Part 3 with the Washington conference of 1919 including a summary of

the discussion of the eight-hour day and the employment of women and children.”—Am Econ R

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=Am Econ R= 10:839 D ’20 70w

“The assembled material will be useful to the student in the field of labor, even though he may be puzzled by several indefinite references and by some errors (possibly typographical).” Amy Hewes

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:361 Ja ’21 310w

Reviewed by J: B. Andrews

+ =Survey= 45:287 N 20 ’20 180w

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=BABSON, ROGER WARD.= Central American journey. (Interamerican geographical readers) il $1.20 (3c) World bk. 917.28

20–4903

This is the story of the Carroll family in their travels through Central America—an attempt to combine in the form of a story for children and an account of travel, certain information on our commercial relations with our southern neighbors. Its aim is to teach children that, in the process of linking nation with nation the world over, friendly trade relations contain the romance of the immediate future, that they imply human relations, fair dealing, and honorable business standards. Among the contents are: Castles in New Spain; The gateway of the world; The great waterway; On the trail of Columbus; A plantation in Costa Rica; Mules and mountain trails; The ancient land of Nicaragua; The wonders of a wilderness; The treasure of San Juancito; The small republic of Salvador. The book has an index and many illustrations.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:120 D ’20

+ =N Y Evening Post= p2 My 1 ’20 250w

=BABSON, ROGER WARD.=[2] Fundamentals of prosperity; what they are and whence they come. *$2 Revell 174

20–20936

“In this book the statistician of Wellesley Hills holds that we must look to religion and not to modern efficiency methods to insure national prosperity. He contends that down to this hour, mankind (or humanity—or the world at large) has lost its way, chiefly because of its refusal to accept the golden rule as the basis of true living.”—Springf’d Republican

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“It is a courageous book, inspired by an unshakable faith in the pricelessness of character, filled with wholesome advice to business men, and garnished with anecdotes that would be equally appropriate at a meeting of the stock exchange and a dinner party.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 6 ’20 190w

“It is a business man’s call to business to change its aim, a sermon of a high order of eloquence that if heeded would change the course of civilization.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 13 ’20 200w

=BABSON, ROGER WARD.= W. B. Wilson and the Department of labor. *$2 Brentano’s 353

20–1493

“The present head of the Department of labor at Washington has had the kind of life history that is often described as ‘typically American,’ but it happens that he was born and passed his childhood days in Scotland. He was taken from school at the age of eight and sent to the mines. As he grew up he worked as a common laborer, iron miner, locomotive fireman, lumber-jack, log-driver, farmer, and union organizer. He was sent to Congress from Pennsylvania for three terms, and when the Department of labor was created he became by President Wilson’s appointment the first Secretary of labor. All this and much more is told in the present volume by Roger W. Babson, the statistician, who was himself formerly chief of the Information service of the Department of labor. Mr Babson’s book describes and analyzes the machinery and policy of the department.”—R of Rs

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+ =Am Econ R= 10:363 Je ’20 80w

=Booklist= 17:28 O ’20

+ =Cleveland= p77 Ag ’20 60w

“A well-constructed and interesting biography.”

+ =N Y Times= p30 Ag 1 ’20 160w

“It is a little hard to tell where Babson begins and Wilson leaves off, for the biographer has not been quite able to play the part of Boswell to his Johnson.” J. E. Le Rossignol

+ − =Review= 2:333 Ap 3 ’20 420w

=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 150w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 6 ’20 290w

“Mr Babson has both succeeded and failed. He has done effectively what he set out to do. He has failed to do the much greater thing, such for example, as that which Graham Wallas has accomplished in his life of Francis Place. In a word, his book is not a biography insofar as biography is an art.” W. L. C.

+ − =Survey= 44:89 Ap 10 ’20 600w

=BACON, FRANK.= Lightnin’; after the play of the same name by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. il *$1.75 (3c) Harper

20–4438

A novel made from a popular play of the same name in which Mr Bacon has been playing the title part. Lightnin’ Bill Jones, so-called because it doesn’t describe him, is a gentle, genial old humorist who keeps a hotel in Calivada, on the California-Nevada line. In fact the state line runs thru the house, so that divorcees wishing to obtain the advantages of the easy divorce laws of one state might do so and at the same time enjoy the privileges of a California resort. Two land sharks, who for reasons of their own, wish to get control of the property, talk Bill’s wife and adopted daughter into their scheme, and then, unable to win Bill’s consent, persuade the wife to get a divorce. But their plans are foiled, and Bill with his genius for “fixing” things also brings about a happy ending to the love romance of two young people.

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=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20

“The pathos and humor of the play seem dry and forced in the story. Still the charm of old ‘Lightnin’ Bill’ Jones stands to some extent.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 220w

“The author continually insists that Jones is a ‘lovable character,’ but to the reader he seems no more than a lazy, shiftless, old drunkard, who looks to his wife and daughter for sustenance. Mr Bacon does not succeed in freeing the narrative from the atmosphere of the footlights.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p8a Ap 4 ’20 150w

=BACON, SIR REGINALD HUGH SPENCER.= Dover patrol, 1915–1917. 2v il *$10 (4½c) Doran 940.45

19–19869

“At Dover during 1915, 1916 and 1917, more operations were initiated and carried out than under any naval command since the wars at the beginning of last century.” (Preface) The author enumerates his reasons for writing the book: to write while memory is still accurate; to fill the need for an adequate account of the work of the Dover patrol; to contradict the untrue statements of the press anent his dismissal. Contents of volume 1: Historical; The ships of the Dover patrol; Matters of strategy; Coastal bombardments; The work of the trawlers and paddle mine-sweepers; The Belgian coast, its patrol and barrages; Landing the guns on the Belgian coast; A proposed attack on Ostend; Preparations for a great landing; Plans for blocking Zeebrugge and Ostend; The control and protection of traffic. Contents of volume 2: The incomparable sixth flotilla; The downs and merchant shipping; The barrages in the channel; The drifters and their tasks; The French coast; C.M.B.’s, M.L.’s, submarines and smoke; Operations; The air services of the Dover patrol; Dover harbour and dockyard; Epilogue; Appendixes; Index. Each volume is abundantly illustrated and supplied with charts and diagrams.

* * * * *

“An important contribution from the standpoint of historical truth.”

+ =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20

“As a question of strategy one of the most interesting parts of the book is that dealing with the plans drawn for a joint army and navy effort to turn the enemy out of his Belgian bases.” C. C. Gill

+ =Bookm= 51:477 Je ’20 1700w

“Admiral Bacon’s book has in it much matter for the layman and much for the expert. For that reason it is more shapeless than have been many books written about the war. For that reason also, it is a truer presentment of the conditions obtaining.” Muriel Harris

+ =Nation= 110:657 My 15 ’20 750w

+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 6Ow

“For this lucid and sailor-like account of an essential service Admiral Bacon deserves praise.”

+ =Review= 3:707 Jl 7 ’20 1400w

“This notable book wavers a little between treatise and narrative, but it is well worth reading all the same. A certain sense of grievance animates Sir Reginald Bacon’s pages. But it only obtrudes itself here and there, for instance, in a tendency to belittle the method of Admiral Keyes’s attack on Zeebrugge.”

+ =Sat R= 128:sup13 N 29 ’19 1050w

“Sir Reginald Bacon’s detailed narrative of the Dover patrol is a well-written and highly interesting book, which will rank with Lord Jellicoe’s history of the grand fleet among the chief authorities on the naval side of the war.”

+ =Spec= 123:582 N 1 ’19 1600w

“It is a striking and interesting narrative, gracefully related, with a thousand sidelights on this little-known field of naval operations.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 21 ’20 720w

“The 633 pages of ‘The Dover patrol’ are crowded with statements of fact, criticisms not indeed of persons (for, apart from his official enemy, and vague indications of contradicting sinners, Admiral Bacon is generous in his tone to his colleagues and subordinates), but of principles and the methods of the art of war at sea. Admiral Bacon sometimes writes expressly for the professional reader, but he remembers the little knowledge of most of us, avoids pedantry, and has a respectable share of the blessed faculty for making things clear.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p599 O 30 ’19 2150w

+ =Yale R= n s 10:437 Ja ’21 270w

=BADEN-POWELL, SIR ROBERT STEPHENSON SMYTH.= Scoutmastership. *$1.50 Putnam 369.4

20–26747

This “handbook for scoutmasters on the theory of scout training” is the American edition of the author’s book on British scout training with a few alterations by way of adaptation. Its arguments are elaborations on the four main principles on which, according to the author, scout training is based, and which require of the scoutmaster that “(1) He must have the boy spirit in him; and must be able to place himself on a right plane with his pupils as a first step; (2) He must realize the psychology of the different ages of boy life; (3) He must deal with the individual pupil rather than with the mass; and (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.” After the introductory exposition of these principles the contents are: How to train the boy; Character; Health and physical development; Making a career; Service for others; Reconstruction; The education act and the Boy scout; The attitude of labour towards scouting; Be ye prepared; Appendix.

* * * * *

“A readable handbook.”

+ =Booklist= 17:9 O ’20

+ =Review= 3:215 S 8 ’20 80w

=BAFF, WILLIAM E.= Inventions, their development, purchase and sale. *$2 Van Nostrand 608

20–6991

“This book is essentially a manual on the marketing of inventions.... In its broader aspect it is a book on business policy and is sent out on its mission of enlightening inventors and others about plans by the aid of which inventions may be profitably exploited.... The problems discussed are the manufacturers’ problems as well as those of the individual inventor.” (Preface) Among the subjects covered are: Value and price of patents; Gauging the merits of an invention; Developing inventions; The market for inventions; Patents as property; Inventor and capitalist; Elementary contract laws. The final chapter consists of Suggestions from the author on every phase of selling inventions. There is an index.

* * * * *

“It should prove of essential service to the inventor who is about to market his ideas.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p15 My 8 ’20 250w

=BAILEY, CAROLYN SHERWIN.= Broad stripes and bright stars. (For the children’s hour ser.) il $1.50 (3½c) Bradley, M. 973

19–13373

A series of stories from American history. The author says, “I have written this book because I believe that the story of the American people as it is embodied in the history of our United States supplies the most important material for character building in the entire field of elementary education, and should be offered to children in a new, humanitarian way as a means of helping them to understand the present.” (Preface) The stories are arranged chronologically and include: Pilgrims for freedom; The first fight; The freeman’s charter; Following the beaver’s trail; At the gate of old Harvard; Ringing in the fourth of July; In the wake of the first steamboat, etc. A chronology of main events referred to comes at the close.

* * * * *

“The stories are well told.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 My 25 ’20 100w

=BAILEY, CAROLYN SHERWIN.= Wonder stories. il $2.50 (3½c) Bradley, M. 292

20–12815

All the well-known myths are here retold for boys and girls. There is an introduction on How the myths began, followed by the stories of Prometheus, Pandora (Hawthorne’s “Paradise of children”), Vulcan, Orion, Perseus, Pegasus, Phaeton, Apollo, Mercury, Proserpine, Jason, the golden apples, the wooden horse, and others. There are six pictures in color by Clara M. Burd.

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“An attractive collection.”

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 30w

=BAILEY, HENRY CHRISTOPHER.= Barry Leroy. *$2 Dutton

20–4707

“When the story opens Barry is a spy in the service of Napoleon; the war is on between France and England. Barry had learned to believe in the people who were fighting for liberty and equality. But there comes a time when Barry’s regard for the French consul is turned to contempt and hatred. The abduction and execution of the Duc d’Enghien, whom Barry knew to be loyal to Napoleon, was the cause of his revolt. Asserting that he would never forgive the Little Corsican for his cold-blooded treachery, he goes over to the other side and offers his services to the British. He forces a duel on Nelson at one moment and saves his life at the risk of his own at another.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

“Rather disconnected and has not quite the charm or vivacity of ‘The gamesters’ or ‘The highwaymen.’”

+ − =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20

“In criticizing Mr Bailey’s methods in portraying his most difficult figures, I would not subtract from the extent of his accomplishment. He has, we must admit, failed in Napoleon and Nelson. ‘Barry Leroy’ is an excellent story in spite of this lack. It possesses the fine dash, the romance, the joy of adventure for itself, that we have come to associate with other times than our own.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 4 ’20 1050w

“Throughout the book the action never lags; there are no dull moments. As a spy-story having an historic background and interwoven with a charming love affair, ‘Barry Leroy’ is above the average in construction and sustained interest.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:168 Ap 11 ’20 500w

“The fantastic vein of the story is well sustained, though necessarily told in episodes with little organic connection, as if written for serial publication.”

+ =Sat R= 129:234 Mr 6 ’20 80w

=BAILEY, LIBERTY HYDE.= Nursery-manual; a complete guide to the multiplication of plants. (Rural manuals) il *$2.50 Macmillan 631.5

20–1758

“Rewritten and reset, L. H. Bailey’s ‘The nursery-manual’ is off the press in its 22d edition. It deals fully with seeds, layers, cuttings, buds, grafts and otherwise. To those who are acquainted with the earlier editions—the first having been issued early in 1891—little introduction is needed, save to say that the material is brought up to date with addition of observations gained in further research. An extended alphabetic list of plants with full directions for each is included. The volume also includes an illustrated account of the main diseases and insects of nursery stock, valuable to the commercial grower.”—Springf’d Republican

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=Booklist= 16:231 Ap ’20

=R of Rs= 61:448 Ap ’20 50w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Mr 12 ’20 240w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 40w

=BAILEY, TEMPLE.= Trumpeter swan. il *$1.90 Penn

20–17175

“The hero, a young soldier, returns from France to face changes of fortune and soon to realize that the girl he loves has lost her heart to another man. How Randy makes good, writes the romance of ‘The trumpeter swan,’ and wins back the wandering heart of his lady, is all set down. Interwoven is the minor story of baby Fiddle Flippen.”—Boston Transcript

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+ =Booklist= 17:115 D ’20

“The plot of Temple Bailey’s latest story is practically nil, but its settings are wonderfully picturesque. The hills of old Virginia and the moors of Nantucket are powerfully contrasted to furnish a background for a readable light tale.” C. K. H.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 500w

+ =Cleveland= p105 D ’20 50w

“Her readers will like this new book. The love passages are wholesome, strike the note of sincerity, and therefore cannot but be acceptable.”

+ =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 430w

Reviewed by Marguerite Fellows

+ =Pub W= 98:658 S 18 ’20 190w

“A good simple natural harmless story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 230w

=BAIN, FRANCIS WILLIAM.= Substance of a dream. il *$1.75 (3½c) Putnam

19–19598

The author disclaims all responsibility for his stories which he says come to him “suddenly, like a flash of lightning all together.... I never know, the day before, when one is coming: it arrives, as if shot out of a pistol.” (Introd.) This exotic Hindu tale is half love-story, half fairy tale, and depicts in the extraordinary queen, Táráwalí, a being half male half female. It is in three parts: On the banks of Ganges; The heart of a woman; and A story without an end.

* * * * *

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 51:240 My ’20 450w

=Lit D= p91 S 4 ’20 1300w

“Those who have read Mr Bain’s other Hindu stories will not need to be told of the unique place he now occupies in the world of letters. Here the exigencies of space will permit us to say only that ‘The substance of a dream’ is a worthy successor to the other and earlier volumes.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:145 Mr 28 ’20 600w

=N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w

“‘The substance of a dream’ will please those whom the other books of the author have pleased. It is very feminine; sensuous to the point of orgies of kissing; sensual with soulhuntings and langours and faintings; fleshly in artistic ecstasies; and psychological in imaginative suggestion.”

− + =Review= 2:682 Je 30 ’20 280w

“By no means the least delightful of Mr Bain’s long series of Indian romances.”

+ =Spec= 124:179 F 7 ’20 550w

“You cannot say whether his style is artful or artless; but the words make new associations for us, create an unfamiliar state of being, though they are familiar words.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 N 20 ’19 1000w

=BAIRNSFATHER, BRUCE.=[2] Bairnsfather case; as tried before Mr Justice Busby; defence by Bruce Bairnsfather; prosecution by W. A. Mutch. il *$2.50 Putnam 827

20–21304

In alternating chapters Bruce Bairnsfather and W. A. Mutch tell the story of Mr Bairnsfather’s life and struggles for success. There are illustrations from Bairnsfather drawings.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:145 Ja ’21

“If anything in late years has been more amusing than Mr Bairnsfather’s adventures in print, it is his adventures in black and white as drawn by himself. Forty drawings grace the book, and many of them are better than the original ‘fragments.’”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 24 ’20 250w

“It has that satirical note without which a whole book of humour is apt to be sticky reading.”

+ =Spec= 135:818 D 18 ’20 60w

“The whole book is a happy means of bettering one’s acquaintance, book fashion, with the delightful Bairnsfather.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 18 ’21 330w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O 21 ’20 40w

=BAKER, ERNEST.= Life and explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot. il *$5 Dutton

“Mr Arnot died in May, 1914, at Johannesburg, having just completed his ‘Missionary travels in Central Africa.’ He first went to Africa, inspired by the story of Livingstone, in 1881, and during his seven years’ residence gained the friendship of the King of the Barotse and was held in much esteem by the natives. Altogether he made nine journeys to the centre of Africa, and his self-devotion and the vast distances he traversed give him a high place among travellers and among missionaries. His life story is worth telling and it is given almost entirely in extracts from his own letters and diaries.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

* * * * *

“A valuable contribution to the literature of brotherhood and religious democracy.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 430w

“Arnot was a noble character, and deserves a much better biography.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p18 O 23 ’20 300w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 S 16 ’20 90w

=BAKER, GEORGE PIERCE=, comp. Modern American plays. *$2.25 Harcourt 812.08

20–14860

Professor Baker has in this volume collected five American plays chosen from the output of the last ten years because decided success has been theirs, and they are worthy of professional revival, and because the selection shows the greatest possible variety. In his introduction he briefly analyzes each of the plays and ends his general remarks on American play-writing with the assurance that “We have the right to hope that the next decade will give us an American drama which, in its mirroring of American life, will be even more varied in form, even richer in content.” The plays are: As a man thinks, by Augustus Thomas; The return of Peter Grimm, by David Belasco; Romance, by Edward Sheldon; The unchastened woman, by Louis Kaufman Anspacher; Plots and playwrights, by Edward Massey.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20

“All the plays collected here are significant—all have added to the pleasure of playgoing. This book makes their remembrance the richer.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 390w

“Most decidedly, these are not the measure of American drama. They are just five American plays. When a man has done what Professor Baker has done at Harvard, it is disappointing to find him fathering so trivial a venture as the collecting of these five dramas into a single volume.” K. M.

+ − =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 190w

“All these pieces, probably, profit by being printed in their entirety, but a somewhat deliberate study of them leads to the conclusion that, judged by any moderately critical standard, only two of them would be marked for revival on account of their actual merits. The best of them, by all odds, is the somewhat awkwardly named ‘As a man thinks.’ Of the other pieces in the list, ‘The unchastened woman’ is the only one that has substantial or abiding value.” J. R. Towse

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p4 O 23 ’20 1150w

“Four out of the five at least have interesting stories, and are flawless in their adaptation to the theatre; but gayly as they trip on the stage, they drag a little in the reading.”

+ − =Review= 3:389 O 27 ’20 350w

“This book is intended to interest both readers and amateur players. It has, perhaps, no great significance as a compendium of modern American drama but it should serve its purpose.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 S 13 ’20 240w

=Wis Lib Bul= 16:234 D ’20 60w

=BAKER, KARLE (WILSON) (MRS THOMAS ELLIS BAKER) (CHARLOTTE WILSON, pseud.).= Blue smoke. *$1.50 Yale univ. press 811

19–14952

“The poems have been written ‘at intervals since 1901,’ the author says, and consequently their moods are various.” (Springf’d Republican) “Love, children, the cause of woman all move her to song. Among other pieces we have specially noted the well-handled conceit called ‘Winter secrets’; the happy introspective fancy called ‘The lost one’; the truly heartfelt elegy for ‘The dead fore-runner’ of the woman’s movement; and the delightful literary reverie called ‘The love of Elia.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

* * * * *

“These poems are not all smoke. There are many glowing embers and a few blazing coals. Mrs Baker shows something of antique restraint and not a little of the newer and freer impulse.” C. M. Greene

+ =Bookm= 50:634 F ’20 140w

“Not ambitious in manner, Mrs Baker has the soundness and felicity of art to make her themes poetically alive.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p5 S 17 ’19 1400w

+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 20w

“Hers is a gentle gracefulness, a light timidity that succeeds most when it is least emphasized.” L: Untermeyer

+ =Dial= 68:532 Ap ’20 150w

“Mrs Baker’s metaphors from nature have an almost unexampled finesse. She draws down trees, birds, stars, prints them on her page with a diamond delicacy, heats and lights them into a tender, fiery transparency. Her ideas are often second-hand, and her ardors, sweet and genuine though some of them, particularly those for her children, may be, are not perhaps distinguished enough to wear well. The solid core of her work, however, though small, is fine.” M. V. D.

+ − =Nation= 110:76 Ja 17 ’20 220w

“‘Blue smoke’ is a book of happiness and hope. It is unpretentious, modest, and sincere. The poems read as though publication had been an afterthought; they were not written to catch an exclusive or ‘appreciative’ audience.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Ja 23 ’20 260w

“Mrs Baker, an American writer, is a craftswoman of much skill, who is never at a loss for ideas, various and fruitful, and can fit them to apt expression. Hence her book is always interesting, though it does not succeed in giving us the thrill of beautiful utterance.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p174 Mr 11 ’20 120w

“Possibly given overmuch to introspection, at times a little over-wistful, this poet gives only her best. Her style is simple, vivid, never précieuse; there is perfect ease in all the beauty of these songs.” E: B. Reed

+ =Yale R n s= 10:204 O ’20 170w

=BAKER, RAY PALMER=, ed. Engineering education. *$1.25 Wiley 620.7

19–14693

“These fourteen selected articles, written during the past decade by eminent engineers and scientists, are designed not only to inform engineering undergraduates concerning the broad aspects of their profession, but to serve as examples of good English. Simon Newcomb and Sir J. J. Thomson discuss the origins of engineering education; J. B. Johnson and Howard McClenahan deal with the types of engineering education; the relation of language to the profession is considered by J. J. L. Harrington and C. P. Steinmetz. The place of mathematics is discussed by Sir W. H. White and Arthur Ranum; physics by M. A. Hunter and R. A. Millikan; chemistry by J. B. C. Kershaw and Alfred Senier; and the role of the imagination in engineering by Isham Randolph and J. C. Smallwood. The editor is professor of English in the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:76 D ’19

“Each is not only well chosen for its primary purpose of use in engineering schools but might also be read, or read anew, by engineers in practice.”

+ =Engin-News Rec= 83:891 N 13 ’19 240w

“It strikes a reader that these addresses, each advocating the claim of some one branch of science, interesting as they are, would have been more useful if there had been a recognition of the distinction between what should be included in the school course preceding the technical course, in the technical course itself necessarily restricted, and what extra academic self-education should be expected to accompany and follow it.” W. C. U.

+ − =Nature= 105:258 Ap 29 ’20 700w

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p15 O ’19 150w

=Pratt= p18 Ja ’20 30w

=BAKER, RAY STANNARD= (=DAVID GRAYSON=, pseud.). New industrial unrest; reasons and remedies. *$2 (4c) Doubleday 331

20–8811

“The battle is on” between employers and employees, says the author in explaining the raison d’etre of the present volume whose object it is to “present a survey, for the general reader, of the present industrial crisis, and the various reconstructive experiments now under way to meet it.” It is the author’s conviction that the problems are very pressing, very real and intensely human and that, if the American people can only be made to see and know and understand where truly reconstructive experimentation is going on and who are the thoughtful leaders on both sides, they will decide aright regarding them. Some of the contents are: The industrial crisis as it appears from above to the capitalist-employer; The industrial crisis as it appears from below to the worker; The imputed causes of the unrest; The real causes of the unrest; Awakening of the public to the industrial crisis; Approaches to a solution of the problem—by political action, as suggested by the workers—the new labor party; The new shop-council system as applied in a typical small industry—the Dutchess bleachery at Wappingers Falls, New York; Development of the shop-council system in America—method of organization—the movement in England and Germany; Foundations of the new co-operative movement in industry: the new profession of management, and the labor manager.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:327 Jl ’20

“As a trained journalist, he sees the problem clearly, without that hard definiteness such as an economist who is more reliable but less readable, usually believes essential to correct understanding.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 O 9 ’20 280w

“Combining the lucidity of the trained writer, the quick eye of the reporter and the orderly reflectiveness of the born philosopher, Mr Baker’s birdseye view of what is wrong with American industry is the best book of its kind which has yet appeared.”

+ =Ind= 103:319 S 11 ’20 200w

“There is nothing the matter with Mr Baker’s observation, as far as it penetrates, but it does not penetrate to the causes which maintain the struggle in spite of anyone’s reasonableness or good intentions.” G: Soule

+ − =Nation= 111:534 N 10 ’20 190w

“He is always the reporter standing outside, trying to understand a technical problem and to help his audience to understand.” Ordway Tead

+ − =New Repub= 25:208 Ja 12 ’21 410w

Reviewed by J. E. Le Rossignol

=Review= 3:504 N 24 ’20 350w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 30w

“An outlook free from confusing prejudices and a well disciplined ability to obtain facts were carried to the inquiry. Mr Baker’s principal prepossession seems to have been a desire to learn those things which are favorable to the public well being. That, I take it, is not an insuperable handicap. On the whole there is perhaps no other single book which tells so well and so truthfully the story of a large and important part of ‘the new industrial unrest.’”

+ =Survey= 44:316 My 29 ’20 300w

“Mr Baker’s writings are in more or less popular style which makes them decidedly readable without detracting in the least from the accuracy of the facts which he presents.”

+ =Textile World= 57:30 My 15 ’20 220w

“Mr Baker’s honesty and fair-mindedness verge upon genius—though they are plainly aided by his refusal to break through the surface where he is unable to see clearly.” W: E. Walling

+ − =Yale R n s= 10:217 O ’20 480w

=BAKEWELL, CHARLES MONTAGUE.= Story of the American Red cross in Italy. il *$2 (4c) Macmillan 940.477

20–15731

The story tells of the material aid that the American Red cross gave to Italy: at the front, in canteens, in assistance to hospitals, and in helping refugees and the needy families of soldiers, but the emphasis is put less on its achievements than on its contribution to a better understanding between our two people and on the finer and more discriminating appreciation of Italian character that our workers in the field have invariably gained. Some of the topics are: The American relief clearing house; The Baker commission, Red cross emergency commission; Organization; Civilian relief and the “inner front”; Cash distribution to soldiers’ families; Station canteens; Rolling canteens; Surgical dressings; Hospital supplies; Hospitals; Work with American troops in Italy. There are numerous illustrations and statistical appendices.

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“A readable book not overloaded with statistics.”

+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21

+ =R of Rs= 62:671 D ’20 50w

=BALDWIN, CHARLES SEARS.= God unknown. *$1 Morehouse 231

20–8877

A study of the address of St Paul at Athens, based on lectures delivered at Columbia and Indiana universities. There are five chapters: Religion in the open; Greek and Jew; Philosophy and religion; Personality; Symbol and reality. The author is professor of rhetoric and English composition in Columbia university and has written a book on “The Bible as a guide to writing.”

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“One feels grateful for such an intellectual and scholarly work as that of the author of this small volume, who has made real one of the most famous events of ancient times.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 8 ’20 520w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p623 S 23 ’20 50w

=BALDWIN, JAMES, and LIVENGOOD, WILLIAM WINFRED.=[2] Sailing the seas; introd. by E: N. Hurley. il *$1 Am bk. 656

20–5112

“A sailor’s imaginary log, full of interest for boys and written at the request of the U.S. Shipping board to promote in the younger generation an understanding of the development of types of American boats of commerce, of the interdependence of peoples and of the importance of the merchant marine. Includes whalers, tramp steamers and ocean liners.”—Booklist

+ =Booklist= 17:120 D ’20

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 O 5 ’20 240w

=BALDWIN, MARIAN.=[2] Canteening overseas; 1917–1919. *$2 Macmillan 940.48

20–15730

“What one Y. M. C. A. worker saw in France is told in a collection of letters written by Marian Baldwin and published under the title of ‘Canteening overseas.’ The dates on the letters run from June 30, 1917, to June 19, 1919. The first one was written on board the ship that took Miss Baldwin to France and the last one from Coblenz. Between the two are letters from Paris, Bordeaux, Aix-les-Bains, the Lorraine sector, the Argonne, the St Mihiel front, from Verdun and from Germany. All the letters are reprinted as they were originally written, except for the insertion of names of places, persons, and a few other indications, which, because of the censorship, had perforce to be omitted from the letters as mailed from Europe.”—N Y Times

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“There is a gay spontaneity in parts of the book, a sincerity running through it, and more than all else it serves to reveal the effect of these dark days of service, of endurance, often of hardship upon the writer herself.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 17 ’20 320w

=N Y Times= p30 Ja 9 ’21 170w

“These letters are made vivid by a natural descriptive touch, by an ever-present sense of humor, and by an admirable spirit.”

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 130w

=BALDWIN, SIMEON EBEN.= Young man and the law. (Vocational ser.) *$1.50 Macmillan 340

20–2658

“Professor Baldwin, ex-chief justice and ex-governor of Connecticut, bears a leading name in the history of the legal profession. He discusses the majesty of the law and the lawyer as its minister, the cultivation of mind and heart incident to the legal profession, the lawyer’s various opportunities, the personal and educational qualities requisite of success, and the ideals of the profession.”—Boston Transcript

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+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 120w

“The dominant note of the book is its idealism. Judge Baldwin has the fortunate faculty of seeing things at their best.”

+ =Nation= 110:524 Ap 17 ’20 280w

“Eminently worth while for any young man who is thinking of the law as his profession.”

+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 50w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 50w

=BAMBER, MRS L. KELWAY=, ed. Claude’s second book. *$1.60 (7½c) Holt 134

(Eng ed 20–8723)

“This book records a continuation of the ‘talks’ already published in ‘Claude’s book,’ which described a young airman’s first impressions and experiences of life after death in the spirit-world in which he suddenly and unwillingly found himself when he was killed.” (Preface) The present volume is furnished with an introduction by Ellis Thomas Powell and some of Claude’s “talks” are: Some difficulties of mediumship; The circle of power; Ideal sitters; Spiritualism and occultism; Man’s reincarnation; Dreams; The power of mind; Spirit helpers; God—the war—the Christ-spirit; Development of personality; The prerogative of spirit; Prayer.

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“In this second book of Claude’s talks with his mother, we find a considerable advance in thought. Certain chapters, such as that on prayer, would be recognized for their worth, even if they were entirely disassociated with this type of book.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 280w

“The explanations themselves are as unconvincing and improbable as usual.”

− =N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 310w

=BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK.= Cheery way. *$2 Harper 811

20–13319

“A bit of verse for every day” says the subtitle, and, indeed, the verses contain a cheery message for every day in the year, full of courage, humor, sympathetic understanding of all human moods, and good advice. The page decorations by J. R. Flanagan are in four designs, one for each season.

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“These little stanzas are full of the philosophy of good humor with some real gospel messages.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 31 ’20 340w

=BANGS, MARY ROGERS.= Old Cape Cod; the land, the men, the sea. il *$3.50 (4c) Houghton 974.4

20–19426

The table of contents indicates the scope of this book about Cape Cod. The chapter headings are: The land; The old colony; The towns; The French wars; The English wars; Theology and whaling; Storms and pirates; Old sea ways; The captains; The county; Genius loci. There are eight full-page halftone illustrations from photographs and two end maps, one a modern map of Cape Cod and the other a facsimile of a part of Captain Cyprian Southack’s map, made in 1717. There is no index.

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“One of the best Cape Cod books.”

+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21

+ =Ind= 104:242 N 13 ’20 60w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 N 13 ’20 220w

Reviewed by B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 260w

“Good stories of pirates, Indians, and sea captains make the book lively reading.”

+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 40w

Reviewed by E: L. Pearson

+ =Review= 3:531 D 1 ’20 70w

+ =R of Rs= 63:111 Ja ’21 20w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a D 5 ’20 290w

=BANKS, LOUIS ALBERT.=[2] Winds of God. *$1.75 Funk 252

A volume containing thirty of the author’s sermons, among them: The east wind; The north wind; The whirlwinds of life; The need of a red-blooded Christianity; The banishment of anxiety; The sorrows of a tangled soul; The freedom of the city of God; Abraham Lincoln; The blessings that come from prayer; The romance and joy of the pioneer; Keeping the soul alive; The Bible ideal of a noble womanhood.

=BANNERJEA, D. N.= India’s nation builders. *$3.50 Brentano’s

“Fifteen biographies and character sketches of eminent Indians whom the author regards as pioneers of modern India. The leaders include Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Keshab Chandra, Sen., Dadabhoy Naoroji, Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and others.” (Brooklyn) “The writer would urge, by constitutional means, the immediate grant to India, subject to the stability of the empire as a whole, of a substantial measure of self-government.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup Jl 10 ’19)

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=Ath= p684 Ag 1 ’19 340w

=Brooklyn= 12:134 My ’20 40w

“The defects of the book lie on the surface. The author follows neither a logical nor a chronological order of treatment. But when due allowance has been made for these unfortunate short-comings, Mr Bannerjea’s realistic character-sketches are on the whole satisfying, critical and varied enough to attract American readers to a closer study of the Indian point of view.” B. K. Sarkar

+ − =Freeman= 2:115 O 13 ’20 1000w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p378 Jl 10 ’19 50w

“It is unhappily evident that Mr Bannerjea, for all the sedulous good nature and tolerance which he consciously or unwittingly affects, caters for the kindly enthusiasts who find the careful study of historical origins a bore and an impediment to their pious belief that all men are alike, that India is and always has been ‘a nation,’ and that British administration is an oppressive and obsolete anomaly.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p490 S 18 ’19 1100w

=BANNING, MARGARET CULKIN.= This marrying. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

20–5228

In this tendency novel the problems of the modern woman are sympathetically discussed. Horatia Grant has taken a course in journalism at college and breaks away from her dull, respectable, middle-class home to make her own way. She shocks her relatives by taking a desk at the Journal, a progressive daily of socialistic leanings with its editor, Jim Langley, socially under a cloud. She meets a new class of people, acquires new outlooks, faces new problems. Putting herself and her friends to the test she learns to discriminate between the real and the acquired instincts. She finds herself and she and Jim Langley find each other.

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=Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20

“The success of the story lies not in an original plot, nor even in an unusual manner of telling the story, but rather in a certain freshness and joy in the experience of it all.” D. L. M.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 750w

=Ind= 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w

“The book is so distinctly pleasing, and is written with such unmistakable sincerity, that one passes over the blemishes—very trifling, after all—and gives himself up to the quiet enjoyment of a work that maintains its interest throughout without any strain or outbreak of violent emotion.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 400w

“Whether one does or does not think all the incidents probable, one cannot help enjoying the genuine American enthusiasm of Horatia.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 300w

“A bright and busy story.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p386 Je 17 ’20 90w

=BARBOUR, RALPH HENRY, and HOLT, H. P.= Joan of the island. *$1.75 Small

20–4709

“The story opens in an extraordinary way, by a sailor slipping overboard into the South Pacific ocean, just after killing the captain of the tramp steamer in which he sailed. The escaped sailor, who has taken with him no baggage save just a life-belt, is a strong swimmer and after some thirty hours of alternately swimming and floating, the fugitive reaches shore on an island of the South Sea. It is inhabited and the traveller lands just in time to save Joan, the heroine, from injury at the hands of an angry native. With such a beginning proceeds a romance of the Sulu sea and islands. Joan and her brother are the only whites in this vicinity and the brother is absent in another island, leaving his sister who is in care of a great Dane. The dog is poisoned by a treacherous native and Joan is barely saved from attack by the sudden entrance of the fugitive. Of course there are adventures without number, thrilling escapes from peril, a love episode and a pleasant ending.”—Boston Transcript

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“Fairly readable.”

+ =Booklist= 16:345 Jl ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 200w

“This is as good a novel of adventure as has appeared for some time, not only because there is a clean-cut story, but on account of the splendid lucidity with which it is related.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 620w

“The story is hardly more than mildly interesting.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 130w

=BARBOUR, RALPH HENRY, and HOLT, H. P.= Mystery of the Sea-Lark. il *$1.75 (3c) Century

20–14289

Jack Holden and his chum George Santo salvage an abandoned sloop, the Sea-Lark, and fit her up for use as a ferry boat. Sometime before, Jack’s father had been forced to sever relations with his business partner, Simon Barker, under a cloud of suspicion and Jack is glad of the opportunity to help out the family finances. The venture is a success, but the boys are surprised at the sudden desire of two strangers to buy the boat. Then comes a series of strange midnight visits and finally both boat and boys are kidnapped and taken out to sea. They outwit their captors and in solving the mystery of the Sea-Lark clear Mr Holden’s good name and restore the stolen money that had been the foundation of the trouble.

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=Booklist= 17:77 N ’20

“What a boy will call a ‘dandy yarn.’” Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 80w

“A capital story for boys.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 30w

“The story is well told and the interest is cumulative.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 31 ’20 170w

“A good mystery story which, refreshingly, is quite free from German spies.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:197 N ’20 100w

=BARCLAY, FLORENCE LOUISA (CHARLESWORTH) (MRS CHARLES W. BARCLAY).= Returned empty. *$1.75 (5c) Putnam

20–11496

A strange story of reincarnation. Luke Sparrow is brought up in a foundlings’ home, where the only clue to his identity is the label found on him bearing the inscription “Glass with care” on one side and on the other “Returned empty.” He is a lonely baby, and grows up to be a lonely man, with one queer trait: he has a passion for peering thru the windows of comfortable homes, as if seeking for something he cannot find. And then one day, he finds it in the home of a beautiful woman. She tells him the strange story that explains his life. In a previous incarnation he had been her husband, and at his tragic death, she had grieved so deeply that her love had called him back to this world to live again. But this great love, altho it brought them together, cannot keep them so, and she steps out of his life again leaving him infinitely richer, for the short remaining span of his life, for the contact.

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“She has made a most appealing story which will interest readers who do not usually number Mrs Barclay among their favorite authors.” Cornelia Van Pelt

+ =Pub W= 98:660 S 18 ’20 370w

=BARCLAY, VERA C.= Danny again; further adventures of “Danny the detective.” il *$1.25 (5c) Putnam

20–12601

This sequel to “Danny the detective” is a book of short stories. The first is a wartime story in which Danny again appears as the captor of a German spy. The other titles are: Christmas eve; A sporting kid; A midnight adventure; The secret room; In mid-air; Dicky’s chance; The bishop’s story. Some of the stories are reprinted from The Wolf Cub, an English Boy scout publication.

=BARCYNSKA, HÉLÈNE, countess.= Rose o’ the sea (Eng title Pretty dear). il *$2 (2c) Houghton

20–17652

Eccentric Henry Eton was the only father Rose had ever known since he had rescued her from the sea sixteen years before. Now at his death, she determines to go to London to make her way alone rather than stay in the little village which is so lonely without him. She is fortunate in London to fall at once into a congenial occupation and among friendly people. Among her new acquaintances is Denis Mallory, a lovable, wayward boy, whose father, Lord Caister, is much worried about the lad. Rose’s sweet spirit and common sense so appeal to the father that he arranges an engagement between Rose and Denny hoping thus to keep the boy straight. They both try to enter into the arrangement honestly altho Rose realizes she is doing it for Lord Caister’s sake rather than for his son’s. But when she comes into a large inheritance Lord Caister’s pride releases her from the agreement, which Denis, by a hasty marriage with an actress, has already made impossible. There is now no barrier between Rose and Lord Caister himself except pride, and that is finally broken down by Denny’s tragic death.

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“The heroine is remarkably artless; a little too artless, indeed, to seem real—in this world, at all events. The author’s experience as a writer of eminently readable fiction enables her thoroughly to enlist the reader’s interest in this wild-flower heroine.”

+ − =Ath= p783 Je 11 ’20 110w

“A novel which many girls and women will like.”

+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21

“Rose in ‘Rose o’ the sea’ is a sort of female St Francis of Assisi. The novel may help an undiscriminating mind to while away a dull hour.”

− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 70w

=N Y Times= p23 O 24 ’20 350w

“It is a little story sure to delight every lover of impossible romance.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 21 ’20 160w

=BARKER, ARTHUR.=[2] British corn trade; from the earliest times to the present day. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries) il $1 (2½c) Pitman 338.1

The term corn trade in British usage includes “all trade not only in wheat, ... but also in any other cereal for which there is any commercial demand, such as barley, oats, maize, rye or rice.” Contents: The British corn trade and its units; The corn trade in old England; The English law on the “cornering” of wheat and other grain; Two hundred and fifteen years of wheat prices in England; The corn laws era; The growth and development of the modern corn trade; The effect of the great war on the corn trade. There are notes at the close and an index.

=BARKER, D. A.=[2] Great leviathan. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

20–22040

Tom’s life was regulated by principle. As a lad at Harrow his principles brought him into trouble because they ran counter to the rules of the school. Later they interfered with his adopting a settled career and he led a wandering life as a lecturer against social evils. Even as a child he had begun to look upon marriage as wrong, for he had witnessed his mother’s unhappiness, and free unions had become a matter of principle with him. He makes a convert of his beloved Mary. At first they are happy, but as little by little the great leviathan breaks her spirit, love goes and she leaves him. His other endeavors also meet with the world’s scorn and a complete nervous breakdown is the result. After his recovery he goes to India and there he joins a devout and aged Hindoo on his last pilgrimage and finds peace in the “glory of God” as taught by the Bhagavad Gita.

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“For a first attempt it is a commendable piece of work, but it does not—if one may be permitted the expression—cut any ice. It is pleasantly written, and there are many happy touches, but we are never certain as to what it is that the author is after.” K. M.

+ − =Ath= p78 Jl 16 ’20 200w

“Mr Barker’s story is really very well told, he is greatly in earnest, and the ideals he handles are much ‘in the air’ just now, especially in England.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 170w

“A clever account is given of how he spoils his life by his experiment in evading the chains of matrimony. The end of the book is not quite so convincing.”

+ − =Spec= 125:439 O 2 ’20 40w

“Technically ‘The great leviathan’ is interesting as showing what Mr Wells’s technique may become in unskilful hands. But the book, though a failure, is an interesting failure. Mr Barker could not have written it without learning a good deal of the difficulties of novelwriting. He has things to say. His next book will probably be worth reading.”

− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p367 Je 10 ’20 560w

=BARKER, MRS HELEN GRANVILLE (HELEN MANCHESTER HUNTINGTON).= Songs in cities and gardens. *$1.25 Putnam 821

19–19881

The princess’s garden, The narrow glass, To snow, The garden on the hill, The wayfarer, The playmate, Lost gardens, On the river, Songs of the rain and the wind, are some of the titles from part 1 of this collection of poems. Part 2, containing the Songs in cities, is devoted to such themes as: The house; The portrait; Night, and the curtains drawn; Beyond knowledge; Old age; Twilight; To fire; The city; Harvest of dreams. A note says that some of the verses have been printed in earlier books by the author, now out of print.

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“Mrs Granville Barker’s great technical accomplishment is the source both of her triumphs and of her failures. Sometimes she is simply exercising her ingenuity in the void, creating bubble-shapes of a tenuous and fleeting prettiness. But at other times, when she has good material on which to employ her skill, she produces finished and distinguished work.”

+ − =Ath= p1137 O 31 ’19 70w

“Mrs Barker’s verse may not be for those who can ‘see heaven in a grain of sand,’ but it has a quality that intelligence and taste can thoroughly enjoy.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 20 ’20 400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 20 ’19 160w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p595 O 23 ’19)

“These songs are quite short and slight little wisps of fancy, as it were. But one cannot read on without being truly moved by the passing thoughts so tenderly expressed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p595 O 23 ’19 180w

=BARKER, J. ELLIS.=[2] Economic statesmanship; the great industrial and financial problems arising from the war. *$7 Dutton 330

(Eng ed 20–11567)

“The publishers have brought out a second edition of J. Ellis Barker’s ‘Economic statesmanship.’ When this book was first published in the autumn of 1918 the negotiations at Spa and Versailles were still in the future. The new edition accordingly includes about two hundred additional pages dealing with problems and movements which have come to the front during the last two years. About half the new material relates to the economic position and future of Russia and Japan.”—Am Pol Sci R

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“The descriptive and analytical features of the book are admirable; they contain a wealth of economic facts condensed in statistical form and ably presented to the reader, retaining his interest throughout with no sacrifice of accuracy and precision of detail. Mr Barker does not succeed so well in the development of the theoretical features of his book.” E. S. Furniss

+ − =Am Econ R= 10:806 D ’20 1000w

=Am Pol Sci R= 14:737 N ’20 60w

“One may not agree with all Mr Barker’s conclusions, but there is no doubt that his book is a storehouse of important facts and figures.”

+ − =Ath= p224 F 13 ’20 180w

“Neither in the views expressed nor in the compilation of statistics is there much matter of importance for the American student: moreover, many of the chapters are inevitably out of date.”

− + =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 20 ’20 200w

=BARNETT, EDWARD DE BARRY.= Explosives. *$5 Van Nostrand 662

(Eng ed 20–6748)

In this volume of the Industrial chemistry series “the author has endeavoured to give a clear but concise account of the manufacture of explosives, together with an outline of the methods used for investigating this class of substance.” (Author’s preface) Contents: Introduction; Gunpowder; Explosive compounds; Smokeless propellants; Blasting explosives; Safety coal mine explosives; Percussion caps, detonators and fuzes; Matches, pyrophoric alloys and pyrotechny; Explosive properties; Sensitiveness and stability; Conclusion. A brief bibliography follows the introduction. Other references come at the chapter ends and there is an index.

=BARNEY, DANFORD.= Chords from Albireo. *$1.50 Lane 811

20–4705

This is the author’s second volume of poems. “Dust of stars” was published in 1916. “The present collection includes the work that Mr Barney has done since the publication of his first volume, and hence covers the varied periods before his enlistment, during his service in France, and since his return and discharge.” (Foreword) The four sections of the book are headed: 1917; France; 1919: By the sea. The foreword is by Lawrence Mason of Yale university.

* * * * *

Reviewed by W: S. Braithwaite

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 14 ’20 600w

“‘Chords from Albireo’ is a worthy successor to his ‘Dust of stars.’ It marks a deepening of the poetic instinct and a firmer grasp of technique. Mr Barney’s work is important because of its spontaneous evocation of moods, its impressionistic appeal to the senses.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 240w

“My complaint against Mr Danford Barney is that my understanding is a horse which he overworks—and starves. All this would not have been worth saying in this place, had Mr Barney been destitute of poetical capacity.” O. W. Firkins

− + =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 280w

=BAROJA Y NESSI, PIO.= Youth and egolatry. (Free lance books) *$1.75 (4) Knopf 868

20–11320

“When I sat down to begin these pages, somewhat at random, my intention was to write an autobiography, accompanying it with such comments as might suggest themselves. Looking continually to the right and to the left, I have lost my way, and this book is the result.” (Epilogue) The result is a collection of aphoristic, partly whimsical, partly cynical, always sincere sketches of the author himself, his personality, his beliefs, his literary opinions and inclinations, the main facts of his life. The translation from the Spanish is by Jacob S. Fassett and Frances L. Phillips with an introduction by H. L. Mencken who says of the writer that he is more Spanish than most of his famous contemporaries. The contents are grouped under: Fundamental ideas; Myself, the writer; The extraradius; Admirations and incompatibilities; The philosophers; The historians; My family; Memories of childhood; As a student; As a village doctor; As a baker; As a writer; Parisian days; Literary enmities; The press; Politics; Military glory. The appendices are: Spanish politicians; On Baroja’s anarchists; Note.

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=Booklist= 17:60 N ’20

“Baroja is a Latin: lucid reasoning and clear patterns of thinking teach him to gauge and adapt life.” Stark Young

+ =Nation= 111:693 D 15 ’20 370w

“The book is annoying and at the same time distinctly fascinating. The pages that are worth while are immeasurably fewer than the worthless ones; but these are so worth while that the book’s existence is justified.” C. W.

+ − =N Y Call= p11 S 12 ’20 190w

“He is wilful and headlong, but sometimes discerning in his literary judgments.”

+ − =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 330w

=BARR, MRS AMELIA EDITH (HUDDLESTON).= Songs in the common chord; songs for everyone to sing, tuned to the C major chord of this life; introd. by Joseph C. Lincoln. *$1.50 Appleton 821

20–1986

“From among the hundreds of poems I have written during forty years I have saved enough to make a small volume which some day I may publish.” So Amelia E. Barr is quoted in the introduction to this, the promised small volume. Among the titles are: The great happiness; The old piano; Lost flowers; The empty purse; At fifty years; Quiet hours; An old street; Harvest song; A country place in heaven; The tree God plants; At the last; A writer’s question.

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=Booklist= 16:233 Ap ’20

=Boston Transcript= p9 F 21 ’20 320w

“Mrs Barr frankly was content with fireside narrative and easy injunction, with good deeds and cheerful rhythms. Her rhythm occasionally cantered too fast, so that her cheeks flushed and her bonnet bobbed; but there always was a halt somewhere, with no real effect of a runaway.” M. V. P.

+ − =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 150w

“Mrs Barr was no master of the flaming phrase, to be sure, yet she had her felicity of line. What she looked at she saw clearly, and there was something of the folk quality in the best of her work.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:245 My 9 ’20 700w

=BARRETT, WILTON AGNEW.= Songs from the journey. *$1.25 Doran 811

20–5607

Among the contents of this book are poems reprinted from Poetry, the Forum, Contemporary Verse, Boston Transcript, McCall’s Magazine, and “Victory,” Mr Braithwaite’s anthology of peace poems. The author employs both free verse and regular meters. Titles are: Songs from the journey; A New England church; To a pair of scarlet tanagers in the square; Soldiers, behold your beauty; The valley and the shadow; The holiday; A song of fulfillment.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:336 Jl ’20

“Mr Barrett is one of the quieter young American poets who is not likely to be very much talked about, but who will leave an influence upon his readers wherever his book finds them.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 550w

“Novel conceits of fancy expressed with appealing grace and fraught with the glamour of dreams.”

+ =Cleveland= p85 S ’20 30w

“Once only, in ‘Songs from the journey,’ does Mr Barrett touch authentic poetry—in the suave and colorful ‘The vase.’ The book is not distinguished verse.”

− + =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 210w

“Mr Barrett is a poet of great promise, a spirit clear-eyed and keen.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 160w

“He has mastered the not too recondite, yet also not too facile, secret of expressiveness in free verse.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w

=BARRON, CLARENCE WALKER.= World remaking; or, Peace finance. *$1.75 (4c) Harper 330.9

20–4717

“All history is bound up in the human problems of personal and national finance—personal and national protection to daily subsistence.” (Foreword) It is the object of the book to set forth from the point of view of the financier and the enemy of socialism “the true relations between the work of capital and the work of hand, and the relation of both to the labor of brain,” and to show their bearing on our present-day problems. Some of the articles are: England the great war loser; England’s weakness and restricted output; Ships and shipping; The value of the pound sterling; Protection and protected shipping; Reducing hours and increasing efficiency; The spirit under British finance and business; The social unrest; Peace “without victory”; Helpless Russia; Indemnities and signatures; Socialism versus democracy; Inflation by currency, war bonds, and taxes; Are we to pay for German intrigue at Panama? Bolshevik danger and the remedy.

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=Booklist= 16:260 My ’20

“The book is gossipy and readable, and yet is trustworthy, for Mr Barron had entrée to authorities who talked freely.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:172 Ap 11 ’20 250w

“There are many little affectations of speech scattered through the book which some may find irritating. But it is, nevertheless, a good book and well worth reading.”

+ − =Review= 2:464 My 1 ’20 220w

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 60w

=BARRUS, CLARA.= John Burroughs; boy and man. il *$3.50 Doubleday

20–20968

“The incidents here related have been told me by Mr Burroughs himself, and are sanctioned by him. During the midsummer and fall for many years past I have wandered with him over the fields and hills and through the woods where he roamed as a boy. In these rambles he has pointed out the places where the narrated events occurred. He has explained in detail the curious and interesting ways and means of long ago—old-time ways which will never come again. And not only in his youthful haunts, but also during many an evening by the fireside at The Nest, he has again recounted the childish recollections, the boyish pastimes, and the youthful dreams recorded here.” (Preface) After a characterization of the “grown-up boy” and his forebears the contents are grouped under the headings: Childhood; Boyhood; Youth; Maturity. There are numerous illustrations and an index.

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“Originally intended as a boys’ life of Burroughs, this is full of the human, humorous life of the country boy, with the story of the work and play of the man written in a way to interest readers of any age.”

+ =Booklist= 17:152 Ja ’21

“Cheerfully condescending and commonplace. Mr Burroughs deserves something better.” D. M.

− + =Nation= 112:89 Ja 19 ’21 40w

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 D 31 ’20 220w

“It is true to the life, sympathetic and intimate. No admirer of John Burroughs can do without this pleasant book.”

+ =N Y Times= p2 D 5 ’20 1450w

“It is a good book for boys and girls as well as for older people up to the nineties.”

+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w

+ =R of Rs= 62:669 D ’20 120w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:236 D ’20 60w

=BARRY, RICHARD HAYES.= Fruit of the desert. *$1.50 Doubleday

20–7295

“A race of sun-worshippers, the Sunnites, rescue the hero, left starving on the desert of Arizona by bandits. He finds his new friends to be survivors of an ancient civilization. Inevitably, as in all stories of this type, he falls in love with their high priestess and escapes with her to the less romantic but more comfortable life of every-day America.”—Outlook

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“Having elected to write a romance, and a romance of a very romantic sort, Mr Barry is entirely justified in using romantic methods and in paying just as little heed as pleases him to probabilities. He writes with the skill of a craftsman, he keeps the interest well sustained.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 Ag 1 ’20 720w

=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w

=BARTHOLOMEW, WALLACE EDGAR, and HURLBUT, FLOYD.=[2] Business man’s English, spoken and written. il *$1.48 Macmillan 808

20–15735

“Bartholomew and Hurlbut have prepared a book which ‘intends to interpret English as used by the careful business man of today.’