The book review digest, Volume 16, 1920
Part I contains: The evolution of the principles underlying the
project method; The transfer of the principles to America; Modern American principles of education; The project method in the modern public school; Project work in trade education. Part II contains: The evolution of the project subject; The broader conception of the content of the project subject; The necessity of more direct teaching of the project subject; Summary; Outline.
=STODDARD, THEODORE LOTHROP.= Rising tide of color against white world-supremacy; with an introd. by Madison Grant. *$3 Scribner 327
20–7502
“Mr Stoddard has written an analysis of the present-day relations of the white and colored races throughout the world. What he describes as the rising tide of the yellow, brown, black and red races is graphically described in a series of tersely written chapters. This is followed by an historical account of The ebbing tide of white, and the book concludes with brief chapters on The outer dikes, The inner dikes, and The crisis of the ages. Mr Stoddard’s immediate program, involving what he regards as ‘the irreducible minimum,’ calls for a thorough revision of the Versailles treaty and a provisional understanding by which the white races will give up their tacit assumption of domination over Asia, while the Asiatics forego their dreams of migration to the lands of white and other races. Without some such understanding Mr Stoddard looks forward to a race war on a world scale.”—R of Rs
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“On the resurgence of Asia Mr Stoddard writes wisely, yielding neither to panic nor to ignorant optimism. His views on the future of his own North American continent display less sanity.”
+ − =Ath= p441 O 1 ’20 200w
“Interesting to read in connection with Du Bois’ ‘Darkwater.’”
+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 52:301 Ja ’21 780w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 19 ’20 850w
“Mr Stoddard’s book is one of the long series of publications devoted to the self-admiration of the white race. The books must be characterized as vicious propaganda, and deserve an attention not warranted by any intrinsic merit in their learning or their logic. The fundamental weakness of all books of this type, and eminently so of Mr Stoddard’s book, is a complete lack of understanding of the hereditary characteristics of a race as against the hereditary characteristics of a particular strain or line of descent.” Franz Boas
− =Nation= 111:sup656 D 8 ’20 980w
“A brilliant and highly suggestive survey.”
+ =R of Rs= 61:669 Je ’20 160w
“Many people will regard this book as highly dangerous and provocative. This verdict, though it might at first sight seem just, would be, we are convinced, short-sighted and unfair. When we say this we do not mean that we agree with every word of the premises put forward by Mr Stoddard or with all his conclusions; for we do not. What we do feel, however, is that it is a book which gives with vigour, and yet with essential moderation, most important and often most necessary warnings.”
+ − =Spec= 125:336 S 11 ’20 1550w
+ − =Spec= 125:367 S 18 ’20 2150w
“Because of its profound knowledge and eloquence this is a book that must be reckoned with. Had he been more moderate in his diagnosis and prognosis of the impending racial conflict, his book may have found fewer readers, but it would have been more convincing to the student of history and of public affairs.”
− + =Survey= 4:450 Je 26 ’20 450w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 130w
“Mr Stoddard’s work is more convincing and useful when he deals with subsidiary questions, such as the real peril of Asiatic industrial competition or the serious pressure of overpopulation brought about in ‘coloured’ lands by the humanitarian hygiene of the whites. But his vision of the ‘rising tide of colour’ fails to carry conviction.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p692 O 28 ’20 1450w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:107 Je ’20 130w
“Mr Stoddard’s book is the work of a pseudoscientist with a considerable skill in writing who, sincerely enough no doubt, jumbles assumptions and facts in a plausible and dangerous combination.” N. T.
− =World Tomorrow= 3:287 S ’20 680w
Reviewed by W. R. Wheeler
+ =Yale R= n s 10:431 Ja ’21 340w
=STODDART, JANE T.= Case against spiritualism. *$1.50 Doran 134
(Eng ed 20–4476)
“This book assembles articles from various writers, culling even from believers every clause usable as antagonistic comment. It is not backed by personal experience.”—Booklist
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“Perhaps the best Protestant manual opposing the cult.”
+ =Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
+ =Brooklyn= 12:122 My ’20 30w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p635 N 6 ’19)
“It will require mightier counter-thrusts than the slight rebuff of Miss Stoddart to make any headway against the encroachments of the insidious brand of personalism sponsored by psychical research.” Joseph Jastrow
− + =Dial= 69:209 Ag ’20 100w
“A short but effective and well-considered statement of the case.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p635 N 6 ’19 40w
=STOLL, ELMER EDGAR.= Hamlet; an historical and comparative study. (Studies in language and literature) pa $1 Univ. of Minn. 822.3
20–2038
“A close analytical study; reaching the conclusion that Hamlet is meant for an heroic, not a pathetic, figure, and not for one who falters or who deceives himself.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“His results afford a wholesome check to introspective and romantic criticism, and may be accepted as the starting-point for a reasoned consideration of Shakespeare’s intentions.” G: F. Whicher
+ − =Nation= 110:433 Ap 3 ’20 800w
=New Repub= 25:326 F 9 ’21 360w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w
=STONE, GENE.= Cousin Nancy and the Lees of Clifford. il *$1.75 Crowell
20–15505
The Lees are a jolly western family living in a mountain valley in Nevada. Nancy is a cousin from New York who comes to spend a year with them. Nancy has been used to every luxury and there are many things about her cousins’ way of life that surprise her. She is not used, for one thing, to being introduced to delivery boys and she doesn’t see Ralph Mariner’s outstretched hand. But Nancy is a “real girl” after all. She easily adapts herself and enjoys the hearty fun and the impromptu good times her cousins offer her, and comes to appreciate Ralph’s worth, at the same time that he comes to see that she isn’t a snob. Nancy changes her mind about finishing schools too and decides to go to college and a great discovery, made on one of their expeditions, makes it possible for the others to go too.
=STONE, GENE.= Jane and the owl. (Sage brush stories) il *$1.50 (5c) Crowell
A series of fairy tale adventures for young readers. The initial setting is unusual. Jane lives in the sage brush country and her playground is a rocky canyon. Climbing its steep slopes one day, she sits down on a broad flat rock to rest and falls asleep and then begin her adventures in company with Oskar the owl. The stories are: Jane and the owl; The wobbly wudgets; The tremendous terwollipers; The moon sprites; The strike of the stylish young ladies of Fairtowers; The land o’ nod; The joyful mermaids; Break o’ day country.
=STOREY, MOORFIELD.= Problems of today. *$1.50 Houghton 304
20–18501
A volume containing the Godkin lectures for 1920. These annual lectures, delivered at Harvard, must deal in some manner with “the essentials of free government and the duties of the citizen.” Mr Storey chose five unrelated subjects of vital present interest. These are: The use of parties; Lawlessness; Race prejudice; The labor question; Our foreign relations. The author is a lawyer and member of the American bar association. He has been president of the Massachusetts civil service reform association, the Anti-imperialist league, and of the National association for the advancement of colored people.
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+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20
“Mr Storey is at his best when he is considering conditions that are not complex, where rightmindedness and neighborly feeling and a willingness to do one’s share are enough to remedy human ills. When we turn to discussion of the distribution of wealth and the relations between employer and employed we find Mr Storey less adequate.”
+ − =Nation= 111:568 N 17 ’20 450w
=STORM, MARION.= Minstrel weather. il *$1.50 (8c) Harper 814
20–20910
A volume of nature essays, one for each month of the year, with such titles as: Faces of Janus; A woodland valentine; Ways of the March hare; The April moment; The crest of spring; Hay harvest time. The author has a keen eye for the delicate shadings of the seasons’ changes, and the book will appeal to those of similar tastes. In addition to the twelve essays for the months, she writes of Landscapes seen in dreams; Hiding places; The play of leaves; The brown frontier; Far altars.
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“The style is full of color and highly charged with meaning. It is not a smooth papershelled almond, but a shagbark hickory nut. If you want the full sweetness of the kernel, you must pick it out carefully. It well rewards the trouble. I am glad she has chosen to send out her first book, not in some strange form of free verse, but in clear, spicy, juicy prose. It is alluring and refreshing, a cupful of cordial.” H: Van Dyke
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 700w
=STORY, A. M. SOMMERVILLE (FRANKFORT SOMMERVILLE, pseud.).= Present day Paris and the battlefields. *$1.50 (3½c) Appleton 914.4
20–15940
“The visitor’s handbook with the chief excursions to the battlefields.” (Sub-title) All but one of the fifteen chapters are devoted to Paris. There are chapters on Paris of today; Fashionable Paris; Intellectual Paris; The origins of Paris; Paris of the middle ages; The art, gayety and genius of Paris; Aristocratic and pious Paris; etc. The excursions to the battlefields are outlined in the final chapter. The style is intimate and many of the conventional guide book features are omitted. There is no index.
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“It is well written, interesting, accurate as far as it goes, but it is not a handbook. It has no index, no maps. A more important omission, however, is its failure to live up to its title. The book has little concern with ‘present-day’ Paris.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 5 ’20 540w
=STRATON, JOHN ROACH.= Menace of immorality in church and state; messages of wrath and judgment. il *$1.75 (2½c) Doran 176
20–6996
A series of sermons preached in Calvary Baptist church, New York city, all dealing with “the rank paganism and ever widening indecencies of the modern age.” The author says, “After every war, there is a wave of immorality. We have just passed through the greatest war of all time, and we are now witnessing the widest wave of immorality in the history of the human race.” Among the subjects of the sixteen chapters are: Slaves of fashion: the connection between women’s dress and social vice; The awful corruption of the modern theater: should Christians attend? The scarlet stain of sexual impurity: will America go the way of the great empires of the past? The great American gambling craze; God or Mammon? a message to the millionaires of New York; Sabbath observance as social sanity.
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“The book is all emphasis. Ring the bell for church a few times and it has an effect; toll the bell and the stridence of its tone wearies.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w
=N Y Times= 25:224 My 2 ’20 700w
“The value and importance of his appeal, which might have been great, are largely lost by lack of perspective, grotesque exaggeration, superficial reasoning, and inaccurate statements of important facts. To those abreast of the times in the field of social hygiene effort and accomplishment, the book offers an object lesson in unscientific method and presentation.” B. J.
− + =Social Hygiene= 6:580 O ’20 240w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 28 ’20 450w
Reviewed by F: H. Whitin
=Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 500w
=STRATTON, CLARENCE.= Public speaking. *$1.48 Holt 808.5
20–12400
“This book on public speaking attempts to provide fundamental rules and enough exercises to train members of a class to become effective speakers before audiences. It aims to be practical. The idea underlying the treatment is that the student will be continually doing much more speaking than studying.” (Prefatory note) The chapters take up: Speech; The voice; Words and sentences; Beginning the speech; Concluding the speech; Getting material; Planning the speech; Making the outline or brief; Explaining; Proving and persuading; Refuting; Debating; Speaking upon special occasions; Dramatics. Additional exercises are given in the two appendixes and there is an index. The author is a member of the English department of Central high school, St Louis, and of the Division of university extension, Washington university.
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“The chief value of the book is its excellent organization of the large variety of activities which make up a worthy course in public speaking.”
+ =School R= 28:635 O ’20 180w
=STRAUS, RALPH.= Pengard awake. *$2 Appleton
20–17317
Pengard was first discovered by some English tourists, as a bookdealer in Chicago. According to the testimony of his friends, he had been queer for some time and was getting queerer, disappearing from time to time for increasingly long intervals. As he also appeared to be suffering, Sir Robert Graeme sets himself to fathoming the mystery. A famous English physician is requisitioned for the probe. That Pengard is a victim of amnesia, is coming more and more under the influence of another personality and is living in dread of complete surrender, is certain from the start. And this is what gradually reveals itself: John Pengard and Hartley Sylvester are one and the same person, and the latter, author of a book that has made him famous, is gaining in sinister influence. By the aid of psychoanalysis, hypnotism and shrewd guesses, Dr Arne achieves the unexpected result that Pengard fades away as a dream person and Sylvester comes to stay. After more patient experimenting, more startling disclosures, Sylvester transforms himself into John Mathieson, one-time pal and brother-in-arms to Sir Robert’s dead brother.
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“We must admit that even an inveterate novel reader will scarcely be able to forecast the various developments which arise, and in particular the utterly unlooked-for conclusion.”
+ =Ath= p555 O 22 ’20 130w
“The story becomes more and more baffling as we proceed. The mystery is well worked out and the unraveling is exciting up to the very close.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 190w
“An uncommonly good story of this kind. Based upon actual psychological fact.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
+ =Grinnell R= 16:355 F ’21 200w
“While the plot is clever enough to carry the book, the pleasant literary style it is that will attract the average reader.”
+ =N Y Times= p29 Ja 2 ’21 470w
“Anybody who wants to be entertained will thoroughly enjoy this story, but most readers will probably agree that Lucius Arne is the least convincing part of it.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p651 O 7 ’20 640w
=STRAUS, SIMON WILLIAM.= History of the thrift movement in America. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott 331.84
20–7771
The book is one of Lippincott’s thrift text series edited by Arthur H. Chamberlain. In his introduction Mr Chamberlain says of the author: “He clearly saw the wasteful tendencies of our people, and deplored the results, bound, he well knew, to come from them. He saw the problem in its totality. He appreciated thoroughly the distinction between proper spending and useless wasting; between common-sense saving and narrow parsimony.... He alone could write the history, indicate the need and significance and point the way of the thrift movement, of which he is the apostle.” The book falls into two parts. Some of the chapters in part 1 are: Characterization of thrift; America’s record of thriftlessness; The organization of the American society for thrift; The international congress for thrift; Resolutions recommending the teachings of thrift in the public schools of America. Among the contents of part 2 are: Little talks on thrift; Money-making and money-saving; How thrift shapes the character; The need of personal account keeping; Waste in the kitchen; Personal standards of thrift; Thriftlessness among the poor. There is an index and five symbolic cartoons by Rollin Kirby.
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=Booklist= 17:7 O ’20
“Certainly, the gospel of thrift which Mr Straus expounds needs to be spread far and wide. The little talks on thrift contained in part II will be helpful to teachers as illustrations of the thrift idea.” G: F. Zook
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 330w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 100w
=STRAYER, GEORGE DRAYTON, and ENGELHARDT, NICKOLAUS LOUIS.= Classroom teacher at work in American school. il *$1.48 Am. bk. 371.2
20–7789
“This volume is one of the American education series, of which Prof. Strayer is the general editor. It treats exhaustively of the organization and administration of public education, as well as of the technique employed by the teacher in his daily work. Chapters are included dealing with records and reports, the organization of public education, the classification and progress of children, the measurement of the achievements of children, the health of school children, as well as extra-curricula activities that make possible an intelligent and sympathetic cooperation with the plans of the administrator.”—Springf’d Republican
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+ =Cath World= 112:271 N ’20 80w
“Contains little that is new, but is a restatement of material which is already familiar to all except elementary students of education. It will doubtless be used in many introductory courses.”
+ − =El School J= 21:152 O ’20 500w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 160w
=STREET, JULIAN LEONARD.= Sunbeams, Inc. il *$1.25 Doubleday
20–16499
Henry Bell Brown is introduced to us first as he is leaving the staff of the New York Evening Dispatch, and is given a farewell banquet. He is leaving to join a firm of “advertising engineers,” and subsequently becomes H. Bell Brown. It is only when he goes into business for himself that he rises to the glory of “Belwyn Brown.” It is his big idea of “merchandising” (one of his favorite verbs) sunshine that brings him success. He becomes a sort of a commercial Pollyanna spreading Gloomer Chasers broadcast on boiler-plate pages—something on this order: “No business is busted when there’s a smile left in the bank.” The war threatens the business of Sunbeams, Inc., but he enlarges its scope, goes to France and helps “win the war with sunshine.” Upon his return he is more convinced than ever that his name and fame shall be a household word and spares no effort to accomplish this result. At the end of a successful banquet given in his honor by the Pundits he is able to “indulge himself in a brief self-gratulatory yet philosophical reflection. ‘One thing is sure,’ he said to himself; ‘In this world a fellow gets just about what’s coming to him.’”
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“Not only is the story so thin that it will hardly hold together, but it is impossible to feel any sympathy with the leading character—a state of things which often is fatal in a work of this kind. That it is not so in this instance is immeasurably to the credit of the author. It affords whimsical entertainment of unique quality.”
+ − =N Y Times= p22 S 19 ’20 350w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 200w
“Short story with a lot of humor and various amusing exhibitions of psychology.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 120w
=STREETER, BURNETT HILLMAN, ed.= Spirit; the relation of God and man, considered from the standpoint of recent philosophy and science. *$2.50 Macmillan 231
19–19611
“The movement toward a scientific and philosophical conception of God is materially aided by the publication of a book called ‘The spirit,’ edited by Canon B. H. Streeter of the Church of England. ‘This volume,’ says the editor, ‘puts forward a conception of spirit—considered as God in action—which is definite but not scholastic, and which is capable of affording a basis both for a coherent philosophy and for a religion passionate and ethical, mystical and practical.’ The chapter on Immanence and transcendance is by Prof. A. Pringle-Pattison. Miss Lily Dougall writes on God in action. The psychology of power is treated by Capt. J. A. Hadfield of the Ashhurst neurological war hospital at Oxford. A. Clutton-Brock’s customary distinction of mind and style is apparent in two chapters on Spiritual experience and Spirit and matter. Other chapters are What happened at Pentecost by Rev. C. A. Anderson Scott, The psychology of grace, by Rev. C. W. Emmet, The language of the soul, by Miss Dougall and Christ, the revolutionary by Canon Streeter.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Bib World= 54:428 Jl ’20 320w
“Its temper is frank, its thought, for the most part, keen and clear, and its language, though frequently employing the terms of traditional theology, simple and eloquent.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 19 ’20 680w
“Alike in its fearlessness, in its refusal to make terms with narrow types of orthodoxy, and in its strong Christocentric theology it is a characteristic product of modern English religious thought. Its main defect is that it only implicitly recognizes the affirmation of modern research that Christianity is a synthesis.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p279 My 6 ’20 2300w
=STREIT, CLARENCE K.= “Where iron is, there is the fatherland!” il *$1; pa *50c Huebsch 940.318
20–19447
The booklet comes under the “Freeman pamphlets” series and is “a note on the relation of privilege and monopoly to war.” (Subtitle) It is an exposé of the stock and bond morality of big business and shows “that the interests of a nation and the interests of private property are two separate and distinct things. Whether the money and mineral international did or did not prepare and start the war ... it is certain that the fifty-one months during which millions of men were killed was a most profitable era for these interests.” Some of the topics discussed are: The basin of Briey; Interlocking directorates; Nickel not contraband; The French trust favors Krupps; Patrioteers; When is a fort not a fort? The agreement for a Lorraine offensive; The flag of big business; Bloody profits.
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“Mr Streit tells the story simply, straightforwardly, with ample citation of authority, but almost too unjournalistically. The booklet is marred by awkward translations and by careless proof-reading of place names.”
+ − =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 300w
=STRINGER, ARTHUR JOHN ARBUTHNOTT.= Prairie mother. il *$2 Bobbs
20–11073
“Those who met ‘Chaddie’ McKail in ‘The prairie wife’ will be glad that Arthur Stringer has embodied her later experiences in ‘The prairie mother.’ Many of the characters of the earlier story of the Canadian prairie appear here. The story is in the form of a diary in which she sets down the details leading up to, and during, her greatest trial. The McKails have passed the first material difficulties of home-making in the new land, and their condition borders on opulence. But unfortunate speculation sweeps away their broad acres and solid home, and they are faced with the necessity of starting all over again. The ‘prairie mother’ gladly surrenders her charming home to the husband’s titled English cousin, and moves her household and three small tots to an unbroken half section which is in her name. The new owner of the old home is a woman who had entrusted funds to McKail. The former speedily proves the fly in the ointment, for she seems to fascinate ‘Dinky-Dunk’ and ere long there is a virtual separation. With deep sympathy, Mr Stringer details Chaddie’s efforts to mend her broken life.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
“Mr Stringer’s public is accustomed to expect good work from his pen and we venture the opinion that in ‘The prairie mother’ he has surpassed himself.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:26 Jl 25 ’20 600w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 390w
=STRONG, EDWARD KELLOGG, jr.= Introductory psychology for teachers. il $1.80 Warwick & York 370.1
A series of lessons in psychology arranged to form a classroom course. The author has planned the course on the well-known principles of proceeding from the known to the unknown, of learning by doing, etc. He describes his method in the preface: “Instead of beginning with the most uninteresting phases of psychology and those most unknown to students, the course takes up concrete experiences of everyday life, relates them to the problems of learning and individual differences, and so develops these two topics. Each general principle is discovered by the student out of his own experience in solving specially organized problems. Only after he has done his best is he expected to refer to the text and by then the text is no longer basic but only supplementary.” The sections of the book following the introduction are devoted to: The learning process; Individual differences; Some physiological aspects of psychology. There is a brief general review at the close. Charts and diagrams illustrate the book, references follow most of the chapters, and there is an index. The text is also printed in the form of seventeen booklets. The author is professor of vocational education, Carnegie institute of technology.
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“There is growing up a pronounced distinction between two schools of educational psychologists. The one is interested in dealing with the relatively tangible outcomes of learning activities and is satisfied to put all explanations in the form of Professor Thorndike’s easy, but quite meaningless, formula of bonds. The other is interested in finding out in detail the steps by which a pupil acquires his mental results. Professor Strong may be described as belonging to the first type. For that school he has rendered the service of getting together a large body of interesting examples, and he has put these examples in a more teachable form than any writers of that group who have preceded him.”
+ − =El School J= 20:793 Je ’20 300w
=STUART, SIR CAMPBELL.=[2] Secrets of Crewe house. il *$2 (*7s 6d) (4½c) Doran 940.342
20–22069
Crewe house was the headquarters of the department of propaganda in enemy countries under the directorship of Viscount Northcliffe. The story of its activities and successes during 1918 are revealed in this book. According to a quotation from the Tägliche Rundschau on page 127, “It cannot be doubted that Lord Northcliffe very substantially contributed to England’s victory in the world war. His conduct of English propaganda during the war will some day find its place in history as a performance hardly to be surpassed.” The book is indexed and contains besides the portraits of the various members of the committee on propaganda and other illustrations several maps and facsimiles of the leaflets distributed by means of balloons. The contents are: Propaganda: its uses and abuses; Crewe house: its organization and personnel; Operations against Austria-Hungary: propaganda’s most striking success; Operations against Germany; Tributes from the enemy; Operations against Bulgaria and other activities; Inter-allied cooperation; From war propaganda to peace propaganda; Vale!
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=Ath= p333 S 10 ’20 260w
“Although there is much that is eulogistic of his chief, Sir Campbell does not overdraw the picture. He uses none of the arts of the professional writer, preferring at all times to tell the story without attempting the dramatic.” H. D. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 780w
“This complacent book is ludicrous, not because it takes for granted that all it aimed to achieve was achieved; nor because it omits due credit to French propaganda (more extensive than British) and Russian (not even mentioned); but because it tries to get glory out of war.” Heber Blankenhorn
− =Nation= 111:594 N 24 ’20 1600w
“Sir Campbell’s lively style and his keen enjoyment of what he has to tell engross the reader.”
+ − =N Y Times= p10 N 21 ’20 1750w
“‘Secrets of Crewe house’ is rather hastily put together, and is too much a eulogy of Lord Northcliffe by his chief assistant. But it contains a good deal of interesting description of the sundry ingenious devices by which Lord Northcliffe spread his propaganda.” H: W. Bunn
+ − =Review= 3:649 D 29 ’20 900w
=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w
“In Lord Northcliffe’s mentality we have always been struck with a strong vein of simplicity, which the charitable call naïveté, and the uncharitable call knavery, or stupidity. There are two signs of this quality in this book. Again and again it is explicitly stated that the propaganda told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. This is childish. No propaganda could succeed which told the truth.”
− =Sat R= 130:239 S 18 ’20 1100w
+ =Spec= 125:311 S 4 ’20 300w
“A very lively and exciting story, which the many illustrations in the volume help to diversify. Yet the book is more than a piece of good reading about the war, and more than a historical record. It will have a permanent value as a handbook to the principles of propaganda in enemy countries.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p558 S 2 ’20 450w
=STUCK, HUDSON.= Winter circuit of our Arctic coast. il *$6 (5c) Scribner 979.8
20–9131
This is the author’s fourth book of Alaskan travel and describes a journey with dog-sled around the entire Arctic coast of Alaska in the winter of 1917–18. It is not a record of discoveries of exploration and does not describe an already “scientifically known” people anthropologically but rather socially during their “normal life” which is their winter life. “My purpose was an enquiry into their present state, physical, mental, moral and religious, industrial and domestic, into their prospects, into what the government and the religious organizations have done and are doing for them, and what should yet be done.” (Preface) Besides many illustrations, two maps and an index the book contains: From Fort Yukon to Kotzebue Sound; Kotzebue Sound to Point Hope; Point Hope; Point Hope to Point Barrow; Point Barrow; The northern extreme; Point Barrow to Flaxman Island; Flaxman Island and the journey to Herschel Island; Herschel Island and the journey to Fort Yukon.
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+ =Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20
“There is a quiet and peculiar charm, distinctly of the North, in this narrative.” F: O’Brien
+ =Nation= 111:537 N 10 ’20 680w
“This book is readable from cover to cover—entertaining, thoughtful, wise in its recommendations concerning our great territory, and attractive in its illustration.”
+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 80w
“Mr Stuck is a man of many interests, and his narrative is the more absorbing for being discursive.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p576 S 9 ’20 900w
=STUDENSKY, PAUL.= Teachers’ pension systems in the United States. *$3 Appleton 371.17
20–2739
The book is published under the auspices of the Institute for government research, in the series Studies in administration, and is both a critical and descriptive study of the subject. It “should be not only a substantial contribution to the science of administration, but an immediate and practical aid to teachers, school authorities, legislators and all other persons interested in solving the problem of reorganizing their own systems or establishing systems ... upon bases that have been tested by experience and are in accordance with sound social, economic, and financial principles.” (Editorial introd.) Part 1: The problem of teachers’ pensions, contains: The evolution of teachers’ pensions in the United States; The teachers’ pension problem outlined; Superannuation benefits; Disability benefits; Death and withdrawal benefits; Determining the cost of benefits; The division of cost between government and teachers; The government’s contribution; The teacher’s contribution; Compulsory participation and the right to management. In Part 2 an account is given of the movement in the United States and an examination made of the history and present condition of the more important systems now in existence. There is also an appendix, actuarial tables and a bibliography.
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=Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
“In his efforts to inculcate the sound principles, Mr Studensky errs rather on the side of overloading his discussion with too much detail, which for the readers most concerned will probably lead to confusion rather than clarification. While general agreement will be found with the principles of a sound pension system discussed in the volume, Mr Studensky’s acceptance of the salary scale as the basis of the pension considerably diminishes the value of his work.”
+ − =Nation= 111:622 D 1 ’20 350w
“The book covers the subject critically and thoroughly.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w
“The volume will serve the purpose of a work of reference and will be of value to committees of teachers considering the establishment of a pension system. The average teacher, however, will perhaps be a little more confused by the problem after reading the book than before, mainly because it is over-loaded by too much detail and because the discussions of theory and practice are too widely separated.” I. L. Kandel
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 390w
=STURGEON, MARY C.= Studies of contemporary poets, rev. and enl. *$2.50 Dodd 821.09
“These short studies, warmly presenting the merits of a number of contemporary poets with much illustrative quotation, first appeared in 1916. The additional chapters are on John Drinkwater, ‘Michael Field,’ (Katharine H. Bradley and Edith E. Cooper), Thomas Hardy, J. C. Squire, Contemporary women poets (Anna Wickham, Helen Parry Eden, Anna Bunston, Olive Custance, Eva Gore Booth, Margaret Radford), and W. B. Yeats.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“The best one can say about Miss Sturgeon’s work is that it is the outcome of a wide knowledge of the poets and versifiers of her time. But she fails to do justice to whatever understanding of them that knowledge might have given to her.”
− + =Ath= p50 Jl 9 ’20 240w
“One does not receive in these pages the keen analysis, the subtle interpretation of contemporaries such as Arthur Symons gave to his public in ‘Studies in two literatures,’ but they do give an honest, workable survey of the figures and qualities among the contemporaneous poets of England that is serviceable and informative.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 840w
“The fact is that Miss Sturgeon’s criticism leans toward sentimentalism, and not only because she tends always to stress the good, the true, the perennially sad. Her writing clings too close to its matter even when she is at her best, which is in interpretation of the thought and melody in giving passages; and her exquisiteness of appreciation tends in one way or another to impede the flow of critical thought. One poet seems in retrospect very much like another.” C. M. Rourke
+ − =Freeman= 2:331 D 15 ’20 780w
“Miss Sturgeon’s book, taken with the necessary ‘grano salis,’ has much to recommend it. Its value as criticism would have been higher if Miss Sturgeon had not been so uniformly enthusiastic.” R: Le Gallienne
+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 17 ’20 1700w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=STURGIS, ESTHER MARY (OGDEN) (MRS RICHARD CLIPSTON STURGIS).= Personal prejudices. *$1.65 (4c) Houghton 814
20–16519
In these chatty essays the author gives her opinions on many subjects, as the table of contents reveals, with much wit and humor. Her husband in his preface to the book says of it that it is not immoral and therefore not really modern, but commends it for its patriotic enthusiasm. Contents: Gardens; Husbands and housekeeping; Autres temps, autres mœurs; The lost art of letterwriting; My Bolshevist; Old friends; New acquaintances; House and home; Quality versus equality; Differences and distinctions; Epilogue by the favourite nephew.
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“Sweet, homely essays with the humor which pleased readers of ‘Random reflections of a grandmother.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
“The odd thing is that this book of informal essays will probably please readers of sharply different types, though perhaps not always in the way in which the writer would choose. She has the real gift of the familiar essayist, the gift for self-revelation.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 O 23 ’20 300w
“Her originality is as clearly reflected in her refreshing style as in her prejudices. Her commentaries sparkle with the same charming wit, compounded of shrewd common sense and abundant humor that made such delightful reading of her ‘Random reflections of a grandmother.’”
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 5 ’20 600w
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 30w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:235 D ’20 30w
=SULLIVAN, ALAN.= Rapids. *$1.75 (2) Appleton
20–11223
The story is a fairy tale of what the genius of one man can achieve in developing the powers of nature. Robert Fisher Clark was a man of vision, of action, of unusual concentration, and of hypnotic personality. At a glance he takes in the possibilities of the Rapids of St Mary’s and the surrounding wilderness. Immediately he is at work developing plans and attracting the necessary money and good-will by his personal magnetism. But the test of his greatness comes when human covetousness and stupidity wrests the fruits of his labor from him after the end of seven years and he is ready to acknowledge that he has worked in the service of humanity not for his own gain. He abandons everything, even the woman he loves, to the equally wholehearted love of his engineer and seeks new fields for his activity.
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“Men will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:36 O ’20
“It is an interesting and well-told story, with vivid presentation of its scenes. In its purpose and manner and spirit the author has made a successful venture in turning aside a little from the usual lines of fiction.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 Ag 1 ’20 460w
=Review= 3:214 S 8 ’20 620w
“A fine romance of industrial enterprise from the western world.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p781 N 25 ’20 40w
=SULLY, JAMES=, My life and friends. *$5 Dutton
(Eng ed 19–4187)
“James Sully’s latest book, ‘My life and friends: a psychologist’s memories,’ is the record of a man devoted to music and literature as well as to his technical subject. The book is not burdened with formal information about himself. It does not tell us the date of his birth, or the name of his wife, or the number of his children. It begins the narrative of his life by a description of the sleepy Somersetshire town of Bridgwater, where he was born, and ends with a chance remark on Sicilian painted carts. It touches upon the circumstances of his childhood in a Nonconformist family and of his early education in Baptist schools; upon his student days in Germany under Ewald and Lotze; upon his literary and professional work in London, where he became professor of philosophy in University college. But it dwells most affectionately upon his vacations and upon the men and women whose intimacy or acquaintance he enjoyed.”—Nation
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“An inspiring reminiscent volume.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Je 7 ’19 1400w
“A very readable contribution to biographical literature and to the intellectual history of an important period is offered in Professor James Sully’s volume of reminiscences.” R. H. Lowie
+ =Freeman= 2:524 F 9 ’21 760w
+ =Nation= 109:446 S 27 ’19 250w
“His memoirs are not great in themselves: it is rather the friendships they chronicle that add lustre to them.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 N 27 ’20 160w
=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 70w
“By those who wish to enjoy the society of the superior Hampsteadians of the last quarter of the last century, Dr Sully’s autobiography should be read, and will certainly be relished.”
+ =Sat R= 126:sup10 N 23 ’18 1050w
“Dr Sully’s new volume belongs to that class of books, unhappily rare, which are much more pleasant to read than to criticise. Its merits, like those of a well-baked cake, are diffused imperceptibly throughout the whole mass; it does not lend itself to quotation; there are many plums, but to savour their true excellence they have to be taken in their original environment.”
+ =Spec= 121:460 O 26 ’18 940w
“Dr Sully contributes to literature a book of value as well as interest in ‘My life and my friends.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 25 ’21 1100w
=SUMMERS, A. LEONARD.= Asbestos and the asbestos industry. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman 553.6
20–9018
“Until the completion of this work, there existed no comprehensive book on the absorbing study of asbestos.... The uses and scope of asbestos having now become universal, it has long been felt that a book thereon was much needed, so few people really understanding the subject; and the author (for many years closely associated with the industry), while avoiding as far as possible too dry and tiresome technicalities, has dealt with everything of real interest and utility in a concise and popular style to appeal to every class of reader.” (Foreword) There are illustrations by the author and from photographs and the book is indexed.
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“The volume on ‘Asbestos’ decidedly suffers by comparison with its companion volume [on ‘Zinc’ by T. E. Lones] as the author does not take care to avoid a number of errors, which, though common enough in the trade, ought not to find their way into a book of this description.”
+ − =Nature= 105:194 Ap 15 ’20 300w
“As a catalogue of finished products the volume will find use; as a text-book covering the technical preparation of asbestos it hardly merits consideration.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p35 Ap ’20 80w
=SUMMERS, WALTER COVENTRY.= Silver age of Latin literature. *$3 Stokes 870
The period covered is from Tiberius to Trajan. The preface says: “The term ‘Silver Latin’ is often applied loosely to all the post-Augustan literature of Rome: in this book it has been reserved for that earlier part of it which, in spite of a definite decline in taste and freshness, deserves nevertheless to be sharply distinguished from the baser metals of the imitative or poverty-stricken periods which followed.” (Preface) A chronological table is followed by discussions on: The declamations and the pointed style; The epic; Drama; Verse satire; Light and miscellaneous verse; Oratory; History, biography and memoirs; Philosophy; Prose-satire and romance; Correspondence; Grammar, criticism and rhetoric; Scientific and technical prose. There are notes on translations and an index.
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“The book contains some smooth translations, of which, as might be expected, the renderings from the satirists are probably the most successful. Without stating any particularly fresh theory, Mr Summers covers the old ground very thoroughly.”
+ =Ath= p435 O 1 ’20 640w
“In ‘The silver age of Latin literature,’ we are given a text-book, admirably written and closely digested, that is an open door to a literature that often amazes us by its evident modernity.”
+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 16 ’21 1500w
“Rather dull. But Prof. Summers is full of learning on the period which is not commonly mastered by classical students; and his record is so thorough that it should not be neglected.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:485 D 11 ’20 70w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 400w
=SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM.= What social classes owe to each other. 2d ed *$1.50 (4c) Harper 171
20–8048
This is a republication of Prof. Sumner’s book on ‘Social classes’ with an introduction by his successor to the chair of social science at Yale university, Albert Galloway Keller. Prof. Keller thinks that our age, more than any other, needs an unflinching statement of the individualistic position, of laissez-faire. “At a time when the world is menaced with the curtailment of civil liberty and the paralysis of individual initiative through weird and grotesque developments of socialism ... the man who takes to heart the truths of this little book cannot be led by the nose even into that pseudo-open-mindedness that toys with bolshevism and anarchism.” (Foreword)
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“The book is a brilliant piece of writing, an impassioned vindication of individualism, a resolute arraignment of the social meddling and social doctors that were popular in 1883, are now, and perhaps always will be.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 240w
=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 100w
“Plausible as all this may have sounded in 1883, it seems unfair to the memory of an eminent scholar to resurrect a study in which such manifestly outgrown sentiments are predominant.” Ordway Tead
− =New Repub= 25:210 Ja 12 ’21 220w
“Whatever we may think of such old-fashioned individualism, it is wholesome to have a dash of it now and then, and the reading of such a book as this, like a cold bath after a warm day, is both refreshing and stimulating.” J. E. Le Rossignol
+ =Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 270w
=SWEETSER, ARTHUR.=[2] League of nations at work. *$1.75 Macmillan 341.1
20–17503
“A series of articles contributed to the New York Evening Post by Arthur Sweetser, a member of the American peace commission, is published in book form. Mr Sweetser writes to clear away misconceptions and to make the purposes and the actual machinery of the league as clear as possible. Mr Sweetser’s study covers in detail the permanent court, the secretariat, the questions of disarmament, minorities and mandates, international labor and health organizations, freedom of transit, economic co-operation and open diplomacy.”—Springf’d Republican
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+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 90w
“He shows a very clear understanding of essentials and he presents his well-digested knowledge in clear language, with simple figures to drive home his points. As a popular elucidation of the league, Mr Sweetser’s book is from every point of view commendable.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 1 ’20 310w
=SWEETSER, ARTHUR, and LAMONT, GORDON.= Opportunities in aviation. il *$1 (3½c) Harper 629.1
20–2110
The authors of this volume, one a captain in the American air service, the other a lieutenant in the Royal air force of Canada, claim that it is the training, not the individual, that makes the pilot and that “any ordinary, active man, provided he has reasonably good eyesight and nerve, can fly, and fly well. If he has nerve enough to drive an automobile through the streets of a large city ... he can take himself off the ground in an airplane, and also land—a thing vastly more difficult and dangerous.” (Introd.) The authors also claim that aeronautics in the future must cease to be a highly specialized business, that the airplane will become a conveyance of everyday civilian use and that what they have written is based on actual accomplishments to date. Contents: War’s conquest of the air; The transition to peace; Training an airplane pilot; Safety in flying; Qualifications of an airplane mechanic; The first crossing of the Atlantic; Landing-fields—the immediate need; The airplane’s brother; The call of the skies; Addendum.
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+ =Booklist= 17:18 O ’20
=SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES.= Selections; ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise. *$2 Doran 821
(Eng ed 20–9019)
Mr Gosse and Mr Wise, who edited Swinburne’s letters and a collection of “Posthumous poems,” have prepared the first selection from his works since the one compiled by Watts-Dunton in 1887. This early volume, the present editors say, “was not broadly characteristic of Swinburne’s many moods and variety of subjects.” The aim has been to make the new selection more representative.
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“Without having at hand the older volume of selections made by Swinburne himself it may yet be said that the present selection is a good one. It would have been more ‘representative’ if it had included one or two of the ‘Songs before sunrise,’ and the omission of ‘Laus veneris’ and especially ‘The leper’ is regrettable. What one would like to have would be a volume of selections including these poems and omitting the two choruses from ‘Atalanta,’ and another volume containing the whole of ‘Atalanta.’” T. S. E.
+ − =Ath= p72 Ja 16 ’20 1400w
=Booklist= 17:107 D ’20
“The present selection is, in almost every way, admirable, and represents adequately the poetical genius of the author.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:696 F ’21 140w
=Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 40w
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 D 4 ’20 160w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:345 O 20 ’20 100w
“Lovers of Swinburne will be grateful to Mr Gosse and Mr Wise.”
+ =Spec= 124:463 Ap 3 ’20 50w
“So long as a selection contains the ‘Triumph of time,’ the ‘Garden of Proserpine,’ ‘Hertha,’ the Atalanta choruses, and a few others, it will content us; these we need, and beyond these whatever else is included the editor may be at peace—we shall take it and be satisfied.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p732 D 11 ’19 1000w
=SWINDLER, ROBERT EARL.= Causes of war. *$1.75 Badger, R. G. 902
20–1549
“This publication is based on the idea that it is idle to talk of world peace without an intelligent world understanding. ‘The causes of war’ is designed to meet the need of a systematic organization of the great mass of material concerning the war. It gives all the essential points, and is equally suited to the busy student, teacher, or general reader. The work includes not only an outline and study of the world war together with the official peace negotiations, but also a survey of all the wars that preceded with particular emphasis upon those since 1870.”—School R
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“This volume is pertinent and timely. It is one of the most convenient reference books on a subject of universal interest that has so far been published, and is well-nigh indispensable for writers and speakers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 160w
“The work is so clearly and logically written that it is particularly valuable for use in current history classes.”
+ =School R= 28:237 Mr ’20 200w
=SWINNERTON, FRANK ARTHUR.= September, *$1.90 (2c) Doran
19–18833
Mr Swinnerton’s new novel is a story of the coming and passing of love in the late summer of a woman’s life. As in his memorable “Nocturne,” the characters are four: Marian Forster; her husband, Howard; Cherry Mant; and Nigel Sinclair. In the beginning, Howard, who is eleven years older than his wife, and far past his youth, is carrying on a love affair with Cherry, a girl of twenty and daughter of one of Marian’s friends. Marian is shocked, not at Howard’s faithlessness, which is an old story to her, but at Cherry’s bright callousness, for irresistibly she feels herself drawn to the girl. Then comes Nigel, young, charming and adoring, to offer her his boyish adulation and surprise her into love. But youth responds to youth and Nigel is won over by Cherry. The interplay of emotions is delicately complex, involving on Marian’s side love for Nigel, sympathy for Howard, and genuine friendship for Cherry.
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“Mr Swinnerton’s analysis of the women’s characters is singularly penetrating. He makes the conflict and its solution arise inevitably out of the two opposed natures; the plot and the characterization are not two distinct things, but the same.”
+ =Ath= p962 S 26 ’19 140w
=Ath= p1002 O 10 ’19 1150w
+ =Booklist= 16:173 F ’20
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:81 Mr ’20 750w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w
“Granted his acceptance of the established romantic values of fiction, he has concocted a good story, serious and sensitive along its own lines.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 22:63 Mr 10 ’20 1650w
“‘Nocturne’ established Frank Swinnerton as one of the highly promising novelists in the young English group that is building an age of novels in England commensurate with the two great periods of the past. ‘September,’ to our mind, is an even greater and more penetrating study of the human mind and heart.” Clement Wood
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 21 ’20 420w
“The novel lacks something of the intensity, vividness and variety of ‘Nocturne’ which still remains Mr Swinnerton’s best book, but it is a very great improvement on the rather disappointing ‘Shops and houses.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:53 F 1 ’20 1000w
“The beautiful artistic quality of the author’s wonderful ‘Nocturne’ appears again in this new book, one of the most notable productions of the season.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 150w
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
+ =Pub= W 97:174 Ja 17 ’20 500w
“Mr Swinnerton’s sensitivism, if the term may properly be applied to him, is on the side of the angels. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he does not throw decency overboard because hypocrites exist, or exalt impulse over principle.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:85 Ja 24 ’20 450w
“The book is one that almost any English novelist might have been proud to write.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 80w
+ − =Spec= 123:773 D 6 ’19 440w
“The relationship between the two women is the theme of the book; and as Mr Swinnerton has been at pains to endow each with character, and to make out from his own insight how such a relation might shape itself, the development is original enough to have an unusual air of truth.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p513 S 25 ’19 850w
=SWINNERTON, HELEN (DIRCKS) (MRS FRANK SWINNERTON).= Passenger. *$1.50 Doran 821
(Eng ed 20–16192)
In introducing this book of poems Frank Swinnerton refers to originality and candour as their outstanding qualities. Of the author he says, “Whatever technical faults her verses may have they remain altogether unspoilt by literary sophistication.” Some of the titles are: Underground; Withholding; Then and now; Alone; Piccadilly, 1917; America, 1917; London in war; The betrayal; Adjustment; Garden song; Trying to sleep; The traveller; In the dark.
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+ =Booklist= 17:105 D ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 300w
“Many of these pieces are happy little efforts in lyrical poems of love or regret, and the whiffs of verse in vers libre are felicitous.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= Je 3 ’20 110w
=SWISHER, WALTER SAMUEL.= Religion and the new psychology. *$2 Jones, Marshall 201
20–12542
“A psycho-analytic study of religion,” with chapters devoted to: The nature of the religious problem; The nature of the unconscious and its influence on the religious life; The motivation of human life; Determinism and free-will; Mysticism and neurotic states; The problem of evil; Pathological religious types; The occult in modern religious systems; Conversion and attendant phenomena; The changing basis and objective of religion; Methods of mental and religious healing; The religious problem in education. Two appendices are devoted to: Dreams and dream mechanisms and Birth dreams. There is a brief bibliography and an index. The author goes rather fully into the principles of psycho-analysis and the book may serve as an introduction to those who have not read widely on the subject.
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“The most useful part of the book deals with religious education and illustrates the baneful effects of early religious fears. The author is dogmatic in his statements regarding the religious and non-ethical life of primitive people. Most of the readers, familiar with psychoanalytic literature, will turn from the book with the conviction that a satisfactory discussion of religion and the new psychology is hardly to be expected from within the ministerial profession. The book would serve a useful purpose were it not unlikely to be read by those who need it most.” E. R. Groves
+ − =Am J Soc= 26:376 N ’20 240w
+ =Booklist= 17:8 O ’20
“Rarely, perhaps never, has a writer failed so signally to accomplish his aim. The book is a heterogeneous mass of poorly digested, badly assimilated psychology, and worse religion, while from the pedagogical point of view that which he says has been said many times.” Joseph Collins
− =Bookm= 52:172 O ’20 620w
=Int J Ethics= 31:116 O ’20 80w
“That much is here done to illustrate the indubitable connection between the religious motives of mankind and other motives and faculties, is true; it is also true that the book by swallowing the Freudian system of sex symbols too uncritically makes itself a candidate for laughter in that day, sure to come, when the excesses of Freud will recall the excesses of Max Müller.”
+ − =Nation= 111:695 D 15 ’20 120w
Reviewed by G. E. Partridge
=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 570w
“Like many other books on psycho-analysis, this one proves that until expounders of this theory develop greater balance or a keener sense of humor in considering the phenomena of sex, there is small likelihood of their labors resulting in a substantial addition to our scientific understanding of ourselves.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 30 ’20 190w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p863 D 16 ’20 100w
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=TAFT, HENRY WATERS.= Occasional papers and addresses of an American lawyer. *$2.50 (2½c) Macmillan 304
20–10712
Of these addresses the author says, in his long introduction, that “the march of events has been so rapid that little more than a historic interest now attaches to the subjects they deal with,” but he hopes they may stimulate the younger members of the legal profession to greater effort in promoting the effective administration of justice and in the duties of citizenship. The contents, in part, are: Address to the Harvard law school students delivered in 1908; Some responsibilities of the American lawyer; The bar in the war; Report of the war committee; Aspects of bolshevism and Americanism; The League of nations; Sovereignty, constitutionality and the Monroe doctrine; What is to be done with our railroads? Some of the papers appeared in the New York Times.
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“Mr Taft brings to his consideration of these subjects sound information and a forceful dignity of judgment.”
+ =Ind= 105:171 F 12 ’21 40w
“A fresh, clear viewpoint, together with that true liberalism which is the fruit of independent thought, makes these essays enjoyable. One of the most interesting of all is the introduction, in which there are some critical and friendly estimates of Theodore Roosevelt and of some of the things proposed by him—these latter more critical and not quite so friendly, though never ungenerous or unfair.”
+ =N Y Times= p19 S 12 ’20 2100w
“They are uniformly clear, good tempered, and conservatively progressive.”
+ =Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 80w
=TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD.= Taft papers on League of nations. *$4.50 Macmillan 341.1
20–19170
The papers are edited by Theodore Marburg and Horace E. Flack and the former, in a long introduction, sets forth the reasons why they are an evidence of the ex-president’s grasp of the guiding legal principles of our government and of the attitude of mind which the best thought and feeling of the country heartily accept as true Americanism. Among the papers are: League to enforce peace; The Paris covenant for a league of nations; Constitutionality of the proposals; The purposes of the League; Self determination; Workingmen and the League; Why a league of nations is necessary; Disarmament of nations and freedom of the seas; President Wilson and the League of nations; Senator Lodge on the League of nations; Representation in the League; Ireland and the League; Answer to Senator Knox’s indictment; Guaranties of article X. The book is indexed.
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“Although this important collection of documents appears subsequent to the conclusion of the ‘solemn referendum,’ and the fall of Wilsonism in our country, it will doubtless prove of great value when the new régime shall come in and the whole question of the League of nations shall be definitely disposed of.” E. J. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 780w
“This volume embodies much of the soundest thinking on the subject of the League of nations that has thus far found expression in America.”
+ =R of Rs= 63:224 F ’21 120w
=TAGGART, MARION AMES.= Pilgrim maid. il *$1.60 (2c) Doubleday
20–5775
For the heroine of her story for girls the author has chosen Constance Hopkins, a real maid of Plymouth who came in the Mayflower in 1620 with her father, her stepmother and younger brothers and sister. Other real people have a place in the story too, among them John Alden and Priscilla. The preface says, “The aim has been to present Plymouth colony as it was in its first three years of existence; to keep to possibilities, even while inventing incidents. Actual events have been transferred from a later to an earlier year.... But there is fidelity to the general trend of events, above all to the spirit of Plymouth in its beginnings.”
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“Interesting, though accentuating the severity of Puritan life. For older girls.”
+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20
“‘A Pilgrim maid’ is that rare thing, a really good story for girls. It is a story first and history second.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:126 O ’20 60w
=TALBOT, FREDERICK ARTHUR AMBROSE.=[2] Millions from waste. il *$5 Lippincott 604
20–2995
“The present volume deals with the reclamation of waste of all kinds, from scrap-iron to fish-offal. Although it is written from the British standpoint, the solutions that are given of the various problems are as applicable to American conditions. In general, each chapter considers some particular kind of waste product, discussing both the extent of such waste and the processes that have been developed for utilizing these products. Wastes from the kitchen, the slaughter-house, the fishing industry, the ash-can, the sewer, the metal industry, and many other branches are discussed.”—Mining and Scientific Press
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“This timely book combines to a marked degree solidity of substance with an entertaining style.” C: W. Mixter
+ =Am Econ R= 10:824 D ’20 950w
=Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 180w
=Brooklyn= 12:129 My ’20 30w
“The treatment is popular enough to be interesting, but not so popular as to fail of being informative.”
+ =Mining and Scientific Press= 120:177 Ja 31 ’20 150w
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p6 Ja ’20 110w
“A capital book for the general reader.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 120w
=TALBOT, WINTHROP, comp, and ed.= Americanization. 2d ed rev. and enl. by Julia E. Johnsen. (Handbook ser.) *$1.80 Wilson. H. W. 325.7
20–8819
In this second edition the bibliography is brought down to date and fifty-three pages of new matter are added. In these additional reprints “special endeavor has been made to emphasize the more concrete aspect of Americanisation.” (Explanatory note)
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“Eminently suited to its purpose.”
+ =Ann Am Acad= 90:172 Jl ’20 40w
=Booklist= 16:358 Jl ’20
“The purely political aspects of the subject—especially the effect of deportation proceedings—are not yet included. Perhaps the editors have been wise in limiting their attention to the purely constructive efforts. The book in its present form should prove very useful to Americanization workers.”
+ =Survey= 44:385 Je 12 ’20 100w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 30w
=TANSLEY, ARTHUR GEORGE.= New psychology and its relation to life. *$4 Dodd 150
(Eng ed SG20–137)
While the old psychology has over-emphasized the purely rational faculties of the mind, the new psychology recognizes the importance of its unconscious processes. The object of the book is to set forth the fundamental importance of the instinctive sources of human actions, and the part played by psychotherapy in throwing light upon normal mental processes. Part 1 describes the scope of the new psychology and the problem of the relationship of mind and body. The other divisions or the contents are: The structure of the mind; The energy of the mind; By-ways of the libido; Reasons and rationalization; The contents of the mind. There is an index.
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“Mr Tansley has written a really excellent exposition and summary of the chief speculations in modern psychology.”
+ =Ath= p377 S 17 ’20 220w
“The author reveals throughout his work the poise of the man who has mastered his subject. The book will be welcomed by those who wish to know the latest developments in psychology.” F. W. C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 O 2 ’20 810w
“His survey of the Freudian theories is both readable and clear. His graphic method of presenting the interaction between consciousness and the unconscious in convenient spatial diagrams is very helpful as long as the reader guards himself against taking them too literally.” A. B. Kuttner
+ − =Freeman= 2:308 D 8 ’20 730w
“Mr Tansley’s book is most satisfactory when he is dealing with such matters as the interpretation of dreams, the ‘rationalisations’ by which men try to justify conduct which is really prompted by non-rational motives, and the great psychic complexes which correspond to the main instincts of man. The book is less satisfactory in the general theoretical chapters with which it opens.” H. S.
+ =Nature= 105:770 Ag 19 ’20 780w
“Mr Tansley’s book seems to me the best general survey of psychology now available. It is the best, partly because it is the latest, but chiefly because Mr Tansley enjoys a fine gift of exposition. He himself has an orderly and a lucid mind, and an unfailing respect for the reader.” W. L.
+ |=New Repub= 25:112 D 22 ’20 1000w
“Particularly interesting is his discussion of the ‘universal complexes’ of the ego, herd, and sex which result from the play of experience upon the primary instincts. The book is on the whole free from those pathological exaggerations which characterize so many of the productions of so-called psychoanalysts.” Bernard Glueck
+ =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 250w
“Mr Tansley is not, however, a blind follower of these authorities; he has preserved his independence of view, and produced an original and stimulating discussion.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 100w
=TAPPAN, EVA MARCH.= Hero stories of France. il *$1.75 (3c) Houghton 944
20–7446
These stories, written for children, begin with the first encounters of the Gauls with the Romans under Caesar, and the gallant patriot hero Vercingetorix’ desperate efforts to save his country from the powerful conqueror. From the entire history of France, down to our own time and Marshal Foch, heroic personalities are selected and among them are: Vercingetorix; Clovis; Charlemagne; The six heroes of Calais; Jeanne d’Arc; Coligny; Henry of Navarre; Richelieu; Lafayette; Napoleon the Great, and “Napoleon the Little”; and Marshal Foch. The book is illustrated.
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+ =Booklist= 16:354 Jl ’20
=TARBELL, IDA MINERVA.= In Lincoln’s chair. *$1 (11c) Macmillan
20–5208
In fiction form, this is a condensed story of the life of Lincoln as told, by way of reminiscence, by Billy Brown, in his drugstore on the public square of Springfield, Illinois, and while his listener was seated opposite him in “Lincoln’s chair.” It brings out the salient features of Lincoln’s life before he went to Washington, his views on God, and their influence on his intellectual development, his early experiences as a lawyer, and his political progress.
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=Booklist= 16:314 Je ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w
“Must a saint or hero be all sugar, without spice or salt? Miss Ida M. Tarbell seems to think so still more in her imaginary conversation ‘In Lincoln’s chair’ than she did a dozen years ago in ‘He knew Lincoln.’ The moment she leaves the cold path of history she falls into the most abandoned myth-making.”
− =Nation= 110:662 My 15 ’20 160w
=TARN, WILLIAM WOODTHORPE.= Treasure of the isle of mist. *$1.90 (5c) Putnam
20–1903
This is a delightfully fantastic story of a student and his little daughter Fiona who lived on the Isle of mist on the shores of a gray sea-loch. The old hawker who came to them with a pack of buttons to sell and who gave Fiona an old copper bangle bracelet, and the “search” turned out in the end to have been the king of fairies. The bracelet gave Fiona the power to talk with animals—to hold long philosophic conversations with a centipede—and to see and talk with the spirit of the mountain. But it was not only on account of the bracelet that she could do this but—because she was a child and could still see. When the treasure cave was closed up to her by a great fall of rock she knew that now she was too old for the search. The chapters are headed: The gift of the search; The beginning of trouble; The haunted cave; The urchin vanishes; The oread; The king of the woodcock; Fiona in the fairy-world; Fiona finds her treasure.
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“Delicately imaginative and beautifully written.”
+ =Booklist= 17:119 D ’20
“An exquisite fantasy of youth and autumn.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 52:259 N ’20 670w
“W. W. Tarn has written a book so beautiful, so whimsical, so exquisite alike in its humor, its loveliness and its sheer charm that it will be a dull reader indeed to whom it does not bring an abiding joy. This is a rare and beautiful book, a real discovery.”
+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 15 ’20 850w
“The fact is that Mr Tarn, apart from his lovely scenery, has adorned his tale with a remarkably bushy moral, excellent for Fionas and Urchins as such, but un-fairyish.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p740 D 11 ’19 900w
=TASSIN, ALGERNON DE VIVIER.= Craft of the tortoise. *$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812
19–18735
A satirical play in four acts tracing the evolution of the present status of woman, especially her social supremacy over man, from the ancient faraway beginnings to the present day. The play is built on the premise that woman, at first a slave, subjugated to man’s will and power, had to resort to trickery, exploitation of her sex attractions, and a clever use of clothing and adornment, in order to get ahead of her lord and owner; and that she finally made a complete reversal of social conditions. In his long introduction, brilliant and with a certain Bernard Shaw piquancy, the author is complimentary to neither sex. Having in his introduction compared woman with the tortoise in the fable racing with the gamboling hare, the author has titled the four acts respectively: The tortoise finds herself; Tortoise turns the first corner; Tortoise strikes her gait; Tortoise on the home stretch. The first three are remotely laid in that past so alluring to the imagination, the last is a satiric picture of modern life.
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+ =Booklist= 16:307 Je ’20
“In the preface, Mr Tassin’s style reminds one of Chesterton in its sharp shafts of wit and depths of irony. The first and second acts are excellent in their humor and sardonic style, the third lapses momentarily, and the fourth merely ‘carries on.’”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 10 ’20 280w
“The plays hover between satire and burlesque, and contain much that is arbitrary, didactic, and as inept as the figurative title; but they contrive to be both entertaining and provocative.”
+ − =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w
“An ingenious and sometimes witty satire.”
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w
“The source of this play in Mr Tassin’s mind was some moment of extreme irritation over the modern American woman. But to jump to the conclusion, as many would at once, that he is an anti-feminist, would be quite erroneous. The play has wit, it has wisdom, it has keen characterization of the purely intellectual sort, and it has dramatic energy.” L. L.
+ =Nation= 110:148 Ja 31 ’20 1100w
“Undoubtedly in many respects this dramatic symposium is outrageously unfair. It is a bit of special pleading, at once vigorous and shallow, which it would be absurd to take too seriously. And it is marred by a spice of somewhat cheap and unattractive cynicism. But it is a piece of literary and dramatic workmanship of highly superior quality.” J. R. Towse
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p7 Mr 6 ’20 800w
“It is quite amusing in parts, although it is written to the length of prolixity. Mr Tassin’s characterizations are entertaining; he scores his points with consistency if one accepts his premises, and reveals a genuine humor that is admirable.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 460w
“In spite of a satyrical vein which makes many of the scenes amusing, the entertainment is too heavy for continuous enjoyment. The known facts of anthropology and history are in places perverted into grotesque misstatements.” B. L.
− + =Survey= 43:555 F 7 ’20 110w
=TAUSSIG, FRANK WILLIAM.= Free trade, the tariff and reciprocity. *$2 Macmillan 337
20–1763
“A collection of papers and addresses covering the phases of the tariff controversy now chiefly under discussion in the United States by the Henry Lee professor of economics at Harvard (who has been chairman of the United States tariff commission).”—The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The papers have been taken from talks to various audiences and periodical articles from 1904 to date discussing the tariff pro and con in a form usable by the general reader.”—Booklist
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=Am Econ R= 10:616 S ’20 140w
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:362 My ’20 110w
“Useful to high schools.”
+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20
“Dr Taussig’s authority, which rests alike upon research and watchful, even-tempered criticism, is preeminent.”
+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w
“The volume is characterized by more of unity than usually attaches to such a collection, and the reader will find in it a coherent, consistent presentation of the author’s views on the main issues of the tariff question. In a time marked by the uncertainties and confusions which characterize domestic conditions and foreign relations today, it is not surprising to find the author chary of dogmatism as to the future course of events.” F: C. Mills
+ =J Philos= 17:334 Je 3 ’20 360w
“Each problem is handled with the author’s characteristic open-mindedness. Each conclusion is reached after painstaking analysis, with a realization that future developments and changes in economic factors may take from an argument all its force.”
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:524 Je ’20 300w
Reviewed by Bertram Benedict
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 16 ’20 850w
“There is no safer guide on these topics than Dr Taussig. He was never an opportunist, but ever a preacher of the true word, with little if any reference to partisan expediency. Therefore, he is able to reproduce his arguments for the most part without change. Dr Taussig is a popular as well as an authoritative writer.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 18 ’20 1000w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 40w
=TAWNEY, RICHARD HENRY.= Acquisitive society. *$1.40 Harcourt 330
20–21421
The author holds that no change of system or machinery can avert those causes of social malaise which consist in the egotism, greed, or quarrelsomeness of human nature. But it can create an environment in which these qualities are not encouraged; it can offer people an end on which to fix their minds, thus, in the long run directing their practical activity. To think of the economic organization of society on the basis of function rather than of rights, is a habit of mind to be encouraged. It implies three things: that proprietary rights shall be maintained when they are accompanied by the performance of service and abolished when they are not; that the producers shall stand in direct relation to the community for whom production is carried on; that the obligation for the maintenance of the service shall rest upon the professional organization of those who perform it. Contents: Rights and functions; The acquisitive society; The nemesis of industrialism; Property and creative work; The functional society; Industry as a profession; The “vicious circle”; The condition of efficiency; The position of the brain worker; Porro unum necessarium; Index.
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“The author uses sound logic and pertinent historic facts to maintain his cause and there can be little doubt that this book will exert a great influence for good, for his theory is perfectly consistent with Christian principle.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 240w
“This little book is destined, we believe, to be regarded as a classic masterpiece upon its subject. The treatment is at once profound and brilliant; brilliant because it gives powerfull and worthy expression to profound thought.” D. S. Miller
+ =New Repub= 23:130 Je 23 ’20 2300w
“He advocates revolutionary doctrines with temperateness and a seasoned mind. He writes of the ‘nemesis of industrialism,’ but with no trace of fanaticism.” R. B. Perry
+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 Ja 29 ’21 650w
“Cleverly written pamphlet. It is encouraging to find that one Socialist at least is on the right track.”
+ =Spec= 124:465 Ap 3 ’20 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 Ap 1 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 660w
=TAYLOR, EMERSON GIFFORD.= New England in France, 1917–1919. il *$5 Houghton 940.373
20–19427
The book is the record of the Twenty-sixth division of the American Expeditionary force, whose organization, personnel and record as a fighting unit are typical of American fighting troops in the field, on the march, in billets, or in the heat of battle. It is also the story of volunteer American citizens, non-professional soldiery. The contents in part are: Organizing the division; Overseas; Settling down in France; The chemin des dames; On the march; The Le Reine (Boucq) sector; The fights at Bois Brulé and Seicheprey; The affairs of May and June; The Aisne-Marne offensive; The Saint-Mihiel offensive; In the Meuse-Argonne offensive; Before the armistice and after. The book is illustrated and indexed and has six maps.
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=R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 50w
=TAYLOR, FRANCES LILIAN.=[2] Two Indian children of long ago. il 70c Beckley-Cardy 398.2
A book that combines information about the Indians with stories drawn from Indian myth and legend. “The author has endeavored to describe child life in the wild-rice region west of the Great Lakes ... and to retell some of the most interesting stories enjoyed by Indian children. The aim of the book is to gratify the American child’s natural interest in primitive life by stories of our own land and to increase his respect for all that is original and worthy in the lives of the first Americans.”
=TAYLOR, IDA ASHWORTH.= Joan of Arc, soldier and saint. il *$1.50 (2½c) Kenedy
A very simple and direct presentation of the life story of Joan of Arc. A prefatory note states: “The list of the lives of Joan is long; but some are too lengthy, some too much weighted with historical complications and details of campaigns, some too full of more or less controversial matter, to commend themselves to young readers. The following narrative is purely a personal record of her deeds and ideals, recounted, whenever possible, in her own words or in those of contemporary chronicles and in the archives of her tragic condemnation as heretic, her death as martyr, and her triumphant rehabilitation.” There are eight black and white illustrations by W. Graham Robertson.
=TAYLOR, KATHARINE HAVILAND.= Yellow soap. il *$1.75 (1½c) Doubleday
20–10312
In an atmosphere of yellow soap, Theodore Hargraves Bradly grew up—laundry soap, for his mother was a washerwoman. She tried her best to bring him up as a gentleman, as, she impressed upon him, his father had been. At her death, he was left at seventeen, to shift for himself and became a ‘Knight of the road,’ which calling he followed for several years. He then came into an unexpected fortune and proceeded to gratify his own desires and those of his pals of the road. Running along with his story is that of Frances Milton, the little girl in whose home his mother had done washing, and whose childhood, in its way, was unhappier than his. She was always his ideal and when their paths cross again, the barriers which he had erected between them on account of his origin, proved to be no barriers at all.
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=Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 500w
“Despite its many crudities and its frequent unconvincingness, the book shows a real gift for the creation of character, much inventive faculty and an instinct for story-telling that promise worth-while achievement in the future.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 420w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 26 ’20 230w
=TEAD, ORDWAY, and METCALF, HENRY CLAYTON.= Personnel administration; its principles and practice. *$5 McGraw 331.1
20–13089
“The field of their task is defined by the authors as setting forth the principles and the best prevailing practice in the field of the administration of human relations in industry; and they take up seriatim the personnel department, employment methods, health and safety, education, research (job analysis, specifications, etc.), rewards, administrative correlation, and joint relations.”—Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
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“An unusually full index adds much to the usefulness of this valuable and timely volume.” T. T. Read
+ =Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering= 23:642 S 29 ’20 1150w
“An honest and intelligent effort to induce employers to face the industrial problem intelligently and with a liberal spirit. Although not as incisively phrased or as brilliant as Sidney Webb’s ‘Works manager today,’ or Commons’s ‘Industrial good will,’ this is nevertheless a good book in a field where good books are unfortunately rare.” P. H. Douglas
+ =J Pol Econ= 28:790 N ’20 500w
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 230w
+ =Socialist R= 10:30 Ja ’21 40w
“Adequate scholarship and a fine instinct for democracy characterize the writing.” W: L. Chenery
+ =Survey= 45:167 O 30 ’20 450w
=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Little garden the year round. il *$2.50 Dutton 716.2
20–181
“Mr Teall has had much experience as an editor of House and Garden and American Homes and Gardens to sponsor his name on a book cover. It isn’t merely a horticultural handbook that he offers, such as any enterprising seedsman might evolve for the guidance of the uninitiated; this is the work of a garden litterateur, a man who knows the flowers, knows what to say about them, and what the poets have said about them and various other things that are more or less essential ingredients of a real garden essay or a series of them. He writes ‘to convey some sense of the joys of gardening, some realization of the pleasures that find place in the heart and soul of one who combines the companionship of prose and poetry in the going about his gardening.’”—Springf’d Republican
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“One somehow gets the impression from this book that a garden-maker must be completely happy—or would be if it were not for slugs, aphids, and red spiders. Mr Teall writes with contagious enthusiasm and full knowledge of his subject.”
+ =Outlook= 124:337 F 25 ’20 70w
+ =Review= 2:392 Ap 17 ’20 750w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 F 24 ’20 220w
=TEALL, GARDNER CALLAHAN.= Pleasures of collecting; being sundry delectable excursions in the realm of antiques and curios, American, European and oriental. il *$4 (6½c) Century 749
20–17080
“The contentment to be found in the acquisition and in the contemplation of the things that are dear to the heart of the antiquarian and the art-lover is a contentment that is the gift of the gods, always awarded the intelligent, though not always disclosed to them. A friend, then, will be he who discovers to one a treasure like that which the joy of collecting uncovers.... And so it is that this little book is not devised for savages, but tenderly has been nurtured in sympathy with the interesting and beautiful things of yesterday.” (Foreword) Among the contents are: The pleasures of collecting; Collectors of yesterday; American tables; Tea and antiquity; Chintz; Pewter; Samplers; Hand-woven coverlets; Chairs; English drinking-glasses; Delft; Early desk furniture; Saving the pieces; Consoles; The romance of a potter; Bernard Palissy; Italian Maiolica; Engraved gems; Fraudulent art objects. There are many illustrations, an extended bibliography and an index.
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“Useful to the collector, it will also beguile leisure moments of others.”
+ =Booklist= 17:103 D ’20
Reviewed by B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 O 23 ’20 800w
“Any one who harbors even the germ of the collecting habit will find it developing in the glowing atmosphere of the author’s enthusiasm.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
“Of course there is not enough about any one hobby to more than whet the appetite for a deeper acquaintance with the subject; and the book opens up vistas that are impractical for any but millionaires. Nevertheless. It is also a book for general reading and will prove entertaining to many a reader who gets much pleasure from looking into shop windows without being able to purchase the goods behind the glass.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ’20 280w
=TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER).= Flame and shadow. *$1.75 Macmillan 811
20–19070
“Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death. In this latest book we may watch the conflict between the light that comes from the everlasting flame and the darkness that is the ever-present shadow.... There are many poems in ‘Flame and shadow’ to delight those who cannot share her philosophy. There are songs of the faithful beauty of Aldebaran and Altair, and songs of the open sea and the mountains. It is necessary to mention, also, the songs of places, of St Louis, of New York, and Santa Barbara, and the songs of people and of their secret thoughts, ‘rushing without sound’ from the hidden places of their minds. But the best of Sara Teasdale’s songs of people are her love songs, always.”—N Y Times
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“While other melodists are still copying the effects of Sara Teasdale, Miss Teasdale has stopped imitating herself. The clean, straightforward idiom of ‘Rivers to the sea’ has a warmer naturalism in ‘Flame and shadow,’ a more spontaneous intensity.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Bookm= 52:361 Ja ’21 600w
“Into these songs are gathered many an element, many a mood, many an image that I cannot display here upon the screen of comment. It is indeed almost like sacrilege to do ought but read and be delighted by the rare and subtle presentment of them in Miss Teasdale’s songs.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 1200w
“Sara Teasdale seems constantly assailed with two temptations, and it is only at intervals that she entirely surmounts them. One is the temptation to make effective endings, to save up points and appeals for a last line. The other temptation is to deal exclusively in stock love-lyric materials.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 112:20 Ja 5 ’21 360w
Reviewed by Babette Deutsch
=N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 150w
“This is a book to read with reverence of joy.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p10 O 31 ’20 1750w
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 30w
=TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS, ALEXANDER LOUIS.= Tyltyl. il *$5 (21c) Dodd
20–18246
A prose version of Maeterlinck’s play “The betrothal” prepared by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. The story is told in seven chapters: The woodcutter’s cottage; The miser; The fairy’s palace; The ancestors; The children; The leave-taking; The awakening. There are eight colored illustrations by Herbert Paus.
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Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:342 D ’20 20w
“The pictures here are distinctly made for the text, not merely repetitions of the play.”
+ =Lit D= p90 D 4 ’20 160w
“It has all the appeal to both young and old that Maeterlinck is able to conjure with such apparent ease. It is a fascinating story. Paus has achieved a sort of stained glass quality in the illustrations, and this effect is enhanced by the mounting.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 190w
+ =Review= 3:481 N 17 ’20 50w
=TELBERG, GEORGE GUSTAV, and WILTON, ROBERT.=[2] Last days of the Romanovs. il *$3 Doran 947
20–21942
The book consists of two independent parts. Part one contains an account of the judicial examinations of the witnesses connected with the life of the family at Czarskoe-Selo, Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg by N. A. Sokoloff and copies of the depositions taken from the Omsk archives by George Gustav Telberg, after the fall of the Kolchak régime. Part two is the narrative of Mr Robert Wilton, for sixteen years correspondent of the London Times in Russia. While part one is taken up almost entirely with the examination of witnesses Mr Wilton’s narrative contains: Prologue; The stage and the actors; No escape; Alexandra misjudged; Razputin the peasant; Captives in a palace; Exile in Siberia; The last prison; Planning the crime; Calvary; “Without trace”; Damning evidence; All the Romanovs; The jackals; By order of the “Tsik”; The red kaiser; Epilogue. Among the contents of Part three are a list of the members of the imperial family at the outbreak of the revolution, a chronology of the documents and an alphabetical index of names.
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“We cannot speak very highly of Mr Wilton’s method of handling this tragic history. His narrative contains much that is of interest and importance, but it seems to have been hastily written, and it is diffuse, occasionally slangy, and hotly argumentative. The second part of the book is the more interesting.”
+ − =Ath= p518 O 15 ’20 580w
=Booklist= 17:154 Ja ’21
“To the present reviewer at least Mr Wilton’s habit of intemperate statement largely vitiates whatever of truth there may be to his charges. This allowance being made, however, the present work is really invaluable as historical evidence, and simply as a human document and a dramatic picture of life it possesses a profound and poignant interest.” J: Bunker
+ − =Bookm= 52:364 Ja ’21 800w
=Boston Transcript= p7 Ja 8 ’21 480w
=R of Rs= 63:109 Ja ’21 90w
=Spec= 125:572 O 30 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 S 23 ’20 1050w
=TEN-MINUTE= talks with workers. $1 (2½c) Doubleday 330
20–18322
Short articles reprinted from The Times (London) Trade Supplement. “In preparing them for American publication, only such editorial interpolations were made as were considered desirable in order to make the talks more readable for an American audience.” Among the subjects are: The partners; Paying our way; The origin of wealth; The pillars of society; What is capital? The sanity of society; The cost of an article; What is money? Money and prices; What banks do for us; What is the worker entitled to? What are profits? The ideal factory; The upward path.
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“They are clearly worded, aptly illustrated, and the lessons are easily understandable. He is talking rather to employers in his book than with workers, for he makes no point of contact with the latter.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p9 S 25 ’20 160w
=Springf’d Republican= p8 O 9 ’20 130w
“There is a bit too much of a literary quality about it, and it is too advanced in subject matter for consumption by American factory labor much below the rank of foreman. But with suitable modifications it could be adapted to the requirements of any given group. In the hands of an able and resourceful teacher it would be an admirable text in conventional economics for secondary schools or even college freshmen.” E. R. Burton
+ =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 180w
“They all contain a great deal of thought, pithily and happily expressed in compressed form.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 260w
=TENNYSON, HAROLD COURTENAY.= Harold Tennyson, R. N.; the story of a young sailor; put together by a friend. *$2 Macmillan
(Eng ed 20–5765)
“The facts about young Tennyson are mainly drawn from his mother’s journal and from his own bright, chatty letters to members of his family. That he was the grandson of the poet and, in addition, came from such stock as the clever Boyles and the handsome Courtenays accounts for his gifts of brain and physique, as well as for his wonderfully keen appreciation of all things beautiful, whether in nature or in human relations. The story of his early years is told from Lady Tennyson’s diary. After entering the British navy, his letters home take up the narrative. He served for a while on board the Queen Mary before being transferred to the destroyer Viking, which struck a mine in the English Channel in January, 1916. The explosion killed him and several of his shipmates, and brought to an end a career full of promise of the highest order.”—Nation
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+ =Booklist= 16:241 Ap ’20
“Presents a peculiarly engaging character, and forms, in its modest way, a valuable document on the British navy’s doings in the war.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:17 O ’19 30w
“In those letters written during his midshipman’s cruise to the West Indies the descriptions of the places visited reveal an unusual eye for scenery, as well as a happy faculty of making real the persons he met.”
+ =Nation= 109:254 Ag 23 ’19 240w
“This little volume is full of charm, and the best part of it consists of Harold Tennyson’s letters. Perhaps the most delightful letters are those about Russia. The description of Reval is a masterpiece of condensation, and the brilliant account of Petrograd is quite as good.”
+ =Sat R= 127:205 Mr 1 ’19 660w
“The main characteristic of his letters is his striking power of description.”
+ =Spec= 122:141 F 1 ’19 520w
=TERHUNE, ALBERT PAYSON.= Bruce. *$2 Dutton
20–7674
“All dog lovers, especially those who have read ‘Lad—a dog,’ by Albert Payson Terhune, will be interested in another story about a collie by the same author. Bruce’s story is different, however. His early history is unique. We learn of his mother’s unfortunate experiences, and how she came to ‘The place’ by accident. Her only son, named Bruce, a ‘hopelessly awkward and senseless pup,’ soon merited the name of ‘The pest,’ through his countless escapades. Interesting, indeed, is the story of his development from an ‘Ugly duckling’ into a beautiful, intelligent collie, who was destined to play his part in the world war; and no small part it was that Bruce played overseas. Trained at home to carry messages, he readily learned the duties of a courier dog, and soon became the idol of the soldiers with whom he was stationed. Through many thrilling crises of war Bruce proved himself a soldier and a hero. Finally wounded, he was allowed to return to his happy home in America.”—Springf’d Republican
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+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“Few writers have portrayed collies as cleverly as has Mr Terhune. Bruce is made to seem quite as much a personality as any of his human friends, and his actions are always interesting and never boresome.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 30 ’20 260w
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Jl 4 ’20 310w
“Whether or not the incidents are true matters little, so entertainingly and sympathetically is the story told. A well-written war-story with a collie for its hero ought to find many readers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 210w
=THATCHER, EDWARD.= Making tin can toys. il *$1.50 Lippincott 680
20–661
“The instructor in metal working at Teachers college, Columbia, gives a detailed instruction book on the making of toys in which both grade pupils and wounded soldiers have found interest and profit.”—Booklist
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=Ath= p717 My 28 ’20 80w
“This book is very useful in its emphasis on methods of working.”
+ =Booklist= 16:193 Mr ’20
“A book that will appeal both to the experienced mechanic and to the inexperienced one, particularly to the younger or older boy who delights to handle tools.”
+ =Cath World= 110:844 Mr ’20 180w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 60w
=THAYER, LEE (MRS H. W. THAYER).= Unlatched door. *$1.75 Century
20–9139
“The hero of this mystery tale, after a night with Bacchus, misses his own doorway and steps through the unlatched door of his next neighbor in the brownstone block in which his house is situated. But in a few moments he emerges, thoroughly sobered, for just within the door lay the dead body of a beautiful woman. She has been murdered of course; and the young man instinctively decides that he will be wise to maintain ignorance. The next day, however, he is drawn in, when the servants next door summon him. Unfortunately, he has accidentally left evidence of his visit, and when the police take charge he becomes one of the suspects. A considerable group is involved, and, characteristically in stories of the type, each one suspects the other. When guilt is fixed, the one least suspected proves to be the murderer.”—Springf’d Republican
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“A fairly well written mystery murder story with an ingenious plot better worked out than the average.”
+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20
“It would be foolish to suggest that ‘The unlatched door’ is as thrilling a mystery story as ‘The thirteenth chair,’ because it most certainly is not. It is a good mystery story, but Mrs Thayer is rather too much interested in the love story which she introduces.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 240w
=Cleveland= p72 Jl ’20 30w
“‘The unlatched door’ is likely to puzzle even the most sophisticated of fiction readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:321 Je 20 ’20 400w
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 140w
=THAYER, WILLIAM ROSCOE.= Art of biography. *$1.50 Scribner 920
20–15938
“‘The art of biography’ is a subject on which Mr W. R. Thayer may justly claim to be heard, since he has proven his mastery of the art by his biographies of Cavour, John Hay, and Theodore Roosevelt. In this little volume, which comprises three lectures which he gave at the University of Virginia, Mr Thayer does not attempt to formulate rules to guide aspiring biographers to success. But he does trace the development of the art of biographical writing from that perfect ancient example—the story of Joseph and his brothers—down to Morley’s three-volume ‘Gladstone.’ Mr Thayer thinks that ‘the constant direction in the evolution of biography has been from the outward to the inward.’ Three indispensable qualifications, he thinks, the biographer must have. He must have real sympathy with his subject. In the second place, the biographer must tell the story as nearly as possible as the actors underwent it. Finally, the biographer must work as the portrait painter works with his brush, always aiming to discover and to reveal the salient characteristics which made a real flesh-and-blood personality.”—Review
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+ =Booklist= 17:63 N ’20
“Mr Thayer’s work evidences a wide range of reading and his critical faculty gives especial value to his comment.”
+ =Bookm= 52:273 N ’20 210w
“At his best he is capable; at his worst, his lack of imagination is conspicuous.”
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 S 25 ’20 350w
“A scholarly, illuminating survey.”
+ =Dial= 70:232 F ’21 30w
+ =Review= 3:425 N 3 ’20 390w
“There is more than entertainment here: it is a pungent bit of literary criticism.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 180w
=THOMAS. DANIEL LINDSEY, and THOMAS, LUCY BLAYNEY.=[2] Kentucky superstitions. *$3 Princeton univ. press 398.3
20–18391
“Ancient and modern love signs, weather signs, good luck signs, bad luck signs, cures, wishes, dreams, beliefs about ghosts, witches, hoodoos, haunted houses, and a great variety of other things are brought together and arranged in a very readable form. There are altogether 3,954 superstitions listed. An index adds to the value of the volume.”—Survey
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“The volume will be of great value for psychologists.”
+ =Ath= p891 D 31 ’20 170w
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 190w
+ =Nation= 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 280w
“The authors have done an excellent piece of work by collecting and classifying with great patience and care the current superstitious beliefs found almost everywhere in this region.” J: F. Smith
+ =Survey= 45:547 Ja 8 ’21 200w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p857 D 16 ’20 880w
=THOMAS, EDWARD.= Industry, emotion and unrest. *$1.75 (3c) Harcourt 304
20–13787
In dealing with our modern economic life and the factors which make for industrial and social unrest, the author chooses to portray incidents and cases rather than to present economics and sociology as a science. He emphasizes the need of an ethical interest of the worker in his work and a satisfying emotional connection with its product. He sees the solution of our present day troubles in administrative methods rather than in more drastic revolutionary changes; and makes it one of his practical suggestions, at the end of the book, that the middle class youth—as the potential industrial leaders—should learn by practical experience of the strenuous life of workers. Contents: Emotion in industry; Business groups and business ideals; Business methods and business ethics; Decadence of the middle class; Our social group heredity; Ideas, ethics and institutionalism; Education, emotion and idealism; Adventure and ethics; The government, law and unrest; Some gulfs, complexities and loyalties; A summary and some suggestions; Notes and index.
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“The form of his book is unusual because, being a lawyer, the author has seen the advantage of presenting his material in the case system. They are in fact actual and not theoretical cases, which will mean much to the interest of readers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 4 ’20 320w
+ =Ind= 105:170 F 12 ’21 50w
Reviewed by C. S. Parker
=Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 500w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:232 D ’20 90w
=THOMAS, GEORGE HOLT.= Aerial transport. il *$12 (*30s) Doran 629.1
(Eng ed 20–13149)
The author was one of the first to advocate aircraft as a weapon in war-time and is now interested in proving its value in commerce, for high-speed travel and mail service. His object in this book is to supply “between the covers of a single volume, and written in a quite informal, non-technical way, a clear, uncoloured statement of just what a commercial aircraft can do, and also—which is just as important—what it cannot do.” (Foreword) The contents, after an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe, are: First considerations (Essence of the problem—length of stages—loads—speed—risk—etc.); Progress—immediate and future; “The air express”; Speeding up the business letter; Meteorology in commercial flying; Some general conclusions, with special reference to airships; Some questions of L. S. D.; Flying and the law; Aerial transport in remote places, with some notes as to passenger-carrying; Aerial photography and patrol. The book is profusely illustrated, has an appendix, an index, and four infolded maps.
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“Mr Holt Thomas is an enthusiast, but a reasonable and restrained enthusiast. As the book is somewhat discursive and contains many repetitions, it is a pity he did not see that a proper index was provided.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p150 Mr 4 ’20 930w
=THOMAS, SHIPLEY.= History of the A. E. F. il *$6 Doran 940.373
20–19161
In the foreword to the volume, Brigadier General U. G. McAlexander says of the author that he “has taken great pains to present historical facts in an attractive, readable form and to show to the mind a realistic picture of the whole scene of operations.” After giving the history of events, from the arrival of Pershing in France to the armistice, he devotes four chapters to: Auxiliary arms; The services of supply; Division histories; A visitor’s guide. The book has illustrations, maps and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20
“Amid the great multiplicity of books on the war in its various phases which have appeared since the armistice there is none which, in the present or the future, is of more intensive value than this.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 620w
“It is written with unflagging energy and interest, is thoroughly readable, and its author is the very embodiment of the type and spirit of the thousands of young officers from civil life who made such admirable leaders of our troops in action.” F. V. Greene
+ =N Y Times= p3 O 24 ’20 3950w
“It is the opinion of those most competent to judge that his story of America’s participation in the war is as accurate and complete as it can be made at this time.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 80w
=THOMPSON, CHARLES THADDEUS.= Peace conference day by day; a presidential pilgrimage leading to the discovery of Europe. *$2.50 Brentano’s 940.314
20–9820
“Mr Thompson is the superintendent of the Associated press foreign service. He acted as special correspondent in reporting the proceedings of the Peace conference, and Colonel House has vouched for his accuracy. This book gives a circumstantial account of the writing of the peace treaty and the League of nations covenant.”—R of Rs
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+ =Booklist= 17:16 O ’20
=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 190w
“This is by far the most interesting and valuable of the contributions to our post-war literature. Mr Thompson’s work seems to be an honest, unbiased effort to present the reader with the facts as he saw them. His training enabled him to get at the inside of many situations that were decidedly complex. All this wealth he gives most liberally to his readers in a vivid, chatty way that entertains and enlightens.”
+ =Cath World= 112:248 N ’20 450w
Reviewed by W: MacDonald
=Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 230w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:6 Jl 18 ’20 3300w
“Such a useful volume as this should assuredly have had an index. The work is not only extraordinarily informative but equally entertaining.”
+ − =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 200w
=R of Rs= 62:112 Jl ’20 50w
=THOMPSON, FRANK VICTOR.= Schooling of the immigrant. *$2 Harper 371.9
20–18396
This volume is the first of eleven Americanization studies instituted by the Carnegie corporation of New York, under the direction of Allen T. Burns. The author calls attention to the fact that since the preparation of the volume was begun such a complete overturn of ideas respecting Americanization has taken place that the term itself is being replaced by such terms as “citizenship” and “national unification.” This implies a larger comprehension of the problem and a realization that the “drive” method must give way to a process of education “not to be undertaken impulsively, but systematically, persistently, and determinedly.” Contents: The school and nationalization; Problems and policies; Public-school administration; Private schools and public responsibility; Methods of teaching English; Measuring progress in English; Educational service stations; The training of teachers; Trend of legislation; Schooling in citizenship; Summary; Appendix, maps, diagrams and tables.
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“Very useful to the serious organizer of immigrant work.”
+ =Booklist= 17:95 D ’20
“As a text-book it gets to the heart of the matter and will be found invaluable to teachers interested in the education of the immigrant.” A. Yezierska
+ =Bookm= 52:498 F ’21 420w
“Leaders in educational, industrial, or welfare work in any community which is facing the immigrant problem will find this book interesting in its account of conditions that exist and rich in suggestion of means by which these may be improved.”
+ =School R= 28:788 D ’20 750w
“This is the most reassuring book on the subject of immigrant education that has yet appeared.” J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:401 D 11 ’20 480w
=Wis Lib Bul= 16:233 D ’20 70w
=THOMPSON, HOLLAND.= New South; a chronicle of social and industrial evolution. (Chronicles of America ser.) il per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 975
19–19140
“With no desire to encourage sectionalism, it seems to have been the purpose of the editors to have every part of the country intelligently presented in ‘The chronicles of America.’ ‘The new South,’ written by a southern man, Dr Holland Thompson, gives an account of the industrial, intellectual, and social progress that has been made by the South since the Civil war. In this volume, land and labor problems have an important place.”—R of Rs
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“This small volume on a large subject has two notable characteristics. One is its catholicity of spirit. The other characteristic of the book is its descriptive value. As a brief and suggestive survey of the rise of a civilization the book is unsurpassed.” W: K. Boyd
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:146 O ’20 360w
“The chapters on The background, The revolt of the common man, and Industrial development may, perhaps, be found to contain more that is new than any of the others. The second mentioned, which describes the wresting of political control from the Confederate soldier, is probably the best in the book. All are good, however.” M. J. White
+ =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:159 S ’20 500w
+ =N Y Times= p16 O 31 ’20 130w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 80w
=THOMPSON, MRS JANE SMEAL (HENDERSON), and THOMPSON, HELEN GERTRUDE.= Silvanus Phillips Thompson, his life and letters. il *$7.50 Dutton
(Eng ed 20–11520)
“Many old students of the Finsbury technical college will welcome the life of its first principal, which has been compiled by his wife and daughter. Thompson accepted that post in 1885 and occupied it until his death in 1916. In addition to his life-work at Finsbury, Thompson wrote one of the best of elementary textbooks on electricity and magnetism, a standard work on dynamo-electric machinery, lives of Faraday and Lord Kelvin, and various monographs connected with Gilbert and the early history of magnetism, besides other books and a number of scientific papers. He was a convinced member of the Society of Friends, and frequently spoke at the Westminster meeting and elsewhere. Some of his religious addresses were printed in a posthumous work, ‘A not impossible religion.’—Spec
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“These ladies enable us to make a closer acquaintance with one, to whose lucid explanations from the platform we have listened with pleasure, and whose text-books we have read with profit. The references to his home life are restrained but interesting. But we could have wished that letters other than those dealing with scientific matters were more plentiful.”
+ − =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p66 Jl ’20 180w (Reprinted from Engineering Ag 6 ’20)
“His biography is interesting and it is also stimulating.”
+ =Review= 3:392 O 27 ’20 170w
=Spec= 125:153 Jl 31 ’19 380w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Mr 18 ’20 1700w
=THOMPSON, JOHN REUBEN.= Poems; with a biographical introd. by J: S. Patton. *$2 Scribner 811
20–6690
“The University of Virginia edition of the ‘Poems of John R. Thompson’ is a tribute to the memory of one of the most memorable of Confederate poets. Now first collected, Thompson’s verses exhibit the gay and friendly—nor wholly unpuritanical—spirit which ruled the older literary Richmond. Here are echoes of Byron, Campbell, Southey, Béranger, Heine, Praed, Holmes, Saxe, neatly fitted to Virginian occasions. The rhymed essays, Patriotism, Virginia, and Poesy, sum up practically all that young Virginians were thinking and feeling from 1855 to 1859. The book was made possible by the Alfred Henry Byrd gift, and well edited by Mr John S. Patton.”—Nation
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=Booklist= 16:338 Jl ’20
“It is good poetry of its time and kind, perfectly typical of the spirit of the mid-nineteenth century, although it does not touch the beauty and vigor of Poe, or the later sweetness and light of Lanier.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 1500w
+ =Nation= 110:560 Ap 24 ’20 260w
“John R. Thompson was not a genius. He was a gentleman of talent and culture. His verse is witty, fluent, eloquent, exquisitely ironical, but never great.” M. Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 750w
=THOMPSON, MARGARET J.= Food for the sick and the well: how to select it and how to cook it. *$1 World bk. 641.5
20–1484
Of the author of this practical little volume of recipes and suggestions on diet Dr William Gerry Morgan says in the introduction that she “has had years of experience in the care and feeding of the sick, and during all that time she has been a close and earnest student of dietetics from a practical standpoint.” Contents: General considerations—food and health, a balanced menu, suggestions and cautions; Recipes; Treatments; Index.
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“This little book is written more especially for nurses but should prove very handy also on the household book shelf of the home maker.”
+ =Survey= 43:622 F 21 ’20 100w
=THOMS, CRAIG S.= Essentials of Christianity. *$1.25 Am. Bapt. 230
20–272
“Religion, like everything else,” says the author, “has caught the temper of the age,” and this little book can be called an attempt to apply modern efficiency methods to religion. In these times of wornout institutions and necessary readjustments in all our relations, religion too must be reduced to its lowest terms in order that we can build anew; and constructive thought and vigor of action are called for. Whatever our difficulties may be, the author thinks it is always possible “to secure an effective starting point for one’s religious life by beginning where one is and cooperating with God according to one’s light and opportunity.” Contents: Faith; God; Christ: Evolution; The Bible; Prayer; Immortality; The church; Cooperating with God.
=THOMSON, JOHN ARTHUR.= System of animate nature. 2v *$6 Holt 570
20–18325
Two volumes containing the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St Andrews in the years 1915 and 1916, by the Regius professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. The subject matter of this lecture series is usually philosophical, dealing with the nature of man and the universe. In presenting the biological point of view, Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but as a coninterpretation or our religious conviction, we must admit the desirability of having more than a passing acquaintance with the system of things of which our everyday life is in some measure part.” His aim has been “to state the general results of biological inquiry which must be taken account of if we are to think of organic nature as a whole and in relation to the rest of our experience.” (Preface)