. Webster

+ =Pub W= 98:1200 O 16 ’20 200w

“Children may enjoy it, but, like Arthur Rackham’s exquisite illustrations, it will be fully appreciated only by more sophisticated readers.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 170w

+ =Spec= 125:784 D 11 ’20 60w

“There is much good narrative, much humour, and, usually, unstrained simplicity in the book, but above all there are passages of enchanting beauty.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p830 D 9 ’20 310w

=STERRETT, FRANCES ROBERTA.= Nancy goes to town. *$2 (5c) Appleton

20–18766

Nancy goes to town to take nurses’ training, telling all her friends in Mifflin that she intends to marry a rich patient. She meets two rich patients, one an old woman, the other an old man. The two are business rivals and they become rivals also for Nancy’s favor. One has a nephew, the other a grandson, both put forward as candidates for Nancy’s hand. So the rich husband is within her reach, but Nancy chooses, after some faltering, to marry Dr Rolf Jensen, the poor young doctor.

* * * * *

“The description of hospital life from the point of view of a lively girl, with quick wit and a keen sense of humor, is capital.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 420w

=STEVENS, WILLIAM OLIVER, and WESTCOTT, ALLAN FERGUSON.= History of sea power. il *$6 Doran 359

20–18945

This volume covers the evolution and influence of sea power from the beginnings to the present time and treats naval history not from the point of view of a sequence of battles but as a vital force in the rise and fall of nations and in the evolution of civilization. It traces its beginnings from the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean long before the dawn of history to its present significance. The book is indexed, has a list of references at the end of each chapter and ninety-six maps, diagrams and illustrations. Contents: The beginnings of navies; Athens as a sea power; The sea power of Rome; The navies of the middle ages (two chapters); Opening the ocean routes; Sea power in the North; England and the Armada; Rise of English sea power (two chapters); Napoleonic wars (three chapters); Revolution in naval warfare; Rivalry for world power; The world war (three chapters); Conclusion.

* * * * *

“Though surprisingly condensed, an informative and authoritative work.”

+ =Booklist= 17:143 Ja ’21

“It is a more objective and less theoretical study [than Mahan’s ‘Influence of sea power on history,’] with more interest for the general reader; in addition to which it is a convenient reference book.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a D 5 ’20 620w

=STEVENSON, GEORGE.= Benjy. *$1.75 (*7s) (2c) Lane

20–5234

The book recounts the fortunes of the Ainsworth family from the time when young Dr Ainsworth drives his bride Priscilla home in the gig, to the coming of the children—up to the number of thirteen—with its resultant poverty; and the varied careers and fortunes of all these in turn. Benjy, the youngest, his mother’s favorite, follows his father into the medical profession. Outwardly his life is drab, all its important happenings being of the nature of disappointments. The more brilliantly endowed brother, Basil, wins and weds Benjy’s own beloved Clara who dies in childbirth through Basil’s light-hearted want of foresight. When Uncle Benjy adopts little Clara to save her from a bad step-mother, death robs him of her also. Then comes the war and offers him a welcome escape from himself.

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“It is only when the children grow older and come into touch with the world that Mr Stevenson fails lamentably. The quaint, old-fashioned children are replaced by plain, strange young men and women, and the author in his effort to convince us of Benjy’s purity of heart pours over him such a great pale flood of sentimentality that he is drowned before our eyes.” K. M.

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Reviewed by R. M. Underhill

+ =Bookm= 51:443 Je ’20 130w

“An almost masterly understanding of human (and English) limitations pervades the story. It is told always with a sure judgment and reticence.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 130w

“A calm tale; interesting incident and fairly interesting characters, but no particular point.”

+ − =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 20w

“Such is the charm of Mr Stevenson’s insouciant style that we lose consciousness of the fact that we are listening to an ‘author.’ The author’s powers of characterization are, in fact, responsible for a minor fault in ‘Benjy’—the diffusing of interest in too many characters.”

+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 550w

=Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w

“It is well conceived and full of appreciation of individual character.”

+ =Sat R= 129:234 Mr 6 ’20 60w

“Though the reader may become rather bewildered in trying to follow each particular thread, the book is illuminated with many of the author’s quiet touches of humour and is written with his usual distinction of style.”

+ − =Spec= 124:53 Ja 10 ’20 60w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 N 6 ’19 80w

=STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR.= Learning to write; ed. by J: W: Rogers, jr. *$1.35 Scribner 808

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“This book is a compilation of everything R. L. S. has said on writing, both in his essays on literary art and in the casual observations made in his letters.”—Booklist

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+ =Booklist= 16:306 Je ’20

+ =Freeman= 2:94 O 6 ’20 380w

“You cannot learn much about electricity by watching the lightning in the thunder cloud. Even if Stevenson did teach himself to write as he says he did, which is nothing more than an improbable hypothesis, reading his extremely characteristic and technically complex descriptions of his methods will not help a single youngster out of the toils and troubles of the early days of his probation.” W: McFee

− =N Y Evening Post= p9 My 8 ’20 1300w

“It is to be feared that Stevenson’s confidences in regard to his own literary processes have done all too much to foster hope in the bosom of ‘would-be’ authors.... One is inclined to take it with several grains of salt.” R: Le Gallienne

+ − =N Y Times= 25:8 Je 27 ’20 2250w

+ =School R= 28:628 O ’20 110w

“Likely to prove a gold mine of interesting information not only to aspiring writers, but to people who are interested in books as well.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 24 ’20 240w

=STEWART, BASIL.= Japanese color prints and the subjects they illustrate. il *$20 Dodd 761

“Mr Stewart knows just what collectors of Japanese prints want and do not want. But they want a handbook of 300–odd pages, with reproductions of signatures, lists of important sets, chronological tables, brief biographical information; of handy format and popular style. And such is the book before us. There are a glossary, a chapter on ‘Forgeries and imitations,’ another on ‘Actor prints’ in general, and an excursus on the ‘Forty-seven rōnins’ in history and on the stage.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“It is no serious condemnation to say that ‘Japanese colour prints’ is not the book on Japanese colour prints for which we are all looking.”

+ − =Int Studio= 72:33 N ’20 200w

“The ground covered is so vast that the treatment in certain cases inevitably seems somewhat cursory. One or two inaccuracies may be noted.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p464 Jl 22 ’20 640w

=STEWART, WENTWORTH.= Making of a nation. $1.50 (3c) Stratford co. 325.7

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In this discussion of Americanism and Americanization the author holds that we cannot make American citizens of aliens by formal educational programs, that we must take into consideration the psychology of Americanization and treat Americanism as a thing of the spirit rather than of naturalization papers. Certain undesirable features in our alien population—such as foreign language newspapers, religious worship in a foreign tongue—should be treated by a process of elimination rather than coercion, while “all anarchistic agitators,” and unamerican labor agitators should be summarily dealt with. As one of the educational factors for Americanization a modified form of the open forum is recommended. Contents: The nation’s awakening; The nation’s task of unification; Eliminating the handicaps to Americanism; Constructive government and nation building; Providing conditions for Americanism—or the application of constructive government; The neighborhood and the nation; International sentiment and nationalism.

=STILL, JOHN.= Poems in captivity. *$2 Lane 821

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The author discovered the poet in himself during his three years of captivity in Turkey, “where each one of us was driven to seek inside himself some alleviation of the daily dullness, many of us there found things we had not suspected to exist.... I found these verses, all of which were written there, and their discovery made more happy many of the eleven hundred and seventy-nine days I spent as a prisoner of war.” (Foreword) The poems are in five groups: Prison verses; Woodcraft and forest lore; Tales from the Mahawansa; Various songs and sketches. The frontispiece is a facsimile of a part of the ms. which was concealed in a hollow walking-stick, and some explanatory notes are appended.

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“Mr Still’s work is undeniably interesting, and his chosen vehicle seems to be the right one.”

+ =Ath= p1018 O 10 ’19 100w

=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 280w

“He writes fluently and the Ceylonese legends that he relates are interesting in themselves, but his medium hardly ever touches the authentic heights of poetry.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 100w

“The merit of Mr Still’s work is that it gives aptly and agreeably a full, warm picture of scenes picturesque and historic.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 O 2 ’19 160w

=STOCKBRIDGE, MRS BERTHA EDSON (LAY).= What to drink; the blue book of beverages. il *$1.50 Appleton 641.8

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In these days of prohibition this book solves the hostess’ problem of what to serve to drink. All she needs is a stock of syrups, shrubs and vinegars, says the author. “If, however, she is inclined to think it an arduous task, let her turn to these recipes, and she will be convinced that the labor and the time expended bring their own reward in ... a delicious drink delightfully made.” (Foreword) The contents present an exhaustive array of recipes for fruitades and punches and drinks hot and cold—non-alcoholic cocktails, syrups, grape juice, root beer and cider, hot drinks such as coffee, chocolate, etc., drinks for invalids and children, sundaes and sauces, ice-creams, sherbets, etc. There is an index.

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=Booklist= 17:18 O ’20

=Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 250w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 50w

=STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Yankee ingenuity in the war. il *$2.50 Harper 623

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It was as a reaction of the author’s patriotic pride to the slanderous disparagements of America’s participation in the war that the book was written and for that reason it is limited to the consideration of distinctly American enterprise. It has, however, not been written for the scientist or the technologist, but for the average American, neither skilled nor interested in technical details. A partial list of the contents is: The mobilization of science and industry; The Liberty motor; American military airplanes; The chemical conquest of the air; Potash, sulphuric acid, and dyestuffs; Poison gas; Some extraordinary ship-building feats; Some Yankee tricks in undersea warfare; The wonders of war wireless; Medical and surgical achievements. The book is profusely illustrated from official photographs.

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“Interesting and informative.”

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 70w

=STOCKLEY, CYNTHIA.= Pink gods and blue demons. *$1.50 (9c) Doran

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A story of South Africa. The pink gods and blue demons are the lightning flashes of temptation from the facets of diamonds. Loree Temple, a young and much indulged wife, falls under their spell. Her husband has gone north on business leaving her alone in Kimberley. She falls under the spell of the diamonds and so into the power of the man who can give them to her. She is extricated through the loyalty and generosity of another woman, and, her lesson learned, goes to join her husband.

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“The tale is interesting and moves swiftly forward to a sufficiently dramatic climax.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 450w

“The story holds one’s attention closely.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w

=STOCKTON, JAMES LEROY.= Project work in education. *$1.20 (3c) Houghton 371.3

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The book is one of the “Riverside educational monographs” edited by Henry Suzzallo. Its object is to show what can be done to replace the traditional teaching by isolated subjects by a more vital method built on a practical psychological basis. The project method in brief implies “learning to do by doing,” or “self-education through activities,” and is the result of the working-out of the most fundamental of modern educational principles. The book falls into two parts, considering project work both as a method and as a subject.