Volume 2, also composed of ten lectures, is devoted to The evolution

of the realm of organisms. Volume 2 has a bibliography of nineteen pages and an index.

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“As correcting the ‘red in tooth and claw’ conception of the animate world. Professor Thomson’s remarks are valuable, but, as a contribution to the ethical and religious problem, they are unimportant.”

+ − =Ath= p478 O 8 ’20 1150w

“Will appeal only to the reflective who can use biological facts as the material of thought. For large and special libraries.”

+ =Booklist= 17:101 D ’20

“The author’s resources in the way of naturalistic erudition are astounding, and his command of English at once fresh and fascinating.” E. P.

+ =Dial= 70:109 Ja ’21 70w

“It is a book that most certainly ought to have been written. It takes stock, so to speak, of the situation of speculative biology at the beginning of a new phase in science, and it does so in a manner that is candid, comprehensive, and most attractive.” J. J.

+ − =Nature= 106:494 D 16 ’20 1950w

“If these Gifford lectures had no other value they would be welcome for their simple and comprehensive statement of the present phase of the Darwinian theory. In some cases he lays himself open to a charge of bad philosophy, in others of bad science. None the less, we are grateful for what is always a serious and often a true and beautiful book.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p848 D 16 ’20 1900w

=THORLEY, WILFRID CHARLES=, tr. and ed. Fleurs-de-lys. *$2 Houghton 841.08

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This anthology of French verse reaches from the thirteenth century to the present. It is a free translation and in his introduction to the collection, which is in part a treatise on the art of translation, the author sets forth his reasons for a free rendering. The greater part of the introduction is a historical survey of French verse. The poems are chronologically grouped and the English employed is likewise chronologically adapted to the original verse. There are copious notes, an index of authors and an index of first lines.

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“Mr Thorley’s power of fluent expression gets the better of his sense of history. What he brings with him obscures what he takes. But to harp on Mr Thorley’s failures is ungenerous. Let us rather express our surprise and admiration that in a volume so large and so varied the failures are not more numerous and more complete.” A. L. H.

+ − =Ath= p209 F 13 ’20 1000w

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

“The whole collection is marked by inspiration, technical flexibility and literary tact.”

+ =Cleveland= p86 O ’20 60w

“Mr Thorley displays more earnestness than achievement.”

+ − =Dial= 69:547 N ’20 70w

“There is perhaps no version in his book that is not accomplished poetry, and he has an especial richness, ease, and sonorousness in handling the frequent sonnet form. He is less happy when he rebuilds poems. But it is his whole book that places Mr Thorley definitely in the front rank of those artists among whom he wishes to be counted.” Ludwig Lewisohn

+ − =Nation= 110:857 Je 26 ’20 280w

“Mr Thorley is sometimes a spirited translator. But his felicity is intermittent, and is sometimes dotted or crossed with infelicity.”

+ − =Review= 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 240w

“With a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:202 O ’20 60w

=THORNDIKE, ASHLEY HORACE.= Literature in a changing age. *$3 Macmillan 820.9

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“The effect of life upon literature, especially as it concerns the English people, is the problem that Professor Thorndike examines in this book. His survey includes a century as he contrasts the difference of English literature after Waterloo with its character today after the great war. The study of the changes that are the groundwork upon which literature bases its expression is primarily concerned with life. Thus Professor Thorndike in the first four chapters of his book deals with literature—down to Carlyle with a more or less historical sense. His next five chapters shift the whole basis of this historic groundwork with the revolts and evolutions that began to change the aspects of society. Hence Progress and poverty, Democracy and empire, Religion, Woman, and Science, invention and machinery are the subjects discussed. What Professor Thorndike predicts for the future is a reconcilement, a quicker compromise than in the past, between the changing forces of life and the imaginative symbols, which is literature’s interpretation and embodiment of them.”—Boston Transcript

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“One always takes up with respect a work by Professor Thorndike, but this book is below his reputation. It is solid and sensible, and presents truly the main facts about the period and its literature. But the ground covered is so wide that little not already known to the student of history or of literature can be told within the small compass of the volume: and the book lacks the unity, lucidity, and brilliancy which could alone make memorable so brief a treatment of so large and complex a subject.” W. C. Bronson

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:362 Ja ’21 410w

“A careful piece of work that will interest only widely read people who do not need an entrancing style to attract them. No index.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:107 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 2 ’20 780w

“Perhaps it is this wealth of illustration which hinders the movement of the thesis: the author is continually led astray into the realms of literary criticism admirable in itself, but not bearing directly enough on the subject under discussion. We must confess to having found the opening chapters dull, academic, a laboring of the obvious.” W. H. B.

+ − =Grinnell R= 16:333 Ja ’21 400w

“On the political and economic side his conclusions are terrifically unconvincing.” Pierre Loving

− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 16 ’21 900w

“To this new study he has brought the integrity of method and the comprehensive acuteness which he had displayed in his previous works. He has written a book to be enjoyed by all lovers of literature and to be appreciated by all who can recognize the clear and cogent writing which is the result of wide culture and of deep thought.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p2 O 17 ’20 1800w

“With what seems pretty near perversity, he has chosen scrupulously to avoid the inevitable circumstances of chronology, and to arrange his matter under such categories as ‘Democracy and empire,’ ‘Woman,’ and so on, and instead of stating facts he is apt only to allude. The resulting impression is of confused admiration.”

+ − =Review= 3:480 N 17 ’20 130w

=Survey= 45:330 N 27 ’20 260w

“It is an extensive and fascinating subject, and it is handled as we should expect a thoroughly efficient American professor to handle it. That is to say, he designs his structure in a clear and logical way.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p802 D ’20 230w

=THORNLEY, ISOBEL D.= England under the Yorkists, 1460–1485; with a preface by A. F. Pollard. (Univ. of London intermediate source-books of history) il *$3.35 (*9s 6d) Longmans 942.04

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“Though primarily intended for the use of undergraduates, this volume of extracts from contemporary sources for the reigns of Edward IV and Richard III will interest a larger public. Miss Thornley has ranged widely among printed and unprinted materials in selecting passages to illustrate the political, constitutional, ecclesiastical, economic, and social aspects of that turbulent generation.”—Spec

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“The work is admirably done.”

+ =Nation= 111:304 S 11 ’20 240w

+ =Spec= 124:248 F 21 ’20 210w

=THURSTON, ERNEST TEMPLE.= Sheepskins and grey russet. il *$2.50 Putnam

20–1212

This is the story of a curious couple, “vagabonds,” the author calls them, from the restlessness with which they change from one abode to the other. They have a fad for old houses, and whenever they are “settled for life” in one place they find another which is even older and more to their liking. At last they buy quite an ancient farm near Tewkesbury and it is at this place that “A. H.” describes his visit to them. They are a most engaging couple, are Bellwattle and Cruikshank, with their oddities and whimsies and their farming vicissitudes, and the reader is left with the impression that if a child should come to bless their union, their restlessness would vanish. The illustrations are by Emile Verpilleux.

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+ =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

“There is a whimsical tenderness in Mr Thurston’s treatment of his characters. It is his most pleasing mood, and it is present throughout his pastoral.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 700w

“‘Sheepskins and grey russet’ is really of value. This is a most gentlemanly book, with good antecedents, a reasonable income, and an excellent digestion.”

+ =Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 120w

+ =Ind= 103:440 D 25 ’20 80w

+ =Lit D= p89 Je 26 ’20 2150w

“Many chapters give us an insight into country life in England. Not in the manner of Thomas Hardy or Eden Phillpotts, but in the more substantial and eternal manner of the ‘Stable boys’ almanac.’” B: de Casseres

− =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 800w

“Charmingly printed and illustrated.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 50w

“The charm of the present book lies not a little in its slightness and unobtrusiveness as a story. The thread is there, a tale is told; but with great economy of motion, almost as if by inadvertence.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 400w

“It must be confessed that as far as any practical assistance to an American family wanting to break into country life is concerned, the book is literature pure and simple, and by no means to be classed under useful arts. Perhaps they would say the same in England; but anyway, literature is quite worth while, and this book belongs in the worthwhile class.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 260w

=THWING, ANNIE HAVEN.= Crooked and narrow streets of the town of Boston, 1630–1822. il *$5 (7c) Jones. Marshall 974.4

20–19769

The book gives a brief historical survey of how Boston came to be Boston and then confines itself to the history of its streets and their original inhabitants and ancestry. But few of the old streets survive even in pictures and of the survivors most have been widened. “Many of the old streets were so narrow that it was difficult for two vehicles to pass each other and so crooked that after a fire the town invariably ordered them straightened.” (Introductory) The contents are: The North end; Government and business centre; South end; The West end; The neck; Notes and index of streets. The book is illustrated with old prints and has seven insert maps.

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+ =Booklist= 17:151 Ja ’21

“It is replete with accurate and minute information, and yet it does not lack the anecdotal vivacity which makes this kind of book good reading. The volume is admirably put together, and the engravings and old maps are especially interesting.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 130w

“There could hardly be a pleasanter guide book for a devout explorer than ‘The crooked and narrow streets of Boston.’”

+ =Ind= 103:442 D 25 ’20 70w

“Its accuracy is vouched for by the fact that it is the outcome of a life-work, whose results are treasured by the Massachusetts Historical society. There are numerous agreeable lighter touches.”

+ =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 160w

“It is a work giving much valuable information and might well be imitated in all of our important cities.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 160w

“Miss Thwing’s book will remove any lingering doubt you may have as to the historical interest of those streets or as to the quaint picturesqueness that was theirs in a bygone age.”

+ =N Y Times= p14 Ja 2 ’21 500w

+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 50w

=TITUS, HAROLD.= Last straw. il *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–4711

Jane Hunter falls heir to a western ranch. She is an eastern society girl who knows little about the West and had it not been that her fortunes were at a low ebb she would have taken little interest in her new property. She goes West hoping to realize ready money out of the place and once there events decide her to stay. Dick Hilton, the easterner who had long wanted to marry her, follows her to the West and remains there to add to her troubles. Of the latter she has many, including a dishonest foreman, cattle thieves, and a “nester” who cuts off her best watering place and who is only a tool in the hands of her enemies. Tom Beck, who had refused to take a chance in the draw for foreman but who stays on the ranch to serve her at every turn, makes a very satisfactory hero and after an exciting bit of fighting the story comes to a peaceful close.

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“The excellence of the novel lies not in its characters, not in its plot, which is always stirring, but in the way the plot works out of the characters. This stamps it as first-class work.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 520w

“Mr Titus knows his subject; he writes with a facile pen, and ‘The last straw’ will be keenly enjoyed by all lovers of western adventure tales.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:221 My 2 ’20 550w

=TODD, ARTHUR JAMES.= Scientific spirit and social work. *$2 Macmillan 361

19–18666

“Prof. A. J. Todd, in his new book, points out that for 25 years social work has been professionalizing itself. He shows how modern social work enlarges the ‘rights of man,’ how it contributes to social progress, and what qualifications in character and training it demands of those who have entered it as a vocation.”—Springf’d Republican

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“A most readable book for social workers”

+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

+ =Dial= 68:541 Ap ’20 80w

“The book, like some others based on college lectures, achieves an effect of reasoning by interpellation of ‘then,’ ‘therefore,’ ‘it follows,’ ‘and to sum up’ and contains frequent adjurations to ‘hard thinking’ without corresponding performance. Much of the material is a trifle obvious.”

− =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 220w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 3 ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 15 ’20 270w

“In matters of detail we find much with which we differ. But all trained social workers and all teachers of applied sociology will welcome this vigorous, powerful statement of the principles and methods and ideals of social work.” J. E. Hagerty

+ − =Survey= 43:621 F 21 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p244 Ap 15 ’20 40w

=TOMLINSON, H. M.= Old junk. *$2 (5c) Knopf 910

(Eng ed 19–15918)

This collection of sketches and essays has been reprinted from various publications between January, 1907 and April, 1918. They contain impressions and reminiscences from many lands and seas. S. K. Ratcliffe in his foreword to the volume, says of the author: “Among all the men writing in England today there is none known to us whose work reveals a more indubitable sense of the harmonies of imaginative prose.” The last seven of the papers reveal the author as war-correspondent. Among the contents are: The African coast; Old junk; The pit mouth; The art of writing; The derelict; The Lascar’s walking stick; On leave; A division on the march; The ruins.

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“It is at times like these that we find it extraordinary comfort to have in our midst a citizen of the sea, a writer like Mr H. M. Tomlinson. We feel that he is calm, not because he has renounced life, but because he lives in the memory of that solemn gesture with which the sea blesses or dismisses or destroys her own. The breath of the sea sounds in all his writings.” K. M.

+ =Ath= p205 Ap 18 ’19 700w

+ =Booklist= 16:235 Ap ’20

“One opens this book at random and finds sentences, paragraphs, whole pages that are at once a delight and a despair: a delight because they are—well, delightful; and a despair because, peer as you may, you cannot discover the secret of their making.” J: Bunker

+ =Bookm= 51:474 Je ’20 1050w

“For a set of essays written on land and sea, ‘Old Junk’ is a misleading title. Mr Tomlinson is an artist to whom ‘the light that never was’ is plainly visible. His descriptions of two voyages, one along the African coast, and the other, the more familiar passage across the Atlantic, are marvelous prose.” C. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 3 ’20 600w

“Delicate and helpless in his gestures, he yet is enduringly accurate in imagination. His images are of that excellent variety which send your eye to the corner of the ceiling for testing and reflection and acceptance.”

+ =Nation= 111:305 S 11 ’20 180w

“No one has the right to look knowing when literature is mentioned unless he is fully aware of Mr H. M. Tomlinson.” Rebecca West

+ =New Repub= 19:332 Jl 9 ’19 1400w

“A collection of stories of travel and chance which open out to the reader new visions of the sea and all that thereon is.”

+ =Sat R= 127:428 My 3 ’19 70w

“Several of his papers deal with the war. He does not describe the fighting, but its effect on those who come back from it—how it disgusts them with life, how it works in them a change, not outwardly perceptible, which makes them strangers to their own kith and kin. All this is admirably thought and said, and so is a tribute to ‘the nobodies’ who restore the balance of the world when it has been upset by the highly placed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p181 Ap 3 ’19 500w

=TOMPKINS, DANIEL AUGUSTUS.= Builder of the new South; being the story of his life work, by George Tayloe Winston. il *$3 Doubleday

20–18666

The new South, says the author, is not the achievement of educational and religious missionaries but of industrial forces which are epitomized in the life of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. “He built a new South—of mills and factories, of skilled labor and machinery, of diversified and intensified agriculture, of improved railways and highways, of saving banks and building and loan associations—a new South also of public schools, technical colleges, and expanding universities, of independent journalism and independent thought—a new South of universal education and democracy.” (Author’s summary of the contents of the book)

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“Describes a strong character and an important movement in American history.”

+ =Booklist= 17:114 D ’20

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 240w

=TOMPKINS, JULIET WILBOR (MRS JULIET WILBOR [TOMPKINS] POTTLE).= Joanna builds a nest. il *$1.75 Bobbs

20–18300

“Joanna is a competent business woman, attractive, and with a bird’s own instinct for home building. She buys a wretched little house on a hill, sets the carpenters to work, advertises for a cheerful working housekeeper and a slightly disabled soldier to run the place, and herself comes out to enjoy her nest whenever she can snatch time from business. The house becomes eventually a charming home, but the cheerful, all-too-golden-haired housekeeper and the first and second ventures in soldiers are vexing problems. The first man had been in the wrong war. The second had come off rather badly from the right one, but Joanna’s passion for remodelling only rejoices in the material thus brought to her hand.”—N Y Evening Post

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“How she succeeded in her efforts is related in a delightful manner, quite in harmony with the subject and its circumstances.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 300w

“It is a comfortable story, a little sentimental, and the characters are extremely well sketched. On the other hand, the illustrations are anything but that.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 280w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p22 F 6 ’21 850w

Reviewed by D. W. Webster

+ =Pub W= 98:1193 O 16 ’20 290w

“There’s a good bit of sound sense in the house-remaking, and plenty of entertainment in the story as a whole.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 150w

=TOOKER, LEWIS FRANK.= Middle passage. $1.90 (3c) Century

20–16345

David Lunt, a mere boy, of seafaring ancestry, ran away to sea in what turned out to be a slaver. Being a saucy and adventurous lad he tried the patience of the captain and the treatment he received aroused in him a passion for vengeance. For this reason and not from a bad heart he ships a second time in a slaver but his experiences this time close that episode. Other risky undertakings follow, just this side of crime. He is kept from overstepping the boundary line by the memory of a face back home. In his brief and infrequent visits to the home town, his love for Lydia becomes a pledge and he finally overcomes her father’s opposition by a courageous confession of his near lapses in church. The story is full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes.

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=Booklist= 17:160 Ja ’21

“It retains a certain value as a picture of life in an era which today is as remote as Babylon. Mr Tooker is an alert and companionable story-teller—a disciple of Conrad in action, though not in atmosphere.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 2:142 O 20 ’20 130w

“Certain merits lacking in many of the sea stories which come from the presses every year are possessed by this novel. In the first place, Mr Tooker knows the sea in the intimate way that a sailor knows it. Secondly, he has style, a simple and effective style.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 Ja 2 ’21 380w

“Mr Tooker always writes of the sea with sympathy and knowledge, and we are inclined to think that this is the most vivid and exciting book he has written.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w

=TORMEY, JOHN LAWLESS, and LAWRY, ROLLA CECIL.=[2] Animal husbandry. il $1.40 Am. bk. 636

20–6658

“This brief manual has been prepared for use in the agricultural classes which the Smith-Hughes act brought into being, and it is consequently written for elementary students and for use in connection with practical, every-day farm work. It comprises, like most ambitious texts in animal husbandry, a description of the principal breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry, a guide to methods of stock judging, and a section on the care and management of animals.”—N Y Evening Post

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“A comprehensive volume, well illustrated, and most useful to the intelligent student of modern farming.”

+ =Cath World= 112:554 Ja ’21 60w

“A few faults arise from the necessary brevity of the treatise. Occasionally important information is left out.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 180w

=TOUT, THOMAS FREDERICK.= Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval England. (Publications of the University of Manchester) 2v ea *$7 (*12s) Longmans 354

20–14380

“Mr Tout’s magnum opus had its origin in a mood of almost casual curiosity, awakened ten years ago by the essay of a young French scholar upon the use or ‘diplomatic’ of the small seals which the English kings used in their correspondence—the privy seal, the secret seal, the signet. A desire to clear up a few obscure points in English diplomatic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led him to explore the untouched treasures of the public record office. The next step was a reconstruction of the royal household—in particular, of its administrative offices, the chamber and wardrobe, and of their instruments, the small seals. Hence the sub-title of the work——‘The wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals.’ To a scholar with Mr Tout’s wide knowledge of European history in the later middle ages such an inquiry was full of suggestion; and so his book reached its present form—a survey of English administration, almost a revision of English political and constitutional history, from the Norman conquest to the death of Richard II.”—Ath

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“A most valuable feature of Professor Tout’s book will be found in the luminous exposition of sources and authorities as set forth in a descriptive chapter on documentary material. With clearness and originality there is apt to be excessive positiveness. In points of controversy the author occasionally falls into the temptation of exaggeration by over-stating an opposing view in order the more sharply to challenge it.” J. F. Baldwin

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:78 O ’20 1200w

“In these days of specialism Professor Tout has never forgotten the more spacious period of scholarship. He is still under its influence. And this is why, to a book packed with new material and highly technical in character, he has been able to give the quality of fine and significant history. Limited in range though it is, this book is not unworthy of a place beside the ‘Constitutional history of England.’” F. M. P.

+ =Ath= p174 Ag 6 ’20 2150w

“This is the most important contribution to the study of English history that has been made in many a year. At every point it breaks new ground; and at every point it shows an amplitude of knowledge and a depth of research which put Professor Tout among the most eminent scholars of this generation.” H. J. Laski

+ =Nation= 111:sup666 D 8 ’20 1000w

“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”

+ =Review= 3:507 N 24 ’20 520w

“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again, in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”

+ =Spec= 125:277 Ag 28 ’20 1300w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 Ag 19 ’20 1450w

=TOWARDS= reunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280

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“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World

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“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a general contribution to the problem.”

+ − =Ath= p686 Ag 1 ’19 1450w

+ − =Bib World= 54:203 Mr ’20 400w

=Sat R= 128:368 O 18 ’19 1400w

“There is much in what they describe as ‘contributions to mutual understanding’ which commands sympathy. On the main issue, that of reunion, it is difficult not to think that they multiply words without increasing sense. It is certain that they contain a large number of very disputable assertions.”

+ − =Spec= 123:215 Ag 16 ’19 900w

=TOWNS, CHARLES BARNES.= Habits that handicap. *$1.50 (4½c) Funk 613.8

20–3199

An exposition of the present prevalent evil of drug addiction in the United States; the results it invariably causes, both socially and individually; the difficulty of overcoming it; and the surest effective remedy. The poisons Dr Towns condemns include many widely used narcotics,—bromides, headache powders, cough syrups, etc.,—alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco, as well as more virulent drugs. As a nation we are fond of poisoning ourselves. Prohibition has driven many to more harmful habits than the daily cocktail or glass of beer. Our women have, many of them, acquired the cigarette habit. Depoisoning ourselves will not be easy. The author urges as the most effective remedy, legal regulation of the sale of all drugs and narcotics, authoritative control of their use, and “pitiless publicity.” The book includes a preface by Dr Richard C. Cabot, and an appendix on The relation of alcohol to disease, by Dr Alexander Lambert. The book covers practically the same ground as the volume of similar title published by the Century company in 1915.

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“The new edition is written in a manner even more attractive and vigorous than the first.”

+ =Booklist= 16:292 My ’20

“Were the moderation of the book’s title reflected in the letterpress, its influence would be strengthened. His denunciations take no account of divergent views, save in so far as he disposes of them on the ground of bias.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:119 O ’20 220w

“On the title page we find the sub-title, ‘The remedy for narcotic, alcohol, tobacco and other drug addictions.’ It is disappointing therefore to find no hint or suggestion in the book as to what the remedy is.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p10 Mr 6 ’20 300w

=TOWNSHEND, SIR CHARLES VERE FERRERS.= My campaign (Eng title, My campaign in Mesopotamia). 2v *$10 McCann 940.42

20–16919

“If the first campaign in Mesopotamia is not the best-known episode of the war it is not for lack of information, and Sir Charles Townshend’s contribution is one that will appeal to the student of military affairs not only for the light it casts on the motives that moved him, but also and even more as a careful and frank study of a campaign which must ever be memorable in our history. Sir Charles Townshend took the field as commander of the Sixth division in succession to General Barrett, who retired through ill health, in April, 1915; and in the last month of the year his offensive operations had ceased and he was shut up in Kut. He had fought three battles, and his Sixth division had proved itself a splendid fighting unit.”—Ath

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“General Townshend reveals himself throughout as that rarest of British products, a thoughtful, well-instructed student of scientific warfare.”

+ =Ath= p474 Ap 9 ’20 1000w

=Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 900w

“The commanding officer of those British forces which fought Kut and Ctesiphon writes a magnificent story without patches, and with considerable skill.”

+ =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 130w

“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual detail.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:279 Mr 20 ’20 780w

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p163 Mr 11 ’20 1500w

=TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND=, marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton

20–12812

The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations. Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.

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“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility who peeps into its pages.”

− =N Y Times= p25 O 24 ’20 520w

“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”

− =Sat R= 128:537 D 6 ’19 450w

“A quite negligible tale.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p678 N 20 ’19 50w

=TRABUE, MARION REX, and STOCKBRIDGE, FRANK PARKER.= Measure your mind; the mentimeter and how to use it. il *$3 Doubleday 136

20–7589

This popular treatise on the measurement of intelligence by scientific methods is based on the experiences of psychological investigators in both school and army. It addresses itself “to employers and those in charge of the selection, grading, and promotion of workers of every class, in factories, offices, and stores; to teachers of all grades, from kindergarten to university; to parents who are interested in ascertaining, and watching the growth of their children’s mental development and to young men and young women striving for self-improvement and advancement and desirous of learning something of their own mental capacities and limitations as a guide to the intelligent choice of vocations or professions.” (Preface) Contents: Science versus guesswork; The applications of psychological tests; What these tests measure; Standards for mental tests; Different types of mental tests; Mental tests in the army; Psychological tests in education; Mental tests in industry; How to use the mentimeter tests; The mentimeter tests; Trade tests or tests of skill; Appendices, charts and diagrams.

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“A thoughtful examination of the tests will show that they have been carefully worked out. But this valuable material of the book is likely not to receive its due attention from industrial or business men because, although the book purports seriously to crave the audience of industry, it wavers to catch the teacher and other professional classes; the early pages are sluggish, indefinitely organized reading. The defects of ‘Measure your mind’ are entirely those of organization and composition; the theory, the technique, and the essential content are meritorious.” C: L. Stone

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:830 D ’20 350w

“If books of this sort can be used by others than experts, this one has the advantage of simplicity.”

+ =Booklist= 16:297 Je ’20

“The appendices with their diagrams are not the least valuable parts of the work. The mentimeter tests form its more especially unique feature.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 12 ’20 120w

+ =Cleveland= p89 S ’20 50w

“An excellent handbook, in popular style and very readable, but in thorough-going scientific fashion. The book will have great value for industrial personnel managers.” B. D. Wood

+ =J Philos= 17:640 N 4 ’20 690w

“The chief value of the book lies in its contribution to the general education of the public.”

+ =Nation= 112:123 Ja 26 ’21 240w

=TRACY, LOUIS.= Sirdar’s sabre. $1.90 (4½c) Clode, E. J.

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This book consists of a series of ten loosely-connected stories of life in India. They are told by Reginald Wayne, a young Englishman who becomes an officer in the 2d Bengal Lancers. For the most part they concern the exploits of Sirdar Bahadur Mohammed Khan, a “fire-eater” Mohammedan officer. Three of them have an element of romance, but the majority tell of the various problems that the English government meets in India. The titles are: First impressions; La belle Americaine; How Mohammed Khan became invulnerable; How the Sirdar prevented a great war; The Tàj—and a fortune-teller; How the Sirdar dacoited a dacoit; How we fed crocodiles on the Indus; The destiny of the emerald eye; How we guarded the great pearl necklace; How the Sirdar fought Ali Bagh, the Afridi.

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“Full of adventure but not the author’s best in plot or characterization.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“With ‘The sirdar’s sabre’ something seems to have gone radically wrong. From the man who built up such atmosphere and vitality as was in ‘The wings of the morning’ this book is inexcusable. Here we find no sustained interest, little of characterization, and slight exercise of the descriptive powers which the author possesses. Mr Tracy is to be soundly berated for wasting excellent material.” J. W. D. S.

− =Boston Transcript= p4 O 9 ’20 580w

+ − =N Y Times= p19 O 24 ’20 300w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

=Pub W= 98:661 S 18 ’20 300w

=TRACY, LOUIS.= Strange case of Mortimer Fenley. $1.90 Clode, E. J.

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“When John Trenholme, artist, accepted a welcome commission from a magazine editor to journey down to a certain old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked forward to nothing more exciting than an agreeable, wholly peaceful little expedition. Certainly he did not in the least expect to get mixed up with a murder. It was a series of accidents which caused him to be at a spot from which he could see a certain portion of the beautiful old Elizabethan mansion misnamed ‘The towers’ at the moment when Mortimer Fenley, banker, fell, ‘shot dead on his own doorstep.’ Mr Fenley’s elder son, Hilton, telephoned to Scotland Yard, and that was how the two detectives, known to their colleagues as the ‘Big ‘un’ and the ‘Little ‘un’ came to the assistance of the local police, one of whom had already, and quite without suspecting the fact, had an extremely important share in the development of events which was to bring about the solution of a most involved and puzzling mystery.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

“The usual mystery story written with charm of style, satisfying humor and a wealth of allusion pertinent to both literature and life.”

+ =Cleveland= p51 My ’20 40w

“The story is well written, it moves quickly, and its characters are real people, not the puppets who so often figure in tales of this kind, the two detectives being especially well done.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:134 Mr 21 ’20 400w

“The outstanding feature of Louis Tracy’s ‘Strange case of Mortimer Fenley’ is the absence of blood and ghastliness, of grimy alleys and sordid back rooms. Mystery there is, in plenty, and excitement.” Joseph Mosher

+ =Pub W= 97:603 F 21 ’20 350w

=TRAIN, ARTHUR CHENEY.= Tutt and Mr Tutt. *$1.75 Scribner

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“The nine stories in this volume deal with the affairs of the firm of Tutt & Tutt (the members are not related), the senior partner of which is always addressed deferentially by his colleague as Mr Tutt. It is Mr Tutt who tries the cases, Tutt who does the work of preparing them; and to the unfriendly eye their activities might seem those of shysters if they were not devoted, as a rule, to the worthy object of protecting the poor and friendless against the stupidities and brutalities of the law and some of those who practice it. The hero of the book is Mr Tutt, who in the first story has a frame like Lincoln’s, and by the end of the book has progressed so far that his face looks like Lincoln’s. The villain, it must be confessed, is the law itself.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

+ =Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“The best of the nine are very good, and all of them are ornamented by entertaining comments on the philosophy of the law and justice.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:199 Ap 18 ’20 280w

“The stories are very human. Outwardly, Mr Tutt is a dry-as-dust attorney; but association discloses in him a broad vein of humanity which makes his many-sided character a bottomless well of delight. It is one of Mr Train’s most entertaining books.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 450w

=TRAVEL= stories; retold from St Nicholas. il *$1.25 (3½c) Century 910.8

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Sixteen descriptive articles have been selected from St Nicholas for this volume. Among them are: The Grand canyon of Arizona, by William Haskell Simpson; In rainbow-land, by Amy Sutherland; Traveling in India, by Mabel Albert Spicer; Where the sunsets of all the yesterdays are found, by Olin D. Wheeler; Firecrackers, by Erick Pomeroy; Curious clocks, by Charles A. Brassler; Motoring through the golden age, by Albert Bigelow Paine; Lost Rheims, by Louise Eugenie Prickett; Out in the big-game country, by Clarence H. Rowe. There are five illustrations.

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“Informational but not lacking in story interest.”

+ =Booklist= 17:79 N ’20

“An entertaining, informative volume.”

+ =Lit D= p99 D 4 ’20 40w

=TREMAYNE, SYDNEY, pseud. (MRS ROGER COOKSON).= Echo. *$1.75 (1c) Lane

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All thru her girlhood Echo Stapylton is subjected to morbid and unwholesome influences. Her mother runs away with an artist and Echo grows up in the home of straight-laced unsympathetic relatives. When she is seventeen a quarrel is precipitated over her friendship with Max Borrow, an artist, and she goes to Paris to live with her father. Max follows her, and to prevent their meetings her father places her in a girls’ school. By practicing various deceits she arranges to see him on various occasions but they have a disagreement and he goes to America. Thereafter Echo meets her mother and it is arranged that she is to live with her part of the time. She learns however that her mother’s pretense of reform is a farce and leaves her to be greeted with the news of her father’s death. Alone and dependent she accepts an offer of marriage from a successful solicitor, some years her senior. The marriage is unhappy and when her husband leaves her for another woman she is free to marry her old lover Max.

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“The tale is clever and readable.”

+ =Ath= p63 Ja 9 ’20 100w

“The novel is a long and fairly interesting one, but it gives the impression that the author has gathered a great deal of commonplace material before she begins and pours it into the pages through a hopper. Readable as the book is, it is singularly lacking in literary grace.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:273 My 23 ’20 550w

“The story is intense and written in the same brilliant style that characterized Miss Tremayne’s previous story, ‘The auction mart.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 240w

“The interest of the book lies in the slow revelation of the character of Echo. It is a tribute to the author that the reader finds his impatience with Echo gradually changing to sympathy; it is as if he encountered her in real life and found that he liked her better as he knew her more intimately.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p673 N 20 ’19 500w

=TRENCH, HERBERT.= Napoleon; a play. *$2 Oxford 822

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“‘You are the eddy—they are the tide’, says Mrs Wickham to Napoleon over the body of her dead son. The tide of humanity sweeps onward, and the Napoleonic selfishnesses and individualisms that run counter to it are no more than eddies swirling back against the current, soon to be straightened out again by the irresistible onrush. Geoffrey Wickham is the apostle of humanity, whose aim it is to make Napoleon see the unreasonableness of his attitude. His plan is to kidnap Napoleon from Boulogne—it is the year of the threatened invasion of England—to take him out to sea, and there, in solitude, to persuade him into reason. The plot of the play, which is full of dramatic situations, is the story of his failure and death.”—Ath

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“Mr Trench uses prose as his medium except in the critical scene between Wickham and Napoleon, where he rises to a fine and rather Browning-like blank verse.”

+ =Ath= p477 Je 13 ’19 150w

“Now here is at least a play. It has argument, dignity, eloquence and dramatic movement; it is based upon a real conflict of ideas, in any case they scarcely affect the whole. The whole work is disciplined; there is rhetoric, where rhetoric should be; and where dispassionate prose should be, there is dispassionate prose. It does honour to English literature; and when we learn that it has been played for one hundred nights with success, we shall believe that the English public has begun to do honour to itself.” J. M. M.

+ =Ath= p584 Jl 11 ’19 1450w

=Brooklyn= 12:88 F ’20 30w

“Mr Trench’s play is worth all his poems twice over. It is one of the few real fruits of the war.” Mark Van Doren

+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 480w

“The play has faults. It is unwieldy in construction, the threads are not always connected and the writing is at times over-elaborated. But these defects cannot outweigh its poetic quality, its power of characterization, and its intense drama. The scenes in Napoleon’s room at Boulogne and those in Wickham’s boat are particularly noteworthy. It would be interesting to see how it would stand the test of production.”

+ − =Spec= 123:344 S 13 ’19 700w

“Surely this play is not merely to be read, but to be seen. But every character is clear in outline, awaiting embodiment, demanding presentment. Its characters are never mere puppets ... not even Napoleon who must by now be more disgustedly weary of his earthly immortality than any denizen of the underworld. He, at any rate should return thanks to Mr Trench for this just, urbane and pitiless rehabilitation.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p334 Je 19 ’19 1700w

=TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, and WELLS, BENJAMIN WILLIS=, eds. Colonial prose and poetry. il *$2.50 Crowell 810.8

The present volume is a reprint on thin paper and in one volume of an earlier three-volume set under the titles: The transplanting of culture (1607–1650); The beginnings of Americanism (1650–1710); The growth of the national spirit (1710–1775). The object of the anthology is to give the critic of literature an opportunity “to study the effects of environment upon the literary powers and products of a transplanted race.” (Introd.)

=TREVELYAN, GEORGE MACAULAY.= Lord Grey of the Reform bill; being the life of Charles, 2d Earl Grey, 1764–1845. il *$7 (*21s) Longmans

20–7584

“It was a happy chance that caused the authorized life of the second Earl Grey to be left half finished sixty years ago, and that induced the late Lord Grey to assign the task to Mr George Trevelyan. The Lord Grey who passed the reform bill of 1832 has always been an enigma to later generations. His political career was like a drama in which the hero holds the stage in the first act and has a brief and effective scene in the second act, but then is seen no more till the fifth act. Entering Parliament in 1787, when he was twenty-three, he attached himself to Fox, and made himself notorious by founding the Society of the friends of the people and by moving annual resolutions in favour of parliamentary reform. He succeeded to his father’s peerage in November, 1807, and felt that his career was ended. Three-and-twenty years had passed when all at once England discovered that the retired statesman was, like Cincinnatus, the one man who could extricate her from a dangerous situation. Lord Grey tore himself from his country pleasures, took command of a mixed and quarrelsome team of Whigs, radicals, and Canningites, and set himself to achieve parliamentary reform with such skill and determination as few ministers have ever displayed.”—Spec

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“The proportion of the text of 369 pages bearing directly upon Grey is too slight to give unity to the whole, and too scattered for focusing into any but a vague image. This is what Mr Trevelyan’s volume really is: an indictment of Tory administration during the era in which Grey lived—an indictment conceived in the unmeasured violence of a political antagonist.” C. E. Fryer

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:90 O ’20 760w

“It is a fascinating story, excellently told, and even the reader who knows little of English political history will find it interesting on account of the light and hope that it sheds on modern conditions.” A. G. Porritt

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:733 N ’20 560w

“Truly admirable book.” Ll. S.

+ =Ath= p443 Ap 2 ’20 1500w

“As a biographer, though not concealing Grey’s failings, he is in sympathy with his subject, while as regards politics his zealous advocacy of the virtues of the Whigs and his condemnation of their opponents occasionally, and especially in the earlier part of his work, outrun his discretion.” W: Hunt

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:457 Jl ’20 2150w

+ =Nation= 111:223 Ag 21 ’20 450w

“Mr Trevelyan belongs to a great tradition; and he worthily maintains the dignity of a literary ancestry of which Macaulay is only the most eminent figure. Known wherever literature is cherished for his own superb study of Garibaldi, his ‘Life of John Bright’ showed admirably that he was not less competent to illustrate the history of England. This latest work is not a whit less excellent.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 2200w

“Mr Trevelyan’s biography is so excellent in every way, so thoroughgoing in its preparatory studies, so familiar with the epoch, so just in its appraisements and so interestingly written that it is well worth waiting for.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Je 27 ’20 900w

=Outlook= 125:466 Jl 7 ’20 2750w

“Mr Trevelyan has put us heavily in his debt by so agreeably presenting a character about whom too little has been known in the past. Mere personal intimacies are subordinated to historical perspective, and we gain a shrewd insight of a psychology under the stress of problems not unlike those now confronting the world.”

+ =Review= 3:250 S 22 ’20 2450w

“While we refuse to admire Mr Trevelyan’s hero, we have nothing but praise for Mr Trevelyan. The note of urbanity is never absent from his writing; his style is free from the exuberance, the piling up of effects by antitheses and adjectives, and the lack of humour, which mar the earlier books of his distinguished father.”

+ =Sat R= 129:304 Mr 27 ’20 1300w

“The author, except in his occasional Whiggish outbursts, writes as a sober historian and states the facts fairly.”

+ =Spec= 124:423 Mr 27 ’20 1700w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 20 ’20 1050w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p193 Mr 25 ’20)

“The biography is an excellent history of the time and one that repays reading for its analogies with the present.” G: F. Whicher

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 830w

“Within its own limits and for its own public the work could not be better done, and will confirm and establish its author’s reputation as a biographer and historian. It is brilliantly written, and the right reader, especially the lover of English political history, will not willingly lay it down till he has drunk his cup of pleasure to the last drop. It is full, too, of interesting judgments on matters which only incidentally come within its scope.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p193 Mr 25 ’20 3200w

=TREVELYAN, JANET PENROSE (WARD) (MRS GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN).= Short history of the Italian people, from the barbarian invasions to the attainment of unity. il *$5 Putnam 945

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The writer was impressed with the need of a short history of Italy while giving a series of lantern lectures on Italian history to London school children in 1902. The present volume, which the author modestly calls a “summary” is the result “of a deep and growing love for the subject, of many wanderings in the bypaths of Italy, and of an inherited affection for her present population.” (Preface) She disclaims having made any original research, studied the archives, or made new discoveries. “But I have endeavoured, by using the work already done on each period by Italian, British, French, and German scholars, and by illuminating it with the sayings of contemporary writers, to present a narrative as near the truth as it was possible for me to make it.” (Preface) Partial contents: Italy in the century preceding the barbarian invasions (284–395); The barbarian invasions (395–476); The beginnings of the middle ages (800–1002); The rise of the cities, and their conflict with Frederick Barbarossa (1100–1183); Rome and the papacy during the fourteenth century (1305–1389); Italy in the sixteenth century; Napoleon’s first conquest of Italy (1792–1799); The years of revolution (1846–1849); The completion of Italian unity (1860–1870); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. There are twenty-four illustrations and six maps.

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“Mrs Trevelyan has wrestled with the difficulties of her subject with marked success. She has a thorough grasp of essentials and a due sense of proportion which have enabled her to produce an admirably balanced, well-arranged book, while she writes in a way that is sure to make it widely read.” L. C.-M.

+ =Ath= p237 Ag 20 ’20 1050w

+ =Booklist= 17:67 N ’20

“The chapters are well arranged and in all but the spirit of the presentation of the material, satisfactory.”

+ − =Cath World= 112:687 F ’21 130w

“As is the case with all English histories of Italy, the least satisfactory part of the book is the ‘Epilogue,’ which treats of the fifty years since 1870.” W. M.

+ − =Eng Hist R= 35:628 O ’20 370w

=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 40w

“The author failed to grasp, or rather utilize, the proper hypothesis—to write the story of the communities as influenced by individuals and extract from that story not what was merely entertaining, but what permanently influenced the future.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 22 ’20 1850w

“As regards political history the volume is valuable, but its author does not sufficiently emphasize Italy’s glory in her men of art, literature, science, and religion.”

+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 200w

“Popular histories of Italy in English are not many. This one is likely to be recognized very soon as among the best.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 70w

“Mrs Trevelyan has accomplished a feat which we should have deemed hardly possible, in view of the fascinating complexity of the subject. Her book is intensely interesting, and we commend it heartily.”

+ =Spec= 125:180 Ag 7 ’20 1250w

“It might be suggested that she is apt to overrate the capacity of her reader to grasp from a few words the summaries and the conclusions that have been formed by the writer after long and extended study and reflexion. Mrs Trevelyan has every right to assume that her fresh, lively, and sympathetic appreciation cannot be superfluous.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p431 Jl 8 ’20 1600w

=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis: its history, theory and practice. *$2 (3c) Huebsch 130

A popular treatment of psychoanalysis. The author has attempted “to sum up in a concise form the views of the greatest American and foreign analysts which at present are scattered in hundreds of books, pamphlets and magazine articles.” (Preface) The author is not an unqualified Freudian, holding that Jung, Adler and others have contributed much of value to the new science. Among the chapter titles are: The history of psychoanalytic research; The unconscious and the urges; Night dreams and day dreams; Symbols, the language of the dream; The dreams of the human race; The psychology of everyday actions; Feminism and radicalism; The psychology of wit; The artistic temperament; The psychoanalytic treatment; The new ethics. There is a glossary of terms used, and a bibliography, but the book lacks an index.

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“This book is more valuable than the usual popular exposition of psychoanalysis. Clearly written.”

+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20

“The present book is by no means a good fulfillment of its avowedly popular purpose. A Freudian critic might say that the disorderly arrangement of its material reveals a mental disturbance of a most alarming character. That much of the subject matter is extremely illuminating goes without saying, but the author constantly betrays, as do nearly all writers upon this subject, an astonishingly uncritical habit of mind in the interpretation of specific cases analyzed.” C. M. S.

− + =Grinnell R= 15:259 O ’20 440w

“In a field that has developed a considerable wealth of literature, this book of Tridon’s is a distinct and welcome contribution to the subject.” W: J. Fielding

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 23 ’20 650w

“The volume is wholly a compilation and done without display of literary skill or apparent intimacy with the subject. Any one who wishes to get a comprehensive synopsis of the position of psychoanalysis today may get it with greater readiness and satisfaction from ‘Psychoanalysis and its place in life’ by Miss M. K. Bradby, than from the book in question.” Joseph Collins

− + =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 1250w

“Dr Tridon has carried out his purpose of furnishing in brief compass a survey of the large bearings upon the affairs of mind, normal and abnormal, which underlie the practice of psycho-analysis. But this is not the long awaited and still awaited book which will give the intelligent and critical public some satisfactory account of the animus and the technique and the background of the Freudian system. Dr Tridon tells us far too much of the several schisms and divergences of Freud and his followers.”

+ − =Review= 3:130 Ag 11 ’20 850w

“There is nothing original in it except some of Mr Tridon’s opinions, which are not impressive.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 160w

“He is an industrious disciple and sets his matter out lucidly and uncritically. He will give the intelligent reader some appreciation both of the value of psychoanalytic work and (though unconsciously) of some of the extravagances of psychoanalytic enthusiasts.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 280w

=TRIDON, ANDRÉ.= Psychoanalysis and behavior. *$2.50 (3½c) Knopf 130

This, the author’s second book on psychoanalysis, “is an attempt at interpreting human conduct from the psychoanalytical point of view.” Contents: The organism; Problems of childhood; Progress and regressions; Sleep and dreams; Problems of sex; The psychoanalytic treatment; The four schools of psychoanalysis; Index. Bibliographical notes follow the chapters.

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“A rather useful aspect of the book is the chapter distinguishing the four schools of psychoanalysis headed respectively by Freud, Jung, Adler, and Kempf.”

+ − =Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 40w

“Mr Tridon’s second volume, ‘Psychoanalysis and behavior,’ is far more meritorious than the first. It shows that he has examined psychoanalytic literature and that he is able to percolate it through his conscious mind with much ease and some grace.” Joseph Collins

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 27 ’20 520w

=TRINE, GRACE STEELE (HYDE) (MRS RALPH WALDO TRINE)=, comp. Dreams and voices; songs of mother, father and child. $2 Womans press 821.08

It is the aim of this anthology of contemporary poetry “to present some of the best poems on the mother and child relationship written in recent years, not forgetting to include several that deal also with the love of father and child.” (Foreword) It is a de luxe edition with a frontispiece in color by Clinton Brown.

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“The fact that most of the material is of quite recent creation gives the volume an interest not shared by older anthologies of the same character.”

+ =Freeman= 2:262 N 24 ’20 120w

“There is necessarily much sentimentality, much vatic utterance, much capitalization and saccharinity. De la Mare’s ‘Rachel’ is a relief from some of it, tender without being ‘sweet.’”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p17 N 13 ’20 220w

=TROUBETZKOY, AMÉLIE (RIVES) princess.= As the wind blew. *$1.75 Stokes 811

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Some of the poems in this collection are reprinted from other sources but many appear in print for the first time. The collection opens with a memorial poem to Adair Archer and the grouping of the contents is under the headings: Rhymes and rhythms; Balkan songs; The wonderful child; Of Babylon; Fantasia; Autumn and winter.

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“The technique of poetry is vividly manifest in the present volume of poems, as well as some ingenuity and warm imagination; but the dramatic lucidity of emotion is still absent.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 200w

=TUCKER, IRWIN ST JOHN.= History of imperialism. *$2.25 Rand school of social science 321.03

“There is a straight line of descent from the throne of Menes to the chair of Wilson; a straight course of empire from that far off day when Upper and Lower Egypt were united beneath the crown of the first empire, to the day when the expanding credits of America forced her imperial merchants to create an imperial figurehead. Our symptoms of imperialism are identical with those which all budding empires have displayed.” (Foreword) For a better understanding of imperialism the book takes up the study of the separate nations from earliest history both before and after the great spotlight of imperial power picked them out for the stage of some particular act. In conclusion the author points out the two forces that are now struggling in our political structure to head us either towards an empire or an industrial republic. The book falls into two parts: ancient and modern imperialism. Part 1 contains: The book of Egypt—of Babylon—of Persia—of Greece—of Rome—of Nicea; part 2: The book of Islam—of France—of Germany—of Spain; The strife of the Eagles; The book of England—of India—of America.

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“Throughout the work there are numerous excerpts from ancient documents which are of absorbing interest and which throw a stream of light into many dark corners. The style, too, is a departure from the customary method of dealing with economic subjects. There is only one defect in the making of the book that we note. There is no index.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ja 2 ’21 1050w

=TUELL, HARRIET EMILY.= Study of nations; an experiment in social education. (Riverside educational monographs) *80c Houghton 909

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This is a plea that we substitute for our old “dry as dust” method of teaching history “an elementary study of nationality.” In a high school course such as this book proposes, “each nation is carefully considered by itself, that pupils may gain a definite impression of its individual characteristics. First it is viewed as it appears today; then its development is briefly traced. After this historic background has been sketched in, an attempt is made to evaluate the peculiar gifts of the country and its people to the sum of modern civilization.” (Preface) This is a pioneer book, for the use of teachers, and, as such, the main part of it is devoted to helpfully suggestive material, outlines, and comments upon the following nations: France, England, Germany, Russia, Italy, Austro-Hungary, Turkey and the Balkan states, China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands (“a nation in the making”). The book includes a complete bibliographical list, and a connected outline of all the chapters. The chapters on China and Japan were contributed by Dr K. S. Latourette. Dr Tuell is the head of the department of history, Somerville high school, Massachusetts.

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=Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20

“Books of this sort are undoubtedly useful to teachers who have access to well-equipped libraries and are themselves trained to get the materials out of these libraries, but the movement which Miss Tuell represents will hardly be successful until someone has prepared in detail and in a form that can be presented to children the materials that she has gone over in outline. The book is in this sense a first step in the direction of actual school use of this sort of material.”

+ − =El School J= 20:547 Mr ’20 380w

=School R= 28:312 Ap ’20 380w

=TUOHY, FERDINAND.=[2] Secret corps. *$2 Seltzer 940.485

(Eng ed 20–11008)

“Captain Tuohy deals with all the methods of espionage and counter-espionage practised during the war, enlivening his exposition here and there with anecdotes. He explains incidentally the value of seemingly harmless military details to an alert enemy and thus justifies the censorship. He declares that our own system proved highly efficient and that our French allies had, after February, 1916, to implore the assistance of our secret service in Germany as all their own agents had been captured. The British system was based on the principle that each agent should know and be known to his chief alone.”—Spec

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“‘The secret corps’ is thrilling in its every paragraph, and, speaking personally, it is the first book of the war we have enjoyed for two years.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p13 D 31 ’20 170w

“This volume has value unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any other that has dealt with the same material.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 Ja 30 ’21 420w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:229 S 15 ’20 340w

=Spec= 124:872 Je 26 ’20 160w

=TURNER, EDWARD RAYMOND.= Europe, 1789–1920. *$3.50 Doubleday 940.2

20–17882

The raison d’être of the book is the alteration in historical perspective wrought by the last few years which makes the epoch since 1789 “the most important and interesting in the history of mankind. It began with a revolution whose effects are not yet all measured; it ended with another whose consequences can scarcely yet even be guessed at.” (Preface) During this period immense changes took place in the relations of people with each other, with their governments, with capitalists and employers, in the attitude of people toward the problems of the world in which they lived, and in their habits of thought. The book falls into two parts: 1789–1871; and 1871–1920. The outstanding points of part one are the old Europe before, during and after the French revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the rise of Prussia after 1870 and the condition of Russia during the period. Part two begins with the military triumphs of Germany between 1864–1871, its subsequent development and that of the other great powers, and treats of events before and during the great war. There are numerous maps, a bibliography at the end of each chapter, an appendix and an index.

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“About the completest single volume history of Europe covering the years between the two most epochal events in her experience. Excellent historical work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 300w

“It is naïve, sincere, and, if the English is sometimes colloquial, one has no difficulty in understanding what the author means. It is a book intended to be read by the person of average cultivation, and not very much instruction—and judged from that point of view the author’s task is very well done.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= p5 D 19 ’20 2700w

“In style and method the latter half of the book is somewhat like those editorial summaries of current events contained in some of the best modern journals. It is concise, considered, rather neutral, but useful for exactly the purpose for which it was designed. The book’s value lies not so much in the backward glimpses of the past from the present point of view as in the light thrown forward on the war and upon our present state by the course of events since 1879.”

+ =No Am= 213:138 Ja ’21 750w

=TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON.= Frontier in American history. *$2.50 Holt 973

20–18058

Professor Turner’s essay on “The significance of the frontier in American history” was read at a meeting of the American historical association in Chicago in 1893 and has had a profound influence on American historical thinking and writing. It is to be found in the Proceedings of the State historical society of Wisconsin for 1893, and in the Report of the American historical association for the same year and is reprinted here together with other papers bearing on the same theme. A statement of his thesis may be taken from “The West and American ideals”: “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.” The other papers are: The first official frontier of the Massachusetts bay; The old West; The middle West; The Ohio valley in American history; The significance of the Mississippi valley in American history; The problem of the West; Dominant forces in western life; Contributions of the West to American democracy; Pioneer ideals and the state university; Social forces in American history; Middle western pioneer democracy.

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“Interesting to students or general readers.”

+ =Booklist= 17:109 D ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 880w

+ =Grinnell R= 16:356 F ’21 720w

+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 70w

“The high significance of this work has long been recognized by writers on American history; but if the influence of Mr Turner were to be estimated on the basis of his published work alone, it would be accounted far less than it has in fact been.” Carl Becker

+ =Nation= 111:536 N 10 ’20 1050w

“Though the chapters in this book are essays on aspects of frontier history and written at different times, they might well have been written within a few months. The book contains a fund of information, clearly reasoned, significantly and concisely expressed. It is readable, and it is suggestive.” C. L. Skinner

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 D 4 ’20 800w

=N Y Times= p10 N 7 ’20 1500w

“Are we hypercritical in thinking that essays of such pith and moment demand a better format?”

+ − =Outlook= 126:558 N 24 ’20 60w

“The present volume sets forth in the clearest possible manner the view of American expansion which has inspired and illuminated all of Professor Turner’s work from the beginning. Among all American historians no one has so fully caught the meaning of the frontier in our national development.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:110 Ja ’21 200w

“As a treatise, Prof. Turner’s book loses something from being a compilation of articles and addresses, but it makes an excellent general presentation of a subject which is insufficiently understood by the average American, yet is so fascinating that any reader will be thankful to have it brought to his attention.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 1050w

“The book is highly suggestive to one who wishes to understand the American attitude toward social problems and the course which social work has taken in America.” Lilian Brandt

+ =Survey= 45:578 Ja 15 ’21 200w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 200w

=TURNER, GEORGE KIBBE.= Hagar’s hoard. *$2.25 (2c) Knopf

20–17178

The story describes a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878 in all its weirdness and horror. In a large brick house lived an old man, Athiel Hagar, with his daughter and adopted nephew. The man is a miser and many are the stories current among the negroes about the fabulous sums he has hoarded in his house. His property is his obsession which keeps him rooted in the house when fleeing from the fever is the only sane thing to do. At last he succumbs to the enemy and in his last death agony accidentally pulls the cord which brings his treasure down upon him, burying the dead man under it.

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=Booklist= 17:119 D ’20

“The plot of ‘Hagar’s hoard’ is unconvincing as regards its chief motive. Then, too, the characters are sadly stock-in-trade. Even the negroes are grossly machine-made and lack warmth and conviction, and the author certainly has overlooked a fine opportunity to add color and the throb of life to a fairly interesting tale.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 320w

“Mr Turner has unfortunately made a full-length novel out of what should have been a long short story, or at most, a novelette. The plot is of the very slightest. The merit of the book lies in its excellent description of the fever-stricken town, but excellent as this is it becomes wearisome when repeated again and again.”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 700w

=TURNER, JOHN HASTINGS.= Place in the world. *$1.75 Scribner

20–3578

“The heroine of ‘A place in the world,’ Iris Iranova, is an illegitimate and temperamental young woman of about twenty-five. Married to an over-amiable Russian, she lost her temper and stuck a knife into him. This inconsiderate action made it necessary for her to leave Russia and come to England, where she is living very comfortably when the book opens. Following a whim, she decides to settle for a time in an English suburb, and it is with her relations with the persons she meets there that the novel is principally concerned. Among these persons two are of especial importance—a really charming old clergyman, broad-minded, sympathetic and possessed of a keen and abundant sense of humor, and Henry Cumbers, an apparently fussy and insignificant little man who, in time of stress and sorrow, proves that he has splendid stuff in him.”—N Y Times

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“Mr Turner has a clever pen, and the fluttering of the dovecotes caused by Iris’s unconventionality gives him scope for a number of incisive character-sketches. Mr Turner is to be congratulated on the keenness of his observation as well as the liveliness of his style.”

+ =Ath= p127 Ja 23 ’20 100w

“Fairly amusing.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ − =Bookm= 51:342 My ’20 300w

“Mr Turner has written a charming novel, fresh and vivid in dialogue, with characters that live in every pulse and gesture.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 1000w

“Witty comedy.”

+ =Cleveland= p50 My ’20 100w

“The plot of the tale is extremely slight and at times the novel drags badly, but the style is often agreeable and the characters of Henry Cumbers and of the Rev. John Heslop are very well drawn indeed.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 300w

“Mr Turner’s ‘Simple souls’ was amusing; this novel goes deeper. It is fine workmanship as to its writing, and in its essence it makes for soundheartedness and human tolerance.”

+ =Outlook= 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 60w

“The especial merit of the book is the Rev. John Heslop, a character any writer might have been proud to invent.”

+ =Sat R= 129:336 Ap 3 ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 124:354 Mr 13 ’20 40w

“Mr Turner’s fiction challenges comparison with that of Mr Locke, not because he imitates the latter’s method, but chiefly because his work falls within the same general field of whimsical personalities, kindly humor, and pleasing romance so long cultivated by Mr Locke. The characters charm and delight and provide the zest to an unusually entertaining story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 580w

=TURNER, JOHN KENNETH.= Hands off Mexico. pa 35c Rand school of social science 327

20–3857

This pamphlet is devoted to an exposition of the motives that lie back of intervention propaganda, and concludes with a plea to the American people to make common cause with the people of Mexico against the interests that are a menace to both. In proposing his solution the author says, “In the cause of the Mexican ‘problem’ is found its solution. As our meddling has been a decisive factor in creating and prolonging the disorder, and in subjecting Americans to danger, so an opposite policy would tend to produce the opposite result. We must stop threatening Mexico, stop invading Mexico, stop embargoing Mexico, enter into a fair agreement for policing the border, keep a few of our fine promises, make a fair trial of treating our neighbor as an equal.”

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“The author of this brochure, which as a plea for the rights of the Mexican people is fundamentally admirable and excellent, employs a great deal of the hammer-and-tongs method of his previous volume, ‘Barbarous Mexico.’ Nevertheless the booklet is a timely summary of information concerning the facts of the controversy.” G. B. Winton

+ − =Survey= 44:311 My 29 ’20 320w

=TURNER, W. J.= Dark wind. *$2 Dutton 821

20–3700

“‘The dark wind’ has been most cordially received in London and is especially interesting to students of poetry because it combines much of the colorcraft of the imagists with the melodies of the Georgians. Indeed, none of the young English poets has given us verse in which sense impressionism plays a more important part than it plays here.” (N Y Times) “Not the least interesting peculiarity of Mr Turner’s art is that he has made no startling departures into irregular verse forms. Nor does Mr Turner seek to startle by the choice of bizarre subjects. He writes on Haystacks and Sunflowers and Hollyhocks and Aeroplanes and Recollecting a visit.” (Bookm)

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“There is no careless rapture in any of his verse: it has the studious rigidity of a cultivated and audacious craftsmanship, but with the magic of genuine inspiration.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 51:456 Je ’20 800w

“One might name such poems as In the caves of Auvergne, The search for the nightingale, The sky-sent death and Magic, which not only show Mr Turner at his best poetically but at his subtlest allegorically.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 600w

“Mr Turner possesses, simultaneously with the knack of astonishing, the knack of cloying and blurring. He is intoxicated with exotic masses and meanings. He has visual genius; his images expand in the mind’s eye. Yet, once he has created a scene, he does nothing with it. He has not the firmness to finish what he gloriously begins.” M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w

+ =N Y Times= 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 200w

“Turner’s ‘The dark wind’ is first of all a book of color and beautiful rhythms. He possesses the virtue of flinging lovely pictures before the reader, not the hard emphasized colors that cry from Miss Amy Lowell’s efforts, but a soft yet glittering mingling of hues that is warm with sunlight and harmonious with spring and autumn.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 700w

=TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE.= Treasure mountain. il *$1.75 (3c) Century

20–16341

This story for girls has a picturesque setting in the southern mountains. Page Ruffin, the young heroine, is helped out of a dangerous situation by a mountain boy who gives his name as Harson Ruffyan. She is struck with the likeness to her own name and her teasing companions see a facial resemblance as well. Page’s father suspects a real relationship but he is angrily turned away by Mac Ruffyan, who refuses to recognize the kinship. On another occasion Page is lost on the mountain and is rescued by Mac Ruffyan and taken to his cabin home. Here she sees her possible cousin in a new light and becomes his champion. In the meantime her father has been investigating family history to learn the secret of the relationship. A second mystery of the story, which leads to a still more thrilling adventure and rescue, is concerned with a cave, buried treasure and a ghost. Incidentally the author introduces the lesson of wild flower preservation.

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“Will interest girls from ten to fifteen.”

+ =Booklist= 17:164 Ja ’21

Reviewed by A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:262 N ’20 50w

“It would be worth while to put up with the disagreeable little heroine if young folks could learn from this to enjoy wild-flowers in their native setting.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ − =Nation= 111:sup672 D 8 ’20 80w

“A real story with plenty of action and thrills.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 O 24 ’20 140w

“Here is that rarity, a good story for girls.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:199 N ’20 120w

=TUSSAUD, JOHN THEODORE.= Romance of Madame Tussaud’s. il *$5 Doran 791

20–27479

The story of the famous wax works, established in Paris during the revolution and later brought to London, written by one of the great-grandsons of the founder, the present proprietor of the exhibition. Madame Tussaud, altho a young girl at the time of the revolution, was already famed as a modeler in wax and had been a favorite at court. She was conscripted and compelled to model the guillotined heads of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marat murdered in his bath, and other horrors, a number of which are reproduced in the illustrations. The story is brought down to the present day, describing many of the recent additions, with illustrations. Hilaire Belloc has written an introduction and the book is indexed.

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=Ath= p109 Ja 23 ’20 1650w

+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

“The amazing feature of the book is, however, the manner in which its author has made so intrinsically interesting and romantic a theme dull and commonplace. It is evident that he possesses absolutely no qualifications for his task. He is simply adept at the compilation of a scrap-book. Yet his subject is so fascinating that it is better to have his account of Madame Tussaud’s life and work than none at all.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 O 27 ’20 1450w

+ =Cath World= 112:686 F ’21 250w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 N 27 ’20 130w

“‘Romance’ is possibly a strong word for this book, and is applicable only where some story connected with a character in the collection is told. Sometimes this takes Mr Tussaud far afield. But as a collection of anecdotes it ranks almost with Siboutie’s ‘Souvenirs of a Parisian.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p2 O 31 ’20 1700w

“Mr Tussaud has appreciated the value of his materials both from the historic point of view and from the viewpoint of human interest. His narrative, like his wax figures, simply presents facts of undeniable interest. But it is the pictures that make the book unique.”

+ =No Am= 213:287 F ’21 520w

+ =Outlook= 126:654 D 8 ’20 80w

“The book is often pleasantly gruesome.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 120w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p16 Ja 8 ’20 780w

=TUTTLE, W. C.= Reddy Brant: his adventures. il *$1.75 (5c) Century

20–18257

A series of short stories reprinted from Boy’s Life. The hero is fourteen-year-old Reddy Brant, a young vagrant who wanders into the cattle country of the far West. His adventures are many and exciting and aided by his native wit and courage, with the occasional help of coincidence, he acts as both agent of justice and angel of mercy. The titles are: A rooting tooter; The go-getters; The clean-up kid; A sage-brush Santa Claus; The jump of a forty-five; Reddy’s muzzle-loader; A bunkie of the buckaroos; Reddy Brant—thinker; When Reddy wondered why; Good-night, knight; Three wise men and a star.

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“There is a genuine flavor of old-time American humor in the telling, and an unusual spirit of good fellowship.” M. H. B. Mussey

+ =Nation= 111:sup674 D 8 ’20 80w

“There are more adventures to the square inch in this book than any other that has come to hand since ‘The three musketeers.’ The manner of telling is swift, humorous, breezy. Reddy is a find.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 12 ’20 90w

=Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 40w

=TWEEDALE, CHARLES L.= Man’s survival after death: or, The other side of life in the light of Scripture, human experience, and modern research. *$6 Dutton 218

“The researches made of late years to determine some proof of existence, especially bodily existence after death, have been mainly based upon science applied to psychical intuition and evidence. This method is one elimination, discarding all the agents and influences that might spring from irrational and abnormal factors in human experience, and tracking what remained of evidence as proof of communication with identities translated to a life beyond the grave. Mr Tweedale in this work seeks to prove a similar fact but his evidence has its origin in faith, and faith receives its confirmation in the doctrines of Scripture. Mankind in general, he believes, holds the germ of this faith but fails to make it an active conviction by reason of insufficient knowledge of the realities supporting that faith. On his part Mr Tweedale rejects psychic phenomena as the theory whereby to command the knowledge of survival, though he does not hesitate to refine upon its evidence to prove his own convictions of faith.”—Boston Transcript

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=Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 310w

“No such vast array of evidence, consisting of well-authenticated occurrences, has ever before been brought together in one volume. Not only this vast survey of the entire field of psychic phenomena, with admirable presentation in its relation to man’s religious nature and spiritual development, but there is added the clear explanations and lofty thought of Mr Tweedale.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 600w

=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Beautiful Mrs Davenant. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes

20–15067

There are two mysteries in this story, that concerning the past of the beautiful Mrs Davenant and the mystery of Lake House, which Letty Thorne senses on first coming there to stay with her uncle. In the solution of the second the secret of the first is also revealed. It is revealed to the reader and to one other person in the story, but Mrs Davenant, feeling that there is that in her life which forbids remarriage says no to the man who loves her and keeps her own confidence. A minor love story develops between the vicar and Mrs Davenant’s friend Agnes Howard, and to this affair as well as to the love story of Letty there is a happy ending.

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“The story is not very probable, but it is entertaining and cleverly handled. It belongs to a rather old-fashioned type of romance, but it is treated in a modern way.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 300w

“A very good mystery story.”

+ =Sat R= 129:545 Je 12 ’20 60w

“If this ‘novel of love and mystery’ is somewhat crudely melodramatic and makes considerable demands on the improbable, Mrs Tweedale at least gives her readers plenty of incident.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 70w

=TWEEDALE, MRS VIOLET (CHAMBERS).= Ghosts I have seen, and other psychic experiences. *$2 (2c) Stokes 133

19–19376

Supernatural experiences of a lifetime are recorded here. The author has the convictions of the theosophist, and in these pages there are occasionally brief essays on reincarnation, spiritualism, the “other side.” Unlike most current spiritualistic books, there is here no argument on alleged “irrefutable evidence.” The author is a psychic, has seen these things, we may believe or not. At any rate, reading at midnight, in a dimly lit house alone, we cannot remain indifferent. Some of the titles are: “Silk dress” and “rumpus”; The ghost of Prince Charlie; The invisible hands; Peacock’s feathers—the skeleton hand at Monte Carlo; I commit murder; The angel of Lourdes; “The new Jeanne d’Arc”; Auras. An interesting picture of Madame Blavatsky (in the flesh) is presented in this book.

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=Ath= p1136 O 31 ’19 120w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

+ =Nation= 110:sup483 Ap 10 ’20 120w

“This book introduces the reader not only to many interesting visitors from the world beyond mortal ken but to a very interesting human being as well. For the author’s own sake, it is well worth reading.” Cornelia Van Pelt

+ =Pub W= 97:611 F 21 ’20 360w

=Review= 2:183 F 21 ’20 400w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p643 N 13 ’19 700w

=TYRRELL, GEORGE.= Letters *$7 Dutton

(Eng ed 21–197)

“‘George Tyrrell’s letters,’ selected and edited by Miss M. D. Petre, author of the ‘Life of George Tyrrell,’ will bring the opportunity of a more familiar acquaintance to the many Americans who have been interested in the well-known Irishman’s life and work. Modernism claimed great sacrifices and the labor of some years; but it was not all his life. And in this selection of letters it has been the intention to show him in his dealings with widely moral and undenominationally spiritual issues, to show him also in his lighter moments, when he spoke true words in jest, or hid his meaning under a veil of persiflage.”—Springf’d Republican

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“So long as there are Christians of even a simple type, Tyrrell will be read, because of his instinct for the things of Christ. His cruel ironies and his flaming resentments, his rash speculations and his tottering syntheses may all be buried in his grave.”

+ − =Ath= p15 Ja 7 ’21 840w

=Boston Transcript= p7 N 6 ’20 500w

“These highly interesting letters have been published, as we are told, with the view of showing Tyrrell in ‘his lighter and brighter, as in his sadder and graver moods.’ We must confess to finding him sometimes equally depressing in both. His humour has a tinge of that professional flippancy (as lay-people esteem it) which seems common to clergymen of every denomination. The ‘letters of advice’ included in this collection show us Father Tyrrell at the best, wise, comforting, sympathetic, with no thought but the welfare of his correspondents.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:519 Je 5 ’20 1000w

“Miss Petre has done well to publish this selection from his correspondence. He was a many-sided man, and his letters reflect his many-sidedness.”

+ =Spec= 124:695 My 22 ’20 1350w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 16 ’20 450w

“Miss Maud Petre has shown good judgment in issuing this collection of George Tyrrell’s letters as a supplement to his ‘Autobiography and life.’ It is plain that Tyrrell was a born correspondent. He expresses himself with more ease in a letter than in a volume. And he would, we think, have spared both himself and his church much trouble had he written more letters and published fewer books.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p253 Ap 22 ’20 900w

=TYRRELL, ROSS.= Pathway of adventure. *$1.90 (2c) Knopf

20–8517

Stuart Wayne, writer of detective stories, finds himself involved in a genuine plot. He picks up a note dropped by a girl in a passing taxi and it starts him on the road of adventure and mystery. It is an appeal for help from a girl held imprisoned in an abandoned house in the Chicago suburbs. Through a lucky chance he gains entrance to the house and talks to the girl, Zaida Grayson, but his presence is discovered, with all but fatal consequences to himself, and the gang of crooks, with their fair prisoner, eludes him. But he has learned enough of her story to gain a clue and to connect it with the sudden death of Patrick Cullom, the iron king, whose young granddaughter is to inherit his wealth. With the aid of the secret service the band of kidnappers and murderers are brought to justice and by his own devotion and daring he wins the girl.

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“Any lover of this type of tale must have discovered here [in the Borzoi books] a number of excellent examples, of which ‘The pathway of adventure’ is by no means the least successful.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p3 N 27 ’20 170w

=N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 260w

“Events follow familiar lines, but with just enough variation to sustain the interest as incident follows incident.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 160w

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=ULLMAN, ALBERT EDWARD.= “Line’s busy.” il *$1 (4½c) Stokes 817

Goldie is the telephone operator in a large hotel and she tells her story in slangy letters to her pal Myrtle. Events in which she takes a share from her switchboard reveal her as a girl “always there with the helping hand, no matter how much it’s been lacerated in the past.” In particular the love affairs of her patrons and co-workers interest her, and she straightens out several tangles, and finally, her own love story develops happily.

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“A love story that is both clever and jolly is so rare nowadays that one seizes with avidity upon the romance of little Goldie.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 O 6 ’20 200w

“Mr Ullman deserves full credit for a lot of ‘good lines.’ The wit of Goldie’s letters is catchy and largely original—not current vaudeville wheezes warmed over. We wish there was more of it and less of the ‘good-old-ham-and-eggs,’ ‘man-from-home’ brand of philosophy.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 500w

=UNCENSORED= letters of a canteen girl. *$2 (3c) Holt 940.48

20–14006

These letters were “scratched down on odds and ends of writing paper, in a rare spare moment at the canteen; at night, at my billet, by candle-light, in the mornings, perched in front of Madame’s fire-place.... Why were they never sent? Simply because all letters mailed from France in those days, must of course pass under the eyes of the censor.” (Foreword) They contain everything that happened generously interspersed with the conversations of the doughboys. Contents: Company A; The doughboys; The front; The artillery; The engineers; The ordnance; The French; Pioneers, M. P.’s and others.

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“Rather more tempting to the jaded war appetite than most personal narratives because of the fresh frankness which anonymity permits. Will be liked better later on.”

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 220w

“So piquant and fine-humored are the observations and revelations that one regrets that the book is anonymous. The publishers’ claim, that this ‘gives the human side of soldiering as no book yet published has done,’ does not seem extravagant.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 27 ’20 270w

=UNDERHILL, EVELYN (MRS STUART MOORE).= Jacopone da Todi; poet and mystic—1228–1306; a spiritual biography. *$6 Dutton

20–4482

“Jacopone da Todi, that remarkable Italian mystical poet, was born soon after the death of St Francis of Assisi, about 1228 or 1230, while Dante was yet in the prime of his manhood. Living in the world until he was forty, a shrewd lawyer, a man of vivid temperament, of wide culture and refined tastes, he received at that age his first religious call. For the next ten years he wandered about as a missionary hermit and in 1278, being then about fifty, he became a Franciscan lay brother. Miss Underhill’s book is divided into two parts of about equal length. The first is devoted to Jacopone’s life, set in its proper historical environment. In the remaining part of the book Miss Underhill gives us a chronological selection from his mystical poems, so well known as the Laude, accompanied in the fellow page by an English translation (also into poetry) by Mrs Theodore Beck.”—Cath World

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“Miss Underhill has a fine flow of language, a nice choice of adjectives, and a thorough, if somewhat undiscriminating, knowledge of the literature of her subject. Altogether her book is well done in its way, and it is not the slightest use wishing, as we do, that it had been done in another.” R. S.

+ − =Ath= p636 My 14 ’20 760w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Mr 13 ’20 1500w

+ =Cath World= 111:819 S ’20 620w

“The biographer’s comprehension of the worldly accomplishments of her subject and her equal insight into his spiritual attainments, is strikingly the counterpart of that two-sidedness which she emphasizes in the man himself. The bibliography apart from its immediate value as indicating the sources of the present work, will be of service to those interested in the whole subject of Christian mysticism.” Marianne Moore

+ =Dial= 70:82 Ja ’21 1650w

“When the romantic personality falls into the hands of the scholar there is necessarily something of glamour and delight lost. This is what has happened in this austerely spiritual biography of Evelyn Underhill.” L. C. Willcox

+ − =N Y Times= 25:169 Ap 11 ’20 1200w

“Friar Jacopone was a poet of extraordinary power, and the fire, ease, and accomplishment of his rather erotic mystic poems are astonishing.”

+ =Spec= 124:426 Mr 27 ’20 1450w

“The materials are rather flimsy for the construction of a biography. We cannot agree with Miss Underhill that Jacopone was a great poet. Intense religious feeling, vividly and forcibly expressed, does not of itself constitute poetry, and beyond such expression Jacopone does not often rise.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p229 Ap 15 ’20 4100w

=UNDERHILL, RUTH MURRAY.= White moth. *$2 Moffat

20–20002

“Miss Underhill has converted the old fable of the ant and the grasshopper into a very modern romance which she calls ‘The white moth.’ Hilda Plaistead is the earnest plodder, Guy Nearing the gay and irresponsible hero, and the setting is the town of Cato. The two have a childhood engagement, become widely separated, and in the final chapter again discover that they were always meant for each other, but it is only after Guy has learned the folly of being jack of all trades and master of none.”—N Y Evening Post

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“We can scarcely claim for Miss Underhill’s story either originality of substance or of treatment. What she does accomplish is an exceedingly readable and very human story, which possesses certain scenes of quiet and insistent realism.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 5 ’21 250w

“High school days are described as well as in Booth Tarkington’s ‘Seventeen.’ The characters are all well drawn. However, the true merit of the book is in taking some new aspects of life, such as the business rivalry between man and woman or the problems of factory management and using them to construct a good old-fashioned romance which holds the attention from start to finish.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 140w

“It is a real romance and has a charming atmosphere.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w

=UNSEEN= doctor. *$1.75 (5c) Holt 134

20–15457

The book is one of the Psychic series and describes the cure of a case of illness of fifteen years’ standing in the course of a year and eight months by an invisible spirit doctor. It contains a preface by J. Arthur Hill, testimonials by several personal friends of the patient and a report by the physician long in charge of the case in the flesh. The contents are: A chance paragraph; A chain of coincidences; The first interview; A further surprise; The invisible hand; Experiences and experiments; Fellow-lodgers; Royal progress; Learning to walk; “My little girl”; Six months later; Comments and criticisms; Appendix and index. The book was published in England as “One thing I know, or, The power of the unseen.”

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“‘The unseen doctor’ is as respectable a book of psychic experiences as has come to the public. There is no doubt that it is a record of real experiences. But, respectable as the book is, it still leaves open the eternal question, ‘Why should spirit doctors cling to the earth, and why have they no concerns of their own?’”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 320w

“As a ‘psychic’ tale the book is futile and foolish, indeed, rather fertile in folly.”

− =Review= 3:393 O 27 ’20 230w

“There is nothing fantastic in the story, and it is told with such convincing truth that the reader seems to have no choice save to accept it on its face value.” Lilian Whiting

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 330w

=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern American poetry. *$1.40 Harcourt 811.08

20–1516

“In his anthology, ‘Modern American poetry’ Louis Untermeyer has selected 132 poems by 80 authors, arranged them effectively, with brief notices for each writer and handy indices. Old favorites are here; ‘Little boy blue’ rubs shoulders with ‘The purple cow,’ and ‘When the frost is on the punkin’ with ‘A stein song.’ Franklin P. Adams, Oliver Herford, and Carolyn Wells are represented.”—Springf’d Republican

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“All the best recent things are here.” H: A. Lappin

+ =Bookm= 51:212 Ap ’20 70w

“This verse is remarkable for vigor and energy, form being sacrificed for content. An interesting feature is the group of seven poems on Lincoln by seven different poets.”

+ =Cleveland= p41 Ap ’20 60w

“Though it too often misses the authentic current, is too often led away into stagnant marshes, it is perhaps as good a map as we yet possess. The editor is a better conversationalist than guide.”

+ − =Dial= 68:667 My ’20 60w

=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w

“It is a comprehensive and unusually satisfying collection.”

+ =Ind= 104:64 O 9 ’20 130w

Reviewed by R. P. Utter

=Nation= 110:237 F 21 ’20 420w

“The present reviewer’s quarrel with Louis Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry’ is not so much because of its selections and omissions—both often very wise ones—as because of Untermeyer’s attitude of mind in his introduction. It is the typical attitude of the poets of our present little ‘renaissance,’ and perhaps one should hardly quarrel with it, but smile at it. You would suppose poetry that was honest, fresh, contemporary, had never been written before.” W. P. Eaton

− + =N Y Call= p10 Ja 18 ’20 1000w

“If there be any critic in the country who ought not to make a schoolbook, that critic is Louis Untermeyer. He is much too brilliantly individual and his likes and dislikes are too pronounced. It is a book of verse that young people probably will like, if they like verse at all. Many of the selections included are humorous.... A good professor would make a better anthology for use in schools.” Marguerite Wilkinson

− + =N Y Times= 25:140 Mr 28 ’20 480w

+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w

“The criticism may be raised that Mr Untermeyer has been too generous to the ultra-moderns. But the selections of Carl Sandburg, John Gould Fletcher and Alfred Kreymborg are chosen with discrimination, and serve to accomplish the editor’s purpose.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 26 ’20 300w

+ =Survey= 43:554 F 7 ’20 150w

“This book is a delightful one to read; it has a distinct individuality, and if Mr Untermeyer, in avoiding the beaten track, does not always publish the finest work of his poets, he recovers many a line that has been undeservedly forgotten.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R= n s 10:199 O ’20 390w

=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS=, ed. Modern British poetry. *$2 Harcourt 821.08

20–13991

A companion volume to Mr Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry.’ Over seventy-five poets are represented, ranging from Thomas Hardy, born in 1840, to Robert Graves, born in 1895. Among the others are Alice Meynell, William Watson, Francis Thompson, A. E. Housman, Ernest Dowson, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, W. W. Gibson, John Masefield, Ralph Hodgson, Harold Monro, John Drinkwater, Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Ledwidge, Irene Rutherford McLeod, Richard Aldington, Robert Nichols and Charles H. Sorley. In an introduction the editor discusses the new influences and tendencies.

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=Booklist= 17:23 O ’20

=Dial= 69:664 D ’20 60w

“A few months ago saw the birth of Mr Untermeyer’s book of ‘Modern American poetry,’ a work remarkable as showing the wide variety of theme and treatment which is at least one characteristic trait of American poetry today. Now Mr Untermeyer, for some obscure reason, essays the same feat with ‘Modern British poetry.’ And the result is conspicuously a failure.” J: G. Fletcher

− =Freeman= 2:116 O 13 ’20 1100w

+ =Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 50w

“The disproportionate amount of space allotted to the various poets gives a false emphasis: Mr Hardy, Mr Bridges and Mr Russell have each less than three pages, while Mr Chesterton has nine and Mr Kipling and Mr Noyes (Mr Noyes!) twelve each. The anthologist is tolerant of many schools; but his eye is more on the present than on the immediate past.” S. C. C.

− + =New Repub= 24:49 S 8 ’20 800w

“Aside from the small flecks the book presents itself as an admirable attempt and one that, through its delightful snapshots of the poets prefixed to each writer’s work, should inveigle readers into a closer scrutiny of British verse.”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 7 ’20 490w

“The editor’s taste is sensitive, and his curious bitterness towards the Victorians, which is the main drawback to his liberality, does not greatly affect the catholicity of the work.”

+ =Review= 3:321 O 13 ’20 280w

+ =School R= 28:630 O ’20 160w

=UNTERMEYER, LOUIS.= New Adam. *$1.75 Harcourt 811

20–16871

As an introduction to this book of poems Mr Untermeyer reprints “A note on the poetry of love” from the New Republic. He comments on the artificiality of the love poetry of the preceding age and notes that in our day there is a tendency to return “to the upright vigor, the wide and healthy curiosity” of our earlier ancestors, the Elizabethans. Among the poems of the book are: The new Adam, Hands, Asleep, Summer storm, A marriage, Wrangle, Equals, Supplication, The eternal masculine, Windy days, The embarrassed amorist, Words for a jig, Disillusion, The prodigal.

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“There is nothing about love or woman in this collection, except it be in the verses called ‘The wise woman,’ that is new in love poetry, and there is many a mood and theme that has been both artistically and emotionally better expressed by any number of poets in the past ‘two centuries.’” W: S. Braithwaite

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 1000w

Reviewed by Babette Deutsch

=Dial= 70:89 Ja ’21 380w

“There is in this recent work of Mr Untermeyer’s a note that is singular in American poetry. It shows a writer who has become curious about the soul.” H. S. Gorman

+ =Freeman= 2:332 D 15 ’20 320w

“Mr Untermeyer is casual, as he promised, and flippant, and frank, and dutifully vulgar; but seldom is his effect other than that of an agile pen tracing a facile passion.”

− =Nation= 112:86 Ja 19 ’21 160w

“Neither the rhapsodic nor the mocking quality, however, gives the substance of Untermeyer’s work. The roots of his power lie deeper. Upright vigor, wide and healthy curiosity describe his own work excellently.” Babette Deutsch

+ =N Y Evening Post= p5 N 6 ’20 860w

“One of Mr Untermeyer’s most marked traits is a delightful whimsicality. It crops up again and again throughout the volume, for, strangely enough, this book, which purports to be so revealing, is really extremely reticent. But a dissatisfaction obtrudes itself. Why, oh why, has Mr Untermeyer, master of so many differing forms, chosen to follow Heine in his tight little rhythms and mathematically cut stanzas? In Mr Untermeyer’s case, the effect is not exactly what I imagine he hopes.” Amy Lowell

+ − =N Y Times= p8 O 10 ’20 3500w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 70w

=USHER, ABBOTT PAYSON.= Introduction to the industrial history of England. il *$2.50 Houghton 330.942

20–5634

The book is a narrative of all the historical facts in the industrial development from the earliest beginnings to the present time, which presumably explains the word introduction in the title. The ground covered is shown in the contents: Forms of industrial organization; The rise of the crafts in antiquity; Crafts and craft gilds in medieval France; The population of England: 1086–1700; Village and manor; The traders and the towns; The development of gilds in England; The woolen industries: 1450–1750; The enclosure movement and land reform; The industrial revolution; The East India company and the vested interests; The new cotton industry; The reorganization of the metal trades; The rise of the modern factory system; The rise of collective bargaining; The protection of health and welfare by the state; The development of the railway; The government and the railways; Combinations and monopolies; Incomes, wages, and social unrest; Selected references; Index, maps, figures, and graphs.

* * * * *

“His exposition is generally clear. The balance of general statement and of particular fact is in most chapters good. The author is usually a trustworthy guide. The most serious weakness of the work, when it is appraised as a manual for college undergraduates, lies in its plan rather than in its execution. I think, however, that few teachers who examine the book will dissent from the conclusion that it would be greatly improved if a large part, almost one third of the whole, were cut out, and if the space saved were used for the consideration of the topics now omitted.” Clive Day

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:572 S ’20 1050w

“The facts are presented with scholarly care, but the style is not too technical.”

+ =Booklist= 16:224 Ap ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 31 ’20 490w

“Marked by scholarliness and originality.”

+ =Cleveland= p90 O ’20 10w

“English industrialism, is, primarily, a consequence of certain philosophic ideas, but the author fails to comprehend this major fact, not from any lack of knowledge of the complexities of economic organization, but rather, one surmises because such intricacies are too much for him. He has not seen the wood for the trees, and he fears generalizations—except the one implied throughout the book, that there are no generalizations possible.” R. W.

− + =Freeman= 2:141 O 20 ’20 980w

“The book shows throughout the discriminatory use of the latest available results of research and much painstaking original work. The controversial treatment, the careful qualification in discussion, as well as occasional heaviness in style, make the book unsuited for an undergraduate text.”

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:520 Je ’20 500w

+ − =New Repub= 23:341 Ag 18 ’20 1650w

“It is encyclopædic in its character and is much more full in dealing with the mechanical aspects and the mechanical development of industry than with the history of the men, women, and children who have been engaged in the industries of England. In this respect it is a disappointing book.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 170w

“It is no small task to formulate a general text-book covering so enormous a field and involving many disputatious matters. Professor Usher has, however, accomplished this with skill. Some of his chapters are inadequate. In his discussion of land reform and the inclosure movement, for example, the plight of the evicted peasant farmers seems to be poorly understood. A similar criticism of a narrowness of sympathy, or at any rate of an inadequacy of understanding, might be directed against the final chapter. Professor Usher has a very thin knowledge of the British labor situation today.” W. L. C.

+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 300w

=USHER, ROLAND GREENE.= Story of the great war. il *$2.50 Macmillan 940.3

19–19080

“Professor Usher begins his story with the assassination of the Archduke of Austria; but he shows beyond doubt that the war really began months before this event. The German attitude in 1914 is described; the reports of spies concerning the French and the Russian preparedness and the British reluctance to enter into war. With these preliminaries, which include the first five chapters of his book, Professor Usher begins his narrative with the story of the campaign on Paris and the wonderful strategy displayed by General Joffre, followed by the aggressiveness of Foch.... He traces the work of Hindenburg; the entrance of the British and the Italians into the struggle; the submarine campaign and the incident of the Lusitania; ... the German offensive of 1918; the entrance of America into the war; Chateau-Thierry and the surprising fighting qualities of the American soldier; St Mihiel, the crumbling of the German line; and the final crash and fall.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Many of the illustrations, taken from newspapers published in the most acute moments of the war, are full of extreme feeling. The book, therefore, does not tend to form cool and restrained views of the world war. Probably the author did not wish to form such views. Its strong point is in its large amount of information presented clearly and directly.”

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:136 O ’20 300w

“It is distinctive for the clearness of statement, an interpretation rather than a catalogue of events. May be read with interest by upper grade pupils or grown-ups. Good illustrations and maps.”

+ =Booklist= 16:165 F ’20

“Professor Usher’s story is told with wonderful vigor, great picturesqueness and with a rare comprehension of causes and of effects. His final brief discussion of the query, ‘Who won the war?’ is illuminating and beyond doubt thoroughly correct in its findings.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 17 ’20 550w

“It was to be expected that what was written under the stress of war should partake largely of the character of propaganda, but the war is now a matter of history and we have a right to expect that historical students will try to assume a more judicial attitude toward the events of the past few years. The chief objection to Mr Usher’s work is that its viewpoint is that of 1917.” L. M. L.

− + =Mississippi Valley Hist R= 7:76 Je ’20 330w

“It is a serious handicap to American history that much of it is now written to meet the needs of the immature mind, that is, for the college audience. Professor Usher has composed a ‘story of the war’ in which the bright boy will find just what he wants, but in which the thoughtful man can grasp little to satisfy him.” Preserved Smith

− + =Nation= 110:302 Mr 6 ’20 220w

“This history is terse, clear, and well proportioned. It will serve satisfactorily as a ready reference book and for schools, and will help in reading the more elaborate histories that will later appear.”

+ =Outlook= 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 40w

“The volume is attractively illustrated.”

+ =R of Rs= 61:220 F ’20 100w

+ =School R= 28:315 Ap ’20 380w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 30w

V

=VACHELL, HORACE ANNESLEY.= Whitewash. *$1.90 (1c) Doran

20–7763

The past, the present, and the future are represented in this story, and, as must be expected, clash. Lady Selina Chandos, widow of the Squire of Upworthy, writes with a quill and carries on her husband’s work along his lines. Consequently the picturesque village of Upworthy is in a state of decay, and sickness and death lurk between the rotten floors and leaking thatched roofs. Her daughter Cicely has been at school and her chum there was Tiddy, the very incarnation of modernity and daring feminism. Also the old parish doctor, owing to conditions in the village, is obliged to take on a partner in the person of young Dr Grimshaw. Lady Selina’s nearest neighbor is Lord Wilverley, an up-to-date landlord. Of course there is trouble and not until Lord Selina’s son, Brian, is dead in France, the village in revolt, the manor house in ashes, and Cicely has jilted Lord Wilverley and declared her love for Grimshaw, does Lady Selina realize that whitewashing time is over and a new day has dawned.

* * * * *

“A trenchant indictment of obsolete systems of estate-management.”

+ =Ath= p464 Ap 2 ’20 100w

“In spite of its sociological theme, a well told story untainted by preachiness.”

+ =Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20

“All this seems very serious, and somewhat in the nature of a social and political tract for the times, but the discussion of conditions in the village of Upworthy and on the Chandos estate are so closely interwoven into the story that they are made much more effective than if they were direct propaganda. The love element in the story is ingenious.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 1400w

“The story is mediocre in characterization but rich in the dramatic portrayal of a wealth of incident.”

+ − =Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w

“It is pleasant, leisurely writing with some excellent character drawing.”

+ =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 180w

“In a characteristic English country home the old and the new order strive for supremacy in Mr Vachell’s new novel. And the story through which he portrays the conflict between them is a fine piece of workmanship, telling a real story—which so much English fiction does not—and having a compact framework and an ample supply of interesting and illuminating incident.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:292 Je 6 ’20 550w

“The novel is capital both for its entertainment and its picture of old and new English society.”

+ =Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 120w

“The dénoûement is ingeniously contrived, with a good curtain, and throughout there is no lack of animated and appropriate, if undistinguished, dialogue. Yet the book leaves us with far less sympathy for the representatives of either régime than Mr Galsworthy’s more serious studies of patricians and rebels.”

+ − =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 420w

“Mr Vachell invariably writes in an optimistic vein and with due sense of the humorous and romantic possibilities of a situation. But the serious under-current is always visible beneath the sun-tipped waves of the author’s light mood.”

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

“It is the sudden confrontations, the changes of fortune and the impact of fate against fate that go to make the book, and they make it in spite of Mr Vachell’s deficient insight into character. The dialogue is clever, amusing, enterprising; but it does not seem to be just exactly what the given person must have said on the given occasion. Mr Vachell supplies a good plot, and the plot is nine-tenths of the novel.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p200 Mr 25 ’20 350w

=VALLANCE, AYMER.=[2] Old crosses and lychgates. il *$7.50 Scribner 718

(Eng ed 20–18244)

“Mr Vallance sees in the erection of crosses a suitable way to memorialize England’s dead in the great war. ‘It is hoped,’ he says, ‘that it might prove useful to gather together a collection of examples of old crosses and lychgates, as affording the most appropriate form of monuments for reproduction or adaptation to the needs of the present.’ In his historical and descriptive studies of the crosses to be found in England and Wales, except for some unclassified varieties, Mr Vallance classifies them under five types to which he devotes a chapter each. They are the monolith crosses, the shaft-on-steps type, the spire-shaped or Eleanor crosses, preaching and market crosses.”—Boston Transcript

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“The volume is richly illustrated in lithograph of over two hundred crosses and lychgates with many plans and details in line, making with the documentary and historical and descriptive text a fascinatingly instructive work.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 1250w

+ =Sat R= 130:96 Jl 31 ’19 820w

“Mr Vallance surveys his field both widely and closely, and we find but few occasions of criticism.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p343 Je 3 ’20 1100w

=VANCE, LOUIS JOSEPH.= Dark mirror. il *$1.75 Doubleday

20–5778

“Priscilla Main, the heroine, is subject from childhood to strangely realistic dreams. She is a wealthy young society woman and artist; but in the dreams she assumes another personality and moves in an unfamiliar environment. In the dream existence she associates with denizens of the underworld in ‘the street of strange faces,’ and is known as ‘Red Carnahan’s girl.’ She is loved by Mario, who belongs to another world, but dwells in the lawbreakers’ region of the city, and who wants to remove her from those unwholesome surroundings. Priscilla grows to love this man of her dreams. The dreams become so vivid and distressing that the girl seeks the aid of a psychoanalyst who loves her, and who undertakes to solve the mystery of her wandering ego. The mental experimentalist gradually is able to harmonize dreams with reality and startling data from the realm of psychology are brought to light.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Plausible though slightly overdrawn. The end is unexpected and also fresh.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 250w

=VANDERLIP, FRANK ARTHUR.= What happened to Europe. *$1.50 (3c) Macmillan 940.314

20–8050

For the second edition of this work Mr Vanderlip has written a new preface of twenty-one pages in which he analyzes the financial and economic development in Europe in the ten months following the writing of his book. “On the whole,” he says, “the events which have since occurred have been in harmony with the broad analysis made last May [1919].” He believes that America has missed a great opportunity and thinks that there is now little that we can do. “Our first task now is to put our own house in order.” Descriptive note with critical excerpts for the first edition will be found in the Annual for 1919.

* * * * *

=N Y Times= p17 Ag 15 ’20 460w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 S 9 ’20 140w

=VAN DIEREN, BERNARD.=[2] Epstein. il *$12.50 (26c) Lane 735

Jacob Epstein, whose genius the author of this volume compares to that of Rembrandt, is said to be one of the greatest living sculptors. He belongs to that order of original creative minds “who have made the world, made humanity what it is in its best aspects. Human achievement is their work, human thought takes its foundation from what they have recognized and revealed, and the sum total of knowledge progresses by cumulative effect from one of such masters to the next one.” As it is the author’s opinion that words can not help in the appreciation of an art that does not speak to the spectator in its own language, the observations of the book are chiefly devoted to the problems of appreciation and understanding of art in general. The book contains fifty reproductions in collotype of the sculptor’s work.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 N 20 ’20 330w

“The reproductions are beautiful in the profoundest sense. The volume is an accessible enrichment to the world of art.”

+ =Dial= 69:666 D ’20 120w

“In spite of a treatise as heavy-handed as any ever inflicted by pretentious and empty shoptalk the illustrations of the sculptor’s art still interest and entrance. It is characteristically absurd that a public which does not buy a sculptor’s work should purchase a comparatively expensive book about him in which none of his spirit lives and which, while it contains his apotheosis as a divinity, contains still more the apotheosis of up-to-date studio and café commonplace.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p7 D 4 ’20 1200w

=N Y Times= p9 D 26 ’20 340w

“If we gather anything from it all, it is a general impression that most people who interest themselves in the arts are fools, and that Mr Van Dieren has tried to say so in a hundred and thirty pages with a persistent implication that he is not one of them. As for Mr Epstein, if we wish to add to our knowledge of him, we must look at the fifty plates considerately separated from the text at the end of the book.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p349 Je 3 ’20 1550w

=VAN DOREN, MARK.= Poetry of John Dryden. *$3 Harcourt 821

20–19675

“This is an effort to brighten the most neglected side of the greatest neglected English poet. There is some novelty, I hope, in a treatment on an extended and more or less enthusiastic scale of Dryden’s non-dramatic verse as a body, with attention to the celebrator, the satirist, the journalist, the singer, and the story-teller all together.” (Preface) The contents are: The making of the poet; False lights; The true fire; The occasional poet; The journalist in verse; The lyric poet; The narrative poet; Reputation; conclusion; Appendix; Index.

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“His study of a great poet and a great dramatist is a singular mingling of contradictions and it is hardly necessary as an introduction to a poet who needs no introduction.” E. F. Edgett

− =Boston Transcript= p1 D 18 ’20 1800w

“Mr Van Doren has read his English poetry devouringly up to Dryden and down from him, with the purpose of showing from whom the poet received each genre, what he did to each, and what it became in the hands of his successors. By letting in these sidelights skilfully and relevantly, he manages, without clogging his exposition, to make his discussion of Dryden a compendious history of poetic form. The effect upon the reader is, as I can testify, almost riotously stimulating.” S. P. Sherman

+ =Nation= 111:619 D 1 ’20 1600w

“Our debt to America in the matter of criticism and true scholarship applied to English literature grows greater year by year. An admirable example of the thoroughness, nay, of the exhaustive quality of American criticism, even when it is most sympathetic and least pedantic, is to be found in this delightful study of John Dryden. The present writer must confess to a personal interest in Mr Van Doren’s book because it happens that the American critic’s judgment, not merely in the whole, but in the parts, agrees in an uncanny way with his own.”

+ =Spec= 125:739 D 4 ’20 1600w

=VAN DYKE, JOHN CHARLES.= Grand canyon of the Colorado; recurrent studies in impressions and appearances. il *$2 Scribner 917.91

20–4459

“The book of the northern rim [of the Grand canyon] has yet to be written, but Professor Van Dyke has studied the scenery from the southern side and in his recently published book ‘The Grand canyon of the Colorado,’ gives us a popular account of the geology of the region. He protests against the naming of the great temples and buttes of the canyon after the gods of India. The views from a number of the southern points are described and details are given of the principal trails to the river. Reference is made to the animals, birds, and trees, and to the discoverers and prehistoric inhabitants of the canyon.”—Bookm

* * * * *

“Will delight readers, especially those of a slight scientific bent, who are not traveling.”

+ =Booklist= 16:240 Ap ’20

Reviewed by Le Roy Jeffers

+ =Bookm= 51:360 My ’20 900w

“The most complete, picturesque and satisfactory account of the Grand canyon that we have.”

+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 80w

“Written with all his graceful style and imagery, it may be called a literary guidebook of a superior kind. About half the book is devoted to the rock structure of this geologist’s paradise, and as these pages have not only been carefully prepared by the author but have been read in proof by Mr Ransome, of the Geological survey, they may be accepted as accurate.” F: S. Dellenbaugh

+ =Nation= 110:771 Je 5 ’20 400w

“It is a good book for a pleasant afternoon. Mr Van Dyke does not philosophize or preach or rub in his colors so intensely that he forces you to yawn. There are none of the clichés of the improving book here.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:284 My 30 ’20 200w

“Here is an exceptionally good book about the Grand canyon.”

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 60w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 2 ’20 220w

=VAN DYKE, TERTIUS.= Songs of seeking and finding. *$1.50 Scribner 811

20–6369

“It would have been rather disappointing if the music of many little (and unpronounceable) rivers, spilled down his boyhood years, had not left song in the heart of the master of Avalon’s son. So it is not at all surprising to discover that ‘Songs of seeking and finding’ is a book of very pleasant and profitable verse. The strong, virile faith behind the poems—their wholesome Christianity—impresses the reader more than the polish of their lines. Mr Van Dyke pleads for real values of life and real religion.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Tertius Van Dyke writes poetry in the manner of his father, but not quite so well.”

+ − =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 50w

“The best things in the book seem to me to be ‘The war-makers,’ because there is a bit of good healthy rage in it, and ‘A minister learns about life,’ because it has a good idea in it and ends at just the right moment.” M. Wilkinson

+ − =N Y Times= p18 Ag 8 ’20 300w

“Mr Van Dyke is more successful in poems thus reflective than in his lyrics, though in them the same forceful spirit is unmistakable.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p12 Je 8 ’20 310w

=VANE, DEREK.= Ferrybridge mystery. *$2 Moffat

20–17412

“A suburb of London is the scene of Derek Vane’s story. Basil Monck, a member of the London stock exchange, whose antecedents are unknown to his most intimate acquaintances, is found shot dead in his home. There is not the slightest clue to the identity of the murderer, but there are many people who might logically be suspected of the crime. Monck had more enemies than friends; he was generally known to have used his fascinating personality unscrupulously in his dealings with women, and more than one man blamed him for the loss of a fortune. Motives for the murder are plentiful and every man or woman who had cause to hate Monck falls naturally under suspicion.”—N Y Times

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“It is a pleasure occasionally to find one story of the kind which justifies the publisher’s contention. The latest book by Miss Derek Vane is a worthy example. It is above the average of its kind.” C. H. O.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 540w

“In choosing the character upon whom to settle responsibility for Monck’s death, the author has displayed a courage and an originality that may react against the popularity of her story.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 S 19 ’20 370w

=VANE, GEORGE (VISCONDE DE SARMENTO).= Waters of strife. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

20–12603

Beginning before the war in England we get a glimpse of the pre-war intrigues carried on by a German count, exiled in England, and his accomplices. But the greater part of the story transpires on Belgian soil in war-time showing up the ruthlessness of the Germans, and the indignities to which the Belgians were subjected. The heroism of an American boy and girl of Belgian descent furnish most of the thrills, and some fine friendships among the English aristocracy and the middle-class are depicted.

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“The story is full of vigor and coloring befitting the day and scene in which it is laid.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 160w

“The book is very badly constructed and the character drawing amateurish, but the account of Aline’s experiences in Belgium is interesting and occasionally dramatic.”

+ − =N Y Times= p22 Ag 8 ’20 450w

“The book has some good episodes, but in the ordinary way it is difficult to work up much excitement, principally because the heroes and scoundrels alike ignore probabilities.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p305 My 13 ’20 130w

=VAN LOON, HENDRIK WILLEM.=[2] Ancient man. il *$3 Boni & Liveright 571

“‘Ancient man’ is to be the first of a series of nine history books in story form, which ‘will explore the intricate wilderness of the bygone ages’ and in summing up ‘try to show where the human race has lived up to its highest possible achievements and wherein it has failed to rise above the status of the earliest cavemen.’ (Ind) “It begins about fifty thousand years ago with a broad sketch of prehistoric man, struggling against elemental nature. It skips to the Nile and comes on down the ages to the Phoenecians.” (N Y Times)

* * * * *

“The text is terse, up to date, and thoroughly interesting.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:260 N ’20 110w

“The famous historian undertook this task for his own boys, eight and twelve years old, and he has sensed unfailingly the way to stimulate the interest and satisfy the curiosity of youngsters of about that age.”

+ =Ind= 104:379 D 11 ’20 250w

“Absorbingly interesting. This is the way to tell history to children—and to the rest of us.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 19 ’20 130w

=VANSITTART, ROBERT GILBERT.= Singing caravan; a Sufi tale. *$2 Doran 821

(Eng ed 19–14218)

The device of the pilgrimage, with alternating narrative and song, is put to new uses by this young English poet. For the end of the matter is not mere entertainment by the way, but philosophical discussion, in which the views of the watchmen, the merchant, the scholar, the sheikh, the sceptic, and even the camel, are represented.

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“‘The singing caravan’ hammers mysticism into clean, efficient verse, which in its ease and correctness, displays the immense technical equipment of the recent English poets; but his subject matter shows the lack of freshness and homeliness that handicaps the Georgian poets as a group in comparison with their American rivals.”

+ − =Dial= 68:537 Ap ’20 50w

“Eastern mysticism and the imagery of the caravan form the vehicle by which Mr Vansittart conveys his mind upon final things; but there is no affectation of the Orient in his thought, and even his words are straightforward and plain; he has Schubert’s knack of turning common phrases into bewitching melody.”

+ =Spec= 123:118 Jl 26 ’19 50w

“The charm of Persian landscape, the wealth of Persian poetry have been woven into these tales, and they may be read just as profitably for the pictures they paint as for the lessons they teach.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 150w

“‘The singing caravan’ is ‘a tale of Persian mystics,’ and with the Persian mystics we are few of us on intimate terms. But its rich and clear colouring, innocent of purple patchwork, though ‘local,’ may none the less charm the untravelled; and the poem may be enjoyed either for its landscape and characters, its allegory, its remarkable craftsmanship, or for the sake of the mind and spirit which are revealed in it.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p447 Ag 21 ’19 1000w

=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= In the garret. *$2 (3c) Knopf 780.4

20–926

From the garret of his memory the author produces many things, scrutinizes them whimsically and chats about them at random. The things are authors and books and music and people he has met. Contents: Variations on a theme by Havelock Ellis; A note on Philip Thicknesse; The folk-songs of Iowa; Isaac Albéniz; The holy jumpers; On the relative difficulties of depicting heaven and hell in music; Sir Arthur Sullivan; On the rewriting of masterpieces; Oscar Hammerstein: an epitaph; La tigresse; In the theatres of the purlieus: Mimi Aguglia as Salome, Farfariello, The negro theatre, The Yiddish theatre, The Spanish theatre.

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+ =Ath= p257 F 20 ’20 80w

+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20

“He has a magnificent way of being unimportant. His touch is light and artistic. His culture is Hunekeresque. His scholarship is musicianly, sometimes jazzy.” Mary Terrill

+ =Bookm= 51:193 Ap ’20 350w

+ =New Repub= 22:161 Mr 31 ’20 80w

“The author does himself injustice by opening with the least attractive essay in the book, though it shows the most erudition.... It is when he surveys the American scene that we go all the way with Mr Van Vechten.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p77 F 5 ’20 800w

=VAN VECHTEN, CARL.= Tiger in the house. il *$5 Knopf 636.8

“I have written, how skilfully I cannot tell, on the manners and customs of the cat, his graces and calineries, the history of his subjugation of humankind. Through all the ages, even during the dark epoch of witchcraft and persecution, puss has maintained his supremacy, continued to breed and multiply, defying, when convenient, the laws of God and man, now our friend, now our enemy, now wild, now tame, the pet of the hearth or the tiger of the heath, but always free, always independent, always an anarchist who insists upon his rights, whatever the cost. The cat never forms soviets; he works alone.” (Apotheosis) The illustrations are many and beautiful. There is an exhaustive bibliography and an index and the contents are: By way of correcting a popular prejudice; Treating of traits; Ailurophobes and other cat-haters; The cat and the occult; The cat in folklore; The cat and the law; The cat in the theatre; The cat in music; The cat in art; The cat in fiction; The cat and the poet; Literary men who have loved cats; Apotheosis.

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“The book is a revelation concerning the more or less important part which cats have played in history and literature.”

+ =Bookm= 52:367 Ja ’21 160w

“The suggestive ingenuity of its title is matched by the far-reaching skill with which he has amassed and arrayed his facts so as to make them into a continuous story that blends both fact and the imagination.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 11 ’20 1600w

“Mr Van Vechten is less fortunate in his choice of pictures than in his text.” J. W. Krutch

+ =Nation= 112:sup243 F 9 ’21 780w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 150w

=VAN VORST, MARIE.= Fairfax and his pride. *$1.75 Small

20–4010

“Miss Van Vorst’s narrative is the story of the struggles of Antony Fairfax to gain distinction as a sculptor. He is largely self-taught, but soon after coming to New York in 1880, at the age of twenty-three, we find him perfecting an epoch-making piece of modeling in the studio of a famous sculptor. The latter steals the credit for Fairfax’s work, and starts the young man on the career which threatens to snuff out his ambition and great talents. It is after this mischance that Fairfax becomes successively fireman and engineer for the New York Central. His railroad service ends abruptly with the receipt of a small inheritance from an admirer. This takes him to Paris, where he establishes his fame, experiences a brief romance, and finally has the satisfaction of confounding the man who stole the early fruits of his genius.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Not as interesting as ‘Big Tremaine’ and will not be as popular.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:284 My ’20

“It is safe to say that no American novel of the season so far surpasses the quality of ‘Fairfax and his pride.’ It tells a story that takes you astray and brings you back to the main current of events with surprising interest. The characters are all well drawn. We close the book with the consciousness that here is a real American novelist.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 24 ’20 1550w

=N Y Times= 25:170 Ap 11 ’20 320w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 160w

“The young sculptor and his difficulties do not produce a very lively impression. Miss Van Vorst never brings her readers into intimate touch with him, and the short, jerky chapters are irritating in their effects.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 30 ’20 550w

=VAN WESEP, HENDRIKUS BOEVE.= Control of ideals. *$2 (5c) Knopf 171

20–18312

This “contribution to the study of ethics” (Sub-title) is concerned primarily with the problem of war prevention. The author holds that man is more an imaginative than a rational animal and apt to mistake his imaginative world for the world of reality. By learning to control our ideals we learn to distinguish between an ideal and a fixed idea and to live by rather than die for them. The book takes up in turn the origin, nature, and function of human ideals and the supreme worth of the individual and of human life. Contents: Variety of ideals; Attitude toward ideals; Assimilation of ideals; The survival of ideals; Nations; Development of self-consciousness; Society versus the individual; Utopianism; Democracy; Tolerance; Harmony; Symbiosis; Atomism; Functions of ideals; Moral courage; Index.

* * * * *

“Scholarly but written for the layman.”

+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“His optimism seems a little too easy for a disillusioned civilization, but at least he is intelligible, a great recommendation for any one educated among the fogs of metaphysics.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 O 30 ’20 70w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 90w

=VAST, HENRI.= Little history of the great war. il *$2 Holt 940.3

20–20075

A short history of the war, translated from the French by Raymond Weeks of Columbia university. Contents: The German race—pangermanism; The environment—William II and Europe (1900–1914); The critical moment—responsibility for the war; The sudden attack—battle of the Marne; Eastern front—Serbia and Russia (1914–1916); Distant theaters of war—in the Orient—on the sea and in the colonies; The Italian effort—the army of Saloniki; Retrospective preparation (1915–1916); The ruin of Russia (1916–1918); American aid; Peace offensives; Victory—capitulation of Germany. There are twenty-seven maps, but no index.

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“A wonderfully compact story of the war, composed with characteristic French clarity.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 60w

=VAUGHAN, WALTER.=[2] Life and work of Sir William Van Horne. il *$5 Century

20–20625

The life of Sir William Van Horne is something of a romance, he having made his way from a poor boy in Illinois to an English peerage. He gained his fame and his fortune as a builder of railroads of which the Canadian Pacific was his greatest achievement. With his natural abilities, says his biographer, he would have achieved greatness in any field; as a military commander, as an engineer or architect, as a painter or in the natural sciences. The book has several maps, illustrations and an index.

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“The chief merit of the book is its really vivid picture of a striking personality.” Allan Nevins

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p8 Ja 29 ’21 1250w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 100w

=VEBLEN, THORSTEIN B.= Place of science in modern civilization, and other essays. *$3 Huebsch 330.4

20–6953

“The assumptions of the existing economic order are studied in Thorstein Veblen’s latest book, ‘The place of science in modern civilization.’ This is a carefully selected series of papers published in economic journals during the past twenty years, and sums up the principles of an economic attitude so popular among modern economists that it has been entitled ‘Veblenism.’”—Springf’d Republican

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“If these old essays are valuable, in the face of all that their author has since contributed, it is because of their emphasis upon the spirit of his work; because, as much as anything he has done, they show the impulse and intention of his scholarship. There are here, as elsewhere, passages that rouse impatience because of the author’s very carelessness of pragmatism.” Babette Deutsch

+ − =Dial= 69:79 Jl ’20 1250w

“There are serious difficulties in the way of a ‘scientific’ treatment of economics, over which Mr Veblen does not help us, and many of which he does not see. A keen critic, he is not a close or clear thinker; destructively valuable, we can hardly follow him as a constructive leader.” F. H. Knight

+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:518 Je ’20 1100w

“The book is a rich contribution to economic and social literature, and is, in a way, Mr Veblen at his scientific best.” H. A. Overstreet

+ =Nation= 111:250 Ag 28 ’20 500w

“Nowhere in them is there any indication of that subtle wit, the telling thrust, the finely pointed characterization that rewarded the hours of toil through his other writings. While our author’s standing as a humanist is enhanced by the essays, his reputation as an economist will not be.” N. W. Wilensky

− + =N Y Call= p10 My 16 ’20 1050w

“One cannot help wondering whether Mr Veblen himself knows what an excellent literary quality his writings have, and what a boon to the jaded reader is the absence in his work of certain conventional literary virtues—solemnity, geniality, sonority, and the like.”

+ − =No Am= 211:424 Mr ’20 1350w

“The position of Mr Veblen is so deserving of attention that one must regard his involved style and ponderous vocabulary as a misfortune.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 18 ’20 580w

“Several of them are on academically important topics which, nevertheless, the more general public that has become interested in the author’s theories can afford to skip. Others deal with fundamental issues which the layman should try to understand. Among these we would class the three papers on the preconceptions of economic science which demonstrate the shifts in the boundaries of that science, and especially the newer emphasis on its human aspects.”

+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 150w

=VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST.= Port Allington stories, and others. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–21335

A volume of short stories by an English author who was killed in the war, issued now as he had prepared them for publication, with a preface by his wife. Some of them had appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Contents: “This is Tommy”; The greatness of Mr Watherstone; The outrage at Port Allington; The offense of Stephen Danesford; Soaring spirits; The bad Samaritan; The sunk elephant; The adventure of the Persian prince; The smoke on the stairs; On the raft; Madame Bluebird; The missing princess; A night’s adventure; The maze.

* * * * *

“Deftness of phrasing, and a sense of character and of the social ironies mark a volume of tales whose sarcasm is never bitter and whose laughter is always good-natured.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 310w

“Nowhere except in Mrs Wharton’s matchless ‘Xingu,’ and possibly in Mr Benson’s current ‘Queen Lucia,’ have the humors of feminine club-made culture been more amusingly displayed.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 300w

=VERNÈDE, ROBERT ERNEST.= War poems, and other verses. *$1.50 Doran 821

20–20444

Edmund Gosse in his introduction gives a biographical sketch of the author, an Englishman of French descent who, altho past military age, enlisted at the beginning of the war and was killed in 1917. Among the war poems are England and the sea, The call; The Indian army; A legend of the fleet; To the United States; Christmas, 1914; To Canada; Before the assault. These are followed by a small group of “other verses” on such themes as The July garden, Friendship, To an English sheep-dog. The volume was published in England in the fall of 1917.

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+ =Lit D= p33 F 16 ’18 100w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

=Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 250w

“In Lieutenant Vernède’s unhesitating and uncompromising verse the man sustains the poet, but the poet merits that support.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 120w

=R of Rs= 57:333 Mr ’18 230w

“Some of the finest poems that have come from the trenches. They are instinct with an exalted patriotism.”

+ =Spec= 120:14 Ja 5 ’18 320w

=VERRILL, ALPHEUS HYATT.=[2] Islands and their mysteries. il *$1.75 Duffield 551.42

20–20916

The author offers this volume as a companion to “The ocean and its mysteries.” It explains in a non-technical manner how islands are formed, how they resemble or differ from one another, how they become covered with vegetation, and are inhabited by animal life and many other puzzling and interesting features of islands and insular life. Imaginary trips to imaginary islands of various types hold the young reader’s attention. Contents: The romance of islands; Islands and islands; Volcanic islands; Coral islands and other islands; Island life; Island vegetation; A ramble on a lake island; An island in the sea; Exploring an island in a tropical river; A visit to an island in tropical seas; The island of salt; The island of pearls; When people dwell in a volcano; Islands of the frozen seas. There are illustrations.

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“The story is an extremely fascinating one and although designed undoubtedly for the reading of adults, cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive to boys and girls in their teens, whose minds are beginning to expand and to reason and inquire into the causes of things.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 D 11 ’20 330w

“Always he retains a human viewpoint, so that his book reflects the wonder and mystery of life instead of degenerating into a mere scientific treatise.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p14 Ja 8 ’21 480w

+ =R of Rs= 63:112 Ja ’21 80w

“Although the style, which smacks somewhat of the elementary geography, grows a bit monotonous at times, he leaves one wishing for more.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 28 ’21 200w

=VESTAL, SAMUEL CURTIS.= Maintenance of peace. *$5 (2c) Putnam 341

20–9987

“The foundations of domestic and international peace as deduced from a study of the history of nations.” (Sub-title) At the hands of history, going as far back as ancient Assyria, the author endeavors to prove that peace can only be secured on a basis of militarism and preparedness and on a “balance of power” rather than on a world confederacy or a league of nations. Sea power ought naturally to belong to the nation weakest in land power, in order that the balance of power may be maintained and “freedom of the seas” can be little more than a phrase. Of pacifism he will have none for it teaches “a spiritless doctrine of cowardice.” Preparedness is as necessary for the maintenance of domestic peace as of peace between nations. A partial list of the contents is: The domestic peace of nations; The integration of nations; World federation; The balance of power; Early history of the balance of power; The thirty years’ war; Part taken by England in maintaining the balance of power since the treaty of Utrecht; Lessons that should be drawn from attempts to overthrow the balance of power and establish world empires; The Holy alliance; Arbitration as a panacea for war; Neutralization of small states; Disarmament; Germany prepares for world conquest; Growth of pacifism outside of Germany; Index.

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“Many new ideas are broached in this thoughtful volume, which is worthy of the close study of statesman and militarist.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 400w

=Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 20w

=VILLARS, MEG.= Broken laugh. *$2 (1c) McBride

The heroine, a very simple and trusting little English girl, who answers to the name of Kissy-Girl, is betrayed at the age of seventeen and goes to London alone to await the birth of her child. A chance clue from a newspaper sends her to Paris in search of the man and she is there decoyed into a house of ill fame. Refusing to become one of the professional inmates she is allowed to remain as a servant. In this capacity she meets Jim Crighton, an Englishman who falls in love with her and takes her to Brussels. He has made up his mind to marry her when the war breaks out. He enlists and succeeds to a title. His intention to marry Kissy remains, but a German bomb puts an end to everything.

* * * * *

“If she had been content to develop her whole story in the milieu she knows best, she would probably have produced a really effective narrative.”

+ − =Ath= p1386 D 19 ’19 60w

“A novel of more than usual literary excellence. The reader’s sympathy with this story will depend almost entirely upon his conception of the importance of conventionally fixed morality.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 N 7 ’20 470w

“Like much latter-day fiction, this work has numerous touches of interest and reality; but, as a whole, gives an effect of weakness.”

− + =Sat R= 129:193 F 21 ’20 230w

“Such a tale might be sensational, but, in Miss Villars’s telling, it is delicate.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 420w

“Obviously the war should not have been allowed to intrude; it spoils everything. But one day she may write a book as good from cover to cover as the first hundred pages of ‘The broken laugh.’”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p769 D 18 ’19 480w

=VILLIERS, FREDERIC=, il. Days of glory. il *$5 Doran 940.49

20–4792

“The sketch book of a veteran correspondent at the front.” (Sub-title) The volume consists of a series of fifty full-page illustrations showing scenes at the front, each accompanied by brief descriptive comment. Philip Gibbs contributes an introduction, “A salute to Frederic Villiers.”

* * * * *

“A well made book.”

+ =Booklist= 16:277 My ’20

“It is worth whole tomes of verbal description. The pictures are vivid and accurate.” N. H. D.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 560w

“Villiers represents the type of the old-guard war correspondent at its best. The sketches in ‘Days of glory’ have no special artistic merit. They look very old fashioned beside the modern methods of Nevinson and Nash. In character they are topographical, anecdotal, documentary. There is no doubt that they possess a certain historical significance.”

+ =Nation= 111:785 D 29 ’20 250w

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w

“The artistic merit of Mr Villiers’s work consists not merely in the personal element wrought into the pictures as contrasted with the mechanical work of a camera, but also in the fact that here are pictures at which no camera had a chance in 1914–15, and the other pictures which no camera could have furnished with all the license in the world.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 26 ’20 360w

=VILLIERS, FREDERIC.= Villiers, his five decades of adventure. 2v il *$6 (7½c) Harper

20–20650

Two volumes devoted to the life of a veteran war correspondent and artist. He was born in 1851, in England, and his first association with wars came in 1870 when he went over to Paris to pick up material for a panorama of the Franco-Prussian war. The next adventure that offered was the war between Serbia and Turkey in 1876, and others followed, taking him to every part of the earth, down to the great war. The volumes are illustrated.

* * * * *

“These tales of five decades of adventure must be placed among the greatest of autobiographies.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p11 D 8 ’20 750w

“Here between covers are the dramatic figures and the stirring events of two and a half generations presented by a writer trained throughout a lifetime in the art of bringing out all the high lights and shades of dramatic contrasts.”

+ =N Y Times= p18 D 12 ’20 2600w

“With long practice in telling the public what it wanted to know, it might go without saying that this autobiography is chatty and interesting from start to finish.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 21 ’21 520w

=VINCENT, FLORENCE SMITH.= Peter’s adventures in Meadowland. il *$2 Stokes

20–18753

A nature-fairy story for children. Peter is a little boy who has no playmates. For saving the life of an oak tree that his father had wanted to cut down, he is rewarded with the friendship of all the living things. He not only learns their language, he is able at will to make himself smaller and smaller until he meets butterflies and grasshoppers and crickets on equal terms. He can enter their houses, climb up spider web ladders and ride on a butterfly’s back. So he learns of their ways, and finds out that they are just as wise, and sometimes wiser, than humans.

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).= Growing up. *$1.75 Boni & Liveright

20–12378

“This book is concerned solely and entirely with the growing up of a small family of children and the trials, perplexities and mooted questions which the parents of those children faced every day of their lives in their effort to do the right thing by their offspring.” (N Y Times) “Very likely many who start this book will be impressed with a sense of familiarity since Tom and Alice Marcey and their three children have already seen the light some years ago in the pages of a magazine, but we must know Robert and Sara and Jamie in book form to fully appreciate them.” (Boston Transcript)

* * * * *

“Will delight all modern troubled parents and other grownups.”

+ =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

“One of the most interesting characteristics of the book is the breadth of its appeal. The children are so natural, their parents are so natural, that it seems impossible that anyone could fail to find something attractive in their story.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 450w

“The tale presents a more or less deft but quite obvious mixture of pedagogy and feminism, in an ample solution of juvenile prattle and misdemeanour. The whole, however, is so well spiced with humour and sweetened with domestic sentiment that (to quote the publisher’s tribute) ‘the tired business man and the weary housewife will find a real release in reading it.’” H. S. H.

+ =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 580w

“Her humor is fresh and rich and delicate. One may quite forget her psychological implications and yield to the mirth and human charm of her story and her people.”

+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 440w

“Mrs Vorse’s story, though backed by sound psychology and keen observation, is yet light fiction. Its merit is rather in the contribution it makes to the growing volume of child thought, to the explanation of such pieces as ‘The young visiters’ than in the intrinsic value of either the tale or the style.” Henrietta Malkiel

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 500w

“It is a most engaging book. The freshness, the humor and the spontaneity that characterized Mrs Vorse’s former novel are equally manifest here, along with a deeper purpose and a greater significance.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:25 Jl 4 ’20 820w

“Every one who enjoyed ‘The Prestons’ will be glad to read ‘Growing up.’”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“This story is as delightful as ‘The Prestons,’ and that is saying much for it. The author has an uncanny understanding of children and the problems that they offer to conscientious parents.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 500w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 40w

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).=[2] Men and steel. *$2 (3c) Boni & Liveright 331.89

After a graphic description of the power of iron and of how coal, iron and steel rule our civilization, of the great machines in the mills to which man is but a negligible adjunct, of the mill towns—the slummiest and the comparatively decent—all with the common motive: “Man is puny; Industry great”—the author gives the history of the great steel strike which she has personally followed up and observed in detail. The book falls into four parts: Strike background; The steel strike; Silence; The dying strike.

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“Skillfully written the book is, but it proves next to nothing, for throughout the author uses the individual’s story (easy to find among several hundred thousand people) to prove broad truths.”

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 19 ’21 170w

“It is a beautiful and a terrible book, because like a true work of art it embodies the elemental beauty and terror of life.”

+ =Nation= 112:87 Ja 19 ’21 780w

“This book of Mary Vorse’s is a thrilling and a perfectly sane and down-on-the-ground contribution to the history of that historic steel strike of last winter. It is a book really of stories—of stories of men and of women and of children and of homes.” W: Hard

+ =New Repub= 25:51 D 8 ’20 1000w

“At the beginning of chapter II there is a really powerful bit of writing.... And there are other pieces of really good writing in the book. The rest too frequently tends toward the bathos of film captions and magazine stories. The story she tells is not only improbable, but she puts her own opinions and feelings into the mouths of her Slovaks with a ruthless roughness. Where they do not speak as she would have them she makes them think her thoughts.”

− + =N Y Times= p23 Ja 16 ’21 1200w

“On the whole, she has done an illuminating bit of work. It is propaganda rather than detached painting, but it is propaganda of a high quality. At times one regrets that the artist in Mrs Vorse was not more rigorous in its exactions on the other side of her personality, but, after all, no one else has given so moving a picture of the routine of life in the steel towns.” W. L. C.

+ − =Survey= 45:676 F 5 ’21 220w

=VORSE, MARY MARVIN (HEATON).= Ninth man. il *$1.25 (7½c) Harper

20–15068

This story, set in a medieval Italian city, is a study of hate and fear. Mazzaleone, the conqueror of the city, has decreed that it shall mete out its own punishment and to each ninth person passing in review before him he has given a black disc which signifies power over life or death. For within thirty days each possessor of a disc may designate secretly one who is to be put to death. First mad lust for life breaks loose, then hatred and revenge, and lastly fear. But among the frenzied populace there moves one who preaches love and forgiveness and who offers to take on himself the death for all. This is Brother Agnello, who carries one of the black discs and who was first shown the way to keep his own hands clean and then the way to redeem his townsmen.

* * * * *

+ =N Y Times= p24 D 19 ’20 370w

“It is a colorful tale, and will appeal to those who have found pleasure in the earlier Italian stories of Maurice Hewlett and the romances of James Branch Cabell’s invention.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:196 N ’20 90w

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=WADSLEY, OLIVE.= Belonging. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–15700

The heroine is a beautiful English girl married to a French count. She does not love him but is devotedly loyal during his long and hopeless illness. Two men love her, Charles Carton, who had been the object of her girlish devotion, and Julian Guise. Following her husband’s death she becomes engaged to Julian. Jealousy between the two men leads to a struggle and Carton is killed. Julian, who is severely injured, is taken away by his father and kept in ignorance of what follows. The guilt is placed on Sara and she suffers a year’s imprisonment. When she meets Julian after her release he is terribly changed but a second meeting brings explanations and reconciliation.

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“Taking well-worn material, Miss Wadsley has used it so skillfully and with so firm, yet delicate, a literary touch that it comes near to being a masterpiece in its way. If the subject enjoyed a higher moral tone this commendation could be given without qualification.”

+ − =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 540w

=Spec= 124:22 Jl 3 ’20 40w

“We cannot say that in the matter of construction this story is very successful.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p241 Ap 15 ’20 140w

=WALDMAN, LOUIS.= Albany: the crisis in government; with an introd. by Seymour Stedman. il *$1.75 Boni & Liveright 335

20–12624

“This is the story of the suspension, trial and expulsion from the New York State legislature of the five Socialist assemblymen. It was written by one of the expelled members. It is an ex parte report of the case, to which an introduction is supplied by one of the attorneys for the defense.”—R of Rs

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=Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 80w

+ =Booklist= 17:150 Ja ’21

“The illustrations scattered through the volume might well have been omitted, partly because they are copies of cartoons and partly because they are poorly done. The introduction by Seymour Stedman is lucid and interesting.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 24 ’20 170w

=Nation= 111:278 S 4 ’20 120w

“Written by one of the victims of the injustice, the book is of course extremely partisan. Yet if one may judge from a generous reading of the newspaper accounts of the trial, it is fairly representative. The proofreading is poor, and there are further evidences of undue haste in preparation and printing. But for all that it is a book well worth anybody’s reading and reflection.” W. J. Ghent

+ − =Review= 3:89 Jl 28 ’20 1600w

“The line of cleavage in public opinion as to the merits of this case is not likely to be materially modified by the publication of this book. It is, however, an interesting and readable account of a famous episode.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 100w

“Mr Waldman’s book is convincingly written and his argument forceful. The author tells his story in a fair and straightforward manner.” L. D. Lasker

+ =Survey= 45:103 O 16 ’20 440w

=WALEY, ARTHUR=, tr. Japanese poetry, the Uta. *$3.25 Oxford 895

20–14302

“The poems here translated are from the Manyo Shu anthology (Ten-thousand leaves collection), compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi, who died in 785, and are considered as the beginnings of Japanese poetry as an art. ‘The translations in this book,’ says Mr Waley, ‘are chiefly intended to facilitate the study of the Japanese text; for Japanese poetry can only be rightly enjoyed in the original. The original texts of the poems accompany the translations, and notes on grammar are given to facilitate the student who wishes to master the originals.”—Boston Transcript

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“Mr Waley comes not halfway, but all the way to meet an intelligent ignorance. He is instructive without severity; he is learned, but affable. His translations have, we think, every indispensable quality of good literal translation—especially a kind of negative rhythmical and tone value, and distinction of vocabulary without a trace of preciousness or squeamishness.” F. W. S.

+ =Ath= p12 Ja 2 ’20 950w

+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20

=Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 380w

“It is decidedly difficult to find anything in the literature of the West which recalls these brief lyrics, which confine within seventeen or at most within thirty-one syllables the passion of a life or the shadowing imminence of death.” Babette Deutsch

+ =Dial= 70:204 F ’21 800w

“The volume shows the scholarly care and literary taste which were the charms of Mr Waley’s previous translations, and nobody could wish for a better introduction to Japanese poetry; but the poems do not give the same thrill as those little decorative masterpieces—the Chinese translations. Some of them seem to be too purely decorative.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p646 N 13 ’19 820w

=WALISZEWSKI, KAZIMIERZ.= Poland the unknown; tr. from the French. *$2.25 Doran 943.8

(Eng ed 20–6295)

It is the contention of the author that the characteristics of the Polish people and of their national ideals has always been quite distinct from those of western Europe and that, as a vanquished nation, she has for nearly a century and a half presented not her own face but a mask to the world. That her exceptional virtues rather than her failings have been the chief cause of her undoing and that of all the nations that participated in the latter, Prussia has been the arch-criminal, is the object of the book to show. Contents: The enigma of a nation’s fate; The Polish paradox; Ideas and principles; Organs of government; Anarchy; The crisis; The catastrophe; Beyond the grave; Resurrection; Conclusion.

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“M. Waliszewski’s book is largely a vigorous and effective polemic against the misrepresentations of Polish history so long and systematically inspired by Berlin and St Petersburg. Unfortunately, his own views as to the causes of Poland’s downfall are nowhere very concisely summed up. The author may be criticized for great carelessness in the matter of names and dates.” R. H. L.

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:316 Ja ’21 750w

=Ath= p1243 N 21 ’19 100w

“It is written in a somewhat ebullient manner which, although it makes agreeable reading, is not altogether favourable to processes of reasoned argument. We do not wish to suggest that M. Waliszewski is consciously prejudiced, but he is perhaps too closely affected by the conditions he describes to judge them dispassionately.” P. S.

+ − =Ath= p1396 D 26 ’19 520w

“M. Waliszewski is an excellent sales-agent who knows his literary and historical wares and knows, also, how to spread them before his customers with tact and grace; but for all that, his work will hardly serve as a reliable guide for future historians of the Polish question—if only because, having spent most of his life in Paris, be writes with a decidedly French accent.” H. W. van Loon

− + =Freeman= 2:237 N 17 ’20 620w

“Unfortunately for his main purpose, he has felt called upon to develop his thesis in a detail which makes the book rather difficult reading for anyone not intimately acquainted with Polish history.” M. A. Chickering

+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 190w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p615 O 30 ’19 70w

“Being written as a corrective it tends to give a somewhat one-sided view if taken only in itself without reference to the mass of literature which it seeks to controvert. Even so it is of very considerable interest, especially in regard to the history of the nineteenth century.

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 170w

=WALKER, ABBIE (PHILLIPS) (MRS FRED ALLAN WALKER).= Sandman’s rainy day stories. il *75c (2c) Harper

These rainy day stories are quite properly fairy tales, with such titles as Princess Cantilla, The tree of swords, The silver horseshoes, The blue castle, Nardo and the princess, The enchanted boat, The gingerbread rock, and so on. The book belongs to the Sandman series and is illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.

+ =Ind= 104:396 D 11 ’20 50w

=WALKER, ABBIE (PHILLIPS) (MRS FRED ALLAN WALKER).= Sandman’s stories of Drusilla doll. il *75c (2c) Harper

A book of stories for very little people. Drusilla is an unbreakable doll, and it is very lucky for her that she is, for her adventures are many and dreadful and only an unbreakable could have survived them. The book belongs to a series of Sandman’s stories and is illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase.

=WALKER, HENRY CRAGIN.= Jimmy Bunn stories. il *$1.75 (8c) Century

A book of animal stories for little folks. As in the older folk lore of many lands the rabbit and the wolf are pitted against one another, and the nimble wits of Jimmy Bunn, here as always, are more than a match for the craft of his adversary. The black and white illustrations are by Hope-Innes.

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“Fortunately this is not one of that new type of children’s books attempting to compete with the moving pictures. Its language is simple; its faint moralizing successfully camouflaged.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p25 O 23 ’20 100w

=WALKER, SYDNEY FERRIS.= Electric mining machinery. il $5 Pitman 622

20–9652

A British work by a member of the Institution of electrical engineers, who is also author of “Electricity in mining,” “Electricity in houses and workshops,” and other works. The author says, “I have endeavoured to explain every little point that, from my own experience, I think may trouble mining men.” The book is illustrated with 132 figures and is indexed.

=WALLACE, DILLON.= Ragged inlet guards; a story of adventure in Labrador. il *$1.50 (2½c) Revell

20–2262

Four boys on a Labrador coast were left as the mainstay of their families went when their fathers and big brothers went to the war. They constituted themselves the Ragged inlet guards, and did men’s work. Their home life, their hunting experiences and adventures are described in the book and the climax of the story is their capture of a German wireless station which brought them a medal each from King George.

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=Booklist= 16:316 Je ’20

“Stirring book of adventure. Librarians will find it in great demand among their younger patrons.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 200w

=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Four just men. *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–15957

The “Four just men” are a conscientious little band who are not satisfied with justice as it is meted out by law, and therefore take certain cases of wrong-doing into their own hands. The first case that this book records is that of Sir Philip Ramon, English Secretary of foreign affairs. He intends to introduce an aliens’ extradition bill in Parliament which if put thru will exile from England one Garcia, and virtually hand him over to the “corrupt and vengeful government” which is persecuting him. The Four just men are determined this shall not happen and are even willing to resort to taking Sir Ramon’s life that the bill may not go thru. He is warned of his danger and the police take unprecedented precautions but their protection proves inadequate and the Four just men have another success to add to their list. The second case the story takes up has to do with the “Red hundred,” an anarchistic body whom the Four just men work against. One of their number almost meets his Waterloo in this adventure, but finally makes his escape thru the cleverness of the rest of the band.

* * * * *

“Readers of crime and mystery tales will find this book entirely satisfying. The dénouement is startling.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 S 26 ’20 300w

“The action is absorbing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 160w

=WALLACE, EDGAR.= Green rust. *$1.60 Small

20–4011

“‘The green rust’ is the story of Oliva Cresswell, the granddaughter and heiress of a millionaire, but ignorant of the fact, and of a conspiracy to destroy the wheat crop of the world by a new mildew—the green rust—of a most virulent and aggressive type. The dangers she runs from those engaged in the conspiracy, who are anxious to obtain control of her money to finance an enormous wheat speculation, and the protection she receives from the most unlikely persons, make up a story full of excitement.”—Sat R

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“His hero is disappointing because his judgment is so often bad, his resource meagre and his foresight dull. Its character drawing is sufficiently sharp for its purpose.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 320w

“The whole narrative is breathless, sometimes even confusing, in its rapid melodrama, but it has a grip that never loosens. It is essentially a story of ‘action.’ The characterization does not yield novelty in any instance.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 580w

=Sat R= 128:392 O 25 ’19 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p502 S 18 ’19 140w

=WALLACE, EDNA KINGSLEY.=[2] Stars in the pool; a prose poem for lovers. *$2 Dutton

20–20966

“The tale is about King Telwyn’s daughter, Roseheart. Here came, sent by his father, King Lokus, to learn from the wise King Telwyn ‘somewhat of life and living in the great world,’ the young Prince Flame. And Flame ‘looking upon the Princess Roseheart, drew one great breath, and loved her with the love of a man’s heart. And Roseheart, when she looked into the eyes of Flame, and his heart therein, knew him for her lord, and loved him.’ Flame met the Old gray woman of Shadows who told him that she ‘was Sorrow, and the Way of destiny, and the Shadow of things.’ And Flame had to experience these things on a quest which was prefigured to him in a vision. On his wanderings he met with many natural and spiritual adventures, coming back in the end when he had searched and found the truth beyond self, to wed the Princess Roseheart and realize the meaning of love.”—Boston Transcript

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“An exquisite tale that has the shimmering grace and spiritual charm of the romantic spirit of chivalry.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p2 D 4 ’20 330w

“‘The stars in the pool’ tells in dainty fashion a story which is part fairy tale, part allegory.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ja 2 ’21 540w

=WALLAS, GRAHAM.= Life of Francis Place, 1771–1854. 3d ed *$3.50 Knopf

A20–157

“The American edition of Graham Wallas’ life of Francis Place is chiefly a reprint of the original edition printed in 1898. The career of Francis Place spanned the beginnings and the early development of the industrial revolution. Born in 1771, he was a young man when the fires of the French revolution illuminated the world. He was a trade unionist when unions were outlawed by Parliament as conspiracies. He engaged in bitter industrial struggles and paid those terrible penalties which are exacted only of working men who are loyal to their fellows. He became a liberal, and after he had made a fortune he was an influence in the politics of the kingdom. To his efforts are attributable some of the important beginnings of social legislation.”—Survey

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=Ath= p118 Mr ’19 30w

=Booklist= 16:168 F ’20

“Mr Wallas’s biography of Francis Place is a valuable contribution to the economic, the social and the political history of England.” E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 10 ’20 1750w

“It is almost idle to praise it now, for it has taken its place among the accepted masterpieces of English political biography. It is difficult to overestimate the significance that attaches to his portrait.” H. J. Laski

+ =Dial= 68:614 My ’20 2900w

Reviewed by R: Roberts

+ =Nation= 110:371 Mr 20 ’20 1250w

“Good, timely reading.”

+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 80w

“His account of this fascinating pioneer of the British labor movement is a classic in biographical research.” W. L. C.

+ =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 350w

=WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH=, ed. Sovietism; the A B C of Russian bolshevism—according to the bolshevists. *$2 Dutton 335

20–10515

“This is a summary of bolshevist utterances, made with a view to showing what the real aims of the bolshevist leaders are. The official documents and decrees, the speeches of Lenine and other leaders, the published opinions of Maxim Gorky, acclaimed as the greatest Bolshevist writer, are the chief sources from which Mr Walling has drawn in formulating this ‘A B C of Russian bolshevism.’ Mr Walling assumes that the public wants to know ‘what the bolsheviki actually stand for—according to a fair summary of their own acknowledged words and deeds.’”—R of Rs

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“The book should do much as an antiseptic against the bolshevist poison.” A. W. Small

+ =Am J Soc= 26:250 S ’20 130w

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:739 N ’20 60w

“Scattered material makes it better for reference than for straight reading. No index.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:56 N ’20

“His encyclopædic labours would be more convincing if it were not for his careless habit of misquotation and of quoting isolated sentences which when placed in their context convey a far different meaning.” Harold Kellock

− =Freeman= 1:620 S 8 ’20 300w

“Granted that all of his conclusions are supportable, Mr Walling’s method of establishing the case is far from satisfactory. What is needed at this time is less political opinion and more economic facts.” W. E. Atkins

− + =J Pol Econ= 28:710 O ’20 900w

“Nine-tenths of the book is made up of quotations taken chiefly from the hostile press. It is worthy of note that Mr Walling seems to have found one of the clues of bolshevist philosophy: he emphasizes the militarization of industry which took place in some parts of Russia and which is incompatible with the principle of industrial democracy. It is really a strong point, and one should begin with it; but unfortunately Mr Walling mentions it only accidentally and then again dives into the characteristic anti-bolshevist hysteria.” Gregory Zilboorg

− =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 190w

“We do not know of any book from which the American reader can get a better photograph of Russian Bolshevism as portrayed and interpreted by the Bolshevists themselves.”

+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 220w

“The conclusions reached are irrefutable. Mr Walling is entirely fair in his selections and it is unnecessary for him to indulge in an argumentative attack.”

+ =Review= 3:270 S 29 ’20 1550w

=R of Rs= 62:221 Ag ’20 90w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p430 Jl 8 ’20 900w

=WALPOLE, HUGH SEYMOUR.= Captives. *$2 (1c) Doran

20–20321

Captives of their inheritance and environment are the two leading figures of this psychological novel. Maggie Cardinal’s youth had been loveless and her father’s, the miserly, sordid, unlovable vicar’s, religion repellent to her. His death, when Maggie was nineteen, was a liberation; now she would lead her own life. But she only escapes to more fanatical religion, in the house of her aunts, and her natural truthfulness and the absence of early training in conventional forms, make her both a religious and social rebel. Martin Warlock’s early fetters had been different. His intense love for his father, preacher of the Kingscote Brethren, had included the father’s religion. Long years of wandering over the earth had preserved the love but dimmed the religion. The love becomes Martin’s chain. It also becomes his conscience when Maggie’s trust confronts him with his past life. To save Maggie from himself he goes away. The story resolves itself into Maggie’s courageous struggles to remain true to her self and to her love for Martin in spite of her marriage to an unloved clergyman and of the demands of conventional society.

* * * * *

“We cannot, with the best will in the world, see in the result more than a task—faithfully and conscientiously performed to the best of the author’s power—but a ‘task accomplished,’ and not even successfully at that. For we feel that it is determination rather than inspiration, strength of will rather than the artist’s compulsion, which has produced ‘The captives.’” K. M.

− =Ath= p519 O 15 ’20 1150w

“One is especially interested in the environment, but feels a lack of the spontaneity of other Walpole novels.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“A long looked-for and worthy successor in the Walpole line. It is bigger in theme than its predecessors, more than ever a novel of life as opposed to the episodic novel.”

+ =Bookm= 52:369 D ’20 180w

“Its criticism of life in general, and specifically with the elements of life with which it deals, presents a many sided view so that we are able to understand clearly the weaknesses and strength of all the characters. As a chronicle of these times and as a portrayal of people we all may easily come into contact with, it is an eloquent example of the consummate art of a literary artist.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 13 ’20 1400w

“‘The captives’ makes Mr Walpole’s previous books look like agreeable fragments. For the wealth of substance here is not more notable than the display of architectonic power. ‘The captives’ scarcely ranks below ‘Clayhanger’ and not very greatly below ‘Of human bondage,’ and is, therefore, one of the foremost British novels of the period.”

+ =Nation= 111:735 D 22 ’20 1050w

“No reader will set ‘The captives’ down without the figure of Maggie Cardinal having been permanently limned upon his memory. The portrait is consistent throughout. The pictures of the band of religious fanatics, some of them charlatans, and of their sincere leader are particularly forceful. Mr Walpole’s method is that of the realist, but he has scarcely employed it to the best of its possibilities.”

+ − =N Y Times= p18 N 7 ’20 1000w

“In distinction of literary workmanship Mr Walpole is at his best in this story.” R. D. Townsend

+ =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 330w

“While the direct subject of the volume concerns the religious teachings of one narrow sect in England, which he designates as the Kingscote Brethren, the application of his theme is as wide as the two continents.” Calvin Winter

+ =Pub W= 98:1890 D 18 ’20 350w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 3:384 O 27 ’20 200w

“The book is full of perturbed and uneasy striving, and is elemental both in its energy and the simplicity of its theme.”

+ =Spec= 125:473 O 9 ’20 640w

“The characters are essentially unlovely though undeniably strong. Despite all this, it is a story of rare power—sober, to be sure, but never morbid—and one that emphasizes the author’s advanced position in the ranks of contemporary novelists.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 620w

“There is something wanting to make the æsthetic pleasure of reading this book as intense as it should be, which argues something wanting in the performance. It is not that one misses the mystery and excitement of ‘The dark forest,’ and ‘The secret city,’ but there is the unavoidable feeling that, after the keenest appreciation of so much artistic skill, it should be possible to put the book down with the exhilaration of having read a masterpiece; and it is not possible.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p633 S 30 ’20 900w

=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH.= Medieval medicine. *$2.75 Macmillan 610.9

“This book, by an American medical authority, belongs to the series of Medical history manuals, edited by Dr John D. Comrie. It embraces the history of about 1,000 years, during which the achievements in medicine and surgery were quite as remarkable as the achievements of the middle ages in other spheres.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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+ =Ath= p463 Ap 2 ’20 110w

“The volume is fully within the comprehension of any educated reader, and is as entertaining as a novel.”

+ =Cath World= 112:112 O ’20 570w

“As to the learning and competence for his task, no question can be raised, but the method he elects to adopt is one which has brought much work on the history of science into not unjustified contempt.” C: Singer

− + =Nature= 105:127 Ap 1 ’20 950w

+ =Spec= 124:831 Je 19 ’20 1250w

“Severe compression has been necessary; but the process has not interfered with the lucidity or the interest of this instructive little book.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 70w

=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH.=[2] Religion and health. *$2.25 (2c) Little 265.8

20–21211

The argumentation of the book turns on the influence of the mind on the body and attempts to show how a trusting faith in God tends to produce an equilibrated mind, which is the foundation of psychic health, and, by interaction, of physical health. The book is indexed and contains much sound advice as to the way of achieving both kinds of well-being. The contents are: Can we still believe? Prayer; Sacrifice; Charity; Fasting and abstinence; Holydays and holidays; Recreation and dissipation; Mortification; Excesses; Purity; Insanity; Nervous disease; Dreads; Suffering; Pain; Suicide and homicide; Longevity; The Bible and health; Health and religion.

=WALSH, THOMAS.= Don Folquet, and other poems. *$1.50 Lane 811

20–4773

The title poem has for its theme an episode of French history and tells how Don Folquet, a trader’s son, was first celebrated at the court of Toulouse as Prince of song, how he tired of court life and became a monk and later the Bishop of Toulouse and as such pronounced a ban on the city for its wickedness. Among the other poems are a Mother Goose sonnet series; Murillo paints “The assumption”; Catullus anent his Lesbia; The sigh for Deirdre; Ad limina.

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=Ath= p833 D 17 ’20 160w

“Mr Walsh has composed a medieval and monastic narrative in effete, Tennysonian pentameters which singly are good but which in the aggregate are wearisome.” Mark Van Doren

− + =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 40w

“To this reviewer ‘Don Folquet’ is less interesting than other things in the book. It is a poem for those who would forget reality. ‘The brownstone row,’ written in the kind of unrhymed cadence now in vogue, shows that Mr Walsh could do something with reality if romance charmed him less.”

+ − =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 600w

“The execution falls short of the motive. Its merit is confined to grace, and the grace is confined to landscape.” O. W. Firkins

+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 60w

=WALSH, THOMAS=, ed. Hispanic anthology. $5 Putnam 861.08

20–20332

“A collection of translations, ‘by northern Hispanophiles, of Spanish poems into English verse,’ offered as an affectionate tribute to the Spanish poet of today, whether he writes in the old world or the new. Dr Walsh, besides contributing a large portion of the versions, has garnered almost eight hundred pages of translations into something like a chronological unity, providing the selections with short prefatory notes and interspersing them with some twenty-nine portraits of ancient and modern Spanish poets.”—Freeman

* * * * *

“With the material at hand he has produced a creditable collection that should be at the elbow of every Hispanic student.”

+ =Bookm= 52:274 N ’20 190w

“Masefield’s rendering of Gustave Adolfo Becquer’s ‘They closed her eyes,’ is one of the most beautiful poems in the collection.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ja 5 ’21 250w

“Catholic readers will especially rejoice to possess, in this delightful form, some of the most impressive work of the great Spanish mystical poets, Fray Luis de Leon, St John of the Cross, and St Teresa.”

+ =Cath World= 112:542 Ja ’21 270w

“A valuable book not alone for its well-arranged collection of poems, but for the fine reproductions of famous portraits and for the biographical notes.”

+ − =Dial= 70:233 F ’21 100w

“The volume, despite its shortcomings, should be owned by every Hispanophile; it represents a pioneer-effort in a field agape with pitfalls, and, however much one may criticize the result as it now stands, Dr Walsh, by the mere fact of having initiated it and brought it forth, has earned the thanks of his fellow enthusiasts.” I: Goldberg

+ =Freeman= 2:214 N 10 ’20 720w

“Never has Spanish poetry been done so good or complete a turn in English as Mr Walsh now does it.” D. M.

+ =Nation= 111:784 D 29 ’20 600w

“Mr Walsh has not only edited this volume, providing it with valuable typographical and critical notes, but he has supplied it with the bulk of the translations, translations which show him possessed in an uncommon degree of one of the most valuable, as it is one of the most unselfish of literary gifts.” R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= p10 Ja 9 ’21 1800w

“The plan of his anthology is remarkable for its comprehensive inclusion of selections from the work of every significant figure in Hispanic poetry from the unknown author of the ‘Poema del Cid’ to the latest of Porto Rican modernistas, born in 1898. Equally important, and especially so from the point of view of the American reader unacquainted with the Spanish language, is the finely judicious selection which Mr Walsh has made in choosing not only the original Spanish poems most representative of their authors but the translations into English which constitute the anthology. For the most part these translations are of highly poetic quality.” L. R. Morris

+ =Outlook= 126:237 O 6 ’20 820w

=WALSH, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN.= Psychology of dreams. *$3 (2½c) Dodd 135

20–9817

The author views dreams from many points of view and is not pledged to any one theory. He presents the theories made popular by recent writers on psycho-analysis, but also sets forth the opinions of Freud’s critics. Contents: Historical sketch; The mind in sleep; The material of dreams; The instigators of dreams; The peculiarities of dreams; Dreams as wishes; The effects of dreams; Typical dreams; Prodromic dreams; Prophetic dreams; Nightmare; Night terrors; Somnambulism; Miscellany; The analysis of dreams; Day-dreams. There are two indexes, to proper names and to subjects. The author is a practicing physician and he has endeavored to make the work as practical as possible with a view “toward aiding sufferers from nervous affections, as well as toward promoting a better understanding of various normal and abnormal mental processes.”

* * * * *

“What he has written is a book of popular medicine rather than one of popular psychology. Upon psychology he does not appear to have any theories, and his very opinions are undecided. But when he writes about the ‘night terrors’ of children and the best means of mitigating them, he is full of common sense, and proves himself an admirable popular doctor.”

+ =Ath= p553 O 22 ’20 120w

“For all practical purposes, ‘The psychology of dreams’ is an adequate exposition of interesting data, carefully collected. The chapter on prodromic dreams is perhaps as interesting as any in the book.” C. K. H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 17 ’20 320w

“The chapter dealing with daydreams is especially interesting and instructive and, like the other chapters, is written in so clear a manner that the beginner will have little difficulty in becoming acquainted with the dream mechanism and its meaning. On the whole it can be said that the work is an excellent medium for the student who wishes to become acquainted with the workings of the unconscious.” L. P. Clark

+ =Mental Hygiene= 4:983 O ’20 300w

Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne

+ =N Y Times= 25:4 Jl 11 ’20 2900w

“Not intended for professional reading, but distinctly popular in its appeal, this book will have lively interest for the general reader who likes to be entertained while he is being instructed. There are many sensible hygienic suggestions.”

+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w

“Dr Walsh might have made his point of view clearer, but he at least presents attractively a good deal of interesting material.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 210w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p622 S 23 ’20 80w

=WALSH, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN.= Yours for sleep. *$2.50 Dutton 613.7

20–3569

“The title of Dr William S. Walsh’s book, ‘Yours for sleep,’ is somewhat misleading, as appears from the first sentence in his preface: ‘The object of this little volume is not only to help the sleepless to sleep, but also to instruct them on a few of the principles of right living, a disregard of which is most often the sole cause of their disorder.’ People who are not in the pink of condition will be interested in the author’s treatment of such subjects as indigestion, eye defects, diseases of the teeth and gums, value of exercise and fresh air, and general hygiene.”—N Y Times

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“No one has written more helpfully or collected more valuable information for the sleepless than Dr William S. Walsh.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 25 ’20 220w

+ =Outlook= 124:563 Mr 31 ’20 40w

“It is a valuable contribution to the subject and amply repays perusal. The book is evidently the product of reflection, erudition and experience.” J. E. Kelly, M. D.

+ =Survey= 44:252 My 15 ’20 200w

=WALSTON, SIR CHARLES (SIR CHARLES WALDSTEIN).= Eugenics, civics and ethics; a lecture delivered to the summer school of eugenics, civics and ethics on August 8th, 1919, in the Arts school, Cambridge. *$1.60 Macmillan 171

“A strong plea is made in this lecture for the organisation and development of the study of ethics, or, as the author prefers to call it, ethology. The interdependence of eugenics and civics, and the foundation of both in ethics, are discussed, and warning is given against striving to produce the perfect physical specimen of man without due consideration of character and mental attributes. Towards the end of the lecture the progressive nature of ethical codes is made clear, and great stress is laid on the importance of the establishment of our ideal of the perfect man and the teaching of such practical ethics in both schools and homes.”—Nature

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=Nature= 105:804 Ag 26 ’20 100w

“This lecture provides an excellent introduction to the author’s somewhat forbidding larger works.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 45:332 N 27 ’20 100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 Ag 19 ’20 100w

=WALTERS, L. D’O.=, comp. Anthology of recent poetry. *$1.75 Dodd 821.08

20–20447

An anthology of modern British verse. Harold Monro, who writes the introduction, supplies the key to the collection when he says, “The best poetry is always about the earth itself and all the strange and lovely things that compose and inhabit it.” The first object, he says later, is to give pleasure. “Moreover, it is adapted to the tastes of almost any age, from ten to ninety, and may be read aloud by grandchild to grandparent as suitably as by grandparent to grandchild. It is an anthology of poems, not of names.” Among the poems and their authors are April, by William Watson; The lake isle of Innisfree, by W. B. Yeats; The donkey, by G. K. Chesterton; The south country, by Hilaire Belloc; The west wind, by John Masefield; Full moon, by Walter de la Mare; A dead harvest, by Alice Meynell; The great lover, by Rupert Brooke; Star-talk, by Robert Graves; Stupidity street, by Ralph Hodgson; The oxen, by Thomas Hardy.

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+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

“It is a good coat-pocket anthology.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 30w

=Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 110w

“This collection includes some charming things by living hands of real distinction, and some others which make us regret young poets lost in the war. The anthologist has given us real pleasures, and we forego the reviewer’s privilege of grumbling about the inclusion of this or the exclusion of that.”

+ =Sat R= 130:398 N 13 ’20 190w

“The poems are few but well chosen from the standpoint of the seeker after clear language and well-defined images. There is little of that strained impressionism and hazy, finespun introspection which are the bane of modern verse.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 270w

=WALTON, GEORGE LINCOLN.= Oscar Montague—paranoiac. il *$1.50 (3c) Lippincott

19–15667

In this novel Dr Walton embodies the ideas prevalent in his non-fiction books, “Why worry,” “Those nerves,” and others. Ruth Fulton, chronic fusser, in a fit of pique, jilts her steady serious-minded fiancé and marries the town rake, who thinks most men are against him. Oscar, their son, grows up spoiled, idle, badly educated, boon companion of ruffians and loafers. He has the obsession that everyone is in a conspiracy against him, and secretly cherishes the illusion that one Nicky Bennett is trying to harm him. Accidentally meeting Nicky when in an evil mood he pulls out a revolver and shoots him; pleads insanity to escape the electric chair, but once inside the asylum finds that the law refuses to let him out. The daughter of Ruth and Gerrold is normal and lovable, and happily marries the son of her mother’s old sweetheart, after having by a bit of clever detective work “on her own,” saved the lad from being falsely convicted for the murder of her father.

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“The characters are clearly drawn, and are thoroughly lifelike people, whose lives, without anything brilliant or startling, are full of quiet interest, humorous or pathetic.”

+ =Ath= p258 F 20 ’20 130w

“Amateurish is the only adjective to describe adequately this novel, with its wooden puppets in place of characters and its obviously mechanical situations. The book’s two redeeming features, are the occasional flashes of whimsical humor the author displays, and the disarmingly naïve manner in which he pokes fun at his own inexperience as a novelist.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:85 F 8 ’20 700w

“The only person of any interest in the book is the daughter, Helen, and the only episode of any interest is Helen’s discovery of the real culprit who had run over and killed her father. This has not much to do with Oscar Montague—paranoiac, who is quite a secondary character in a poor novel.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 160w

=WARD, HARRY FREDERICK.= New social order. *$2.50 Macmillan 304

19–19067

“Prof. Harry F. Ward of Union theological seminary, in his new book, ‘The new social order,’ writes on social and industrial change both from economic and from ethical standpoints. His book considers in part 1 the underlying principles of the new order, in part 2, various programs, such as those proposed by the British labor party, the Russian soviets, the league of nations, various movements in the United States, and the churches.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Dr Ward has been developing a very unusual fluency of speech, mental power, and moral insight that appear strikingly in this book. Although some of the chapters on the principles might well have been a little shorter and crisper, the style is always interesting, at times rising to natural and impressive eloquence; and the thought is throughout clear and weighty. This is one of the most important books for the citizen of this generation to read thoughtfully, and read at an early date.” C. J. Bushnell

+ =Am J Soc= 25:645 Mr ’20 1100w

Reviewed by C. G. Fenwick

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:341 My ’20 260w

=Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20

“Dr Ward has rendered a real service in bringing together in compact form so many expressions of the new spirit. He knows that they are signs rather than realities, but it is a poor skipper who cares not which way the veering flaw blows. Christians and pagans will do well to ponder them.” C: A. Beard

+ =New Repub= 23:208 Jl 14 ’20 950w

=R of Rs= 61:336 Mr ’20 80w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 F 3 ’20 80w

“In this latest of his several volumes Professor Ward makes his most notable contribution to the religious interpretation of the changing social order. Professor Ward’s discussion of the controverted points dealt with is frank and fearless, notwithstanding, perhaps the more because of, the criticism he has all along met from certain ecclesiastical and special interest groups.” Graham Taylor

+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 850w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Je 24 ’20 150w

“The chapter on the Russian soviet constitution is far and away the ablest and clearest statement yet given to us upon that very important subject. Mr Ward is to be envied for his twofold gift of grasping details and of strong speculative thinking; and this combination makes his book a singularly valuable and safe guide for the student.” R. R.

+ =World Tomorrow= 3:157 My ’20 150w

=WARD, JOHN.= With the “Die-hards” in Siberia. *$2.50 (3c) Doran 957

20–7944

The author commanded a detachment of British troops sent to Siberia to support Kolchak. He blames his own government for its halfhearted support of the enterprise it had undertaken, and is especially bitter against the Americans and the Japanese. The book was written, he says, “for the private use of my sons in case I did not return.” Among the chapters are: From Hong Kong to Siberia; Bolshevik successes; Japanese methods and Allied Far-eastern policy; Administration; Omsk; Along the Urals; Russian labour; In European Russia; American policy and its results; Japanese policy and its results; General conclusions. There is an index.

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“Colonel Ward is too innocent for a propagandist. We knew Colonel Ward had been no nearer to Moscow than had we in London, but we have received an impression that in far-away Siberia he fought desperately against the Red armies. Why did the coalition permit their friend to write a book and give the show away so completely? We find that Colonel Ward never met the disciplined armies of Trotsky, and, except for one engagement, the whole campaign was a series of affairs with Bolshevik bands.”

− =Nation= [London] 27:78 Ap 17 ’20 480w

“Colonel Ward’s book is bound to furnish material for controversy. His narrative is couched in a style that is the acme of plain speaking; he wastes no time in euphemisms or diplomatic circumlocution, but fearlessly handles facts as they come to him. From all internal evidence his book has the air of a straightforward, truthful narrative.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 S 26 ’20 1000w

“Colonel Ward’s narrative makes a vivid and fascinating picture of stirring events and gives throughout the impression of keen observation and sincerity.”

+ =Review= 3:532 D 1 ’20 1500w

“There is nothing small about this book. The countries he traversed, the observations he made, and the cause he worked for, all convey a sense of space and sanity, which no niggling pen could have produced. There is no delicate tracery of outlines here, no precious selection of words to convey an atmosphere and the genial author does not deal in suggestions and impressions, but relies almost entirely on forthright facts.”

+ =Sat R= 129:306 Mr 27 ’20 850w

“Colonel Ward’s account is very welcome because it is obviously honest and sincere.”

+ =Spec= 124:389 Mr 20 ’20 1300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p183 Mr 18 ’20 1150w

=WARD, MARY AUGUSTA (ARNOLD) (MRS HUMPHRY WARD).= Harvest. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd

20–6288

When Rachel Henderson took the Great End farm near Ipscombe to lead an independent life as a woman farmer, she had had a past in Canada. She had been married to a worthless man, had lost her child, had been divorced and—more than that—when fleeing from her husband’s cruelty, had succumbed to the sympathy and protection of Dick Tanner, a neighboring farmer, and had stayed with him for three days and nights. When, in the course of events at Great End farm, she becomes engaged to a young American captain, from a near-by camp, still guarding her secret, she faces a spiritual struggle. After all the confessions are made and the lover also has achieved a victory over his time honored prejudices, a bullet from the former, now hate-crazed husband, kills her in her lover’s arms.

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“Mrs Ward cannot be judged by ‘Harvest,’ It is a plain mystery novel; it bears the impress of her desire to emerge from the library and to walk in the cornfields—in the new land which is war-time England. But she is unhappy in such surroundings and her serenity is gone.” K. M.

− + =Ath= p606 My 7 ’20 600w

“It would be an injustice to Mrs Ward to say that ‘Harvest’ is in any degree worthy of a novelist of her reputation, or indeed of many a novelist of lesser reputation. ‘Harvest,’ in common with its immediate predecessor, ‘Helena,’ and many of her later stories, might have been written by any one of a hundred English fiction writers of the hour. It is utterly conventional in form, and commonplace in plot and characterization.” E. F. E.

− =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 1400w

“Written in that smoothly flowing style to which Mrs Ward’s readers have so long been accustomed, the book, while not indeed equal to her best, shows no falling off from the standard set by her recent work, but on the contrary rises somewhat above it. The novel contains some lovely pictures of the English country.” L. M. Field

+ =N Y Times= 25:152 Ap 4 ’20 1000w

=N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 30w

“It is with peculiar pleasure that one recognizes in the late Mrs Humphry Ward’s posthumous novel, ‘Harvest,’ the qualities that have marked the very best of her fiction writing. This tale of rural England in war time is notable for the balance and unity of theme and development. It is almost astonishingly superior, for instance, to ‘Helena.’”

+ =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 200w

“I for one should be unhappy if it were necessary for me to remember Mrs Ward by this book.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 2:680 Je 30 ’20 420w

=Spec= 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 400w

“Mrs Ward does not make these women seem very real. She idealizes their ‘trim’ appearance in pseudo-masculine attire and at no time visualizes their lives and pursuits from their own standpoint. Sympathy, and an earnest effort at understanding, however, are always apparent.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 460w

=WARNE, FRANK JULIAN.= Workers at war. (Century New world ser.) *$3 Century 331

20–17812

From a dispassionate, conservative point of view the author reviews the present industrial situation with its resultant high cost of living. He accords high praise to the statesmanship of President Wilson in controlling the situation during the war and to the activities of the National war labor board. That the government now fails to realize the three essentials of industrial justice: a fair profit, a fair wage and a fair price is due to the present autocratic system of corporate organization of production. The remedy lies in the democratization of the corporation and in an American federation of consumers. A partial list of the contents is: The workers and the world war; The government as the employer; The Wilson administration’s labor policy; The National war labor board; The government, wages, and the cost of living; The vicious cycle and the labor union; Democracy in industry; The three parties to production; Industrial autocracy and the corporation.

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=Booklist= 17:95 D ’20

Reviewed by G: Soule

+ =Natlor= 111:534 N 10 ’20 370w

=N Y Times= p15 N 7 ’20 140w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 60w

“The book is valuable as a summary of governmental labor policies during the war, as a record of the achievements of labor and the effect of autocratic control on the wage earner and the consumer.” J. D. Hackett

+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 280w

=WARREN, ARTHUR.= London days. *$2.50 (3c) Little

20–17401

This book of reminiscences begins in 1878, when the author, fresh from Boston, arrived in London at the age of eighteen. He made the choice because “history already made and rounded and woven into legend, the scenes among which men have lived and wrought through centuries, shaping the rich past on which we build the present” fascinated him more than the prospect of pioneering in the West. The period covers nineteen years of Journalism, nine of them as correspondent for the Boston Herald, and combines with memories and impressions of London those of celebrated personages. Contents: First glimpses of London; London in the late seventies; A Norman interlude; I take the plunge; Browning and Moscheles; Patti; John Stuart Blackie; Lord Kelvin; Tennyson; Gladstone; Whistler; Henry Drummond; Sir Henry Irving; Henry M. Stanley; George Meredith; Parnell; “Le brav’ général” (Boulanger); Index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:154 Ja ’21

Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun

=Bookm= 52:346 D ’20 20w

“As journalism the writing is good; it does not assume to be more. Gossipy, wholesome, harmless, never profound, but lighted up here and there by almost poetic touches of admiration and of reverence, these reminiscences should well suit those who desire an easy introduction to the charm of biography.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 300w

“Despite the fact that in many cases he insists on writing an old story as if it were still of vital interest, he has preserved some anecdotes that merited survival and he has drawn the portraits of several famous Britons with commendable skill.”

+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 24 ’20 1450w

=R of Rs= 62:670 D ’20 60w

“His estimate not only of men, but of the social and literary forces of modern London, are trenchantly expressed.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 13 ’20 430w

“It is a book to evoke enthusiasm for his literary style as well as for the human interest that attaches to the people whose names are chapter headings here.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 8 ’20 430w

=WARREN, HOWARD CROSBY.= Human psychology. il *$5 Houghton 150

19–16728

The author distinguishes between genetic and descriptive psychology: the one dealing with mental growth and mental progress from species to species; the other with mental life as it actually exists. The interest of the book centers mainly on the latter, the static view of psychology. At the end of each chapter is a list of collateral reading and some practical exercises intended to train the student in precise critical observation of mental phenomena. The contents are: The science of psychology; The organism; The neuro-terminal mechanism; Physiology of the neuron; Stimulation, adjustment, and response; Behavior; Conscious experience; The senses; The components of mental states; Primary mental states; Secondary mental states; Succession of mental states; Attitudes; Character and personality; Organized mental life. The appendix deals with some debatable problems for the benefit of the advanced students and contains: The mind-body relation; Mechanism and purpose; Neural activity; The visual process. There are also illustrations and tables; directions for performing the exercises and an index.

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“Comprehensiveness, thoroughness, clear definitions, elaborate classifications and an open-minded, progressive outlook are what characterize this work. And it is not only comprehensive, in that it covers the entire field of descriptive psychology, but it is comprehensive in its grasp of the subject.” F. W. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 19 ’20 800w

“Professor Warren’s book is interesting not only in itself, but also in the indication which it gives of the phases of psychology which may be expected to survive after this period of devotion of the science to its practical applications.”

+ =El School J= 20:392 Ja ’20 480w

“In sum, this is a most scholarly work, which in the beginning, and generally in outward semblance, gives promise of breaking fairly away from the traditions that produced the behavioristic schism, but which is found to be still heavily burdened with the inheritance of formalism, only partially offset by its clearness, criticism, humor, and tolerance.” F. L. Wells

+ − =Mental Hygiene= 4:982 O ’20 660w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

=Nation= 111:15 Jl 8 ’20 90w

“Professor Warren’s work as a whole would be an excellent introduction for beginners in psychology, though it is, of course, a work of interest for advanced students also.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 300w

=WASHBURN, CLAUDE CARLOS.= Order. *$2 (1½c) Duffield

20–4014

Marville, the beautiful residential suburb of a big city was law and order incarnate—order with all its ugly sordid features pruned away, beautified and civilized. Into it blows its antithesis, the spirit of romance in the person of Peter Gresham, Englishman, packed off to America by his aristocratic relatives. He literally explodes into Marville in a train wreck, becomes its hero, and later upsets the tranquillity of everybody with whom he comes in contact. The reactions of this spirit of romance on law and order form the substance of the story. By one man and one woman it is understood. Peter himself does not understand but is it, and when it brings him in contact with Annette Cornish, beautiful young wife of an elderly man, there is fire. Others are simply stimulated, bewildered, shaken out of their repose for the nonce. Annette and pretty Elsie Cook succumb completely to its spell. Annette, disciplined and broken-in by order from childhood, fears it and is broken by it. Elsie, the half-savage, gives herself to it unstintingly, but comes out with flying colors by dint of a saving remnant of hard practical sense. Peter turns his back on it all and is killed at Neuve Chapelle.

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“Exceptionally interesting story. Here we have a book of ideas which is never didactic, but presents both sides of a case with striking fairness, a tale whose plot springs from the natural interplay of character upon character, and whose lights and shadows are managed with notable artistry.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 100w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 320w

=WASHBURNE, CARLETON W.= Common science. il *$1.60 World bk. 502

20–15542

The book belongs to the New-world science series edited by John W. Ritchie. It is based on a collection of 2000 questions asked by school children in the upper elementary grades over a period of a year and a half. These questions are sorted and classified according to the scientific principles involved in answering them. The object of the method is to lead the child from an interest and curiosity in a specific phenomena to a general principle and to arouse his imagination by making it clear to him what part it plays in his own life. The contents are grouped under the headings: Gravitation; Molecular attraction; Conservation of energy; Heat; Radiant heat and light; Sound; Magnetism and electricity; Electricity; Mingling of molecules; Chemical change and energy; Solution and chemical action; Analysis. There are appendices, an index and illustrations.

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“The book should be of value in conserving and developing the science interests of children of junior high-school age.”

+ =El School J= 21:154 O ’20 350w

=WASSERMANN, JACOB.= World’s illusion; auth. tr. by Ludwig Lewisohn. (European library) 2v *$4 (1½c) Harcourt

20–22159

This is the first book by this author, a Viennese novelist, to appear in English. It was written, he says, during the last years of the war: “Only in this way could I keep contact with and faith in humanity.” It has nothing to do with the war, but is a picture of pre-war society in central Europe, a brilliant, feverish picture of a society in the first hectic stages of decay, resting on insecure foundations of poverty, misery and crime. The first volume is devoted to the life of the upper classes, represented by Crammon, the Austrian aristocrat, Christian Wahnschaffe, son of a German captain of industry, Eva Sorel, the dancer, and almost countless others. The scenes flit from capital to capital with the haste and inconsistency of a screen drama. In the second volume we have in contrast the dregs of society, for Christian, in search of truth, has descended to the lowest depths. He gives up his fortune, studies medicine to fit himself for a field of usefulness and in the end cuts himself off entirely from his family and disappears, to continue his search elsewhere.

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“Despite the penny-dreadful stuff there is a breath of serenity that reveals the artist in complete mastery of his material and despite the frank consideration of sex, there is an indubitable chastity hovering over all these pages. In fact, were one to select a single word with which to describe the mood of the work as a whole, he would most probably say, austerity.” I. G.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 4 ’20 1400w

Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld

+ − =Freeman= 2:545 F 16 ’21 2550w

“It would hold the interest through all its 787 pages if there were nothing in it save its arresting procession of grotesque incidents, but there is something more, and that something is an ironical quality that suggests the manner of the great Russians. All his characters, high and low, are pathological cases. Thus the chronicle, to an American, cannot carry much conviction despite its fine passion and its vivid detail.” H. L. Mencken

+ − =Nation= 111:sup668 D 8 ’20 880w

“Wassermann has created a work of strange and sombre power. The translation is unusually good.” E. A. Boyd

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 15 ’21 1750w

“The book’s chief values lie in its interpretation of modern industrial society as Wassermann sees it. But surely not all European society is degenerate. Humanity as a whole is not portrayed in ‘The world’s illusion.’”

+ − =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 1050w

=WATKIN, EDWARD INGRAM.= Philosophy of mysticism. *$5 Harcourt 149.3

The author differentiates between the mystic and his mystical experiences, and the metaphysics of mysticism. The mystic, he says, can not adequately state his experiences in terms of discursive reason, nevertheless the philosophy of mysticism is “the body of truth about the nature of ultimate reality and of our relationship to it to be derived from the content of mystical experience.” (Preface) He regards the Catholic church as the best vehicle of expression for this body of truth. The contents are: The divine immanence; Unity of God; The transcendence of God; The relation between the soul and God; Views of the mystic way; The negative way; The active night; Mystical experience previous to the night of spirit; The passive night of spirit; Purgatory and the passive night of spirit; The transforming union: or mystical marriage; On the mystical interpretation of Scripture; The witness of nature mysticism to the teaching of Catholic mysticism studied in the mysticism of Richard Jefferies; St John the poet; Epilogue; Notes.

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Reviewed by G. E. Partridge

=N Y Times= p28 D 26 ’20 170w

“Mr Watkin’s book is written exclusively for his co-religionists, and others will not find it worth while to study it.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p387 Je 17 ’20 420w

=WATSON, E. L. GRANT.= Deliverance. *$2 (2½c) Knopf

20–3264

The author tells us that in this his third novel he has tried to portray the spiritual emancipation of a woman whose “love for the increasing light of her own spirit ... becomes more precious than even the unique love of woman for man.” (Preface) The scene is laid in contemporary England. The principal characters are Susan Zalesky, who is brought up in the country by her aunt, Mrs Dorothy Tyler; Paul Zalesky, Susan’s father, a philanderer, who carries on a secret love affair with Dorothy; Tom Northover, the “primitive male,” who marries Susan but makes “no claims upon her soul”; Noel Sarret, a young painter with whom Tom, who believes that the only test of morality is “the sincerity of the emotion,” goes to live shortly before the birth of Susan’s child; and Martin Hyde, a gentle young painter who loves Susan.

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“However one takes it, it is a novel exposition; there is much reality in these persons, not least in the figure of Susan’s irresponsible and almost incorrigible father.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:343 My ’20 240w

“If he had nothing else, he would be sure to win recognition for the sheer beauty of his workmanship. Indeed it is easier to quarrel with some of the natural results of his process of spiritual emancipation than with his illustrations of it in characters, or with his manner of setting it forth.” H. I. Gilchrist

+ =Dial= 68:794 Je ’20 2500w

“His story is not quite as persuasive as his philosophy. His women are suspiciously fine in fibre and amazingly articulate. Attractive as they are, they remain a little dim. And the dimmest of all is Susan, whom Mr Watson adores and through whose words and actions he chiefly projects his sense of the new moral world that is being created by all sorts of people in many places today.”

+ − =Nation= 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 600w

“Just what Susan Zalesky emancipates into is a little difficult to conceive, and sounds, on the whole, much less interesting than the rather fascinating story of her procedure. Judged more freely, however, ‘Deliverance’ is interesting and delightful for other qualities than its processes. It comes in many ways as near the art of the Russian novelists as any English novel.” R. V. A. S.

+ − =New Repub= 24:128 S 29 ’20 430w

“Each reader will determine for himself whether or no Mr Watson’s message is worth this unpleasant ragout.”

− =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 550w

=WATSON, JOHN BROADUS.= Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist. il *$2.50 Lippincott 150

20–447

“A treatise on the new American methods in psychology known as behaviourism. The essential feature of this school is that it regards man purely as a ‘reacting mass,’ and endeavours to determine his reactions without importing into the observation preconceived ideas, affecting interpretation. The present author, indeed, does not find it necessary to use such terms as ‘sensation,’ ‘perception,’ ‘attention,’ ‘will,’ ‘image,’ and the like. He states that he does not know what they mean, and he suggests that no one succeeds in using them consistently.”—Ath

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+ =Ath= p557 Ap 23 ’20 120w

“By consistently disregarding all the essential steps in ‘thinking’ in which most psychologists (and the world at large) are interested, and by cavalierly treating the problems in which the behaviorist happens not to be interested, he produces a ‘psychology’ which is as true as the railway maps of any one company showing only the towns on its line, with its own route straight and prominent, and rival systems indicated if at all by lightly drawn and circuitous detours.” Joseph Jastrow

− =Nation= 111:15 Jl 3 ’20 850w

“The present writer as he reads the book finds himself in continual expectation that now he is coming to the end of the physiology and the beginning of the psychology, but is continually disappointed. This book may inspire, and will direct, the student to practical researches of the highest interest to the advance of science. To this extent every psychologist will welcome it. It is difficult to find anything in its principle to disagree with, save only its limitation and negation.” H. W. Carr

+ − =Nature= 105:512 Je 24 ’20 900w

=WATSON, ROBERT.=[2] Stronger than his sea. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–18387

Much of the charm of the story lies in the quaint Scotch dialect of its characters and much of Sandy Porter’s winsomeness in his Scotch sturdiness. Five when his father died, he began to help his mother support the family when he was six. He carried milk to the customers of a dairy night and morning throughout his school years and still found time for boyish mischief. How he led his schoolmates in a strike against a superannuated tyrannical master, and other escapades is amusingly told. In old Doctor Telford he had a wise friend who kept an eye on him and made things possible without making them too easy for him. So it was that the penniless boy reached his goal and became a veterinary surgeon. He also won the old doctor’s daughter, Doreen, altho there was a rival and Sandy blundered in his impulsiveness. But his poetry helped.

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=Cleveland= p105 D ’20 40w

“The story of the young man Sandy is fully as attractive, if not so adventurous as that of the child, and both are delightfully told.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 F 9 ’21 190w

“‘Stronger than his sea’ illustrates perfectly the difference between the novel that is literature and the story that is simon-pure entertainment. It is good of its kind—‘light fiction’ that scarcely aspires to the artistic dignity of holding the mirror up to life.”

+ =N Y Times= p26 D 26 ’20 440w

=WATTS, MRS MARY STANBERY.=[2] Noon mark. *$2.50 Macmillan

20–18922

“It is emphatically an American story, full of the flavor of American life—American life, that is to say, as it is lived in such a small middle-western city as that one in which the scene of ‘The noon mark’ is laid. As this story progresses, the dominant figure is discovered to be that of Nettie Stieffel, whose father was in the accounting department of the Travelers and Traders’ bank. Clean-minded and clean-hearted, generous, brave, efficient, unimaginative and consequently a little hard, without an ounce of romance in her composition, honest and loyal to the core, and incidentally very good looking, she develops into an easily recognized type of American business woman, capable, hard-working, intelligent and dependable. When we leave her she is a married woman who has, as she herself says, ‘everything anybody could want,’ including a motor car—and happiness.”—N Y Times

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“It is a story to be placed, by those who respond to this story-teller’s genial-ironic kind of thing, beside ‘The Boardman family’ and ‘The rise of Jennie Cushing,’—not a great novel but a real and solid one.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 380w

“It is, indeed, a small fragment of American life that Mrs Watts has described in ‘The noon mark,’ but it is a very real fragment and an extremely realistic portrayal of it.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 1400w

“Mrs Watts’s new novel is more rewarding in transit than in termination. The conclusion is indefinite in its effect, ending on an interrogation which does not flow naturally out of the materials with which the author started.” L. B.

+ − =Freeman= 2:406 Ja 5 ’21 130w

“In the loose-jointed aggregation which is our United States, there can be, we must conclude, no ‘American’ novel. There can be only sectional novels, the portraiture of a sort, of a class. Of these Mrs Watts is a valuable chronicler. She is selective. It is not the light of imagination that lives in her books, but the steady rays of the impartial sun.” Alice Brown

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 D 4 ’20 880w

“The author’s comments on it all are cleverly phrased, with occasional touches of irony which lend spice to the story. She is a realist, unspoiled by pessimism.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 14 ’20 950w

“In construction and the centralizing of interest in one large situation the novel is less successful than some of its predecessors.”

+ − =Outlook= 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w

“Her localism, as always, is faultless. But it is in characterization, the ultimate test, that she achieves most. Her Nettie Stieffel is as actual and unescapable a person as Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt—or her own Jennie Cushing.” H. W. Boynton

+ |=Review= 3:623 D 22 ’20 440w

“The story is not so organic as Mrs Watts’s best, but will arouse a considerable degree of interest among readers.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 670w

=WAUGH, ALEC.= Loom of youth; with a preface by Thomas Seccombe. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran

20–8276

This novel of English school life was written some three years ago when the author was barely past seventeen. It is a boy’s criticism of the English public school, its emphasis on sports at the expense of scholarship, its lack of mental discipline, its low standard of morals, and the dull formalism of its teaching, written while these matters were fresh in mind. Midway in his school course Gordon Caruthers accidentally discovers the delights of English poetry and Byron, Swinburne and Rossetti influence his development. The story is carried into the first years of the war and the author shows how school life was affected by outward events. For one thing, the glamor was stripped from athleticism and school sports.

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“He has not ranted. He has not preached. But he has spoken the truth as it appeared to him, swiftly, unalterably. It must remain, I think, for a long time, as one of the few remarkable records of school life which this generation or any generation has furnished.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 1050w

“‘The loom of youth’ is apt to bore American readers because the viewpoint is annoying, and the action and dialogue not sufficient to stimulate reading.”

− + =Cath World= 111:693 Ag ’20 380w

“There are very definite signs of youth in the minuteness of detail in all matters and in the exhaustive descriptions of cricket and football matches, but the writing on the whole is astonishingly mature.”

+ − =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 280w

“What is fresh in the book is its clear insight into the morality of the boys, especially in their relations with the masters and its objective projection of its complex and busy scene.”

+ =Nation= 110:625 My 8 ’20 300w

“A very evident sincerity and an infinite patience in the transcription of details give a value to this book altogether greater than that of most of the innumerable books about Harrow, Eton, and other similar institutions.” S. C. C.

+ =New Repub= 23:94 Je 16 ’20 550w

“The breath of a dogged sincerity, a determination to set down nothing but the truth, emanates from every page. As a narrative of sustained power and interest the book holds up well. Mr Waugh’s characters are broadly drawn but they do give forth an intimate sense of reality. It is the meticulous eye of Mr Waugh that plays a large part in the book’s success.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 Ap 24 ’20 850w

“The book is one which will probably be of far greater interest to an English than to an American audience. It would seem to be, take it all in all, a book of no little promise.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:220 My 2 ’20 600w

“Everything in this really spirited book is sane, equable, intellectually mature. It may be read either as a narrative of a boy’s school days or as a treatise on education. Remarkable to relate, it is about equally instructive and diverting from either point of view.

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 550w

=WEALE, BERTRAM LENOX PUTNAM, pseud. (BERTRAM LENOX SIMPSON).= Wang the ninth. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd

20–16797

Shrewdness, courage, loyalty, honesty and resourcefulness are this remarkable Chinese boy’s equipment. Of the poorest peasantry, he is early an orphan, and in shifting for himself he comes to be a groom in the household of one of the “foreign devils.” During the Boxer rebellion he remains with his master, partly from ignorance of what it is all about, partly from self-interest and an instinct of loyalty. He is sent on a dangerous mission to the allied army, bearing the message rolled up in his ear. Reaching the army after a perilous journey he is given a return message. This is too bulky for his ear, so in a moment of panic of discovery, he swallows it. Of this he calmly informs his master, when at last, spent and exhausted, he returns to him, adding, “and by your blessing I shall now die a natural death.”

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“The book is throughout written, at least theoretically, from the native point of view, and has, in consequence, an unusual and fascinating quality.”

+ =Ath= p523 O 15 ’20 120w

“There are many dramatic adventures and a rich background of Chinese life.”

+ =Booklist= 17:74 N ’20

“A good picture of peasant childhood in China as well as a first-rate adventure story for boys.”

+ |=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 40w

“A highly interesting book, worth while both for its story element and for the faithful picture of the humble inner life of the great sleeping empire off in the yellow West.”

+ =N Y Times= p27 S 12 ’20 260w

“The tale is one of adventure and courage, and the character of the Chinese boy is unusual and decidedly interesting.”

+ =Outlook= 126:238 O 6 ’20 50w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 80w

=WEAVER, GERTRUDE (RENTON) (MRS HAROLD BAILLIE WEAVER) (G. COLMORE, pseud.).= Thunderbolt. *$1.90 Seltzer

20–7061

“Mrs Bonham takes her engaged daughter for a trip on the continent. In Germany Dorrie injures a foot and is sent with her French maid to Professor Reisen, a famous clinician with whom Mrs Bonham has become acquainted. Instead of taking the girl to the doctor’s private office, the blundering maid takes her to a clinic conducted by Dr Reisen for experimental purposes. Shortly after this a suspicious sore appears on Dorrie’s arm, followed by a similar one on her lip. Alarmed by the sores, Mrs Bonham takes her daughter to a specialist in Paris, and is filled with horror when she learns the name of the disease with which Dorrie was inoculated in Dr Reisen’s clinic. Back in England Mrs Bonham tells Dorrie’s fiancé what has happened. The young man promptly ends the engagement. Dorrie does not learn of her lover’s defection and is kept ignorant of her disease. The old nurse, who has been sent for, realizes the truth of Dorrie’s statement that it would kill her if her fiancé stopped loving her. She determines that Dorrie must never learn the truth, and, by a noble and tragic sacrifice, keeps it from her.”—N Y Times

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=Dial= 69:210 Ag ’20 80w

“This sorry fable is quite devoid of the melodramatic ‘punch,’ the thrill of spurious horror which was, obviously, its one attainable merit. Honestly written, it would have been a rattling shilling shocker. Aping the sober garb and earnest manners of a modern novel, it has succeeded in being hailed—for various reasons—as a masterpiece.”

− =Nation= 110:772 Je 5 ’20 280w

“‘The thunderbolt’ has all the exquisite artistry of Swinnerton at his best, and a realism as ultimate and magic as Leonard Merrick’s. It is hard to overpraise this book, and you are unfair to yourself if you do not acquaint yourself with it.” Clement Wood

+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 1350w

“The two parts of the book might have been written by different authors in different ages. Absolutely nothing prepares the reader for the shock he receives when the author launches her thunderbolt. An ugly story with an undeniable dramatic dénouement.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 550w

“Having once read the book, no competent judge of good craftsmanship would dare refuse to acknowledge the unfaltering purpose, the patient insistent building up, the cumulative power of this grim book.” Calvin Winter

+ =Pub W= 97:994 Mr 20 ’20 380w

=Sat R= 127:484 My 17 ’19 60w

“It might have been, within its limits, a little masterpiece. But in the groping for tragedy the author fails and the conclusion is merely shocking. The most captivating human figure is the nurse, Hannah.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 5 ’19 460w

=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= Divine personality and human life. (Library of philosophy) *$4 (*10s 6d) Macmillan 231

20–12837

“This volume contains the second part of the Gifford lectures, delivered in the University of Aberdeen in 1918–1919.” (Nation) “In the first series of these lectures, ‘God and personality,’ it was argued that by a ‘personal God’ is meant a God with whom a personal relationship is possible for his worshippers; that such a relationship is associated with the higher forms of religious experience; that in Christianity certain difficulties which attach to the conception of the personality of God are avoided by the assertion that God is not a single person; and it was claimed, not indeed that this position was free from difficulties, but that it was attended by fewer and less serious difficulties than its rivals. In the present course personality in man is examined in the light of these conclusions; the various activities in which this human personality expresses itself—economic, scientific, aesthetic, moral, political, and religious—being viewed in relation to the supreme spiritual reality revealed to us in the experience given in religion. The three concluding lectures consider the rank to be assigned in the kingdom of reality to the finite individual person.” (Spec)

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“A careful reader will very seldom even suspect him of confusion in ideas; there is hardly a word and—once the sentences have been construed—hardly an argument to baffle an intelligent schoolboy. Yet, with all these pitfalls avoided, we are defrauded of a good philosophical style, the worthy yet popular expression of a valuable thought, by the elementary failure to construct an unambiguous and balanced sentence.”

+ − =Ath= p74 Jl 16 ’20 750w

“It belongs to the front ranks of its class. Altogether the reading of the book is a rich experience, and its comparative freedom from the jargon of the philosophical schools makes it available for a much wider circle of readers than is usually the case with this kind of literature.” R. R.

+ =Nation= 111:sup417 O 13 ’20 880w

“In Mr Webb, terminology is reduced to a minimum. His argument can be followed by any fairly well read man without difficulty, and this is no small praise.”

+ =Spec= 124:51 Jl 10 ’20 1400w

“Mr Webb could not, we think, publish a book that did not contain acute and illuminating pages, but he certainly does not show here anything like the constructive force, or the lucidity of exposition, which marked his earlier volume.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p790 D 2 ’20 980w

=WEBB, CLEMENT CHARLES JULIAN.= God and personality; being the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Aberdeen in the years 1918–1919. (Library of philosophy) *$3 Macmillan 231

19–14097

“All students of the philosophy of religion know that Mr C. C. J. Webb, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, has, within the last few years, won for himself a position in the front rank among philosophical critics and defenders of religion. Mr Webb’s argument [in this book] amounts to a philosophical defense of the Christian conception of and belief in God. Mr Webb’s emphasis falls wholly on the value of ‘religious experience’ as affording the profoundest clues to the nature of the world we live in. He holds that religious experience testifies to the reality of God and of the worshipper’s personal intercourse with God. More than this, he holds that the doctrine of the trinity, with its distinction of three persons within the Godhead, renders in language admittedly metaphorical, a differentiation within the all-enfolding divine life which is required for an adequate interpretation of religious experience in its highest, i.e., Christian form.”—New Repub

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“A fine and characteristic specimen of the best type of modern Oxford philosophy. Unlike so many modern English philosophers, Mr Webb has an admirably pure and simple vocabulary. It is the more to be regretted that his syntax is often obscure and even inaccurate.”

+ − =Ath= p333 My 16 ’19 800w

+ =Booklist= 16:221 Ap ’20

“Mr Clement C. J. Webb has written a book on ‘God and personality’ which is a remarkable achievement in more ways than one. He has managed to discuss a difficult and abstract problem in delightfully clear and often beautiful language. And in doing so he has shown that he possesses in considerable degree the quality of which real philosophers are made. Mr Webb’s answers are interesting, and in the main we may agree with them, but they are certainly not incontestable.” Lincoln MacVeagh

+ − =Dial= 68:785 Je ’20 1650w

“From Aristotle to Bergson, from the fathers of the church to Benedetto Croce, from Dante to H. G. Wells, he moves with equal mastery, and when he measures swords with Bradley or Bosanquet, the honors are not all on their side.” R. F. A. H.

+ =New Repub= 22:163 Mr 31 ’20 1650w

=Sat R= 127:584 Je 14 ’19 850w

=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).=[2] Constitution for the socialist commonwealth of Great Britain. *$4.25 (*13s 6d) Longmans 335

20–18152

“The volume falls into three parts. The first is a survey of the existing signs and agencies of collectivism: the democracies of consumers (cooperative societies, friendly societies, municipalities, and national services); the democracies of producers (trade unions, copartnership concerns, and professional associations); and finally the political democracy of king, lords, and commons. The second part of the volume deals with the national structure that is to be set up in the socialist commonwealth. The lords are to be swept away and there are to be two parliaments—one political and the other social. Both are to be elected by universal suffrage but the idea of a vocational or economic soviet is utterly rejected. In the third part the authors propose to administer nationalized interests through special committees of the social parliament—one committee for each.”—Nation

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=Ath= p809 D 10 ’20 680w

=Booklist= 17:96 D ’20

“The idea that foreign affairs, the maintenance of order, the administration of justice, colonies, and defense can be separated from cities, municipalities, and national services; economics seems utterly chimerical. The third part of the volume is real, stimulating, suggestive. It is here that the Webbs have laid all students of government under a great debt. They do not speculate, but with clear eyes face the terrible tangle of realities that must make up any order new or old.” C: A. Beard

+ − =Nation= 111:sup664 D 8 ’20 1250w

“There is no field of social organization they do not enter; and there is no field where their analysis is not at once amazingly suggestive and incomparably well-informed. Not indeed, that there is not ample room for criticism and even criticism of fundamentals. What Mr and Mrs Webb have done is to cast a light upon the mechanism of government such as it has not had since Mr Graham Wallas’s ‘Human nature in politics’ in one field, and Bagehot’s ‘English constitution’ in another.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 24:198 O 20 ’20 1100w

“It deserves the careful study of every person who desires to see a better system, and who is anxious that that system be inaugurated with the maximum of intelligence, the minimum of pain.”

+ =Socialist R= 10:29 Ja ’21 190w

“Lenin would contemptuously sweep the whole thing aside as lackeyism in the interests of the bourgeoisie. We are not prepared to do that, but we cannot help arriving at a like degree of condemnation for entirely different reasons.”

− =Spec= 124:240 Ag 21 ’20 1650w

“What the authors fail to appreciate is that to forbid the social parliament to interfere with conduct by making it criminal will be of no effect; the body in control of the price system can enforce conformity to prescribed economic conduct by methods which, though subtler, are no less effective than the criminal law—methods by which the present capitalists exercise their dictatorship. This criticism is not intended to detract from the merits of an extraordinarily able work.” R. L. Hale

+ − =Survey= 45:514 Ja 1 ’21 750w

=WEBB, SIDNEY, and WEBB, BEATRICE (POTTER) (MRS SIDNEY WEBB).= History of trade unionism. rev ed *$7.50 (*21s) Longmans 331.87

20–10724

“‘The history of trade unionism,’ is issued in a revised edition. The original work, published in 1894, broke off in 1890. The present edition carries the story on to the beginning of 1920. There is little alteration in the main part of the book, which describes the origin and progress of trade unionism in the United Kingdom.”—Springf’d Republican

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Reviewed by J: R. Commons

+ =Am Econ R= 10:834 D ’20 1350w

“They are quite clear in their own minds as to the relative importance of facts and ideas.”

+ =Ath= p762 Je 11 ’20 320w

“Americans particularly will find this study of value, because the British labor movement is more like our own than that of any other country, and its differences from ours are consequently more significant.” G: Soule

+ =Nation= 110:803 Je 12 ’20 950w

“The new part of the work would be very valuable if it stood alone, but it gains immensely from coming after the story of the building-up of the movement.”

+ =Nation [London]= 27:76 Ap 17 ’20 1200w

“In solidity of knowledge, in massiveness of generalization, in the firm grasp of complex details, Mr and Mrs Webb have certainly no superiors and possibly no equals. If they lack any single quality, it is an inability to make the institution reflect the men who build it.” H. J. L.

+ − =New Repub= 22:359 My 12 ’20 1450w

“The authors unite a thorough knowledge of their subject with a sympathetic understanding of the struggle of the masses, making a combination that is rare in historians. A number of appendices and a good index, together with good binding and paper, make this work heartily welcome.” James Oneal

+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 4 ’20 750w

“Mr Webb, like most Fabian Socialists, is cultured, persuasive, smooth-spoken. In the gentlest words possible he has pronounced the failure of trade unionism. We can be grateful to him for his exposure of its vices.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:412 My 1 ’20 900w

“‘The history of trade unionism’ might easily have been a very great work; even as it stands it possesses high merit; but its partisanship divests it of authority, and the reader must be continually on his guard lest he accept its statements without independent evidence of their truth.”

+ − =Spec= 124:621 My 8 ’20 850w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 My 1 ’20 180w

“I cannot feel that even the Webbs have been able to achieve the same objectivity in dealing with the almost contemporary records as they did with earlier data and still it is of more value to have their original great work brought up to-date than it would be to obtain a separate narrative covering only recent industrial history.”

+ − =Survey= 44:313 My 29 ’20 480w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p126 F 19 ’20 40w

“It remains unchallenged, after a generation not by any means barren in books on industrial affairs, as the standard work on the rise and development of trade unions. It is a pity that the greater part of the section given to the railway trade unions in the new edition should be too biased to be historical.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 Ap 1 ’20 600w

“A vital change is to be noted in his viewpoint. A quarter of a century ago he wrote primarily as a scholar, though from a frankly avowed moderate socialist standpoint. Now he writes, equally frankly, as an avowed political partisan, as a statesman of the Labor party. Despite all this Mr Webb’s analysis of the present labor and political conditions in Great Britain is invaluable. It is not difficult, after his bias is once known, to allow for his prejudices.” W: E. Walling

+ − =Yale R n s= 10:220 O ’20 800w

=WEBLING, PEGGY.= Saints and their stories. il *$5 (9c) Stokes 922

The stories of saints related in this edition de luxe are: St Christopher; St Denis; St Helena; St Alban; St George; St Nicholas; St Ambrose; St Martin; St Augustine of Hippo; St Bride; St Gregory the Great; St Augustine of Canterbury; St Etheldreda; St Swithin; St Dunstan; St Hugh of Lincoln; St Zita; St Francis of Assisi; St Catherine of Siena; St Joan of Arc. There are eight full page illustrations in color by Cayley Robinson.

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“Written particularly for Catholic children, but with much in it to interest all young lovers of beautiful stories.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p4 N 28 ’20 150w

“The volume’s chief value lies in the narrative of those saints not well known. The illustrations are beautiful.”

+ =Outlook= 127:32 Ja 5 ’21 50w

=WEBSTER, HENRY KITCHELL.= Mary Wollaston. *$2 (1½c) Bobbs

20–18250

Two emotional situations complicate this novel. One is the triangular relationship involving Mary, her father, and Paula, her beautiful stepmother. The other grows out of the fact that Mary, while engaged in war work in New York, has had a casual love affair with a young soldier bound for overseas. Once she tries to tell her brother, but he will not listen. Again she tries to tell her father, but he refuses to believe, thinking that Mary in her innocence doesn’t know what she is talking about. Finally she flings the truth in the face of young Graham Stannard, who in asking her to marry him, persists in treating her as a whited saint. The situation is saved by Anthony March, who listens to Mary’s story, understands it and loves her none the less for it. Anthony also resolves the difficulty in the other situation. Anthony is a composer of genius and Paula is an opera singer, and there is much musical talk in the story.

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“This will be pronounced immoral by some readers. The analysis of women’s thoughts and emotions is illuminating; a book that women rather than men will read.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

“Mary Wollaston and her Anthony March have discovered that ‘sentimentality is the most cruel thing in the world’; but it would be difficult to find another word for the atmosphere with which this story invests its realism of fact. That is why I for one find little health in it.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:344 Ja ’21 400w

=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 60w

“This novel has both the faults and the merits of its subject-matter, which is a representative cross-section of American metropolitan life in the immediate wake of the great war. It has neither faults nor merits of its own. To apply to it the canons of literary criticism would be an empty futility, for it has nothing to do with literature. It is, in three words, a competent realistic novel.” Wilson Follett

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 27 ’20 1950w

“The most interesting thing about ‘Mary Wollaston’ and the chief reason for reading it is that it is so accurately contemporary. The young generation seem to be frightening their elders in these days, and perhaps this novel will explain the fear without allaying it.” W: L. Phelps

+ =N Y Times= p8 O 31 ’20 640w

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 70w

“It is most cleverly compact and as neat as a good play in its action. But the climax lacks something of convincing the reader. ‘Mary Wollaston’ is well worth reading. And if read, it demands to be thought about. If you like stimulating novels, you cannot find a more satisfying one than Mr Webster’s latest.” E. P. Wyckoff

+ − =Pub W= 98:657 S 18 ’20 350w

“One finds that the title is inappropriate. Indeed, not a few will conclude that Mary never quite attains a position of first importance.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 550w

=WEBSTER, NESTA H.= French revolution; a study in democracy. *$8 Dutton 944.04

“‘The siege of the Bastille—the march on Versailles—the two invasions of the Tuileries—the massacres of September—and finally the reign of terror—these form the history of the French people throughout the revolution. The object of this book is, therefore, to relate as accurately as conflicting evidence permits, the true facts about each great crisis, to explain the motives that inspired the crowds, the means employed to rouse their passions; and thereby to throw a truer light on the role of the people, and ultimately on the revolution as the great experiment in democracy.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup Jl 24

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“The method of the book is as unscientific as the conception of the problem. It was a pure waste of time to write such a book, and it is unfortunate that it was ever published, for it is attractively written, has all the earmarks of a scientific work, and may do much harm, if it finds its way into public libraries and into the hands of readers incapable of forming a correct estimate of its value.” F. M. Fling

− =Am Hist R= 25:714 Jl ’20 600w

“That there is a kernel of truth in each of these factors which fomented trouble and disorder in France, as there is at the bottom of every caricature, none will deny; but to magnify them a hundred-fold as the great cause of the revolution is to caricature, not correct, history. Mrs Webster’s volume is exceedingly interesting: it may lead historians to pay more attention to these new factors which she emphasizes.” S. B. Fay

− + =Am Pol Sci R= 14:732 N ’20 470w

“The book is interesting reading. A good deal of the evidence accepted by Mrs Webster is very shaky, since it consists of accounts given after the ending of the terror by men who wished to exculpate themselves at the expense of their colleagues.” B. R.

+ − =Ath= p943 S 26 ’19 1850w

“It overstates its case in an endeavor to emphasize the dangers and the downright wickedness of revolutions and revolutionaries. It is, perhaps, too long. Certainly it is prejudiced. But it is a good piece of work, and good reading, for all that, and any account of the French revolution must reckon with it and the material on which it is based.” W. C. Abbott

+ − =Bookm= 51:570 Jl ’20 1850w

“The style is fascinating, the temper sincere, and the argument (granting the hypotheses) convincing. But there are faults of method, prejudices of standpoint, and manipulations of material, which make the book not only a most biased interpretation of the French revolution but one of the most mischievous and malicious attacks on democracy that have come to our notice. The book is called ‘a study in democracy’; it is a studied insult to democracy from cover to cover.” D. S. Muzzey

− + =Nation= 111:300 S 11 ’20 2200w

“Allowing for Mrs Webster’s tenderness for that old régime, to which in other respects she is only just, she deserves our devout thanks for having shown that the French revolution was not at all a democratic movement. To a large circle of younger readers who are more and more getting their knowledge of historical events from text books and novels, this volume will prove a real delight.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= 25:10 Je 27 ’20 2350w

“She has written an interesting and ingenious survey from her own special angle, but one can not help feeling that the angle is a somewhat narrow one.”

+ − =Review= 2:653 Je 23 ’20 1300w

“Is there anything left to be said on the subject? Frankly, we thought not, and the first glance at Mrs Webster’s book seemed to confirm this opinion. Yet Mrs Webster makes good. The style of the book has no particular individuality: it is plain, straightforward and devoid of ornament. But the author is scrupulous in affording ample data for every statement made.”

+ − =Sat R= 128:386 O 25 ’19 900w

+ =Sat R= 129:29 Ja 10 ’20 950w

“Mrs Webster, by drawing largely on Royalist and Moderate sources, supplies a much-needed corrective to the many books which glorify even the wild and wicked excesses of the revolution. Yet she goes too far in suggesting that the revolution was unnecessary and disastrous.”

+ − =Spec= 123:245 Ag 23 ’19 1700w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p402 Jl 24 ’19 100w

“Mrs Webster’s book is full of vivacious interest, and the lines of her argument are followed through the mass of detail with an artistic skill. Her ardour communicates to the reader a desire to get close to facts. But the facts may not be the same as Mrs Webster’s, for though she has read extensively and marshalled her authorities, her use, and often her choice, of them shows how strongly she is bent on proving a case. So she does not convince us that her book is the one true history of the revolution.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Ag 21 ’19 1650w

Reviewed by W. C. Abbott

=Yale R= n s 9:879 Jl ’20 1150w

=WEIGALL, ARTHUR EDWARD PEARSE BROME.= Madeline of the desert. *$2 (1½c) Dodd

20–20189

Madeline had been born beyond the pale of respectable society at Port Said in Egypt; had grown up in ignorance of conventional morality and lived in open defiance of it until she was twenty-three. But there had been growing pains and a crisis came when she must either die or be reborn. Father Gregory—retired from ecclesiastical honors in England to a hermitage in the desert—and his nephew, Robin Beechcroft, the young explorer, help her to a rebirth. The former points her to her supreme need, Christ, the latter loves and makes her his wife. The story traces Madeline’s unfoldment as a woman, a thinker and a seer. She and Robin pass through trials, even tragedies, but it is Madeline’s fineness and clear-sightedness that at last saves the day for them both.

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“Under its appearance of superficiality there is a quite unusual and remarkable understanding of the character of Madeline.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p702 My 28 ’20 580w

“Mr Weigall’s novel grows weaker with the turning of pages, and there is no marvelous rising above climax after climax. Madeline, vivid at first, becomes more and more pallid as the tale progresses.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p12 D 8 ’20 310w

“It is impossible to withhold from Mr Weigall a tribute of admiration for the amazing fluency and fertility of imagination which enable him to make a long story out of very scant material. Whether the story was worth making is another question.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 250w

“The author’s vivid pictures of Egyptian life are explained by the fact that he has lived in Egypt a great deal, and has the faculty of presenting pleasingly and convincingly that which he sees. On the whole, he has presented to the world a very readable, as well as clever, book.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 220w

=WEIGLE, LUTHER ALLAN.= Talks to Sunday-school teachers. *$1.25 Doran 268

20–6997

“While much of the subject matter is in essence that contained in ‘The pupil and the teacher,’ it is given here in the form of delightful chatty chapters, supplementing the previous work. The book brings the same pleasure and information that often comes from the question period following a lecture. The first chapters deal with the pupil and seem to be repetition of much that has already appeared for the use of the teacher of religious education, though special mention should be made of chapter 12, ‘How religion grows.’ The last chapters are most suggestive, especially ‘Learning by doing’ and the ‘Dramatic method of teaching.’”—Springf’d Republican

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“Professor Weigle is a trained pedagogue who has lost neither his enthusiasm, his love of youth, nor his sound common sense, and is excellently fitted to be the teacher of teachers that he proves himself to be by the test of his last book.”

+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 170w

“Written popularly and made effective for more intensive work by chapter questions and carefully chosen bibliographies.”

+ =Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20

“The lists for further reading at the end of each chapter are excellent and quite up to date.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 110w

=WELLES, WINIFRED.= Hesitant heart. *$1 Huebsch 811

20–6983

Poems reprinted from the North American Review, the Century, the Liberator, Contemporary Verse and other periodicals. Among the titles are: The hesitant heart; From a Chinese vase; The unfaithful April; Driftwood; Threnody; Love song from New England; Moonflower; Surf; Setting for a fairy story.

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“Miss Welles’s is an art at times as ingenuous as Emily Dickinson’s though always classical in its impeccable taste.” R. M. Weaver

+ =Bookm= 51:457 Je ’20 280w

“The mood of the book is April’s mood. The process by which the poems arrive at bloom is exactly the process by which April arrives at fulfilment. You can only feel the pulse of it, the subtle and mysterious thrill in it, and by that realization know without defining the loveliness of a miracle.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 3 ’20 1800w

“Like a handful of golden pollen scattered on the wind is the little book of Winifred Welles’ poems, ‘The hesitant heart.’ Simple, fresh, luminous, of the early morning, they are as whimsical as charm itself, and as reticent in their cool distinction.”

+ =Freeman= 1:71 Mr 31 ’20 100w

+ =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w

“Hers is a limited gamut, an obviously restricted range. Yet, within that range, her voice is pure, the art is skilful and the melodies exquisite. None of the younger singers has communicated with more charm her accents of soft delight mingled with a perturbed wistfulness. Even her more intense affirmations have a timid tenderness.” L: Untermeyer

+ =New Repub= 23:156 Je 30 ’20 550w

“‘The hesitant heart’ is a lovely collection of fragile lyrics. Miss Welles has a deft and magical touch all her own, a slight and restrained magic, but an authentic one.”

+ =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 180w

“Miss Welles is no purveyor of novelties. She cannot be called original, or even inventive. Yet she has a magic of lyrical speech that gives the reader a sense of new delight and of a new personality in the world of lyric artists.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w

“Her technique is much like that of Miss Millay, although she is not so mature as an artist. But this is not to say that Miss Welles has imitated Miss Millay. She is very much herself.”

+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 9 ’21 220w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 70w

=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON)=, comp. Book of humorous verse. *$7.50 Doran 827

20–20663

This volume is intended for everyone of the human race who possesses the power of laughter. The compiler calls attention to the book as a compilation, not a collection, as no cover of one book could contain the latter. The poems are classified under the headings: Banter; The eternal feminine; Love and courtship; Satire; Cynicism; Epigrams; Burlesque; Bathos; Parody; Narrative; Tribute; Whimsey; Nonsense; Natural history; Juniors; Immortal stanzas. The book is indexed for authors, titles and first lines.

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=Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

“As a whole. Miss Wells has done a most excellent piece of work that should be an addition to the library of every lover and maker of verse.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 Ja 15 ’21 520w

“Here at last is a collection of humorous lyrics, chosen and set in order by an expert anthologist, who is also an expert humorist.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p3 D 12 ’20 1600w

“‘The book of humorous verse’ has done in its province what Burton Stevenson’s ‘Home book of verse’ has done for all poetry.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 300w

=WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON).= Raspberry jam. il *$1.60 (2½c) Lippincott

20–7522

Sanford Embury is found one morning dead in bed. He was an exceptionally healthy man, and absolutely no reason can at first be discovered for his death. His proud, hot tempered wife is at once suspected, for the two had many tiffs about money matters, for although Embury was rich, it pleased his pride to give his wife no ready spending money. Detectives are called in, investigations made. No headway is gained until Fleming Stone and his irresponsible “kid” helper, Fibsy McGuire, appear on the scene. Then the mystery slowly clears, through the aid of a “spook,” a trumped up medium, a pot of raspberry jam and certain information in regard to a “human fly.” Mrs Embury is acquitted, the real murderer at once arrested, and a long delayed love comes at last into its own.

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=N Y Times= 25:153 Ap 4 ’20 350w

Reviewed by M. A. Hopkins

=Pub W= 97:602 F 21 ’20 240w

=Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 70w

“The story stirs a lively interest in the reader.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 14 ’20 160w

“As is common in detective stories of this type, Miss Wells makes considerable demands on her readers’ credulity or ignorance.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 160w

=WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE.= Outline of history. 2v il *$10.50 Macmillan 909

20–19599

Mr Wells’ “plain history of life and mankind” (Sub-title) is in two volumes, composed of nine books, as follows: The making of our world; The making of man; The dawn of history; Judea, Greece and India; Rise and collapse of the Roman Empire; Christianity and Islam; The great Mongol empire of the land ways and the new empires of the sea ways; The age of the great powers; The next stage in history. The work has been written with the advice and editorial help of Mr Ernest Barker, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir E. Ray Lankester, and Professor Gilbert Murray. It is illustrated with maps, time diagrams and drawings by J. F. Horrabin.

* * * * *

“A history of this kind is just what is wanted at the present day. There are now sufficient scientific and historical data to make the attempt possible; it is time we had a glimpse of the wood: we have had innumerable examinations of the separate trees.”

+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 400w

“In praising so large a work, one must presumably begin with its arrangement. Arrangement is a negative quality, but a great one: it is the faculty of not muddling the reader, and Wells possesses it in a high degree. Selection is of course a more controversial topic, and here the critics can get going if they think it worth while. A third merit is the style. The surface of Wells’ English is poor, and he does not improve its effect when he tints it purple. But it does do its job. Arrangement, selection, style; so these make up the case for his ‘Outline,’ and it is an overwhelming case.” E. M. F.

+ =Ath= p8 Jl 2 ’20 1100w

“Now for the defects, and the first of them is a serious one. Wells’ lucidity, so satisfying when applied to peoples and periods, is somehow inadequate when individuals are thrown on to the screen. The outlines are as clear as ever, but they are not the outlines of living men. He seldom has created a character who lives and a similar failure attends his historical evocations.... Such are the defects of the book; but, as the previous article indicated, they are entirely outweighed by its great merits.” E. M. F.

+ − =Ath= p42 Jl 9 ’20 1950w

“It has been a great book, finely planned, well arranged, full of vivid historical sketches and of telling raps upon the knuckles and noses of the great, but as soon as it starts for the stars its charm decreases.” E. M. F.

+ − =Ath= p690 N 19 ’20 1500w

=Booklist= 17:110 D ’20

“The great thing which Wells has done—and it is, unqualifiedly, a very great thing—is to state the evolutionary concept of history as a continuing, growing entity, in terms readily understandable of the common man. It is not too much to call it the most potentially formative book of our day.” H. L. Pangborn

+ =Bookm= 52:358 Ja ’21 950w

“In his entire career Mr Wells has never written a more important book than this. It is a superlatively fascinating piece of writing, in all its details and as a whole, and it proves that the best historian is the man with imagination who has created, or who is capable of creating, real literature.” E. F. Edgett

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 24 ’20 2850w

“This is the true and lasting value of the work of Wells—that he has given our world a greatest common historical denominator.” H. W. van Loon

+ =Dial= 70:202 F ’21 720w

“History as seen through the temperament of Mr Wells is novel, piquant, and entertaining. Mr Wells has no sense of time, for he discusses events in the remote past as if they were still happening. This gives vividness to his story and truthfulness, too.... With the chapter on Buddhism the ‘Outline’ reaches its high water mark. From thence on, a startling change is noticeable. And the change is for the worse. J. S. Schapiro

* + − =Nation= 112:sup224 F 9 ’21 9250w

“There is one criticism that I should like to make. Mr Wells has written political history and overlooked economic facts.... One cannot help wishing that Mr Wells had restrained his enthusiasm a little by omitting Book 1, and thus clipping off several hundred million years from the period which he was seeking to cover. He might also have eliminated Book 2 on ‘The making of man.’ I am glad that there was someone in the English-speaking world brave enough and earnest enough and with enough leisure time to write it.” Scott Nearing

+ − =N Y Call= p8 N 29 ’20 1500w

“It is eminently readable. Mr Wells could not write dull if he tried to. The first impression made by his volumes is deepened by their study. It is that Mr Wells has undertaken a task too great for his powers and equipment. Mr Wells has, of course, read widely and industriously. Yet his sources are plainly meagre. They are almost exclusively English.”

− + =N Y Times= p1 N 14 ’20 2550w

“Certain sections—the early chapters upon the origin of the earth and of man upon the earth, the part dealing with the rise and spread of Buddhism, for examples—are excellent when read by themselves.” E. L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:558 D 8 ’20 60w

“Most of us think of history only in terms of the records of particular nations, races or periods. Mr Wells ventures on a far bolder conception—viewing all human history as one whole. If the work did nothing more than to fix definitely this new viewpoint it would be worth while.”

+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 220w

“High-school history teachers and students will read the work with profit. They certainly come more nearly being world-history than any previous work in the field.”

+ =School R= 29:155 F ’21 900w

+ =Spec= 122:698 N 22 ’19 190w

“It is good to take a broad view of history, and Mr Wells has done a real service to his generation by writing this entertaining ‘Outline.’ He has found a talented illustrator in Mr Horrabin, whose numerous maps and diagrams and reconstructions of extinct mammals are very attractive and helpful. There are also many photographs, well chosen and well reproduced.”

+ =Spec= 124:798 Je 12 ’20 300w

“There is room for Mr Wells’s ‘Outline of history,’ for the hand of the specialist has lain heavy on this branch of scholarship, and the books which give a bird’s-eye view of world history are few and not very accessible.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 D 21 ’19 380w

=Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 1000w (Reprinted from London Nation)

“The ‘History’ is a remarkable one: there should be more books as readable and provocative and daring.” P. B. McDonald

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 1100w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p693 N 27 ’19 880w

“Magnificent as is the panorama which Mr Wells unfolds, the details of it are sometimes questionable.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 1050w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 S 23 ’20 2000w

“Mr Wells’s work should find its way into all but the most bigoted sectarian colleges and even into the schools, as supplementary reading for both teacher and pupil.” J. H. Robinson

+ =Yale R= n s 10:412 Ja ’21 2650w

=WELSH, JAMES C.= Underworld. *$1.75 (1½c) Stokes

20–17082

A story of the British coal industry by the author of “Songs of a miner.” While yet a mere boy Robert Sinclair sits up long past his bed time to listen to the talk between his father and Robert Smillie, and it is the inspiration of that remembered conversation that sends him far in the growing labor movement. Robert goes into the pit at twelve years and on that very day there is an accident in the mine that kills his father and brother and leaves him his mother’s chief support. The story pictures the hard conditions in a disorganized industry, the tyranny of the foreman and his control of the private lives of the men, and the discouraging efforts to form a union. Robert loses the girl he loves and in the end meets his father’s fate in the mine while trying to save others. His mother is left desolate and the author’s final plea is to the men to stand firm together and protect their women folk from such tragedies.

* * * * *

“James Welsh, the miner, has rough-hewn a rather powerful and readable tract.”

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

+ =Sat R= 129:477 My 22 ’20 180w

“As he commands a fluent and forcible pen, complete mastery of the dialect, and an unflinching realism in the treatment of details, his work claims attention as well as respect.”

+ =Spec= 124:765 Je 5 ’20 670w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p202 Mr 25 ’20 170w

=WENDELL, BARRETT.= Traditions of European literature, from Homer to Dante. *$6 Scribner 809

20–20996

This book has developed from lectures given at Harvard between 1904 and 1917. The author says: “Years of dealing with Harvard students had shown me not only that Americans now know little of the literary traditions of our ancestral Europe, but also that they are seldom aware even of the little they know.” (Introd.) He adopts the point of view of “English-speaking Americans of the twentieth century of the Christian era” and concerns himself with those traditions of literature “which, we need not ask why, have chanced among ourselves to survive the times of their origin.” His task is somewhat simplified by the fact that during the period covered, from Homer to Dante, the traditions “originating in the primal European civilisation of Greece, and extending throughout imperial dominion of Rome, remained for many centuries a common possession of all Europe.” It has been possible therefore to treat the subject as a whole. This is done in five books: The traditions of Greece; The traditions of Rome; The traditions of Christianity; The traditions of Christendom; The traditions of the middle ages. Bibliographical suggestions occupy twenty-three pages and there is an index.

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+ =Booklist= 17:147 Ja ’21

“Nothing brings a keener joy to the heart of a conscientious reviewer than to have in his hands to appraise and to praise a book which seems to him altogether good—worthy in theme, comprehensive in conception, shapely in plan and skillful in execution. This joy is mine now that I have read this admirable example of interpretive scholarship.” Brander Matthews

+ =N Y Times= p3 D 26 ’20 1750w

=WEST, WILLIS MASON.= Story of modern progress; with a preliminary survey of earlier progress. (Allyn and Bacon’s ser. of school histories) il $2 Allyn 940.2

20–7751

This work is a successor to the author’s “The modern world” written with a redistribution of time to give more space and emphasis to the period since 1870. The author says, “I have taken glad advantage of the chance to write a new book, better suited, I hope, to elementary high-school students; and I have used the treatment in the ‘Modern world’ only when I have found it simpler and clearer than any change I could make today.” (Foreword) An unusual amount of space has been given to English history, while American history, which is sure of full treatment elsewhere, is omitted “except where the connection of events demands its introduction.” Contents: Introduction: a survey of earlier progress; Age of the reformation, 1520–1648; England in the seventeenth century; The age of Louis XIV and Frederick II, 1648–1789; The French revolution; Reaction, 1815–1848; England and the industrial revolution; Continental Europe, 1848–1871; England, 1815–1914; Western Europe, 1871–1914; Slav Europe to 1914; The war and the new age. There is a list of books for high schools, followed by an index and pronouncing vocabulary.

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“This present ‘Story of modern progress’ is consoling in a measure, but also provoking. The writer has some straight views, then again, the three-hundred-year-old tradition enfolds him.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:824 S ’20 550w

“For a one-year course in modern European history there is possibly no better text on the market.”

+ =School R= 28:549 S ’20 280w

=WESTERVELT, GEORGE CONRAD, and others.= Triumph of the N.C.’s. il *$3 Doubleday 629.

20–7597

The N.C.’s are flying boats as distinguished from hydroaeroplanes and the present volume contains the story of their design and building and of their first achievements. In part 1 Commander G. C. Westervelt tells “How the flying boats were designed and built”—the immense number of details that had to be worked out, the numerous tests that had to be conducted, and the many troublesome features that had to be corrected. Part 2—The “lame duck” wins—is Lieut.-Commander A. C. Read’s story of the transatlantic flight of the N. C. 4. Part 3 contains the log of the N. C. 3 by Commander H. C. Richardson, who also gives an account of previous attempts at transatlantic flight.

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=Booklist= 16:335 Jl ’20

“The story of the crossing is told in lively and readable narrative, with picturesque details and with unassuming modesty.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Jl 18 ’20 500w

=WESTON, GEORGE.= Mary minds her business. il *$1.75 (2½c) Dodd

20–4960

Of the long line of Josiahs of the firm of Josiah Spencer & son, successful manufacturers, Mary’s father was the last. His cousin, Stanley Woodward, had long been figuring on the eventuality of Josiah’s demise, to get entire control of the business. But he had not counted on Mary. His first shock came when Mary had herself chosen president of the corporation and proceeded, with the coaching of a friendly judge and business councilor to run things for herself. And run them she did in a most revolutionary manner. She employed women to such an extent that the factory was finally worked entirely by women on a greater level of efficiency than ever. Other reforms went hand in hand—a rest room, nurseries, kindergarten, laundry, an orchestra of one hundred pieces all played by women. Of course there was fighting to do, Uncle Stanley to be over-ruled, his son Burdon to be shown his place. When the scheme was out of the woods and the most pressing suitor married off, the woman in Mary was alone and aweary and it was then that Archey Forbes, the construction engineer, came into his own.

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=Booklist= 16:315 Je ’20

“The light story has sometimes, under Mr Weston’s pen, developed a diaphanous quality, which has made us wonder why it was worth writing at all. Now in surprising manner Mr Weston has discovered some ideas—not very new ones perhaps, but nevertheless things of substance.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 200w

“Brightly written, full of action, and with a love interest kept discreetly subordinate to that of the extremely efficient Mary’s management of the factory, this story also has the merit of dealing with a question which many will think has been thoroughly answered—the proper sphere of women in this age.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 400w

=WEYL, MAURICE.= Happy woman. *$1.75 (2c) Kennerley

20–6129

The distinctive feature of this story is its character drawing. There is Henry Hardwick, a man of decided ability but with just that grain of iron lacking in his make-up that would make him a success in his enterprises and the master of his domestic circumstance. Fred Pemberton’s efficiency, on the other hand, verges on hardness and almost wrecks his love-life, deep and true though it is. The two leading women of the tale are likewise opposites, but both in the end can claim the title. Ruth Bernstein, proud, reticent, an unusually able business woman, but feminine in the best sense when off guard, is happy when she yields to her love for Fred Pemberton. Dowdy, voluble, irresponsible Mrs Hardwick is happy when she discovers that her “gift of gab” can be put to good use in swaying and winning admiration from an audience.

* * * * *

“‘The happy woman’ is that rather unusual thing—a genuinely realistic novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 Mr 7 ’20 850w

+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w

=WHALE, GEORGE.= British airships: past, present and future. il *$2 (4c) Lane 629.1

20–9651

Without attempting a lengthy and highly technical dissertation on aerostatics the book briefly describes the main principles underlying airship construction. It then gives a general history of the development of the airship to the present day before taking up the British airship, which had been practically neglected prior to the twentieth century. The contents, with many illustrations and charts are: Early airships and their development to the present day; British airships built by private firms; British army airships; Early days of the naval airship section—Parseval airships, Astratorres type, etc.; Naval airships: the nonrigids; Naval airships: the rigids; The work of the airship in the world war; The future of airships.

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“A useful account, well illustrated.”

+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 40w

“It is a pity that the usefulness of the book is hampered by the absence of an index.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p717 D 4 ’19 80w

=WHARTON, ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH.=[2] In old Pennsylvania towns. il *$5 (6c) Lippincott 974.8

21–155

The author describes a motor trip thru Pennsylvania, on which Lancaster, Lebanon, Gettysburg, Carlisle, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barré, Bethlehem and other towns were visited. Philadelphia and Germantown are omitted, as too well known, for it is the author’s purpose to call attention to the quaint and unusual. The pictures show many of the interesting old Pennsylvania houses.

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+ =Boston Transcript= p5 D 29 ’20 460w

“The illustrations will delight all who are interested in early American architecture.” M. K. Reely

+ =Pub W= 98:1891 D 18 ’20 300w

=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= Age of innocence. *$2 (1½c) Appleton

20–18615

The milieu of the story is New York “society” in the early seventies. It describes the old aristocracy who took life “without effusion of blood,” who “dreaded scandal more than disease,” who “placed decency above courage” and who considered “nothing more ill-bred than ‘scenes.’” Newland Archer was one of the few whose vision penetrated this crust of conventionality and he fell in love with the one off-color member of the tribe just as he had engaged himself to its most perfect product. Ellen Olenska, wife of a profligate European count, had left her husband and returned to America at this critical moment and Archer hastens his marriage to May Welland before he becomes too deeply involved with Ellen. Ellen’s fine sense of honor and of human kindliness, on the other hand, holds him to his compact and puts the ocean between herself and Archer by returning to Europe. Almost thirty years later, Archer has the satisfaction of seeing his own children step out freely and joyously on the road that had been closed to him.

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“The time and the scene together suit Mrs Wharton’s talent to a nicety.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p810 D 10 ’20 620w

=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“On the book’s enduring quality it is idle to speculate. The slight theme beaten out with delicate care is the fashion of the day, and the best examples will no doubt remain. What is certain, however, is that a multitude of readers today will read with a well-justified delight this picture of New York in the ‘seventies.’” A. E. W. Mason

+ =Bookm= 52:360 D ’20 780w

“As a matter of fact, the author of ‘The age of innocence’ is not the Mrs Wharton of ‘The valley of decision,’ ‘The house of mirth,’ ‘Ethan Frome’ or of any one of the several volumes of short stories with which her reputation was made. She is the Mrs Wharton—with some of her skill and much of her knowledge of life remaining—of a new era that demands yellow pages in its fiction as well as yellow newspapers in its journalism. Until she becomes again the Mrs Wharton of a decade ago, she certainly cannot maintain her once high place among the novelists of today.” E. F. Edgett

− + =Boston Transcript= p4 O 23 ’20 1200w

“One must occasionally be grateful in a day devoted, on the one hand, to detail, and on the other to a futuristic sketchiness, for a literary gift as serene as Mrs Wharton’s. Her new novel, ‘The age of innocence,’ is the perfect fruit of an austere and disciplined art.” L. M. R.

+ =Freeman= 2:358 D 22 ’20 240w

“The interest of the story lies, not with the doings of the rather wooden characters of the book, but with the picture it purports to give of New York some fifty years ago. Here the author is clearly at fault in portraying a society of such portentous dullness and also in representing the town as devoid of anything else. The book is full of anachronisms which are sure to be noticed by old New-Yorkers.”

− =Lit D= p52 F 5 ’21 880w

“‘The age of innocence’ is a masterly achievement. In lonely contrast to almost all the novelists who write about fashionable New York, she knows her world. In lonely contrast to the many who write about what they know without understanding it or interpreting it, she brings a superbly critical disposition to arrange her knowledge in significant forms.” C. V. D.

+ =Nation= 111:510 N 3 ’20 580w

“Someone told me that ‘The age of innocence’ was ‘a dull book about New York society in the seventies.’ This is amusing. It is, undoubtedly, a quiet book, and quietness is dullness to the jazz-minded. It is really a book of unsparing perception and essential passionateness, full of necessary reserve, but at the same time full of verity.” F. H.

+ =New Repub= 24:301 N 17 ’20 1450w

“Mrs Wharton’s story-telling method is precise and neat, and it is her own. What surprises us, however, in ‘The age of innocence’ is the pervasive glint of oblique criticism that dazzles our eyes from almost every page. And that criticism is no wise lessened because it happens to be leveled against New York society of the ’70s. Is New York, or America, so different in the year 1920?” Pierre Loving

+ =N Y Call= p10 D 12 ’20 1100w

“A fine novel, beautifully written, ‘big’ in the best sense, which has nothing to do with size, a credit to American literature—for if its author is cosmopolitan, her novel, as much as ‘Ethan Frome,’ is a fruit of our soil.” H: S. Canby

+ =N Y Evening Post= p3 N 6 ’20 1100w

“By the side of the absolute mastery of plot, character and style displayed in her latest novel, ‘The house of mirth’ seems almost crude. Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name America, and this is her best book. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and looks like a permanent addition to literature.” W: L. Phelps

+ =N Y Times= p1 O 17 ’20 1950w

“Mrs Wharton’s new novel is in workmanship equal to her very best previous work. In its adequate dealing with a large motif this is a book of far more than ephemeral value.” R. D. Townsend

+ =Outlook= 126:653 D 8 ’20 620w

“The plot is unobvious, delicately developed, with a fine finale that exquisitely satisfies one’s sense of fitness, and as always with Mrs Wharton, the drama of character is greater than that of event. One revels recognizingly in her clean-cut distinction of style, the inerrant aptness of adjectives, the vivisective phrase.” Katharine Perry

+ =Pub W= 98:1195 O 16 ’20 520w

“The limitations of the present note on Mrs Wharton’s new story may be revealed by the confession that the annotator’s delight in it as a picture is greatly tempered by his distrust of its leading male figure. I don’t much like this Newland Archer, and I don’t quite believe in his existence; and this doubt curdles my faith in the integrity of the story as a whole.” H. W. Boynton

+ − =Review= 3:476 N 17 ’20 1100w

“From a literary point of view, this story is on a level with Mrs Wharton’s best work. As a retrospect of the early ‘seventies, it is less satisfactory, being marred by numerous historical lapses.”

+ − =Sat R= 130:458 D 4 ’20 360w

“The picture is so finished, so convincing, and withal so entertaining, that the study of these pages is recommended to all students of manners.”

+ =Spec= 126:55 Ja 8 ’21 720w

“The greatest defect in the book is that of the character of Ellen, whom her creator constantly asserts to be charming, but who does not in the least produce that effect on the reader.” Lilian Whiting

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 720w

“Altogether Mrs Wharton has accomplished one of the best pieces of her work so far. As for her picture of the times, how is any of us over here to criticize it, beyond saying that it is full of vivacity and of character and of colour, and that there is not a point in it which seems to be false?”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p775 N 25 ’20 1200w

“This theme, the contrast of times and manners, dealt with in some of her short stories, is one Mrs Wharton handles with skill.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w

=WHARTON, MRS EDITH NEWBOLD (JONES).= In Morocco. il *$4 Scribner 916.4

20–17098

“In 1918 Mrs Wharton, under the guidance of a French military mission, in a French army motor, spent a month traveling in Morocco. Her account of her travels in a country without a guide book is for the benefit of the travelers who she feels sure will flood the land when the war is over. All the properties of an Arabian Nights tale are here.” (Nation) “In the space of one month a military automobile carried her from Tangier to Marrakech, from Rabat to Fez. She entered the sacred city of Moulay Idriss, the surviving stronghold of the Idrissite rule; she walked the streets of ancient Salé, the ‘Phoenician counting house and breeder of Barbary pirates’; she examined the ruins of Volubilis, the African outpost of the Roman legions; and she enjoyed the hospitality of his Majesty the Sultan Moulay Youssef and his favorites in ‘the happiest harem in Morocco.’” (N Y Times)

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+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

“Edith Wharton’s ‘In Morocco’ is a model of restrained and rounded prose, as well as a vivid picture of oriental richness.” Margaret Ashmun

+ =Bookm= 52:344 D ’20 60w

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 22 ’20 920w

“‘In Morocco’ adds another swiftly-told, graceful, vivid, and yet informative travel book to Mrs Wharton’s globe-trotting shelf.”

+ =Dial= 70:231 F ’21 50w

“The best thing a returned traveler can do is to give you not facts but atmosphere. Edith Wharton in ‘In Morocco’ does this for you excellently well, partly because she is so impersonal, never intruding her own reactions, simply bringing up the scene around you with all its blinding sunlight, desert heat and vivid colors.”

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 170w

Reviewed by Irita Van Doren

=Nation= 111:479 O 27 ’20 680w

“The combination of authenticated facts and illuminating comment makes her book fascinating.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 N 13 ’20 150w

“The publication of ‘In Morocco,’ by Mrs Wharton, is practically simultaneous with that of her most recent novel, ‘The age of innocence.’ Both of these books add security to their author’s position as one of the foremost contemporary writers of English prose. Never before has Mrs Wharton enjoyed so ideal an opportunity to display her gifts of colorful description as she does in this volume.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 O 31 ’20 980w

“Nothing seen by her sensitive, unsparing eye is omitted, and her nervous style never fails to convey the effect at which she aims.”

+ =Sat R= 130:339 O 23 ’20 360w

+ =Spec= 125:541 O 23 ’20 200w

“The duration of her visit—one month—was fortunately too short for her to carry out her intention of writing a guide-book. One writes ‘fortunately,’ for her book would have lost in broad suggestiveness far more than it would have gained from precision in detail. With her knowledge of other countries and peoples, her sensitiveness, her gift of vivid description, and her unobtruded skill in ordered presentation, she does more than one would have thought possible to convey what was suddenly revealed to her eyes to those who will never see it with their own.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p649 O 7 ’20 1200w

=WHEAT, GEORGE SEAY=, ed.[2] Municipal landing fields and air ports. il *$1.75 Putnam 629.1

20–22004

The book is a compilation with chapters by the chief of the army air service, General Menoher, the director of naval aviation Captain Craven and their officers in charge of landing field operations. The most acute and immediate problem now facing commercial aeronautics is the need for flying routes and landing fields. It is the object of the book to present all that this involves in concrete form. Besides illustrations, diagrams, a map and an appendix containing a list of landing fields on file in the office of the chief of air service, the contents are: The need for landing fields; The present plight of flight; How to construct a field; Aircraft hangers; Aerial routes; Naval air ports; Airplanes and seaplanes.

=WHEELER, EVERETT PEPPERRELL.= Lawyer’s study of the Bible; its answer to the questions of today. *$1.50 Revell

19–19947

“Mr Wheeler’s book is really a study of life, and he uses the Bible in interpreting life. His chapter titles indicate this characteristic of his volume: they are such as The presence of God in the soul of man; Prayer; Socialism; War; Labor, capital, and strikes; Immortality. Incidentally he asks what light does the Bible throw on these problems?”—Outlook

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=Boston Transcript= p6 D 24 ’19 550w

=Outlook= 124:119 Ja 21 ’20 220w

“Perhaps the most important feature for the average reader is the adaptation of legal procedure into rules for the study of the Bible.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 18 ’20 180w

=WHIBLEY, CHARLES.= Literary studies. *$3 Macmillan 820.4

20–1521

“Five of these eight studies are from the ‘Cambridge history of English literature.’ They deal with phases of literature in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. The others are on Rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare’s time (a chapter in ‘Shakespeare’s England,’ 1916), Sir Walter Raleigh (from Blackwood’s), and Jonathan Swift, a Leslie Stephen lecture at Cambridge, 1917.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup N 13 ’19

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“Mr Whibley is as readable as ever.”

+ =Ath= p1241 N 21 ’19 70w

“He has the first requisite of a critic: interest in his subject, and ability to communicate an interest in it. His defects are both of intellect and feeling. He has no dissociative faculty. There were very definite vices and definite shortcomings and immaturities in the literature he admires; and as he is not the person to tell us of the vices and shortcomings, he is not the person to lay before us the work of absolutely the finest quality.” T. S. E.

+ − =Ath= p1332 D 12 ’19 1350w

Reviewed by Augustine Birrell

+ =Nation= 111:159 Ag 7 ’20 20w

“Mr Whibley, by being included among the journalists, dignifies journalism. His way is not that of the headline, nor are his literary manners those of the siren in a fog—a not unfair description of much that appears in the journal to which he is a weekly contributor it?) acquired the habit of writing for the sake of filling a column.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:61 Ja 17 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 N 13 ’19 60w

“It is very convenient to have these essays detached from the larger volumes in which they first appeared. Here they express the author’s own mind, they support and answer one another, not dressed and drilled by an editor in company not of their own choice. Here there is harmony among them.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p691 N 27 ’19 2000w

=WHIPPLE, GUY MONTROSE.= Classes for gifted children. (School and home education monographs) $1.25 Public-school 371.9

19–14686

Detailed account of an experiment successfully carried out in the year 1917 in the public school of Urbana, Illinois, consisting of selecting and training especially gifted, or super-average children. Fifteen pupils from the fifth grade, also fifteen from the sixth, constituted the special class. Of these thirty, it was found eight had been wrongly selected as gifted. The remaining twenty-two completed a two years’ course in one, without forcing or fatigue, in addition to gaining certain cultural advantages. Through tests applied, and results observed, a more reliable standard of selecting children than that of teachers’ marks was evolved. The book includes an analytical study of talent in drawing, with an annotated bibliography, and it closes with a partial bibliography on gifted children and education. Dr Whipple, formerly professor of education, University of Illinois, is at present professor of applied psychology, Carnegie institute of technology.

=WHITAKER, ALBERT CONSER.= Foreign exchange. *$5 (2c) Appleton 332.4

20–1958

The book, the author suggests, will serve the double purpose of a practical business manual, and a treatise in economics. “Stated briefly, the subjects of study in this volume are the methods or proceedings and the forms or documents of foreign-trade settlement, banking, and financing. Belonging with these, the international movement of gold and the measures taken to influence it are examined at length.” (Preface) A partial list of the contents is: Means of payment and commercial paper; The negotiability of commercial paper; Discount and interest; Commercial banking; The rates of exchange; The bank credit and letter of credit; Foreign money market factors; Speculation in exchange; The mint price and the market price of gold; Standard money; Monetary systems of the leading nations; Specie shipments; Addendum and index.

* * * * *

“This volume is probably in many ways the most satisfactory that has appeared up to the present time on foreign exchange.” M. J. Shugrue

+ =Am Econ R= 10:370 Je ’20 450w

=R of Rs= 61:447 Ap ’20 120w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 18 ’20 80w

=WHITAKER, CHARLES HARRIS.= Joke about housing. *$2 Jones, Marshall 331.83

20–6282

Housing is here treated as a problem of land values. The remedy for present conditions is “for the state to put an end to the frightful waste involved in our present riotous development of land, and thus make the house a stable element of our national life, free from the destructive effects of speculation in land which forces speculation in building and which always brings communal disaster in its train.” The subject is discussed in seven chapters: Why do we have houses? The house and the home—a world program; Houses and wages; The employer and the housing question; The two plants; What are the possible ways out of the dilemma in housing? The general problem of land control. In the appendixes two prize essays on the solution of the housing problem are reprinted. The author is editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects.

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“The style in which the book is written should make this book one of the most popular works on housing. Like all books devoted to the presentation and emphasis of one fundamental idea the work suffers from lack of perspective in so far as its use as a work upon which a thoroughly constructive housing program could be built.” Carol Aronovici

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:244 S ’20 370w

=Booklist= 16:301 Je ’20

Reviewed by L: Mumford

+ =Freeman= 1:501 Ag 4 ’20 440w

“Some will no doubt assert that he lays too much stress upon the idea that the solution hangs upon the disallowance of speculation in land. Possibly this single subject is over stressed. But relative emphasis is a matter of little importance. What is of importance is that the subject of land and profit and speculative adventuring has been intimately connected with housing in the sense of cause and effect. The importance of this change of base, so to speak, in approaching the problem can not be overrated.” F. L. A.

+ =J Am Inst of Architects= 8:342 S ’20 1050w

=N Y Times= 25:268 My 23 ’20 1000w

“The book is written from a full heart and with sympathetic understanding for the aspirations of common folks; it is one of the most readable tracts from the ‘left wing’ of the housing movement that we have seen.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 44:253 My 15 ’20 360w

=WHITE, BENJAMIN.=[2] Gold, its place in the economy of mankind. il $1 Pitman 669.2

20–21980

In the volume of the Common commodities and industries series devoted to gold, chapters take up: Its appreciation—ancient and modern; Its properties and distribution; The production of early times; The production of the nineteenth century; Present production and prospects; The evolution of British coinage; The mintage of the world; The gold standard; The movements of gold; Stocks; Industrial use; Gold and the great war. There are illustrations, tables, an index and a brief list of works consulted.

* * * * *

“The tables should be of interest to students of commercial geography and economics.”

+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 80w

=WHITE, BENJAMIN.= Silver, its intimate association with the daily life of man. il $1 Pitman 669.2

(Eng ed 18–801)

In this volume of Pitman’s common commodities and industries the author treats his subject under three heads; Production; Industrial consumption; Utility as money, past and future. There are several illustrations and tables and two folding charts. Some of the tables are based on the annual reports of the director of the United States mint. There is an index.

* * * * *

“Contains much of service to teachers and students.”

+ =Nature= 105:774 Ag 19 ’20 60w

=WHITE, MRS GRACE (MILLER).= Storm country Polly. il *$1.75 (2c) Little

20–8242

The scene of the story is a squatter colony on the shores of Lake Cayuga. The colony is known as Silent City and Jeremiah Hopkins is its unofficial mayor. His daughter Polly is the story’s heroine. Polly, the one person in Evelyn Robertson’s confidence, knows the story of Evelyn’s secret marriage to Oscar Bennett. Evelyn desires release, for she is now in love with Marc MacKenzie, the man making war on the squatters, and Bennett will grant it only on condition that Polly agrees to marry him. And Evelyn, who might intercede with MacKenzie, promises to do so if Polly will pay the price, but Polly cannot, for she is in love with Robert Percival, Evelyn’s cousin. Marc carries out his threats. Daddy Hopkins is sent to jail, wee Jerry is torn from Polly’s arms and her love is turned to hate. But not for long and love triumphs all round in the end.

* * * * *

“A more apt title for the book would have been ‘Storm country Pollyanna,’ for the leading figure in the novel is so good that it almost hurts to think of her. In spite of the archaic construction and material of the story, it manages to sustain a certain amount of interest.”

− + =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 200w

=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Ambush. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday

20–11893

In the days when the Hudson’s Bay company, north of Lake Superior, is fighting two rival fur trading companies, Paul Carlisle is factor of one of their most important posts. In addition to his never-ending disturbances with the Free traders and the Northwest Fur company, his position is further complicated by the fact that he is in love with Joan Wayne, daughter of the Free trader’s chief. And as if being his business rival were not enough, Ralph Wayne is in addition Paul’s bitter personal enemy, for a reason which Paul at first can not understand. But the cause of this enmity is made clear to him presently by Richelieu, the third party in this three-cornered rivalry, the manager of the Northwest Fur company, and also in love with Joan. Eventually Paul wins out both in business and love, after a series of exciting and dramatic events.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:75 N ’20

=WHITE, SAMUEL ALEXANDER.= Foaming fore shore. il *$1.50 (2½c) Doubleday

20–16344

A tale of the sea. Cap’n Walter Taylor is a fisherman in Newfoundland waters, but becomes a fugitive as the result of breaking some of the fishing regulations. He takes refuge in the Magdalen Islands and there finds Madeline Boucher, with whom he speedily falls in love. But Jacques Beauport, his hereditary enemy, as his father before him had hated him, has been on the field first, and considers Madeline engaged to him. He seeks Taylor out to return him to justice, but Taylor has no idea of tamely submitting to this, and the chase grows exciting before its finish. Finally a decision of the Hague tribunal puts Taylor in the right, but not before Beauport has lost his life in his spiteful attempt to make Taylor suffer. The story is full of descriptions of fishing and sailing in the turbulent northern waters.

=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Killer. il *$1.75 (1c) Doubleday

20–9477

“The killer,” which opens this collection, is a story of novelette length. It is a story of the old West with a central character whose malignity and propensity for killing extends even to birds and insects. He never kills men, but has only to nod to one of his Mexican servitors and the desired deed is accomplished. How a reckless young cowboy took a dare and asked for a night’s lodging at his ranch and what followed form the substance of the story. Two shorter tales, The road agent and The tide, come next and the remainder of the book is taken up with three descriptive essays reminiscent of Mr White’s earlier work in “The forest.” The titles are: Climbing for goats; Moisture, a trace; The ranch.

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=Booklist= 16:351 Jl ’20

“‘The killer,’ the first story in Stewart Edward White’s new book, is crammed with action, exciting, unexpected, mysterious; in the last story, ‘The ranch,’ nothing happens at all and yet the chances are that you will read them both with interest and joy. The moral of which of course is that the important thing about a tale is the way you tell it.”

+ =Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 150w

“The essays in the volume are entirely delightful.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:237 My 9 ’20 550w

“Mr White knows the old land of the cowboys, desert, ranches, and border raiding settlements as do few writers of the present day.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 380w

“Mr White belongs to the school of American literature which has been more popular than any other in this country principally because we ourselves have nothing similar to it. From the point of view of construction his stories are, as he himself allows, irregular, but for sheer gustiness they are hard to equal.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 S 9 ’20 360w

=WHITE, STEWART EDWARD.= Rose dawn. *$1.90 (1c) Doubleday

20–21290

This novel follows “Gold” and “The grey dawn” and completes Mr White’s California trilogy. It is a story of the transition period of the eighties when the great ranchos of the cattle era began to give place to irrigation and the small fruit farm, and pictures the land boom that heralded the change. It opens with a fiesta at Corona del Monte, the rancho of Colonel Peyton, an old time Californian, who with his wife, Allie, dispenses hospitality to all comers with the high-handed manners of the old days. Other characters are Brainerd, the easterner who experiments with irrigation on a small scale, foreseeing the future of the country from a scientific point of view, and Patrick Boyd, who recognizes its financial future. The romance of the story develops between Daphne Brainerd and Kenneth Boyd, and the plot turns on the rallying of all the colonel’s friends, including Sing Toy, his cook, to save Corona del Monte. The story ran as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post.

* * * * *

“Mr White has always written good books, but he has never written as good a novel as ‘The rose dawn.’ Incidentally it is by far the best of his California trilogy.” G. M. H.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 13 ’20 440w

“The book is written by one who loves to write. We have the leisurely style of the Victorians. The writer goes into byways of description and character drawing, forcing us to his mood. In the art of description he is unusually gifted. One could not imagine this book dramatized, the action is of so little importance. The story, nevertheless, is delightful.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 300w

“In this sequel to ‘Gold’ and ‘The grey dawn,’ there is all the charm, scenic coloring and clean-cut delineation of character which distinguished the earlier works.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 O 31 ’20 380w

“With much to commend it as narrative and as descriptive of California, ‘The rose dawn’ is an addition to the White novels that many readers will welcome.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 150w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:239 D ’20 90w

=WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON.= Thoughts of a psychiatrist on the war and after. $1.75 Hoeber 940.3

19–15865

“The author sees in the social upheavals incident to the war and after merely a reflection on a huge and unprecedented scale of the phenomena which the psychiatrist encounters daily in frustrated individual lives. It is because of this that he endeavors to apply some of the psychological principles which have been found to be of help in adjusting individual lives for the purpose of a better understanding of the changes that have come with the war and as an aid to their adjustment.”—Survey

* * * * *

“The brevity of the book will make it difficult for readers unacquainted with psychoanalytic literature. If it leads some of these into the more extended discussions of the psychology of war it will accomplish what doubtless was the purpose of the author.” E. R. Groves

+ − =Am J Soc= 26:238 S ’20 150w

Reviewed by A. R. Hale

+ − =Freeman= 2:333 D 15 ’20 650w

“The psychiatrist adds his hope to the hopes of the advocates of a league of nations that shall make it possible to outgrow war, as men in socialized communities have outgrown their older, cruder ways. Such a confirmation of our political hopes by scientific analysis is encouraging; and Dr White maintains his thesis with skill and interest.”

+ =Nation= 110:114 Ja 24 ’20 650w

“The book is an interesting contribution to individual and social psychology and is written with the lucidity characteristic of the author. It ought to prove of considerable help to those interested in the problems of individual and social maladjustment.” Bernard Glueck

+ =Survey= 44:307 My 29 ’20 360w

=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Hidden trails. il *$1.90 (1½c) Doubleday

20–12058

This tale starts merrily with two wild west killings before the twentieth page, and whiskey and shots follow one another briskly thruout the book. Johnny Ramsay, “an impulsive young man of uncertain temper,” is the hero. He undertakes to earn the reward offered for the capture of the bandits who are making the life of Sunset county exciting at the time. He has two pals in partnership with him in his private detective work, Racey Dawson and Telescope Laguerre, but to Johnny belongs most of the credit. The bandits prove to be a large band, and it is no easy job to round them all up, but Johnny very nearly accomplishes it. His life is not always safe; once he comes perilously near being lynched, but thanks to a girl, he is spared. The tale is certainly not lacking in adventure, with a dash of romance added.

* * * * *

“There is a clever, though somewhat involved plot which keeps the reader guessing. The dialect and style seem crude in spots. On the order of ‘The Virginian,’ though not so well done.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“Though the story possesses a definite human appeal, is entertaining, and contains several suggestive bits of landscape description, it is not done with deftness or a sure touch.” L. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 D 8 ’20 430w

“It shows so firm a touch, such sure and skillful handling of materials and so good an eye for local color that it bespeaks for Mr White a cordial welcome to the realms of authorship and gives hopeful promise of his future work.”

+ =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 300w

=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.= Lynch lawyers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Little

20–625

A story of the wild West opening with a stage coach robbery. The occurrence is one of a chain of daring deeds and, much to the discomfort of Red Kane, the evidence seems to point to a recently arrived “nester,” Ben Lorimer. At first sight Red had fallen hopelessly in love with Lorimer’s daughter Dot and he knows that a man who takes a stand against her father will have no chance with the girl. He protects the father from a lynching mob, is shot and nursed back to health by the girl. Eventually after much action and many complications the mystery of Lorimer’s past is cleared away and all ends well.

* * * * *

“The story as a whole is a masterpiece of remarkable conversation, and excellent descriptions.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 2 ’20 250w

“Written along thoroughly familiar lines, the story is considerably longer and very much slower in movement than are the majority of such tales. The book contains a fair amount of bloodshed, and gunplay enough to satisfy the most exacting.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 300w

“A cowboy story with wild excitement in every chapter and a strong touch of romance to offset the sensationalism.”

+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 20w

=WHITE, WILLIAM PATTERSON.=[2] Paradise Bend. il *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–18297

A story with all the features of the western thriller. Tom Loudon is in love with Kate Saltoun, his employer’s daughter and when he learns that she is engaged to Sam Blakely he throws up his job and leaves. He had long suspected that Blakely is responsible for the frequent disappearances of cattle, but “Old Salt” had refused to believe his neighbor guilty and Kate sides with her father. With Tom’s departure for Paradise Bend Blakely manages to throw the blame on him and he narrowly escapes arrest and lynching. Sudden death lies in wait and is averted in countless other forms before the story closes, with the villains receiving their just deserts and the lovers happy.

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=Booklist= 17:161 Ja ’21

“Nothing in this book distinguishes it from the crops of mediocre western novels which glut the market year after year and which all seem to be made according to a standard recipe.”

− =N Y Evening Post= p21 O 23 ’20 120w

“What ‘Paradise Bend’ lacks in literary finish and pretensions to intellectual pabulum it replaces with a plenitude of skill in construction and dialogue.”

+ − =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 430w

=WHITEHOUSE, VIRA (BOARMAN) (MRS NORMAN DE R. WHITEHOUSE).= Year as a government agent. il *$3 (4c) Harper 940.48

20–2700

When our country entered the war Mrs Whitehouse was appointed by George Creel as representative for Switzerland of the Committee on public information. Her duties were to give every possible publicity to American news through the press, through special articles and pamphlets and motion-picture reels. The book is an accurate, honest account of her experiences, throwing interesting sidelights on diplomacy open and otherwise. Not until the difficulties she encountered in the American legation at Berne drove her to abandon her undertaking and return to America, did she in her second attempt succeed in breaking through the diplomatic armor plate and in gaining a foothold for her work. The contents are: My appointment; Diplomatic methods; The vanishing news service; Apparent defeat; To America and back; At work; Success under difficulties; One thing after another; Swiss problems; The approaching end; Grief and adventure; Strife and confusion; The end of the year. There are illustrations and appendices containing the correspondence and cablegrams between Washington and the American legation on the one hand and Mrs Whitehouse on the other.

* * * * *

=Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 13 ’20 460w

“She writes of important international work from an agreeably personal angle.”

+ =Ind= 104:244 N 13 ’20 220w

“Our conviction that her story is essentially true is not only because of her own definiteness and of the evidence the older diplomatic tradition gives about itself in the appendix, but also because of our general experience throughout the reign of war psychology. Mrs Whitehouse has the gift of taking the reader along with her in her adventure.” Edith Borie

+ =New Repub= 23:67 Je 9 ’20 1100w

“Aside from its historical interest, the book has fascination as a narrative, for Mrs Whitehouse possesses the very great gift of unconsciousness. The story runs as simply as though she were telling it over a table, and there is a delightful, if somewhat caustic, vein of humor that gives color to the whole.” G: Creel

+ =N Y Times= 25:1 F 22 ’20 1700w

“A reading of her book, interesting as it is, leaves one in doubt as to whether it is an apologia or a suffrage tract. Further, it exposes again the error of creating an extra-legal government department, the Committee on public information, with authority to act abroad in matters of foreign policy independently of the Department of state.”

+ − =Review= 2:208 F 28 ’20 380w

=R of Rs= 61:445 Ap ’20 50w

“Besides being a woman of invincible courage and executive ability, as her work in Switzerland proved, Mrs Whitehouse shows in her book that she has a sense of humor and pleasing ability as a writer.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ap 8 ’20 300w

“In a delightfully straightforward style Mrs Whitehouse has told the story of her work in Switzerland.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:120 Je ’20 80w

=WHITELEY, OPAL STANLEY.= Story of Opal (Eng title, Diary of Opal Whiteley). il $2 (2c) Atlantic monthly press

20–19873

This “Journal of an understanding heart” (Sub-title) is the diary of an orphan, brought up in a lumber camp, and is ascribed to the end of her sixth and to her seventh year. Before her adoption by strange people she evidently had a careful bringing up and careful instruction from a loving mother, as the outpourings of her childish heart and bits of her history reveal. The records are remarkable for the deep and loving insight into nature and the child’s communion with animal and plant life, which they reveal. Parts of the diary have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.

* * * * *

“We have no space to pursue our analysis into details. An amateur Sherlock Holmes will find much of interest in this volume. For instance, is the vocabulary consistent? Is the idiom consistent? Is the ignorance consistent? For the rest, and in spite of Earl Grey’s ‘sheer delight’ in the book, we find it flat, dreary, utterly uninteresting, a reductio ad absurdum of, as we have hinted, the American sentimental novel.” J. W. N. S.

− =Ath= p372 S 17 ’20 1400w

“Nature lovers and lovers of childhood especially will be delighted by it.”

+ =Booklist= 17:69 N ’20

“The truest thing about the journal to my own mind is its truth of emotion—it is the absolute record of a child’s emotion.” A. C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 52:258 N ’20 740w

“Completely delightful book.” C. H. O.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 29 ’20 2200w

“That it is a beautiful and touching and piercingly honest revelation of an imaginative child’s spirit seems to me evident beyond cavil.” Christopher Morley

+ =N Y Evening Post= p4 N 13 ’20 1200w

“The question asked with regard to ‘The young visiters’ is being repeated in connection with the present book—‘Could a child really write it?’ Only a child could have written ‘The story of Opal.’ No adult could put into language such innocent and spontaneous grace combined with such freshness of perception.” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= p14 O 3 ’20 1900w

“If ever the word unique is appropriate to a literary production, certainly it is here. The reader sometimes tires of the singular manner and strange expressions in the diary, but he never fails to feel the genuine fineness and charm of Opal’s love for animals and trees and all of out-of-doors, and her sweetness and affection toward the few human beings who responded to her appeal.”

+ =Outlook= 126:201 S 29 ’20 1150w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ − =Review= 3:269 S 29 ’20 120w

“The book is so incessantly sentimental as to be very tiresome reading to most English people—Americans seem to have stronger stomachs. Again, the inverted style is tedious—almost perhaps as tedious as the humour.”

− =Spec= 125:504 O 16 ’20 750w

“The style of the diary is irresistible. Full of quaint phrases, unconscious humor, the profound philosophies of childhood, the sentences move along in solemn, yet sparkling procession.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 24 ’20 720w

“It is not safe to dogmatize upon the limits of precocity, but the hand at work in many passages is prima facie not that of the six-year-old, but of the more mature professional humorist. Whatever be the solution, the main interest of the book is its vitality of imagination and its pregnancy of issues bearing upon child life remains unaffected.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 N 13 ’20 230w (Reprinted from London Observer)

“We may say without absurdity that the child has a style. And it reaches, particularly towards the end of the diary, a rare poetic suggestiveness. We hope that Opal Whiteley will write the other books she planned in childhood, but we do not expect them to be like this book; it is one of those inspirations which can seldom be repeated.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p593 S 16 ’20 2500w

=WHITHAM, G. I.= St John of Honeylea. *$1.75 (1½c) Lane

20–7526

When Evelyn St John was ten he was left an orphan in the keeping of a hard aunt. Of his father’s family he knew nothing. By force of character and personal charm he holds his own, makes friends and achieves a sheep farm at the Cape, when at the age of thirty he falls heir to the ancestral estate of the St John’s, Honeylea, in the south of England. In reality he had inherited much more: dark mysteries, a curse and the hatred and suspicions of a neighborhood. Honeylea had once been abbey land, had been wrested from the monks, who still haunted the woods where they had been murdered and had cursed the place. What became the banqueting hall of Honeylea had once been a church and all the St Johns had come to grief—the curse and their own pride being their undoing. The modern skepticism and moral courage of the present St John struggles bravely against the atmosphere and hidden malignity of the place which he loves for its beauty. Not until he has learned to pray as a last refuge from despair and the house is burned, is the curse lifted and fortune in love returns to a St John.

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=Ath= p1354 D 12 ’19 40w

“A very good bit of character work, an intensely absorbing story, this will appeal equally to those who love realistic tales of today, and to the fortunate folk who are made happy by medieval legends of days of old. For the book has both.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 9 ’20 480w

“Those who read ‘Mr Manley’ will not need to be told that G. I. Whitham knows how to write an interesting story. And ‘St John of Honeylea’ is an improvement on her earlier book, more convincing and better written, to say nothing of its possession of an unusually romantic and picturesque atmosphere.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:236 My 9 ’20 600w

“It is a good book, and many interesting people are to be met in it; not the least of whom are two who live only in the descriptions of the neighbours who have known them, ‘Uncle Charles,’ and his nephew and successor Cecil, the two last owners of the house. They are perhaps more distinctly drawn than any of the actual characters of the story.”

+ =Sat R= 128:590 D 20 ’19 480w

“The subject sounds familiar, but Mr Whitham has treated it in an original way.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p694 N 27 ’19 450w

=WHITIN, CORA BERRY.= Wounded words. *$1 Four seas co. 793

20–1007

A little book of rhymed charades designed by the author for the entertainment of convalescent soldiers. At the end a key is provided by which answers may be tested.

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=Boston Transcript= p10 Ap 17 ’20 140w

=Cath World= 111:554 Jl ’20 70w

“Mrs Whitin has been more concerned with ingenuity of expression than with Tennysonian polish of her verses.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Mr 2 ’20 120w

=WHITING, GERTRUDE.= Lace guide for makers and collectors. il *$15 Dutton 746

20–2109

“While this is a book which few people would enjoy for leisure reading, it represents the work of years of careful study of a subject which is nearest and dearest to the author’s heart. The work was produced, with the cooperation of lace experts of the Metropolitan museum for the guidance of students, makers, collectors and classifiers of bobbin laces. The author explains in detail the general rules for making various laces. These rules are expanded to include all variations from the simple grounds to the most complex stitches of many patterns of laces.” (Springf’d Republican) “The book is profusely illustrated with plates giving key designs, with accompanying directions to show students of lace how certain meshes are woven, to aid those planning to produce lace, and to assist classifiers and collectors in identifying laces. The book also contains a bibliography and lace nomenclature in five languages.” (Nation)

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“There is an increasing interest in lacemaking and lace collecting in this country, and Miss Whiting’s thorough technical knowledge as imparted in this book will do much to foster the movement.”

+ =Nation= 110:773 Je 5 ’20 280w

“The author has undertaken an arduous task, which she accomplishes with seeming ease. The explanations are made yet more valuable by the excellent photographs.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 26 ’20 380w

=WHITING, JOHN D.= Practical illustration; a guide for artists. il *$3 Harper 741

20–21999

The book deals with the problems peculiar to the work of the illustrator and the commercial designer and proposes to acquaint him with actual conditions in the publishing world. It is offered as a textbook for the teacher of “applied art” and a guide to the student. It is indexed and profusely illustrated—many of the plates in color—and the contents are: Looking over the field; Pictorial art for reproduction; Concerning illustrations; Concerning cover designs; Concerning commercial designs; Filling “rush orders”; Mechanical reproduction; Processes in color; Some concrete examples; The published art of tomorrow.

=WHITLATCH, MARSHALL.= Golf; for beginners—and others. il *$2 (4c) Macmillan 796

The author had disdained golf as a mollycoddle game but when he tried it, it hit him hard. He spent much time—wasted it—copying the style of professional experts, till he came to the conclusion that—barring a few fundamentals—it is an individual game for which each player must develop his own method. The object of the book is to call attention to the fundamental principles that must be observed under every form or method. The book is well illustrated and some of the chapter headings are: Balance the foundation of golf; Getting the power into the ball; Accuracy—not distance; Making the swing; Ease rather than effort; The part the body plays; On the putting green.

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“There is little advice in it which may not be found in other books of its kind, but Mr Whitlatch has suited his instructions particularly to the man who takes up golf in middle age with the handicap that his years force upon him. The illustrations are rather more radical than the text.”

+ =N Y Times= p28 Ag 1 ’20 390w

=WHITMAN, ROGER BRADBURY.=[2] Tractor principles. il *$2 Appleton 621.14

20–17311

Tractors are far from being as standardized as automobiles and there are almost as many types and designs as there are tractor makers. A man competent to handle and care for one type may be at a loss as to how to handle another. The purpose of the book is to describe and explain all the mechanisms in common use so that anyone may be able to identify and understand the parts of any make. The contents are: Tractor principles; Engine principles; Engine parts; Fuels and carburetion; Carbureters; Ignition; Battery ignition systems; Transmission; Tractor arrangement; Lubrication; Tractor operation; Engine maintenance; Locating trouble; Causes of trouble. The book is indexed and carefully illustrated.

=WHITMAN, WALT.=[2] Gathering of the forces. il 2v *$15 Putnam 814

The books contain the editorials, essays, literary and dramatic reviews and other material written by Walt Whitman as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847. The editors of the collection are Cleveland Rodgers and John Black, the latter contributing a foreword, inspired by the spirit of Whitman, and the former a sketch of Whitman’s life and work. The contents fall into seven parts with classification of the articles as follows: Part 1—Democracy: American democracy; Europe and America; Government; Patriotism. Part 2—Humanity: Hanging, prison reform, unfortunates; Education, children; Labor, female labor; Emigrants; England’s oppression of Ireland. Part 3—Slavery and the Mexican war: The extension of slavery; The union of states; War with Mexico; The Oregon boundary dispute. Part 4—Politics; Political controversies; Two local political campaigns; Civic interests; Free trade and the currency system. Part 5—Essays, personalities, short editorials; General essays; Personalities of the time; “The art of health”; Short editorials; Whitman as a paragrapher.