The book review digest, Volume 16, 1920
Part three, on Social measurements, consists of seven chapters. The
one on institutional workers treats the value placed upon different groups of institutional workers, as lawyers, doctors, teachers, business men, artists, and entertainers.”—Survey
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“In the field of sociology he is in his usual style: always original and often brilliant.” F. R. Clow
+ =Am J Soc= 26:240 S ’20 200w
“Well indexed.”
+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
“The breezy style, the vigorous language, the wealth of information, the multitude of applicable suggestions, compensate for the frequently dogmatic tone and for what will be for too many teachers and normal students new topics and new thoughts and new attitudes.”
+ − =Nation= 110:559 Ap 24 ’20 200w
“It is a misnomer to call the volume ‘Educational sociology.’ The treatment is not focused upon education, whether curriculum, methods, or administration. There is no treatment of sociological phenomena, relations, or principles in such a way as to show how types of education have been produced, how schools and society in general are interrelated, or what kind of education is dictated by present-day social conditions. No coherent educational program is indicated.”
− + =School R= 28:153 F ’20 300w
“It has no thoughts running through the work. Instead, its arrangement is haphazard, being a collection of valuable and interesting social facts. The book is a valuable work, for it is a mine of facts and illustrations of social psychology and ought to be extremely useful to the teacher of sociology as such.” G. S. Dow
+ − =Survey= 44:494 Jl 3 ’20 250w
=CHANDLER, ANNA CURTIS.= More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of the people of many lands. il *$1.40 Holt 372.6
20–4279
This book follows the plan of “Magic pictures of the long ago,” published last year. It is made up of stories told to children during the story hour in the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city. Among them are: A great Egyptian queen, Hatshepsut; In the land of the minotaur; A story from colored glass, or, Justinian and Theodora; A tale of a great crusade; At the court of Philip IV; In the time of Paul Revere. The illustrations are from pictures and art objects in the museum, and there is a bibliography at the beginning and an epilogue, “About story hours,” that will be helpful to teachers.
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=Booklist= 16:247 Ap ’20
=N Y Times= p25 Ag 29 ’20 60w
+ =Pub W= 97:606 F 21 ’20 60w
=CHANDLER, FRANK WADLEIGH.= Contemporary drama of France. *$1.50 (1½c) Little 842
20–6298
The volume comes under the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard Burton. The author claims it to be the most inclusive of all the English books on the subject published in the present century. It “offers a survey and an interpretation of the French drama for three decades, from the opening of the Theâtre-Libre of Antoine to the conclusion of the world war. It attempts the classification, analysis, and criticism of a thousand plays by two hundred and thirty authors.” (Preface) Contents: Precursors of the moderns; Masters of stagecraft; Naturalism and the free theatre; Laureates of love; Ironic realists; Makers of mirth; Moralists; Reformers; Minor poets and romancers; Major poets and romancers; Importers and war exploiters; Bibliographical appendix; Index.
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=Booklist= 16:304 Je ’20
“The combination of enthusiasm and judgment is excellent.” Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:215 Ag ’20 120w
“It would be an odious thing to make light of this book, a book that represents so patent and prodigious an outlay of intelligent labour. And yet! Is this, after all, the contemporary drama of France? There are so many trees and so many leaves on each tree in this kind of criticism that one doesn’t see the forest at all. There is no proportion, no light and shade, no judgment, in short, no taste essentially, in all these laborious, lucid, skilfully prepared pages.”
− + =Freeman= 1:190 My 5 ’20 480w
“Mr Chandler, in a word, exhibits that blank awe which strikes so many admirable academic minds among us at the mere sight of a hollow technical dexterity.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − =Nation= 110:627 My 8 ’20 850w
“So close an analysis is of undoubted value to the playwright who can see in the most barren plot the ultimate beauty of its development, but even a public devoted to drama will not wax enthusiastic over an anatomical study of the subject.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 Jl 9 ’20 350w
“Mr Chandler has produced an excellent handbook, but not a critical interpretation.”
+ − =Theatre Arts Magazine= 4:257 Jl ’20 300w
=CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE.= Jane. *$1.75 (2½c) Putnam
20–7764
Jane, small, red-haired, Irish, selfless, loving, innocent, is queer. She has both temperament and a temper and it is owing to both of these that she runs away from home, from her lethargic, fat and flabby mother and her ponderous, soulless stepfather to join a one-night-stand theatrical troupe. She travels across the continent with them, adopts and mothers each member in turn as the need arises, while all the temptations and dangers of such a life glance off from her guileless innocence as from an armor. Tom Brainerd, the sub-manager, is a mixture of brutality and tenderness. He loves her, bullies and frightens her, but at last when she fully realizes the strength, tenderness and sincerity underneath the roughness he conquers her.
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=Booklist= 17:70 N ’20
“Jane is a likeable girl, in spite of sunshine girl tradition, and her courage and struggles must appeal to readers, in spite of an inevitable sense of unreality surrounding the story.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 Ag 28 ’20 340w
“The author tells her story in a cheerful vein, but does not neglect to picture the hectic environment in which the heroine lives.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 210w
=CHAPIN, CHARLES.= Charles Chapin’s story. *$2.50 (3½c) Putnam
20–18406
This autobiography of a man now serving a life sentence at Sing Sing for the murder of his wife, has an introduction by Basil King, who suggested the writing of the story to the prisoner as a means of escaping from his own morbid thoughts. The book contains the experiences of a newspaper man of forty years’ standing. The author was city editor of the New York Evening World at the time of the tragedy. Contents: From the bottom; Barnstorming; Chicago “Tribune” days; My first big “scoop”; A murder mystery; “Star” reporting; A city editor at twenty-five; Breaking into Park Row; On the “World’s” city desk; Newspapering today; The Pulitzers; Newspaper ethics; Gathering clouds; Tragedy; A “lifer” in Sing Sing.
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=Booklist= 17:112 D ’20
+ =N Y Times= p22 S 12 ’20 580w
“The recital of the morbid psychological conditions that led to the author’s crime does not make wholesome reading. Nevertheless the book is one of the most remarkable that ever came from within prison walls.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 70w
=Review= 3:477 N 17 ’20 880w
“The author tells his story in direct and simple English, wasting no words, and stopping when the tale is completed. In comparison with some literary products, the work may seem ‘choppy’ at times, but the human story is there and written in a style easily understood and followed.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 800w
=CHAPMAN, ERNEST HALL.= Study of the weather. il *$1.10 Putnam 551.5
20–10622
“The present volume of the Cambridge nature study series has been written chiefly to provide a series of practical exercises on weather study.... In addition to serving its primary purpose as a school-book it is hoped that the book will be acceptable as an introduction to the study of modern meteorology.” (Introd.) It is an English work and its problems and illustrations are based on climatic conditions in the British Isles. Contents: The weather day by day, observations of wind; What to look for in watching the weather; Clouds, the colours of the sky; Fog and mist, dew and frost; Rain, snow and hail, thunderstorms; Temperature and humidity; The pressure of the atmosphere; Weather charts; Cyclones and anticyclones; Anticipation of weather. Appendixes contain exercises, a syllabus of weather study for elementary schools and a bibliography. There are illustrations, maps and charts and an index.
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“It is a type of book which will undoubtedly be of very great interest to pupils and will stimulate in them an attitude toward scientific method which will carry on into other fields. The book ought to be imitated by an American edition which will give an account of the conditions on this continent similar to that which is given for the neighborhood of England.”
+ =El School J= 20:552 Mr ’20 180w
“It is elementary but it is lucid. Nothing could be better as an introduction to an important subject.”
+ =Spec= 123:662 N 15 ’19 70w
=CHAPMAN, FRANK MICHLER.= What bird is that? il *$1.25 Appleton 598.2
20–7850
“A pocket museum of the land birds of the eastern United States arranged according to season.” (Sub-title) The author is curator of birds in the American museum of natural history, and in this book he has reproduced one of the museum features, the seasonal collection of birds. The plates, eight in number, are arranged to show Permanent resident land birds of the northern United States, Winter visitant land birds of the northern United States, Winter land birds of the southern United States, etc. The bird figures in these plates are small but they have been drawn with particular care to accuracy in color and form. They have also been drawn as nearly as possible to the same scale so that comparative sizes are indicated. A bird “map” as frontispiece also makes identification and the reading of descriptions easier. The plates, which are the work of Edmund J. Sawyer, are arranged at the beginning, followed by the text. There is an index.
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
“This compact little guide may well become the vade mecum of the birdlover.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 280w
+ =Cleveland= p78 Ag ’20 40w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
+ =Review= 3:236 S 15 ’20 150w
“For the amateur this book is the simplest, as well as the most authoritative, bird guide.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 100w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 16 ’20 230w
=CHASE, JOSEPH CUMMINGS.= Soldiers all. il *$7.50 Doran 940.373
20–5654
The author was sent overseas by the War department to paint the portraits of the officers and distinguished soldiers at the American front. As a result he offers this book with 133 portraits and biographical sketches of the subjects. The other contents are the foreword by the author; a list of the army corps and division assignments; the thirteen major operations; and a description of the American military decorations.
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“The portraits are spirited, varied, and alive with the characteristic traits of the American soldier. They constitute a fine and enduring achievement.”
+ =Outlook= 125:29 My 5 ’20 100w
+ =R of Rs= 61:557 My ’20 140w
“A glance through the book shows that, though there are many types among the picked manhood of America, a distinctively American type is evolving. It might be possible for an anatomist to define the special points in a characteristically American face with the help of such a collection of clever portraits as this.”
+ =Spec= 124:835 Je 19 ’20 120w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p406 Je 24 ’20 80w
=CHASE, JOSEPH SMEATON.= Penance of Magdalena, and other tales of the California missions. il *$1 (3½c) Houghton
Magdalena was half-Spanish and half-Indian, in the early days of the mission of San Juan Capistrano. She and Teófilo, the padre’s favorite Indian neophyte, loved each other dearly. But Magdalena, being part Spanish, was not sufficiently humble and obedient to suit the padre and he would not give his consent to the marriage before Magdalena had done a penance, i.e. appeared at mass carrying a penitent’s candle. Love conquered pride at last, but in the midst of the service an earthquake shook the church and the falling walls killed the lovers. The other missions represented in the cycle are: San Diego de Alcalá, in Padre Urbano’s umbrella; San Gabriel Arcángel, in The bells of San Gabriel; San Fernando, in The buried treasure of Simí; and Santa Bárbara, in Love in the padres’ garden. There are illustrations.
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“All are charming and some of them are humorous.”
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 70w
=CHATHAM, DENNIS, and CHATHAM, MARION, pseuds.= Cape Coddities. il *$1.35 (7c) Houghton 917.4 20–10073
This collection of essays, the authors say, is not to be taken as a serious attempt to describe the Cape or to delineate its people, but merely to express their perennial enthusiasm for this summer holiday land. They prefer “to think of the Cape as a playground for the initiate, a wonderland for children, and a haven of rest for the tired of all ages, a land where lines and wrinkles quickly disappear under the soothing softness of the tempered climate.” Contents: A message from the past; The casual dwelling-place; The ubiquitous clam; A by-product of conservation; Motor tyrannicus; “Change and rest”—summer bargaining; A blue streak; A fresh-water cape; Al Fresco; Models; “A wet sheet and a flowing sea”; My cape farm; Scallops; Aftermath. The book is illustrated.
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+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 26 ’20 600w
+ =Ind= 103:441 D 25 ’20 140w
+ =N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 110w
“Pleasant little essays.”
+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 40w
“‘Cape Coddities’ is a gem of a book, for its text, illustrations, and general appearance.” E. L. Pearson
+ =Review= 3:314 O 13 ’20 30w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Chorus girl, and other stories. *$1.75 Macmillan
20–3884
This is volume eight in Mrs Garnett’s translation of Chekhov’s stories. Contents: The chorus girl; Verotchka; My life; At a country house; A father; On the road; Rothschild’s fiddle; Ivan Matveyitch; Zinotchka; Bad weather; A gentleman friend; A trivial incident.
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“Fairly representative of the author’s relentless realism and his keen though not unsympathetic insight into human nature.”
+ =Booklist= 16:283 My ’20
=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 50w
“The tales have each its special sharpness, but how little are they a moralizing and how much a sophistication, an enrichment of experience!”
+ =Dial= 69:432 O ’20 130w
“The Chekhov of these stories is the typical naturalist. He is a naturalist, that is to say, not merely on some artistic theory, but by instinct and need. He is the man whose vision of life has caused him suffering, whose contacts have brought him pain. He has little of the Russian’s compassion; he has the artist’s cruelty toward those who have pierced and jangled his delicate nerves. The novelette My life has a note of relenting. The two stories that have a touch of gentleness and of the sadder poetry of life—Verotchka and Zinotchka—read like memories of moments that were painful enough to be recalled but not bitter enough to be resented in after years.”
+ =Nation= 111:48 Jl 10 ’20 750w
“Chekhov applies the knife, which is his eye, to everyone alike. And in this critical insight is one of his distinguishing characteristics. To read Chekhov is to come in contact with a man of great sensitiveness and witty subtleties yet a man of wide sanity and plain humane feeling.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:254 Ap 21 ’20 1450w
“There is no trickery about Chekhov’s story telling; he is given neither to happy endings nor to ironical twists of narration. His tales are simply unadorned cross-sections of life, studied and described with passionless accuracy. Chekhov’s reaction to life is revealed in his treatment of his characters—a reaction neither bitter nor sentimental, but grave and just and charitable.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 My 9 ’20 320w
“His stories are replete with interest, with vivid glimpses of the baffling Russia of yesterday. It is a picture of hopelessness painted by a master without hope.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:22 Je 27 ’20 660w
=CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH.= Letters of Anton Tchekhov to his family and friends; tr. from the Russian by Constance Garnett. *$3 Macmillan
20–5392
“The family of Anton Chekhov, the Russian novelist, has published 1890 of his letters. From this great mass of correspondence Mrs Garnett has selected for translation those passages which seem to her to throw most light on the novelist’s life, character and opinions. A biographical sketch, taken from the memoirs written by Chekhov’s brother, introduces the volume.”—R of Rs
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“The publication of this volume of his letters affords an opportunity for the examination of some of the chief constituents of his perfect art. These touch us nearly because the supreme interest of Tchekhov is that he is the only great modern artist in prose. As we read these letters of his, we feel gradually from within ourselves the conviction that he was a hero—more than that, the hero of our time.” J. M. M.
+ =Ath= p299 Mr 5 ’20 1400w
“A secondary interest is the continuous passage of scenes of Russian life in all their fascinating variety.”
+ =Booklist= 16:279 My ’20
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 70w
“It may be said that the letters of Chekhov are at first sight disappointing. They corroborate only faintly and unemphatically the life so vivid in outline. Either they have been subjected to a drastic process of selection and expurgation, or they represent the reduction of experience to an even, neutral tone of objective observation, of detachment, almost of indifference. Both explanations are doubtless in a measure true. Among letter-writers he belongs to the school of Prosper Merimée rather than Stevenson.” R. M. Lovett
+ − =Dial= 68:626 My ’20 1900w
“His letters are the letters of a man without calculativeness or envy—untrammelled, unpremeditative, unspoiled. To read him, when he is favorable or the reverse ... is to feel the same pleasure that he himself had in sea-bathing: ‘Sea-bathing is so nice that when I got into the water I began to laugh for no reason at all.’ His personality, so unforced, is like that; and when his letters stop, it is as if a heart stops, he is so palpable.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 22:226 Ap 14 ’20 1700w
=N Y Times= 25:192 Ap 18 ’20 80w
+ =N Y Times= p13 Ag 1 ’20 850w
=R of Rs= 61:559 My ’20 60w
+ =Spec= 125:150 Jl 31 ’20 860w
“They are colorful, vigorous, entertaining, but the Chekhov who wrote them is that faithful, talented reporter who chronicles fact without opinion, and who rarely allows the reader an intimate association with himself. Of course, the letters are just as they should be; one could not expect the writer of the ‘Tales’ to be a correspondent after the fashion of the author of ‘Treasure Island.’”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 12 ’20 330w
“In spite of the early and full maturity of Tchehov’s mind and intellect we seem to retrieve in his letters the consciousness and sensibility of childhood with all its vividness and absorption.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p103 F 12 ’20 2700w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.=[2] Overland for gold. *$1.50 Abingdon press
20–4892
“Its scene laid in the early ’60s, Frank H. Cheley’s new story for boys tells of the adventures of a party of gold seekers who made their way to Colorado in the days when Denver was a town of shacks to which the law had as yet scarcely penetrated. Clayton Trout, one of the two boys in the party, is the narrator and tells how his uncle Herman, who had been in the gold rush to California, equipped a small company with tools, food, etc., and several wagons drawn by oxen, and set forth to meet the dangers and difficulties of the trail. The book describes first the journey, on which they encountered Indians, herds of buffalo, wolves, etc., and then the arrival at Mountain City and the adventures which befell them in their search for gold.”—N Y Times
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“This is a ‘corking’ good story.”
+ =Bib World= 54:648 N ’20 70w
“Though the occurrences are not related in a very spirited manner, ‘Overland for gold’ will probably please the boy readers for whom it is intended.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 360w
“The valuable part of the book is the description of gold mining in the Rockies.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 100w
=CHELEY, FRANK HOBART.= Stories for talks to boys. *$2 Assn. press 808.8
20–4120
A collection of brief stories, “brought together here for the convenience of Sunday school teachers, boys’ club leaders, Young men’s Christian association secretaries, Boy scoutmasters, and any others who are called upon to talk to boys informally or even formally to address them.... They have been selected from the four winds, ... clipped from books, magazines, and even dally papers, ... gathered from sermons, personal conversations, and other sources.... They have been arranged under abstract headings for convenience in finding what is wanted.” (Preface) Some of these headings are as follows: Appreciation; Cigarettes; Convictions; Diligence; Health; Ideals; Influence; Mother; Procrastination; Use of time; Vision, etc. The author is connected with the boys’ work department, International committee of Young men’s Christian associations, and is author also of “Told by the camp fire,” “Camping with Henry,” etc.
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“Just the kind of anecdotes which preachers, Sunday school teachers and other speakers like to use to adorn the tale which points a moral.”
+ =Booklist= 16:257 My ’20
=CHELLEW, HENRY.= Human and industrial efficiency; preface by Lord Sydenham. *$2 (9c) Putnam 658.7
20–21085
The book aims to map out the broad outlines of the problem of human efficiency and lays no claim to academic or scientific treatment. “Today as never before we are called upon to mobilize all our thoughts, acts and emotions in the name of efficiency” but “efficiency is not a mechanical thing; it is the science of life itself” and scientific management and welfare work have only taken the first steps towards humanizing the life of the worker. Contents: Introductory; Human efficiency; What is fatigue? Applied psychology; Selecting employees; Scientific management and the welfare of the worker; Appendix: Handling the human factor; Training executives for efficiency; How to establish an efficiency club.
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“There is nothing very new in the matter or treatment; there are the usual generalities and assumptions, but the book is clearly written.”
+ =Ath= p1272 N 28 ’19 60w
“The volume fortunately is short, for it contains little particularly worth reading that has not been much better said by others.” E. R. Burton
− =Survey= 45:515 Ja 1 ’21 150w
=CHENG, SIH-GUNG.= Modern China, a political study. (Histories of the nations) *$3.25 Oxford 951
(Eng ed 19–19083)
“Mr Cheng’s book is the work of a serious student of the troubles of his native land, who has taken great pains to equip himself by an academic training in this country [England]. He gives us a useful analysis of the differences between north and south, which is the crux of the situation at the moment; and the conclusion one comes to is that there is a number of military gentlemen concerned who have a profound suspicion of each other, and who for that reason maintain semi-private armies somehow to maintain themselves in their rickety positions. The struggle is said not to be territorial, and both sides pay little attention to the rights or sufferings of the patient people. Naturally the Far eastern policy of Japan fills a large space in the book.... Mr Cheng would call upon the European powers to discard the balance of power theory and stop extra-territorialism, and he would like to see America, Great Britain, and France combine to set China on her legs.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“Mr Cheng’s survey is admirable as an introduction to the study of a great subject. As a plain statement of political conditions by one who speaks for China his little volume is the most satisfactory contribution to our understanding of her problem that has appeared since the revolution.” F: W. Williams
+ =Nation= 110:858 Je 26 ’20 850w
“In part 1 which deals with constitutional developments in China, he has presented a new and valuable account of recent political events in his country.” W. W. Willoughby
+ =Review= 2:281 Mr 20 ’20 2100w
“There is a moderation in his description of existing conditions which is not too common amongst Chinese politicians, and it is plain throughout that he has tried to submit the welter to a detached and impartial examination.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p34 Ja 15 ’20 360W
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Irish impressions. *$1.50 (3½c) Lane 914.15
20–1624
In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical peasant. He emphasizes the fundamental differences between the English and the Irish out of which arise many if not all the tragic mistakes made on both sides. The contents are: Two stones in a square; The root of reality; The family and the feud; The paradox of labour; The Englishman in Ireland; The mistake of England; The mistake of Ireland; An example and a question; Belfast and the religious problem.
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“Neither his book nor his visit indicates any real appreciation of the almost agonizing seriousness of the issue between his country and Ireland.” E. A. Boyd
− =Ath= p1397 D 26 ’19 400w
=Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
“The title of Mr Chesterton’s book, ‘Irish impressions,’ is apt; the author gives the temper of Ireland rather than direct information, yet his conclusions agree closely with those reached by historians, such as, for example, Professor Ernest Barker and Edward R. Turner. Mr Chesterton has caught the spirit of the Irish. His entertaining volume should be read not by itself but in connection with others.” N. J. O’C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 1150w
“The Chesterton of ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Heretics’ has indeed suffered a war-change. His recent ‘Short history of England,’ however, gave us a glimmer of hope for him which this latest book confirms. There is, however, little that is new or valuable said here about the eternal Irish question, little that has not been said as well or almost as well by others before.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:540 Jl ’20 180w
=Ind= 104:66 O 9 ’20 340w
Reviewed by Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 110:556 Ap 24 ’20 500w
“He proves in this book that even the most patriotic of Englishmen can treat another patriotism with magnanimity.” F. H.
+ − =New Repub= 21:298 F 4 ’20 1500w
+ =N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 550w
“The defect in Mr Chesterton’s consideration of the Irish problem is not that he is superficial, but that he is in a certain sense too profound. He sees certain simple, but profound, truths so clearly and so exclusively that he ignores other truths that may possibly be as deeply rooted, and pays too little attention to superficial facts lying outside the categories that he thinks in.”
+ − =No Am= 211:426 Mr ’20 1050w
“Mr Chesterton does not write for the man in the street; his style is full of brilliant paradox, subtle allusion, and pages in which one must read between the lines for their meaning. But the game is worth the candle.”
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 100w
“We know what to expect from Mr Chesterton: vividness, color, wit, epigrams often a little strained but not seldom such as make one catch one’s breath and wonder; clear-cut antitheses—sometimes cut too clear to correspond accurately with situations that are complex and confused, but always a stimulant to thought, and not least arousing when they are most provoking. And it is the true Chestertonian humor that greets us in these ‘Irish impressions.’” H. L. Stewart
+ =Review= 2:284 Mr 20 ’20 500w
=R of Rs= 61:446 Ap ’20 80w
“This volume is a most notable contribution to the whole subject and one of the most important achievements of Mr Chesterton’s long and brilliant career.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 220w
“No work of Mr Chesterton’s could be altogether dull, for even the monotonous uniformity of his style is insufficient to conceal his genuine humour and alertness of mind; indeed, his latest volume takes rank amongst his most brilliant works of fiction; but as a contribution towards the solution of the Irish problem, it is a fond thing vainly invented.”
− + =Spec= 122:15 Ja 3 ’20 1600w
“Throughout Mr Chesterton writes as an Englishman, but as an extremely liberal Englishman.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ja 27 ’20 800w
“His observations have, of course, value, and they are presented in the form which has made Mr Chesterton a very popular writer; but the reader of his ‘Irish impressions’ is left to wonder whether a less facile pen and less nimble brain might not, if impelled by a humbler spirit, have produced a still more valuable work.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p661 N 20 ’19 650w
“The volume has both the virtues and the defects to be expected from one whose writing is almost entirely a succession of figures. ‘Irish impressions’ contains an amazing amount of true comment.” N. J. O’Conor
+ − =Yale R n s= 10:209 O ’20 220w
=CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH.= Superstition of divorce. *$1.50 (6c) Lane 173
20–5411
The book is a collection of five articles first printed in the New Witness, apropos of a press controversy on divorce, with an added conclusion. Throughout the characteristically epigrammatic and brilliantly sketchy discourses the biological implications of marriage stand out as the incontrovertible facts and the “common sense” that has “age after age sought refuge in the high sanity of a sacrament.” The much ado about divorce, the writer concludes, is due to the fact that men expect the impossible from life and do not realize their natural limitations. Contents: The superstition of divorce; The story of the family; The story of the vow; The tragedies of marriage; The vista of divorce; Conclusion.
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“Though Mr Chesterton hardly adds anything new to the controversy, his book is an interesting study in style.”
+ =Ath= p192 F 6 ’20 120w
“Mr Chesterton’s position is not very easy to grasp because he has, to an unusual degree, indulged his propensity to break his argument in order to comment on anything that occurs to him, and we are not yet clear on some fundamental points. So far as we can see, Mr Chesterton does not deal with the real case for divorce, and his book leaves the question exactly where it was before.” J. W. N. S.
− =Ath= p235 F 20 ’20 1600w
=Booklist= 16:296 Je ’20
“One can agree perfectly with Mr Chesterton in his plea for greater care in marriage partnerships and in hoping that the sanctity of the family may be preserved. But his arguments seem often rather strained, especially when coupled with his zeal in pumping up the wildest and most extravagant and often frivolous fireworks of style.” N. H. D.
− + =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 16 ’20 850w
=Dial= 70:233 F ’21 60w
“It is at no point a serious or searching analysis of the present situation in England as regards divorce.” R. D.
− =Freeman= 1:382 Je 30 ’20 330w
=Ind= 102:370 Je 12 ’20 240w
=Lit D= p116 S 18 ’20 1550w
“Mr Chesterton seems to imagine that divorce is now being advocated for its own sake. To forbid divorce and remarriage altogether, as a desperate remedy for extreme cases, is no more rational or humane than it would be to forbid surgery to all because most do not stand in present need of it.” Preserved Smith
− + =Nation= 110:827 Je 19 ’20 670w
“Mr Chesterton’s book is, like most of his work, delightfully amusing, and incidentally contains much good sense. But it is a far better treatise on marriage than on divorce. I object to divorce in the same sense as I object to surgery. But if we are to have surgery let us have it up to date and not as it was in 1800.” E. S. P. Haynes
− + =Nation [London]= 26:684 F 14 ’20 850w
=Review= 3:132 Ag 11 ’20 320w
=Sat R= 129:140 F 7 ’20 600w
“Save in a sort of dreadful desert which the reader enters about the middle of the book when he is taken through dreary tracts of guild socialism and over a waste marked ‘Superior attractions of the middle ages,’ the book is extraordinarily lively reading.”
+ − =Spec= 124:391 Mr 20 ’20 800w
“Mr Chesterton is cheerfully disinclined to subject his arguments to empirical tests. He starts with a number of definitions and then, having proved all the ramifications of his thought to be in accord with those definitions, regards the case as closed. Satisfied with his own logic Mr Chesterton conceivably may be; the reader’s satisfaction comes from the skill and surprise of the dialectic, from the ever-recurring paradox, from the humanity and good nature and good sense that often glint through the subtile fabric of wit.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 7 ’20 750w
“As is often the case with his writings, it hits mainly into the air and does not meet the arguments of his opponents where they are strongest. Also, one gets tired of the perpetual punning which once gave this writer the reputation of being a great wit but which really is quite easy to imitate.”
− + =Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 260w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 180w
=CHEVREUIL, L.= Proofs of the spirit world; tr. by Agnes Kendrick Gray. il *$3 Dutton 134
20–6884
“M. Chevreuil, whose ‘On ne meurt pas,’ here translated as ‘Proofs of the spirit world,’ was awarded the prize for 1919 by the French Academy of sciences, has brought together and discussed with judicial penetration the evidence presented for the continued existence of discarnate spirits by telepathy, abnormal psychology, apparitions, materializations and similar phenomena. The book is written in the scientific spirit and the author carefully examines the evidence and the arguments presented by other investigators, sometimes rejecting it altogether and sometimes coming to different conclusions. One of the chapters makes an interesting discussion of reincarnation.”—N Y Times
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+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 4 ’20 170w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
− =Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 350w
“It is no exaggeration to say that out of the multitude of the psychical books which have appeared within these last few months, ‘thick as leaves in Vallambrosa,’ this one volume stands out in its luminous clearness, its scholarly selection of scientific data, its penetration into the realms beyond the senses, its sane exaltation of feeling, and its remarkable comprehensiveness of the relation between phenomena and spiritual philosophy.” Lilian Whiting
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 20 ’20 500w
=CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN.= Vanishing men. *$2 Dutton
20–7298
“The psychology of terror is the outstanding theme of ‘The vanishing men.’ Indeed, the sense of terror communicates itself to the reader, for the disappearance of two men and the portentous fate hanging over the heroine are apparently insoluble mysteries. One man plans an elopement with her but fails to appear and is not heard from again. Afterwards she marries a wealthy man some years her senior. He is attacked by a mania of fear, and eventually vanishes, too. Then a wealthy young man falls in love with her, and she warns him of the fate visited upon her previous lovers. But he is courageous and optimistic and refuses to be deterred by such fantasies of the imagination. He starts an investigation, and eventually presents a simple solution of what happens previously.”—Springf’d Republican
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“So ingenious a mystery that devotees will forgive the loose plot structure and the improbable characterization.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole problem is put and solved in an original way, and some readers will be grateful for a mystery story without the old properties and machinery.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:584 Jl ’20 250w
“The story would greatly profit by a general tightening up. Its charm lies entirely in the formulation of the mystery, and with its solution the charm vanishes into incredibly thin air.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 900w
=Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
“In ‘The vanishing men’ it is easy enough to pick flaws, but over and above them all remains the great fact that the story interests the reader from the beginning, holds his attention and brings up with a smashing climax at the end.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Je 27 ’20 310w
“Ingenious but over-melodramatic in its grisly conclusion.”
+ − =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 60w
“The reader is thoroughly thrilled, Mr Child is able to hold the atmosphere of mystery and terror.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 170w
=CHILDREN’S= story garden. il *$1.50 (2c) Lippincott
20–7726
A collection of stories illustrating Quaker principles. The book is compiled by a committee of the Philadelphia yearly meeting of Friends, Anna Pettit Broomell, chairman. The introduction says, “‘The children’s story garden’ announces its purpose at once. Its stories have the direct aim of teaching ethics and religious truth to children.... It is not the intention of the compilers to make this a sectarian book. There are of course stories which show the reason behind some Friendly customs, but as a whole it is hoped that there is a fair representation of the simple virtues which lie behind human progress and Christian living.” The stories have been selected and adapted from many sources. Several, including the opening story, show the relation between the Friends and the American Indians. A few have been written especially for this book. There are historical notes and an outline of the principles illustrated which will be useful to teachers. Further readings are also suggested.
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=Booklist= 17:78 N ’20
“If used with discrimination, the book will furnish some very good reading material.”
+ =El School J= 21:157 O ’20 60w
=CHISHOLM, LOUEY, and STEEDMAN, AMY=, comps. Staircase of stories. 11 *$4.50 (1½c) Putnam
20–26559
“Any originality of Intention or treatment must be disclaimed for ‘A staircase of stories.’ Its title, plan, appeal, and aim have been alike suggested by ‘The golden staircase,’ a volume of ‘Poems and verses for children between the ages of four and fourteen.’ The title indicates ... a gradual ascent in difficulty as the pages are turned.... In the choice of content, the aim, as before, has been to concentrate solely on what it is believed children will most enjoy.” (Preface) The series opens with The old woman and her pig, Lazy John, Henny-Penny and other simple tales and with its graduated ascent works up to an adaptation of Daudet’s “Last class.” Other stories are The golden touch; The madonna of the goldfinch; The storks; The queen of the seven golden mountains; The twelve huntsmen; The porcelain stove; Gareth and Lynette; and Balder the beautiful. There are illustrations in color and in black and white.
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=Booklist= 17:77 N ’20
“There is a goodly array of reading matter that should appeal to the youngster. The many color illustrations and pen and ink sketches add to the attractiveness of a book that any child may well covet.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 F 14 ’20 200w
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 50w
“The illustrations are by a number of artists, whose names deserve to be known, so charmingly is their work done. In fanciful conception and delicacy of colors the plates are almost always a delight: moreover, there is no approach to the unduly fantastic or the bizarre. The black and white pictures have the breadth and surety of good draughtsmanship. Altogether ‘A staircase of stories’ is a successful production.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 8 ’20 180w
=CHRISMAN, OSCAR.=[2] Historical child. *$4 Badger, R: G. 392
20–6060
“Dr Chrisman, professor in the Ohio university, offers this book as the first of a projected series in paidology, the science of the child—a term originating, says the author, with himself. In this volume there is gathered an imposing array of folkways of many ancient peoples. Mexico, Peru, Egypt, India, China, Japan, Persia, Judea, Greece, Rome, earlier and medieval Europe are all included, and there is also a long chapter on earlier United States. Quotations from many sources are used in abundance. Dr Chrisman explains that one must know the setting of child life, to understand children. It is really, therefore, the social background that one finds here—miscellaneous customs of home, dress, food, marriage, infant ceremonies, industry, religion, amusements, education (briefly), and the like, which constitute the environmental stimulus to growth.”—Survey
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+ =Booklist= 16:298 Je ’20
=St Louis= 18:212 S ’20 30w
“The reader gains the impression that the value of the book for students will depend upon the degree to which the teacher can help them to an intelligent use of the facts here portrayed. Unguided, one is likely to finish the book with a somewhat confused impression of a wide variety of interesting practices, but without any clear-cut addition to his knowledge of children.” Hugh Hartshorne
+ − =Survey= 45:468 D 25 ’20 320w
=CHRISTY, BAYARD H.= Going afoot. *$1.35 Assn. press 796
20–7930
In this enthusiastic little book on walking instruction is given on the how, when and where of walking—the clothes to wear, the equipment to carry, the hours of the day, the seasons of the year, and the localities to choose. Detailed description is given of walking clubs and their organization and activities. Contents: How to walk; When to walk; Where to walk; Walking clubs in America; Organization and conduct of walking clubs; Bibliography.
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=Boston Transcript= p7 Jl 28 ’20 180w
Reviewed by F: O’Brien
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ag 15 ’20 800w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 300w
“It may seem impossible to write an altogether dull and uninspiring book on walking in the country; but Mr Christy has accomplished it. This is not to say that this little handbook of practical advice has not its uses. The chapter on organization is valuable for anyone contemplating the formation of a club.”
+ − =Survey= 44:308 My 29 ’20 200w
=CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO.= Ideals of America. *$1.75 McClurg 304
19–16553
“This volume consists of thirteen essays by different authors who have endeavored to analyze the ‘guiding motives of contemporary American life’ in various fields. The essays were first presented as lectures before the City club of Chicago during the years from 1916 to 1919. Government, the law, labor, science, education, business, ‘society,’ music, religion, philosophy, literature, and human progress are treated. Robert Morss Lovett, Elsie Clews Parsons, John P. Frey, John Bradley Winslow and George Ellsworth Hooker are among the notable contributors to the volume.”—Survey
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=Booklist= 16:222 Ap ’20
+ =Nation= 110:523 Ap 17 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:222 F ’20 40w
“The essays vary in value, but for example, to cite only two, those of Dean Lovett and Justice Winslow, are exceedingly able statements of realities and tendencies in their respective fields of literature and the law. As a whole the book is a useful picture of the intellectual life of the American which existed until 1914.”
+ =Survey= 43:505 Ja 31 ’20 140w
=CLANCY, MRS LOUISE BREITENBACH.= Christine of the young heart. *$1.75 (2c) Small
20–17176
Christine Trevor is a butterfly debutante, pretty and selfish, with the notion that the world revolves around her. Then she loses her father and her wealth in one blow. She has a crippled younger brother and there are Dilly and Daffy, the six-year-old twins, so she has a wonderful opportunity to retrieve her character if she chooses to do so, but at first she rebels against mothering the twins and being a comrade to Laurie. She gradually awakes to the fact that nobody can love a “crosspatch,” as Daffy frankly calls her, and that to have a friend, one must be one. She decides to act on this principle, and her progress in friendship and happiness is speedy. Winning over cranky old Joshua Barton, her next door neighbor, is perhaps her greatest achievement, and thru it an ancient wrong is righted which brings happiness to many people. And Dr Denton, who has loved her always, surely loves her no less now that she has outgrown her earlier selfishness.
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“It is cloying upon the intellect and opiate to the senses. ‘Christine of the young heart’ is sweet; it is doubly dangerous because it is well constructed and well written, even though it be a typical novel of sentimentality.”
− + =N Y Times= p23 S 26 ’20 380w
=CLAPHAM, RICHARD.= Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells; with an introd. by J. W. Lowther. il *$4.25 (*12s 6d) Longmans 799
20–17000
“Foxhunting on the Lakeland fells is pure foxhunting. It is the fox and the work of the hounds alone that matter. On the Lakeland fells the fox looks after himself, and is there to be killed. He is no friend of the fell sheep. You will ask—why then is he not shot or trapped? And the answer is a simple one—because the men of that country enjoy hunting him. Of the joys and dangers of this sport on the fells Mr Clapham writes.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“He knows his subject thoroughly: he argues about it, theorizes about it, gossips about it, and all in a charmingly informal fashion. His volume is profusely illustrated with photographs that convey the interest of his subject even better than the text.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p21 D 4 ’20 160w
“A volume that will attract only a limited audience, but it is pleasingly written and the author’s intimate knowledge of his subject is indubitable. Written, undoubtedly, for the English public, its appeal to American readers will not be very great.” B. R. Redman
+ =N Y Times= p9 Ja 9 ’21 70w
“Of the five chapters, we liked best that on ‘The fell hounds.’”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p645 O 7 ’20 1000w
=CLAPP, JOHN MANTLE.= Talking business. (Language for men of affairs) $4 Ronald 808
20–9489
The first of the two volumes on Language for men of affairs considers spoken language on the ground that not one in ten business men has the ready and sure mastery of the language forms required in business operations. The book is in five parts. Part I, The real problem: Putting your mind on the other man, treats of the psychology of speech. Part II, The machinery, explains the physiological basis under such headings as: Your appearance; The vocal organs; Pronunciation; A good voice. Part III, Language, considers the vocabulary and construction of sentences. Part IV, Conversation, Business interviews, discusses the various business situations involving speech and Part V, Public speaking, Business addresses, the more elaborate uses of language. There are illustrations and an index. The second volume, on Business writing, is edited by James Melvin Lee.
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=Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
+ =R of Rs= 62:672 D ’20 70w
+ =School R= 28:636 O ’20 130w
=CLARK, ALFRED.= Margaret book. *$1.50 Lane 828
20–7457
A book of verses strung together on a thread of prose. It is by the author of “My erratic pal” and follows the same manner. The prose narrative tells of a New Zealand soldier on sick leave in England, of his happy days in Margaret’s garden, of their love and marriage. Among the poems there is a series describing the dreams experienced in illness.
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=Ath= p322 Mr 5 ’20 80w
=N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“It is all very sweet and nice and gentle—rather too ostentatiously so; every one plays up to the demand for sweetness too zealously and continuously, and the lusciousness of the love-making begins to pall. Nor do we think that the combination of prose and verse justifies itself.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 240w
=CLARK, ALICE.= Working life of women in the seventeenth century. (Studies in economics and political science) *$3.25 (3c) Harcourt. Brace & Howe 331.4
20–2765
The writing of the book was prompted by the conviction that “the conditions under which the obscure mass of women live and fulfill their duties as human beings, have a vital influence upon the destinies of the human race, and that a little knowledge of what these conditions have actually been in the past will be of more value to the sociologist than many volumes of carefully elaborated theory based on abstract ideas.” (Preface) The seventeenth century was chosen as a field of research because, as a sort of watershed between the Elizabethan era and the restoration period and partaking of the characteristics of both, it forms an important crisis in the historic development of Englishwomen. The author indicates in her conclusions that with the advent of machinery and capitalism, restricting the economic life of women, a marked decadence is revealed. Contents: Introductory; Capitalists; Agriculture; Textiles; Crafts and trades; Professions; Conclusion; List of authorities; List of wages assessments; Index.
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“In spite of the fact that the author’s powers of induction are not at all points comparable with her industry, the painstaking work is a monument to her effort, and is of unquestioned value in its presentation of contemporary evidence.” Amy Hewes
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:577 S ’20 1750w
“Whether Miss Clark has proved her thesis or no, she has made available to the general reader and the student of economics a mass of material not easily accessible otherwise. She has faced the difficult task of presenting a fair sample of her evidence, and has come well out of that searching trial, though reflection would no doubt cause her to admit that on occasion she has read more into her authorities than is quite admissible.” E. M. G.
+ − =Ath= p9 Ja 2 ’20 1000w
“Clearly and interestingly written.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Though Miss Clark’s book is technical in character, being based on a rigid plan, we may build up from it an enlightening picture of life in seventeenth century England.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 350w
Reviewed by Dorothy Brewster
=Nation= 111:sup419 O 13 ’20 550w
“The exhaustive bibliography and the rigidly technical character of the investigation are the book’s outstanding virtues.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 170w
“Her distinction is that she has been able to render an inquiry so similar in method to that followed by many American students in graduate work, a genuine contribution in an important field. The record is in fact a corrective to much loose thinking concerning the place of women in a productive society. Not least of all, moreover, it is an extraordinarily interesting book.”
+ =Survey= 44:320 My 29 ’20 360w
“The narrative is somewhat overloaded by detail, much of which could have been relegated to foot notes; but neither this nor the defects to which we have drawn attention should prevent due praise being given to Miss Clark for a laborious and successful attempt to break new ground in the history of the economic position of women.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 1500w
=CLARK, CHAMP.= My quarter century of American politics. 2v il *$6 (2c) Harper
20–4643
“I started out to accomplish certain things. I kept pounding away at them and have achieved most of them.... Endowed by nature with a strong constitution, I have been able to do more work than most men.... My long public career is due largely to the fact that I have been blessed with as faithful a constituency as man ever had.... As my wife, children, and many friends want to know some of the facts, experiences, and recollections of my busy life, I will give them as briefly, modestly, and as accurately as possible—writing about the persons, books, circumstances, and things which most influenced my life.” (Chapter 1) The books are illustrated and have an index.
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“Throughout these gossipy and voluble pages, we find much of repetition and more of exaggeration. In spite of its faults, which are easily forgiven to the genial author, the work is one of some value to our political literature. It is decidedly interesting and engaging reading.” J. A. Woodburn
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:713 N ’20 1400w
“Mr Clark wanders in and about his subject in a chatty reminiscent fashion, illuminating many little known corners of party politics, bringing before the reader a brilliant procession of public personalities and always indulging in sparkling anecdotes. The serious reader will be troubled by the lack of sequence of political events.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 27 ’20 550w
“The unity of the narrative is badly jumbled; a literary hack, hired to revise the manuscript, would have cut it down from a third to a half and with ease have straightened out the illogical arrangements, the crudities of the paragraphs, the vain repetitions, and tiresome platitudes.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 3150w
“No student of political history will be able to omit this voluminous account from his list.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 110w
“Genial humanity and wisdom, shrewd and kindly observation of men and affairs—these are the outstanding qualities of Champ Clark’s reminiscences. The wisdom varies in comprehensiveness and in degree of illumination; the humanity is constant. It is remarkable how little of the bitterness of controversy or the roughness of saw-edged sarcasm there is in any part of Mr Clark’s book.”
+ =No Am= 211:713 My ’20 2250w
+ − =Review= 2:460 My 1 ’20 1400w
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 180w
=CLARK, ELLERY HARDING.= Track athletics up to date. il *$1.50 Duffield 796
20–9841
A new manual of track athletics by an author who has had wide experience as a physical director. His purpose is stated in the preface: “First, I have endeavored to trace, with brevity, the history of track athletics; next, I have noted some of the best of the many books, pamphlets and special articles which have been written on this subject; and lastly, I have tried to summarize, in the year 1919, our present knowledge of proper methods of training and of performing the various events on track and field.” The work is illustrated with forty-three plates.
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“He combines clear statement with the highest ideal of sport.”
+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 70w
=CLARK, EVANS.= Facts and fabrications about soviet Russia. pa 50c Rand school of social science 914.7
20–12609
“The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the astounding falsehoods told about soviet Russia by the American press, publicists and state and federal officials during the past few years. In this portion the Sisson documents, the presidential fabrications, the reports of alleged military defeats, and the rumors concerning ‘the nationalization of women,’ etc., are set forth in documentary form. Part 2 consists of a comprehensive bibliography of periodical, book and pamphlet literature dealing sympathetically with all phases of the Russian problem—foreign policy, education, drama, industry, labor, propaganda, religion, the woman question, etc.”—Socialist R
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“The method is simple and admirably adapted to the purpose. Possibly his classification is a little biased, as when he maintains that all the conservatives have been unreliable and all the liberal and labor organs truthful. But in general his criterion will stand and his list will prove sound.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 760w
+ =Socialist R= 9:209 N ’20 250w
=CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.= Gospel of out of doors. *$1.25 Assn. press 570.4
20–9999
One of the author’s purposes in publishing this collection of papers is “that other men and women, encouraged by my own experience of the joy, the comfort, and the health that come from an old farm, may feel its lure, learn its joy, and experience its health-giving comforts.” (Preface) Contents: The gospel of out of doors; The joy of the seed catalogue; The lure of the old farm; A sermon to my brother weeds; Farming as a moral equivalent for war; Under the willow in the spring; My doorstep visitors; Birds in the bush and birds in the book; Out of doors in the autumn; A rainy day at the farm; The underground alchemist; Fun on the old farm; Always something new on the old farm; Next best to a farm; Can a horse laugh? Ever-bearers and ever-bloomers.
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+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20
“There is nothing about the old farm, however prosaic it may be, that fails to suggest to Mr Clark material for a delightful essay; and he is always ready with a pungent poetical quotation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 300w
“The charm of the book ... is simply irresistible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 170w
=CLARK, THOMAS ARKLE.= High school boy and his problems. *$1.20 Macmillan 170
20–8370
“Dean Clark of the University of Illinois for many years has made boys and their ways the chief concern of his official life. Mr Clark is what the students would call a ‘regular’ dean. He knows the temptations that beset the young man and is not astonished that they are sometimes too much for him. He is inclined to overlook the minor shortcomings, but conceives it his duty to warn the boy of the risk he runs in yielding to evil suggestions. For the rest the book has much in it that is of interest, and the dean is particularly happy in his chapters on the value of systematic study and on choosing a career or a college.”—Boston Transcript
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“Sensible little talks with a happy freedom from ‘preachiness.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 150w
“It is concrete in every paragraph, reminiscent, replete with glimpses of real boys facing actual situations. Almost as important as is its content is the fact that it promises to win a reading from the high-school boy to whom it is addressed.”
+ =School R= 28:555 S ’20 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.= Lady Trent’s daughter. *$1.75 (1½c) Benziger
20–4464
Lady Trent had been married at a very early age and, widowed before twenty, had left her infant daughter to the care of her elder sister, who had brought the girl up in seclusion from the world. Olave is sixteen when the story opens. A distinguished novelist meets the girl in the woods, and charmed with her youth and innocence, persuades her into a series of clandestine meetings. He finally tells her that he is engaged to another woman, and later it comes to light that this woman is Olave’s mother. The engagement is at once broken and Lady Trent tries to win her daughter’s confidence and love. But the mischief is already done and the girl continues to meet Quinn. A runaway marriage is planned, but is abandoned when Quinn’s long neglected Catholic principles reassert themselves. Olave also accepts Catholicism, toward which she has had strong leanings, feeling that under its influence she would have been saved from the course of deception she has followed.
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=Ath= p304 S 3 ’20 390w
“Guy Quinn not only fails to live for us, but is quite devoid of any heroic qualities. As to his charm, which subjugated in turn the widow Felicity Trent and her young daughter Olave, that has to be taken altogether on trust.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p532 Ag 19 ’20 600w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.=[2] Ursula Finch. *$2.25 (2c) Benziger
The story of two sisters, one a spoiled beauty and one a drudge, The scene is Cornwall but later when Ursula, the drudge, seems likely to interfere with her sister’s matrimonial schemes, she is packed off to Rome as a nursery governess. Here she comes under the influence of Catholicism and joins the church. The lover who had been the cause of her exile follows her and as he also has leanings toward the Catholic faith the story ends happily.
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“Miss Clarke has again produced a book which is both interesting and entertaining; yet appreciation is mingled with constant regret over the vehemence of her characterizations.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:548 Ja ’21 210w
=CLARKSON, RALPH PRESTON.=[2] Elementary electrical engineering. il *$2 Van Nostrand 621.3
20–19604
“A textbook of theory and practice, particularly adapted for the instruction of mechanical, civil, and chemical engineers and others desiring a short course.” (Sub-title) Contents: Introduction; Units and terms; The solution of circuits; The generation of electricity; Electrical measuring instruments; Illumination and power, electrical transmission, theory of lighting devices. There are 141 diagrams and an index.
=CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES EUGÈNE BENJAMIN.= Surprises of life. *$1.90 (4c) Doubleday
20–16497
This collection of tales, translated from the French by Grace Hall, tells the stories of curious characters in all walks of life. The initial tale, Mokoubamba’s fetish, is of an old negro from Central Africa, reseater of chairs, weaver of mats and mender of all things breakable, wise beyond other men and with a philosophy of his own with regard to fetishes. Some of the other titles are: A descendant of Timon; Aunt Rosalie’s inheritance; A mad thinker; Better than stealing; A domestic drama; The treasure of St Bartholomew; Lovers in Florence.
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“To face facts, though not always a pleasure, is a duty. To face the French novelist’s interpretation of them seems to us in many cases neither the one nor the other.”
− + =Ath= p731 N 26 ’20 160w
“Distinguished by technical dexterity.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“The stories, if not put to the test of inner veracity, are thoroughly readable.”
+ − =Nation= 111:353 S 25 ’20 300w
“The stories and things are well worth telling and are well told. The book is the work of a keen and accurate reader of human nature and of a master of satire.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 380w
“As literature, the tales in the present volume stand far above ‘The strongest,’ the novel which he published in America last year. If they have a single fault it is that the author’s lifelong habit of speaking and writing to convince people of something shows itself in the parable-like character of some of his stories. His powers of characterization are admirable.”
+ − =N Y Times= p7 S 19 ’20 1400w
“In an age like ours when literature is afraid of its name, its pedigree, and its uniform, M. Clemenceau will be helped rather than hurt by the association of no small measure of literary force with the brusque frankness and imperious, half insolent, unconcern of the man who is not answerable to reviewers.”
+ =Review= 3:565 D 8 ’20 350w
“The book is marked by its clarity, that absence of adjectives which makes every idea understood at once. M. Clemenceau is shrewd, yet generous, a quality that Mark Twain attained in some of his short stories. He paints portraits not merely in two dimensions, but in three.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 290w
“There is always the impression that the things related are things seen, not things invented, and that they are symbols of things not seen. Some of the equipment of a complete master of the genre indeed, he seems to lack.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 450w
=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= Moments with Mark Twain; selected by Albert Bigelow Paine. *$1.50 Harper 817
20–6374
One of the compiler’s excuses for offering this selection from the writings of Mark Twain to the public is to show that the latter was something more than a fun-maker. “The examples have been arranged chronologically, so that the reader, following them in order, may note the author’s evolution—the development of his humor, his observation, his philosophy and his literary style. They have been selected with some care, in the hope that those who know the author best may consider him fairly represented.” (Foreword)
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=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“Well-chosen selections from his works chronologically arranged to show evolution of style and thought as well as characteristic humor. Useful for quotation hunters.”
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 20w
=Review= 2:403 Ap 17 ’20 80w
=CLEVELAND, FREDERICK ALBERT, and BUCK, ARTHUR EUGENE.= Budget and responsible government. (American social progress ser.) *$3 (2½c) Macmillan 353
20–8814
“A description and interpretation of the struggle for responsible government in the United States, with special reference to recent changes in state constitutions and statute laws providing for administrative reorganization and budget reform.” (Sub-title) The preface by Mr Cleveland states that the work was begun as a report to the National budget committee. Later its scope was expanded and Mr Buck of the New York Bureau of municipal research, who had been preparing a report dealing with administrative reorganization in the several states, was asked to collaborate. In addition to the editor’s note by Samuel McCune Lindsay, there is an introduction by ex-President Taft, who during his term of office urged the adoption of the budget system. The book is in five parts: Historic background and interpretation of the recent movement for administrative reorganization and budget procedure; Detailed accounts of proposed plans and recent legal enactments for administrative reorganization in state governments; Detailed accounts of the characteristics and operation of recent state enactments providing for a budget procedure; Proposed national budget legislation; Conclusion. There is no index, a want partly supplied by the analytical table of contents.
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+ =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 200w
Reviewed by A. C. Hanford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:711 N ’20 500w
“Sound, careful work for students and those interested in problems of government.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Mr Cleveland states very plainly the facts regarding the necessity of a national segregated budget and no one reading his book can fail to realize that if the government of this country is to be administered in an efficient and responsible manner some form of segregated budget must be adopted.” G. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 350w
“For the student of budget legislation and administration in the technical sense, the chapters by Mr Buck will be especially welcome.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 700w
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 140w
“The book is an eloquent plea for more effective democracy, a powerful argument against political bossism, and a valuable contribution to the cause of the ‘independent’ voter. It should prove of informative value to women.” C. E. Rightor
+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 570w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 50w
=CLOSE, EVELYNE.= Cherry Isle. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–20001
Anthea Argent is just a young struggling singer when the famous tenor, Charles Garston, meets and falls in love with her in cherry-blossom time. Altho she realizes she cares more for her art than she does for him, she consents to marry him. Her voice develops until her fame matches her husband’s, but with the coming of their baby she loses it entirely. Her coldness to her husband increases to bitter hatred and they finally separate, but not before she has realized that her child was born dumb. The other passion of her life beside her voice is for revenge on the man who had wrecked her mother’s life—her own unacknowledged father. She sets herself to ruin him and accomplishes it in a dramatic way. But, having done so, she realizes that the fulfilment of this ambition, as of her earlier one, turns to ashes in her grasp. She sees herself as the selfish, hard woman that she is, and the close of the story finds her pride breaking as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life and patch them together again.
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“The novel, though readable, has elements of artificiality.”
+ − =Ath= p590 Ap 30 ’20 110w
“For a piece of sensational fiction this novel is decidedly readable. The opening chapters in the cherry orchard are charming bits of description.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 50w
=Sat R= 130:80 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=CLOW, FREDERICK REDMAN.= Principles of sociology with educational applications. (Brief course ser. in education) $1.80 Macmillan 301
20–3277
“Mr Clow, who teaches in the State normal school at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, believes that sociological theory can be made, to a far greater extent than has hitherto been done, an instrument for the solution of practical and technical problems. The present text-book, which is divided into three parts, ‘The factors of society,’ ‘Social organization,’ and ‘Social progress,’ is intended to provide students with a basis upon which they can apply sociological principles to groups and institutions of which they form part or with which they are familiar. Each chapter of the exposition is followed by a list of ‘Topics’ to be assigned to individual students for special study, a series of ‘Problems’ for discussion and an elaborate table of bibliographical references. This careful work contains in addition a select list of books generally useful for further reading in the subject and indices of authors, books, periodicals and subjects.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“The book is encyclopedic rather than systematic. It treats in succession a great variety of topics, but one is left at the end of the book with a confused idea and without any view of a general systematic theory of society or of school organization. It would be very difficult to put this book into the hands of elementary students unless the author himself were so thoroughly inspired by the importance of sociology that he could carry the student far beyond the compass of the text itself.”
+ − =El School J= 20:713 My ’20 580w
+ =School R= 28:389 My ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p404 Je 24 ’20 150w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= Essays on art. *$1.75 Scribner 704
20–6951
“In the preface of this volume, Mr Clutton-Brock asks, ‘How are we to improve the art of our own time? After years of criticism I am more interested in this question than in any other that concerns the arts.’ He believes that art, like other human activities, is subject to the will of man, and that the quality of art in any age depends chiefly upon the attitude of the public towards it. His insistence on good workmanship and sound construction in the things we see and handle every day is a continuance of the gospel of William Morris, and it was never more needed than it is now. He pours irony and ridicule on the idea of art as a luxury; on the craze for cheap machine-made reproductions of expensive ornaments; on professors of art who live in hideous drawing-rooms; on the exalting of processes above persons; and on the professionalism of artists, in whom an arrogant skill and accomplishment take the place of genuine expression. One of the best of the essays is a ‘Defence of criticism,’ occasioned by an outburst of Sir Thomas Jackson lamenting that art criticism could not be made penal for ten years, so that people might think for themselves.”—Sat R
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“Mr Clutton-Brock is safer as a thinker on conscience and duty than on æsthetics, though he portrays the artist—Leonardo, Mozart, or Poussin—with admirable insight.”
+ − =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 140w
=Ath= p8 Ja 2 ’20 1550w
“It is so pregnant with genial wisdom, and without being unduly dogmatic, so sincerely genuine in its viewpoints, that it is bound to give real pleasure.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 200w
“These essays are vigorous, informative, and often very well written.”
+ =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w
“His is a book worth thinking about, very straight and sober and sincere, discussing one of the most serious of all subjects in a manner worthy of the subject.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 21:389 F 25 ’20 1800w
“With the strong ethical perceptions, Mr Brock combines sensitiveness.”
+ =Review= 2:276 My 29 ’20 400w
“He writes with a refreshing absence of superiority, as one of the public with a natural and human interest in art.”
+ =Sat R= 128:565 D 13 ’19 800w
“A better little book of ‘aesthetics for beginners’ could hardly be imagined than Mr Clutton-Brock’s ‘Essays on art.’”
+ =Spec= 124:242 F 21 ’20 380w
“Possessed of a finely perceptive and reflective nature, he sets forth truths that might be called spiritual were not the word spiritual in some minds held to denote a lack of common sense. Perhaps it is Mr Clutton-Brock’s distinction that he makes spiritual truths appear to be common sense.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 1050w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= What is the kingdom of Heaven? *$1.75 Scribner 230
(Eng ed A20–528)
“‘Is the universe a fraud?’ is the question which Mr Clutton-Brock asks and tries to answer in this book. Is life as we know it a welter of pain and evil, a vast and stupid joke; or is there some sense, some moral principle, behind this seeming chaos? We all desire to believe that our private virtues rhyme with something in the universe. We can be convinced that they do, and we can make the conviction come true in fact, says Mr Brock, by believing in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is a relation of man to the universe analogous to the relation of man to art—a relation at once passionately intimate and disinterested. The Kingdom of Heaven in politics means the disappearance of struggle and competition, in the individual the beginning of happiness.”—Ath
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“Mr Brock writes in such a way that it is often possible to wonder whether his words have any very exact meaning, or whether they are merely symbols fluttering in the void, searching vainly for some solid reality on which to repose themselves.”
− =Ath= p315 My 19 ’19 180w
Reviewed by Bertrand Russell
=Ath= p487 Je 20 ’19 1700w
“It is a passionate and beautiful treatment of Jesus and his chief doctrine, bearing the mark of the artist and the prophet. This book must be read slowly, reflected upon earnestly; it is a significant discussion of a supreme subject.”
+ =Bib World= 54:643 N ’20 330w
“Mr Clutton-Brock’s book has a fresh, arresting quality; it detains the reader. It is worthy of attention as representing the highminded and persuasive modernism that is working in the church.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 29 ’19 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 O 19 ’19 2600w
=COAKLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Spiritism; the modern satanism. *$1.25 Extension press 134
“Dr Coakley finds what he calls ‘the present craze for spiritism’ to be in substance much the same as those waves of hysteria and necromancy that have occasionally swept the earth since the most ancient times. He opposes it especially in its claim to be, as Sir Conan Doyle calls it, ‘a new revelation,’ and finds spiritistic practices to be full of danger of many sorts, while he thinks that a future life filled with the sort of spirits that are chiefly in evidence at séances would offer few attractions. He sets forth the attitude of the Catholic church upon the subject and makes clear the reasons why it prohibits its members from taking any part in spiritistic or psychical research inquiries.”—N Y Times
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+ =Cath World= 112:252 N ’20 110w
=N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 110w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= Abandoned farmers. *$3 (6½c) Doran 817
20–19071
In this “humorous account of a retreat from the city to the farm” the reader accompanies the author on a long search for an abandoned farm, and, when it is found at last, assists in every detail of taking possession, of digging a well, planning, building and furnishing the house and, at last, takes leaves of him with the impression that, although the feat was not accomplished without membership in the Westchester county despair association, it was all worth while. Contents: Which is really a preface in disguise; The start of a dream; Three years elapse; Happy days for Major Gloom; In which we bore for water; Two more years elapse; “And sold to—”; The adventure of Lady Maude; Us landed proprietors.
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“Written with the usual Cobb humor. Described by one reader as ‘a bit thin with an occasional raisin.’”
+ − =Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 110w
“‘The abandoned farmers’ represent Mr Cobb at his happiest.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 130w
“It is a tale all of which lies in the telling, and with Cobb in the role of Tusitala no one can go wrong in expecting that every phase of humor in the subject will be brought forth.”
+ =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 220w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= From place to place. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–2846
“Stories about ourselves” is the sub-title of this collection of character sketches. The choice of subjects is unusual. In “The gallowsmith” we have a sympathetically drawn picture of a self-appointed hangman who plied his trade with the pride of a good craftsman till suddenly one day his dormant imagination awoke and—killed him. The other sketches are: The thunders of silence; Boys will be boys; The luck piece; Quality folks; John J. Coincidence; When August the second was April the first; Hoodwinked; The bull called Emily.
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=Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
=Lit D= p127 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“These stories make interesting reading, though they are remote from any trace of realism.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“Here we have Mr Cobb in all his varying moods of farce and pathos, reminiscence, stern logic, and ironical tragedy. The tale which opens the book, ‘The gallowsmith,’ manifestly belongs to him who wrote ‘The escape of Mr Trimm’ and the wonderful narrative of ‘The bell buzzard.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:57 F 1 ’20 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 350w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY, and RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that just like a man! *$1 (8c) Doran 817
20–4128
Mr Cobb, at one end of the book, enlarges on the foibles of women—their narrow skirts, their high heels, their habits of impeding the traffic and getting off street cars backward, and then ends with a tribute to their work for the war. Mrs Rinehart, at the other end, reciprocates with comments on the inherent conservatism of men, and their sex clannishness, and then pats them gently on the head for their eternal boyishness and confesses that “we do like them, dreadfully.”
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“While some of the jokes will seem trite, there are enough good laughs to compensate.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“The tone of both little essays is delightfully urbane.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It is all good fun, and neither writer could be dull if he (or she) tried.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 300w
“That clever novelist [Mrs Rinehart] gives us very much better reading. She is full of shrewd remarks, and shows much more sympathetic insight into man than Mr Cobb does into woman.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 340w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Mr Preston’s daughter. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–19510
Monica Dasent, in love with Godfrey Raymond, becomes jealous when Essa Maynard, a girl of doubtful past, begins to pay him marked attention. Godfrey’s sole interest in Essa is because his uncle Hugh has confessed a “certain responsibility” for the girl. After the uncle’s death, it is discovered that he left Essa a large legacy, and Godfrey tries to prove exactly what “responsibility” Uncle Hugh had felt. This involves him in a family quarrel of long standing between his uncle and his cousin Anthony, the cause of which he finds to be the paternity of Essa. Anthony, the real father, is anxious to conceal the fact from his wife, but it all turns out to be a tempest in a teapot since his wife had known the circumstances even before their marriage.
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=Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 50w
“Here are the ingredients of excitement. But somehow or other the creator of these elements lacks the proper recipe for the most effective mixing. His atmosphere sags; his stride is feeble: he never swings into the long and winning pace that comes so easily to the authors of American best sellers.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 310w
“The author has a fluent pleasing style, and he knows his London thoroughly. Can be commended to that large class which buys a novel because the purchaser wants ‘something to read.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 450w
“Mr Cobb builds up a very good story with his accustomed skill.”
+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 80w
“The book is written with Mr Thomas Cobb’s usual lightness of touch.”
+ =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Silver bag. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–5233
During an absence from London Valentine Brook turns his flat over to his friend Derrick Chalmers. On the morning after his return a pretty girl calls to ask for a silver bag left there during his absence. It is made clear that it is not her bag, that she is calling for it for another woman. The mystery of the story revolves about the owner of the bag. Lionel Windermere suspects his wife, Valentine reluctantly suspects Evelyn Stainer. Mrs Tempest calmly states that it is hers, but there is reason to believe she is shielding one of the others. But which one? The tangle is straightened out finally with no reputations lost and no hearts broken.
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“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no account of time.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 300w
“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our sympathy.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:251 S 13 ’19 220w
“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment and accomplishment.”
+ − =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 80w
“While not melodramatic or sensational, ‘The silver bag’ contains mystery and amusing situations. The book will please those with a weakness for delving into society scandals and near scandals.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 270w
=COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON.= Zoology, il *$3 World bk. 590
20–7593
A work by the professor of zoology in the University of Colorado, published as one of the New-World science series of which John W. Ritchie is general editor. It is designed as a text book for colleges and universities but has several elements of popular appeal. One of its unusual features is the interposition of biographical chapters, the author believing that it is well for the students to know more of the men who have contributed to scientific knowledge. Consequently he has provided sketches of Darwin, Linnæus. Henri Fabre, Pasteur and others. The book has good illustrations including a series of animal photographs taken under the author’s direction in the New York zoological park. References follow the chapters and there is an index.
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+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20
=CODY, HIRAM ALFRED.= Glen of the high north. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–18933
Tom Reynolds finds himself at odds with life after his four years at the front. The vision of a beautiful face in a crowded street remains his grip on reality. On top of this comes the suggestion of a friend that he go in search of a Henry Redmond who, with his little girl, had mysteriously disappeared fifteen years previous. Ostensibly Tom goes in search of Redmond, but in reality his quest is for the face. More casual glimpses of it intensify his zeal. It takes him into the mining camps of the far north, plunges him into adventures in which figure the girl, an old philosophic prospector, a villainous miner, and a mysterious landed proprietor lording it in his stronghold behind the Golden Crest. In the end the girl proves to be the daughter of the landlord and the latter, the old prospector and the lost Henry Redmond to be one and the same person. The girl is won, gold is found in the bargain, the villainous miner is made harmless and life is once more real to Tom.
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“A commonplace, crudely written melodrama of the most obvious motion-picture type.”
− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 200w
=CODY, LOUISA (FREDERICI) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY).= Memories of Buffalo Bill; in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper. il *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton
20–2278
From the time he first courted her, to his death, Mrs Cody records the career of her husband, one of the most picturesque and adventuresome of human careers. Adventure was thrust upon him when a mere child it became a part of his environment and was later sought with the keen relish of the actor in him. “One thing had been borne to him, through the never failing worship of youthful America, that he was an idol who never could be replaced, that as long as there were boys, and as long as those boys had red blood in their veins, they would thrill at the sight of him they loved, and cheer the sounding reverberation of his great booming voice as he whirled into the arena on his great, white horse, came to a swinging stop before the grandstand, and raised his hand for the famous salute from the saddle.” (Chapter 15)
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“The book under review may not be a literary masterpiece, but it has a merit which many so-called literary masterpieces lack—the merit of presenting a real man and an admirable character. It is written in a lively and entertaining style, with restraint, and in good taste.” J: Bunker
+ =Bookm= 52:79 S ’20 560w
“Her tale is rambling at times, and at times inclined to the sentimental; however, it is not entirely out of character to know that the Indian-killing scout was a lively lover, as well as a dead shot with the rifle. This story becomes more human on that account. It is evident that the real biography of Colonel William F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill,’ is yet to be written, and Mrs Cody has contributed her part in good season.” J. S. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 F 14 ’20 450w
“It may be that the closeness of the author to the scenes of which she writes has marred the perspective. In any case, the present volume very largely fails both in color and adequacy.... By way of compensation, the concluding chapters exhibit a good deal of dramatic power. Indeed, we have seldom read a story more pitifully fascinating than that of the massacre at Wounded Knee, as told by the aged Short Bull in his tepee on the blizzard-swept prairie near Pine Ridge. It is worth knowing, for it is history.”
+ − =Cath World= 111:544 Jl ’20 200w
=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
=N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
“In addition to its personal interest the book gives a stirring picture of early western life.”
+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 30w
=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 50w
=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 19 ’20 200w
=CODY, WILLIAM FREDERICK (BUFFALO BILL, pseud.).= Autobiography of Buffalo Bill. il *$3 (3c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–7661
In this story of his life Colonel Cody touches upon his life as a showman only as the final rounding out of his career after the great wild west, of which he had been so integral a part, had become a thing of the past. But in its pages live again and go down to history the thrilling last days of Indian warfare, buffalo hunting and stage-coaching. The book is illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
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+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20
“The volume is a brisk, vivid and authentic picture of a departed era, so rich in detail and so bold in outline that it leaves most of our purely fictional wild West stories in total eclipse.” L. B.
+ =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 200w
=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
“Buffalo Bill’s own story does not rank with ‘Treasure Island,’ but it is the boys’ own book, for it holds all that can live of the life its hero led on the plains and afterwards preserved under canvas; and it was written by a boy who actually did the thing every boy resolves to do, stayed a boy in defiance of time and fate for more than seventy years.”
+ =Review= 3:71 Jl 21 ’20 1250w
“His autobiography well deserves a place on the library shelf devoted to western history.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is well to have a life of such varied adventures written at length, the more so since the setting of so much of that life has passed beyond duplication.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 340w
“Interesting to everyone, for it is an important phase of our history graphically told by the one who knew it best.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 100w
=COFFIN, HENRY SLOANE.= More Christian industrial order. *$1 (4c) Macmillan 330
20–6208
The author does not hold that the fragmentary sayings of Jesus can be pieced together to form a basis for a new industrial order. What he believes is that the spirit of Jesus furnishes a guide for conduct in any given situation and his purpose here is to ask “what the spirit of Jesus would create out of the existing social system in order that we may be led into a more Christian industrial order.” Contents: The Christian as producer; The Christian as consumer; The Christian as owner; The Christian as investor; The Christian as employer and employee; Conclusion—democracy and faith. The author is minister in the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, New York city, and associate professor in Union theological seminary.
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=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20
=N Y Times= p30 O 10 ’20 60w
“It is a very quiet book, a book whose tread is muffled, as if it fell upon a thickly carpeted church aisle. Mr Coffin’s book on the social order seems to take us far away from the industrial struggle.”
− + =Review= 3:75 Jl 21 ’20 200w
=Survey= 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 380w
=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Come seven. il *$1.75 (1½c) Dodd
20–16928
A volume of negro stories by the author of “Polished ebony.” Contents: Without benefit of Virgie; The fight that failed; The quicker the dead; Alley money; Twinkle, twinkle, movie star; The light bombastic toe; Cock-a-doodle-doo!
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“They approach the burlesque in their fun, but they never fail to amuse.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Gray dusk. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2646
A detective story with scenes laid in South Carolina. Stanford Forrest and his bride had gone there for their honeymoon. Four days later David Carroll receives a telegram stating that Mary Forrest has been murdered, and that Stanford is held for the crime. With his assistant, Jim Sullivan, Carroll hastens to the scene of the tragedy. From the first he is prejudiced in favor of his friend, but Sullivan maintains his professional calm and stands ready to suspect everybody. There seems however to be no one to suspect but Stanford himself, against whom the circumstantial evidence is strong. But gradually others become implicated, Bennet Hemingway, who had written a slanderous letter, Conrad Heston, the man who had so mysteriously occupied Furness Lodge before the arrival of the Forrests, Esther Devarney who loves Heston, and Mart Farnam, the “swamp angel” with a weakness for “licker.” One of these is guilty and Carroll succeeds in finding the evidence that singles out this one.
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“There are some good descriptions of the South Carolina ‘back country’ and a lack of objectionable thrills and horrors. The keen reader will be able to guess the solution.”
+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20
“‘Gray dusk’ has two qualities that lift it out of the ruck into which books of its class usually fall. The first of these is a denouement that will catch five out of every six sophisticated readers off guard, and the second is the literary skill the author displays in the successful creation of an atmosphere that enhances his plot.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“The plot is ingenious and the solution of the mystery unexpected.”
+ =Spec= 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w
“The story is conventional, but is not without lively episodes and suspense.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 80w
“He writes in an easy, natural manner, with an agreeable absence of that laboured smartness which so often mars American stories.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 80w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Chaos and order in industry. *$2.75 (3½c) Stokes 335
(Eng ed 20–76275)
The average man, says the author, becomes conscious of our industrial and economic system only when something has gone wrong. He goes through three stages: apathy, prejudice, knowledge. The object of the book is to serve the third stage and to find out what is really wrong. After reviewing the status of the various industries he arrives at the conclusion that the cleavage in society today is between the workers by hand and by brain on the one side and the rentiers and financiers on the other and that the function of industrial reconstruction consists in devising a policy by which the former can exercise their functions not on behalf of the latter but on behalf of the whole community. Contents: The cause of strikes; Motives in industry; The reconstruction of profiteering; The guild solution; Coal; Railways; “Encroaching control” versus “industrial peace”; Engineering and shipbuilding; Cotton and building; Distribution and the consumer; The finance of industry; The real class struggle; Appendices and index.
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+ =Ath= p305 S 3 ’20 210w
“Mr Cole’s system may not inspire confident belief in those whose approach to economic study has been through the classical formulae. But no one can afford to dismiss it as a tissue of fallacies, an impossible Utopia.” Alvin Johnson
+ − =New Republic= 25:80 D 15 ’20 1500w
“The degeneracy of its tone hangs like a miasma over every page. The whole book is a gospel of greed, a hymn of hate.”
− =Sat R= 130:221 S 11 ’20 650w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 1350w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Introduction to trade unionism. (Fabian soc., London. Research dept. Trade union ser.) $1.65 For sale by the Survey 331.87
(Eng ed 19–2251)
“In ‘An introduction to trade unionism’ the most prominent of the younger students of the British labor problem presents to the reader an admirable survey of English trade unionism of the present day. The book estimates the strength of organized labor, analyzes trade union structure and government, discusses the unions’ attitude toward amalgamation, toward political action, cooperation, the state, the shop steward’s movement, etc., and gives the reader a forecast of the future.”—Survey
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“What Mr Cole has set out to do he has done remarkably well. No student of British trade unionism—or of American trade unionism, for that matter—should pass this little book by.” D. A. McCabe
+ =Am Econ R= 9:589 S ’19 380w
“Mr Cole is to be thanked for explaining to the outside world the growth and goal of the shop stewards’ movement. Those who will take the trouble to follow Mr Cole’s treatment of the subject and to consult the works indicated in his bibliography will realize the futility of attempting to deflect trade unionism from its course by a flood of goodwill.”
+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 140w
“Gives a lucid and commendably dispassionate account of the British trade union movement.”
+ =Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 440w
Reviewed by H. W. Laidler
+ =Survey= 43:282 D 20 ’19 240w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Labour in the commonwealth. (New commonwealth books) *$1.50 Huebsch 331
19–3307
“Mr Cole’s book is a restatement of the humanity of labour; a rescue of labour from the dismal penumbra of abstractions which have prevailed in industrial theory since the industrial revolution of the last century. ‘Labour,’ which the economists have loved to contrast with ‘capital,’ is an abstraction, he believes which has vitiated thinking and perverted economic science from its proper function. Mr Cole, therefore, who is one of the few members of the English intelligenzia who have gained the full confidence of the labour party, writes not of abstract labour as a ‘thing’ but of individual men and women forming the majority of the people in any commonwealth; and gives us his personal theory of labour’s place in the commonwealth and what labour and the labour movement are like. This theory is that labour should have control in the industrial sphere.”—Int J Ethics
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“Of particular interest is Professor Cole’s analysis of the state. He avoids very carefully the mistake which is so often made of confusing the state and the commonwealth as a single entity.” G. S. Watkins
+ =Am Econ R= 10:608 S ’20 420w
“A notably interesting book.”
+ =Ath= p31 Ja ’19 30w
“Mr Cole’s new volumes may be heartily recommended to all who search for an understanding of the mainsprings of labour policy and of the groundwork of labour organization.”
+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 340w
+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20
“A pungent review of the whole range of present industrial and social life in the spirit of a revolutionary critic.”
+ =Brooklyn= 12:31 N ’19 40w
=Dial= 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w
=Int J Ethics= 29:506 Jl ’19 140w
“We could wish that Mr Cole would confine himself more rigorously to plain and straightforward explanation. His excursions into satire and humor are unfortunate. The book includes a chapter upon Labour and education which is of real importance. Mr Cole’s discussion of the state in this volume is on the whole better than anything he has previously written on this subject; and a chapter on The organization of freedom, in which there is an exposition of the guild idea from the angle of personal liberty, is an exceedingly fresh and suggestive piece of work.”
+ − =Nation= 110:112 Ja 24 ’20 1100w
“Against theories he regards as outworn Mr Cole’s attack, through all his book, is spirited and resourceful. At times Mr Cole’s imaginative style seems less telling than the steady hammering with facts which such a writer as Sidney Webb uses. But there are times enough when Mr Cole drives his sword’s point through a dogma and out its farther side.” C. M.
+ − =New Repub= 22:102 Mr 17 ’20 480w
“There is no attempt in this book to equivocate or to win a decision by finesse. In following Mr Cole’s argument many queries cannot fail to occur to the reader, no matter how unprejudiced he may try to keep his mind. In the first place, has Mr Cole been absolutely fair in depicting present industrial conditions?”
+ − =N Y Evening= Post p3 F 14 ’20 1800w
=N Y Times= 25:325 Je 20 ’20 1400w
=Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 240w
“Adds nothing further to the philosophy of the national guildsmen, its object being merely to give a birdseye view of the social relationships to the outsider who wants to know the A B C’s, not of guild socialism but of the industrial problem as a whole. This purpose it fulfills admirably.” H. W. Laidler
+ =Survey= 41:644 F 1 ’19 480w
“By the test of fact Professor Cole is in places inadequate. But his book is spirited, and the drift of his argument is sound. It is, furthermore, entertaining—which alone would justify it. It is finally a key to the state of mind of many of that younger generation to whom it is principally addressed.” W: L. Chenery
+ − =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 500w
=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Social theory. (Library of social studies) *$1.50 (2½c) Stokes 301
20–7572
The book is a study of the actions of men in association, in supplement and complement to their actions as isolated or private individuals, and its object is to ascertain the essential principles of social organizations and the moral and psychological problems upon which their structure and functioning must be based if they are to be in real harmony with the wills of the men and women of whom they are composed. It is the author’s conviction that our existing structure of society is not responsive to human needs, does not allow of the full self-expression of all its members and is doomed to a radical reconstruction. One of the social theories placed on the superannuated list is that of state sovereignty. Contents: The forms of social theory; Some names and their meaning; The principle of function; The forms and motives of association; The state; Democracy and representation; Government and legislation; Coercion and co-ordination; The economic structure of society; Regionalism and local government; Churches; Liberty; The atrophy of institutions; Conclusion; Bibliographical notes and index.
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“On the whole candor compels the report that the author has brewed a few familiar concepts and some scattered observation into a turgidity against which adequate familiarity with the sociological analyses of the past two decades and a consistently observed purpose might have been a protection.” A. W. Small
− =Am J Soc= 26:247 S ’20 870w
“Very able and pregnant little book. His book must be taken very seriously, not only by teachers, but by politicians and reformers. It will rouse keen discussion and hot dissent. Mr Cole will welcome both. For though his manner is dogmatic, his method is tentative and moulds itself on facts. His French logic has been grafted on an English mind.” G. L. Dickinson
+ =Ath= p476 Ap 9 ’20 1700w
=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w
“For my own part I take little exception to Mr Cole’s general conclusion as based on the ideas of self-government and function. It is only Mr Cole’s methods of reaching his conclusion which seem to me inadequate. Human association is based not on will but upon necessity.... Mr Cole’s book is exceedingly valuable nevertheless.” Ordway Tead
+ − =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1000w
“The book is compact and closely reasoned, detached, and even academic in manner and revealing, as do Mr Cole’s other works, an acute and masterly handling of his material.” M. J.
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:113 O ’20 520w
“Mr Cole has intellectual power of high order. He knows well what he is aiming at and where he wants to stand. One of the most commendable traits of his book is its candor in confessing that it is prompted by a preference.” T: R. Powell
+ =Nation= 11:sup413 O 13 ’20 2050w
“A brilliant piece of relentless reasoning. Not often is sociology made so easy, even enticing, as in this book.”
+ =Nation [London]= 27:212 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Guild socialism has hitherto lacked a reasoned theory of social organization. In this book Mr Cole makes a brave and wonderfully successful effort to grapple with its difficulties.” H. J. L.
+ =New Repub= 23:154 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“The entire book is abstract to a degree. It cannot be recommended for easy reading, but it should be read with care, if half the world is to know what the other half is thinking about. As a flight of fancy and project of reform Mr Cole’s idea has some attractive features, but we would rather see it tried in some other country.”
− + =N Y Times= p13 Ag 8 ’20 2400w
“‘Social theory’ is a book worth while. It is reasoned and temperate; despite a too frequent reliance upon abstract terms where concrete example is most needed, it is clearly expressed; and it presents a coherent set of principles. One may disagree with all of it and yet acknowledge that the author has ably stated his argument.” W. J. Ghent
+ − =Review= 3:316 O 13 ’20 580w
=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 150w
“This is a most irritating little book. No text-book has a right to be quite so dull as this; particularly from Mr Cole one had looked for something more original.”
− =Sat R= 130:56 Ag 17 ’20 650w
“Mr Cole’s book is worthy of and will receive study. While it will not pass unchallenged upon its constructive side, its criticism of old conceptions is surely trenchant and significant.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 840w
“It is an illuminating book. For one I confess to have wished that Mr Cole could have avoided his rather lengthy definition of the terms he used.” W: L. Chenery
+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w
“He is so anxious to convey an attitude of philosophic detachment that he sometimes writes in what is for him a rather stilted and commonplace style. Still, Mr Cole has after all an extremely acute and very well trained mind. His analysis of social theory is nothing if it is not acute.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Mr 11 ’20 1100w
“As far as he goes, the author is an independent thinker, and neither his knowledge of the labor movement nor his grasp of current social theories can be questioned. The critical and destructive part of his work is therefore fresh and highly suggestive. But both his admirers and his opponents will expect something more, some revolutionary and creative thought.” W: E. Walling
+ − =Yale R= n s 10:219 O ’20 720w
=COLE, GRENVILLE ARTHUR JAMES.= Ireland the outpost. il *$2.50 Oxford 941.5
20–2491
“Mr Cole believes that ‘a realization of the physical structure of Ireland, and of her position as an outpost of Eurasia, may lead to a wider comprehension, not only of the land, but of its complex population.... If the presentation is a true one,’ he adds, ‘the nine sections should lead to one conclusion.’ This conclusion is anticipated in the first sentence of the book: ‘Nature allows no “self-determination” to any point on the surface of the globe.’ If the geology, flora, fauna, and ethnology of Ireland show that it is closely united to the British island, it should not seek to go off on its own politically.”—Nation
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=Ath= p47 Ja 9 ’20 240w
“Professor Cole’s ‘Ireland the outpost,’ has a beauty of style rare even among those who make belles-lettres their profession. With the knowledge of a scientist the author combines the feeling of a poet, and an acquaintance with the contemporary poetry of his country.” N. J. O’C.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 400w
“As an argument, ably presented, this one is peculiarly liable to be reduced to the absurd.” Preserved Smith
− =Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 200w
=COLERIDGE, ERNEST HARTLEY.= Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. 2v il *$10 Lane
20–5660
The subject of this biography, one of the founders of the banking house of Coutts & Co., was born in 1735 and died in 1822. Business, financial, political and social events of his time enter into his life story. He was one of those who opposed the war with America and the subject is referred to frequently in his correspondence during that period. The biography is based on a large collection of mss which came to light in 1907 and it tells for the first time in full the story of Thomas Coutts’s romantic attachment for Harriet Mellon, whom he married in his eightieth year. The volumes are very fully illustrated and volume 2 has an index.
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=Ath= p332 Mr 12 ’20 2450w
“Mr Coleridge’s two volumes are skilfully written and able documents.” E. F. E.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 1450w
“The biography before us is indebted for its attraction more to the author than the subject. The personality of Tom Coutts does not strike us as original or impressive: his letters are pompous, prosy, and frequently ungrammatical. On the other hand, the prefatory chapters of Mr Hartley Coleridge, the ‘callidæ juncturæ’ with which he stitches together his bundles of letters, are quite delightful; and his historical vignettes are perfect in their lightness of touch and fairness of judgment.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:36 Ja 10 ’20 1500w
“The author has had the good fortune to use for the first time the family papers, including the banker’s correspondence, which relates to affairs of the heart as well as to Mammon and to politics. Thus the book gives an intimate portrait of a successful man of business and throws new light on the history of his times.”
+ =Spec= 124:144 Ja 31 ’20 1050w
“Lord Latymer is to be congratulated on having chosen Mr Coleridge to edit these papers and Mr Coleridge on the scholarly way in which he has carried out his task.... We must mention, in conclusion, an extremely characteristic series of letters from Lady Hester Stanhope, expressed with all her vivacious spirit. In spite of all the other riches in this book these should on no account be missed.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 1 ’20 1850w
=COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.=[2] Idolatry of science. *$1.25 Lane 501
20–16351
“Mr Coleridge’s book is really not so much a protest against the idolatry of science as a general onslaught on the influence and on the achievements of science. His theme is that the vital things of life are feeling, thought, conduct, and that with them science has nothing to do. It cannot therefore raise the human mind or play the chief part in education. But he goes much further than that, and avows that science deprives man of beauty and magnanimity; that few of its ‘trumpeted triumphs’ have really brought benefits to mankind; and that it was in an evil hour that ‘James Watt and George Stephenson between them gave railways and factories to mankind.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“It is an amusing performance, even the scientists will admit that if they have sense and humour enough not to take the book too seriously.”
+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 110w
“The book is sharp in wit and often delicious in its humor, but its mistakes are so obvious that they scarcely need to be pointed out.” R. E. B.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 300w
“Mr Coleridge’s effusions make us agree with him to the extent of wishing that science had never invented the art of printing or even the alphabet.”
− =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 390w
“A little more of the spirit of impartial investigation which is the method of science would have saved him from much foolish exaggeration about the exaltation of ugliness in ‘poetry, painting, sculpture, and all forms of human expression.’ There is much half-truth in the book, much restatement of the obvious. But it makes good reading, and the very narrowness of its survey adds to its piquancy.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 510w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Farm and garden tractors. il *$2.25 Stokes 631.37
20–19612
The author claims that the tractor is by all odds the most important factor in solving the farming problem of today, viz: reducing the number of men and lowering the cost of production. The book proposes to tell all about how to buy, run, repair and take care of one. Every kind of tractor and every part and detail is shown in the illustrations and diagrams, there is an appendix and an index, and the contents are: About tractors in general; The parts of a tractor; The mechanism of a tractor; Garden and truck farm tractors; Tractors for small farms; Tractors for average farms; Tractors for big farms; Draw-bar and belt power applications; How to take care of your tractor; Tractor troubles and how to fix them; Tractor repairs and how to make them; The kind of tractor you want.
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Motor car starting and lighting. il *$1.50 Appleton 629.2
20–11306
In a note on “How to use this book” the author says, “This books tells you (1) how to keep out of starting, lighting and ignition troubles, in so far as this is possible, and, what’s more to the point, (2) how to find and fix troubles when they crop out, which they are bound to do even in the best of systems.” The book is composed of four parts: The electric power plant; The electric starting system; The electric lighting system; The electric ignition system. There are eighty-one illustrations and an index.
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+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p57 Jl ’20 80w
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Putnam’s handbook of buying and selling. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
20–7432
This book “telling in a simple and practical way how to succeed in business” (Sub-title) is the result of long years of experience in the merchandising field. “It is so simple that however little you know about business you can understand it, and it is so practical you can use it at once and with telling effect.” (Preface) It falls into four parts: Successful selling: Expert buying; Commercial confidence; and Business wisdom. Some of the chapters are: First principles of selling; How to pick live wire salesmen; Selling over the counter; Selling to the retail trade; Selling to the wholesale trade; Making your sales through the mails; The essentials of shrewd buying; Inside credit information; Raising and investing money. There are thirty-two illustrative charts and diagrams and an index.
=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Wonders of natural history. il *$2.25 Stokes 590
20–21293
It is the purpose of this “comprehensive account of man in the making and of prehistoric and present day animals” (Sub-title) “to put into simple language an authoritative account of the chief branches of natural history, namely, zoology, geology, palæontology and mineralogy. Finally it explains the accepted idea of evolution from the lowest protoplasmic matter, through unthinkably long ages, into the highest living forms as we know them today.” (Foreword) The book is indexed, has numerous illustrations and the contents are: Prehistoric animals; Man in the making; About the aborigines; Contemporary mammals; Birds of today; Present-day reptiles; Modern fishes; Living insects, millipedes, crustaceans and spiders; Lower forms of animal life; Minerals and gems; Some other wonders; How the exhibits are prepared.
=COLLINS, JOSEPH.= Idling in Italy; studies of literature and of life. *$3 Scribner 850
20–17228
“Literary Italy of today is presented by Joseph Collins in his recent book, to which is given the misleading title, ‘Idling in Italy.’ Of particular importance and interest is the long array here presented of Italian writers of prose and verse who are almost entirely unknown in this country, but who in their native land are the apostles of a new movement in Italian literature. An entire chapter is devoted to the futurist movement. His criticism of Giovanni Papini, chief exponent of the futurist movement, is comprehensive. Dr Collins spares neither praise nor scathing criticism of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy’s most romantic figure. A number of essays in the book have no relation to Italy. The author dissects W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The moon and sixpence’; he gives an interesting chapter on Samuel Butler; there is a chapter on feminism and a good pen picture of Wilson.”—Springf’d Republican
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=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“The pages are filled with all those qualities which make the perfect essayist.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 720w
“The study of President Wilson, as it is published in this book, proves to be an appreciation, perhaps the broadest Wilson has called forth. I find this study the best piece of writing about Wilson I have seen, with the one exception of that chapter of Maynard Keynes’s, and what superiority the Keynes essay has in brilliance Dr Collins makes up for in conviction and depth.” J. H. Dounce
+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 27 ’20 720w
“There are far too many names, followed in each case by brief critical notes, for the reader to gain a clear impression of any one author to whom he has been introduced. When, however, Dr Collins pauses in his swift flight to linger for a while in contemplation of a single author he reveals an appreciative understanding and an acute critical faculty.”
+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 24 ’20 1150w
“The reader gets from the volume ideas, not suggestions: stimulus, not charm. He who picks up the book to be lulled, may lay it down sleepless or enraged. It is a real book, not a piece of literary exquisiteness or a series of agreeable conversational discourses.”
+ =No Am= 212:856 D ’20 1700w
“Dr Collins’s chapters are entertaining as well as keen and illuminative. Some of his themes are in lighter vein, but scarcely any would suggest ‘idling’ except to a gormand for work.”
+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w
“Perhaps Dr Collins comments too briefly on the many names which he considers. The book is not organic. It seems that Dr Collins had a number of essays on hand and decided to give them to the public under a pleasing but irrelevant title.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 29 ’20 500w
=COLMAN, SAMUEL, and COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Proportional form. il *$3 Putnam 740
20–7442
“Further studies in the science of beauty, being supplemental to those set forth in ‘Nature’s harmonic unity.’” (Sub-title) “Nature’s harmonic unity,” published in 1912, was based on the thesis that in nature “a few fundamental and major rules work in concert for the government of the whole scheme,” and on the relation between this universal harmony and art. The present work represents a continuation of studies in the same field presented in a simpler form. Certain fundamental principles have been repeated in order to obviate constant reference to the first book. The volume has 156 drawings and designs and is indexed. A note on the title page states “The drawings and correlating descriptions are by Mr Colman. The text and mathematics are by Capt. Coan.”
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=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 40w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 250w
=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. il *$2.50 (8½c) Macmillan
20–21991
Mr Colum has written a new fairy story for children, the story of Eean the fisherman’s son who was caught stealing the horses of King Manus. He was brought bound into the king’s hall doomed to die at sunrise. But first the king asked him to tell how it came about that he had risked his life in attempting so dangerous a thing. “And I declare,” said the king, “if he shows us that he was ever in greater danger than he is in this night I shall give him his life.” So Eean the fisherman’s son tells the story of his apprenticeship to Zabulun the enchanter.
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“With the Celt’s instinct for magician’s tricks Colum has taken Greek, Egyptian, Biblical, and Arthurian tales, and made a simply-constructed patch-work of enchantment.”
+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w
=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Children of Odin. il *$4 Macmillan 293
20–19525
“In ‘The children of Odin’ Padraic Colum has given a free rendering of the myths of the poetic and the prose Eddas. Mr Colum tells us that he has done his work directly from the Eddas and in consultation with Norwegian scholars. Mr Colum had boys and girls above twelve years in mind when preparing his text.”—Bookm.
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“Told in a connected narrative that flows in a simple, rhythmic prose sometimes poetic. Expensive for many libraries.”
+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
=Bookm= 50:380 N ’19 90w
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 440w
=Dial= 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Not the least part of the beauty of this telling of them is that, for all his Norse subject, Mr Colum is as usual invincibly Irish.”
+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 50w
+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 150w
+ =New Repub= 25:24 D 1 ’20 220w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w
=COMERFORD, FRANK.= New world. *$2 Appleton 335
20–17097
The author has made a tour of Europe to study our present day world problems. He claims to have made a thorough study from every conceivable point of view. He blames bolshevism and socialism for all the chaos. He sympathizes with labor but fears its methods of redress and is absolutely opposed to everything that threatens law and order. Among the contents are: Problems facing a stricken world; The problem of Europe’s poverty; A tragedy of politics; Russia out of balance; The soviet machine; Clash of fact and theory; The failure of the socialization of industry; The third international; Intermeddling in Russia; Bolshevism in the United States. There are appendices consisting of various documents.
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“Frank Comerford’s ‘The new world’ combines a sane and temperate judgment with a firm, intellectual grasp of his subject.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 400w
=COMFORT, WILL LEVINGTON, and DOST, ZAMIN KI (WILLIMINA LEONORA ARMSTRONG).= Son of power. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–21182
His name was Sanford Hantee, but the boys of the Chicago streets called him “Skag.” It was at the Lincoln Park zoo that he first began to know animals, and their fascination for him was so keen that he ran away from home and became a circus trainer. His power over animals seemed to come from his absolute control of himself and from the fact that he knew no fear. It was old Alec Binz of the circus who gave Skag his desire to go to India and know for himself the animals of the jungle. In India he very soon achieved the title Rana Jai—Son of power. The book is really a series of short stories telling of Skag’s exploits with various jungle beasts. Among the titles are: The good grey nerve: The monkey glen; Jungle laughter; The hunting cheetah; Elephant concerns; Blue beast, and Fever birds. Skag made some human friends, too, in India, among them Carlin Deal, a girl half-Indian and half-English who becomes almost as important as Skag himself in the narrative.
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“Men and boys especially will like it.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“Interesting and colorful, these stories, though written with a collaborator, are thoroughly characteristic of Mr Comfort. Though parts of the volume make rather too great demands upon the reader’s credulity, it is, on the whole, a fascinating piece of work, vivid, picturesque, full of color and the glamour and mysticism of India.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Church and industrial reconstruction. *$2 Assn. press 261
20–15930
This volume is the third in a series of reports that is being issued by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. In these times of industrial unrest and uncertainty following the world war, says the introduction, the spirit of God “moves on the face of the waters” challenging the church “to reconsider its own gospel, to redefine its attitude toward the present social order, and to interpret for our time the way of life involved in Christian discipleship.” After defining the Christian interest in and approach to the industrial problems the volume takes up: The Christian ideal of society; Unchristian aspects of the present industrial order; The Christian attitude toward the system as a whole; The Christian method of social betterment; Present practicable steps toward a more Christian industrial order: The question of the longer future; What individual Christians can do to Christianize the industrial order; What the church can do to Christianize the industrial order. The appendices are: I, The historic attitude of the church to economic questions; II, Selected bibliography on the church and industrial reconstruction; III, The Committee on the war and the religious outlook. There is an index.
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Reviewed by G: Soule
=Nation= 111:535 N 10 ’20 680w
“Within the compass of no other single volume can be found such a summary of the churches’ experiences in the present industrial age, backed by a valuable historical study of the successive attitudes of the church to economic questions.” Graham Taylor
+ =Survey= 45:467 D 25 ’20 1250w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Missionary outlook in the light of the war. *$2 Assn. press 266
20–7779
This volume is one in a series of studies that is being brought out by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. It is the report prepared by a special sub-committee with Dr Robert E. Speer as its chairman and Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert as its secretary and contains the evidences collected and the conclusions arrived at, on the religious outlook, by a great number of competent men. The contents fall into three parts: Part 1—The enhanced significance and urgency of foreign missions in the light of the war; Part 2—The effect of the war on the religious outlook in various lands; Part 3—Missionary principles and policies in the light of the war. The appendices contain a synopsis of the contents and a selected bibliography.
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“The papers are uniformly by men who possess first-hand knowledge of the subjects on which they write.”
+ =Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 180w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
“This volume is not simply for so-called church people but has much suggestion for all who are facing the problems of our time. Such readers may have to do some skipping, for there are pages here reminiscent of the missionary tract of our childhood, and they will have to do a good deal of translating.”
+ − =Review= 3:271 S 29 ’20 1800w
=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Religion among American men, as revealed by a study of conditions in the army. *$1.50 Assn. press 261
20–5049
“This volume is one of a series of studies that is being brought out by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. The committee was constituted, while the war was still in progress, by the joint action of the Federal council of the churches of Christ in America and the General war-time commission of the churches and was an expression of the conviction that the war had laid upon the churches the duty of the most thorough self-examination.” (Editorial preface) The book, which corresponds in aim and method to the British work “The army and religion,” is based on answers to questionnaires, personal interviews, letters, articles in the religious press, etc. It is in three parts: The state of religion as revealed in the army; The effect of the war on religion in the army; Lessons for the church.
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“These pages ought to be before every church or convention that is planning to serve the nation through the organized church.”
+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 380w
=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20
Reviewed by H. A. Jump
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 13 ’20 3050w
Reviewed by Hugh Page
=Pub W= 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 290w
=CONE, HELEN GRAY.= Coat without a seam, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 811
20–519
“‘The coat without a seam, and other poems,’ by Helen Gray Cone, though not an unusual book of verse, is significant for its strong, impressive faith and its whole-hearted optimism. More than half of the poems concern the war, and are brimming with war’s idealism. The remainder, collected under the title ‘The quiet days,’ are lyrics on various themes. Miss Cone has been best known in the past few years as the author of a ‘A chant of love for England,’ the answer to the German ‘Hymn of hate.’”—Springf’d Republican
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“Time was, and not long since, these counters had a brave ring; now, without the mixture and fusion of noble metals, the poor alloy predominates. Even the shrill notes sound flat.” L: Untermeyer
− =Dial= 68:527 Ap ’20 620w
“Among the poetesses in the larger mood, Helen Gray Cone, though palpably not the least ambitious, is destined least to survive the present hour for the reason that her ardors have been lighted at unsubstantial altars, those of the late war and the late peace. A poetess of the flag, she seems stale now as well as strident.” M. V. D.
− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“It is well conceived and the rhetoric is of a high quality, but the pulse of authentic poetry is too often missing.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 170w
“Miss Helen Gray Cone has a substantially perfect technique. The highest originalities are not open to her, but her feeling is delicate and true, and, in all the agitations of the late war, there is no tremor in the mounting flame.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 160w
“Miss Cone’s diction is simple, unaffected, and tinted rather than colored. Her style is good.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 100w
=CONKLING, MRS GRACE WALCOTT (HAZARD).= Wilderness songs. *$1.50 Holt 811
20–9071
This collection of poems, reprinted from various magazines, show nature and life reflected in the poetic soul of a woman. The poems are grouped under the headings: Songs of New England roads; Songs of war; Seven interludes; Songs of places—old Mexico; Nocturnes; and a concluding poem: The wilderness.
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+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20
“It is conspicuous that ‘Wilderness songs’ should follow ‘Afternoons of April.’ The fragile, tremulous art of the earlier book has taken on a firm, ripe quality of mood and expression.” W. S. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1600w
“Mrs Conkling feels platitudes snugly and sweetly. Her cadences, like her attachments, are the generally accepted. Her mood and meter seem all too neat, with seldom a sign that their creation brought thrusts of pleasurable pain.” M. V. D.
− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w
“Few indeed are the books of lyrics as well made as these. The melodies are light, but lovely; the diction shows an exquisite discretion; and there is always a sense of proportion in design.” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 280w
+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 20w
“Delicate perception expressed with quiet charm is characteristic of the poems. The volume in general satisfies the craving for nature in her gentler moods.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 240w
=CONKLING, HILDA.= Poems by a little girl. *$1.50 Stokes 811
20–7794
The author of these poems is now nine years old. Amy Lowell writes a long preface to the book in which she says: “It is poetry, the stuff and essence of poetry.... I know of no other instance in which such really beautiful poetry has been written by a child.... What this book chiefly shows is high promise; but it also has its pages of real achievement, and that of so high an order it may well set us pondering.” With some biographical data on the child Miss Lowell describes her manner of working, which she considers to be largely subconscious and perfectly instinctive. The poems are grouped according to the child’s age into: Four to five years old; Five to six years old; Six to seven years old; and Seven to nine years old.
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“The book as a whole is convincing, and a number of the poems are beautiful.”
+ =Ath= p644 N 12 ’20 620w
+ =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“Charming and unusual. Here is a book of poems instinct with the spirit of childhood and so childlike in much of its phrasing as to make a direct and permanent appeal to children and grown people.” A. C. Moore
+ =Bookm= 51:314 My ’20 1000w
“Her thought has not the incoherence that might be expected of a child; she paints in each poem a complete picture, step by step, usually leading up to the last line with a fine feeling for climax. In economy of words and in power of connotation these poems resemble the translations from the Chinese and the Japanese which have lately attracted the attention of occidental poets, but there is a richness of detail that we are accustomed to associate with the tradition of English literature.” N. J. O’Conor
+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Many a mature poet might be proud of some of these little gems. All of them sparkle with that faery light that enables its possessor to see things quaintly and daintily.”
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 70w
“The quality which shines behind practically all of these facets of loveliness is a directness of perception, an almost mystic divination. It is its own stamp of unaffected originality, a genuine ingenuousness. It is ridiculous to talk of the ‘stages’ in the work of a ten-year-old child and yet the verses conceived between four and seven are more vivid, seem more spontaneous and less—absurd as it may seem—sophisticated than those written between seven and nine.” L: Untermeyer
+ =Dial= 69:186 Ag ’20 1200w
“Readers will be glad of the book, not only because it was written by a child, but because it contains beautiful poetry. Not a false image is to be found in it, not a single artificial symbol, not a line of dull, stereotyped diction!”
+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 380w
“The gift is given us gravely and unconsciously, with none of the reticences that fears ridicule, and yet with none of the exaggeration that tries to ‘show off.’” Marguerite Wilkinson
+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 1000w
“The present volume deserves a high place among the expressions of youthful imagination. It is vivid, fresh, and creative in no small degree.”
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 130w
“The handling of the verse-form is skillful, though not masterly.” O. W. Firkins
+ =Review= 3:653 D 29 ’20 320w
+ =Spec= 125:709 N 27 ’20 50w
“The ‘Poems by a little girl’ do not smack of the exotic and consciously clever; they are robust as well as delicate, with the characteristic deliberation and spontaneity of childhood seizing life with keen eyes and quick imagination.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 500w
=CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.= Hiker Joy. il *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8795
Hiker, the young hero of Mr Connolly’s series of adventures, is a little gamin from the New York water front, who ships to sea with his friend Bill Green on a lumber schooner bound for somewhere across the Atlantic in wartime. The ship is wrecked in a storm and Bill gets possession of the valuable papers the captain had been carrying and turns them over to the secret service, according to orders. Other adventures follow, with German spies, U-boats, and Zeppelins, and the whole tale is related by Hiker in his own vernacular.
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“Sea stories which will have their usual appeal because the author knows how to write them.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole book is sufficient to provide an evening’s entertainment of no mean quality.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 260w
=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w
“Every page vibrates with action and glows with unforced drama. Happily, both his matter and manner are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 240w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
=CONNOR, HENRY GROVES.= John Archibald Campbell. *$2.25 (3c) Houghton
20–7012
The subject of this biography was a southern jurist, appointed a justice of the Supreme court in 1853. In 1861 he resigned to become assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy. He was one of the three Confederate peace commissioners who met Lincoln and Seward in 1865. The table of contents indicates the outstanding points in his career and shows the biographer’s plan of treatment; Ancestry and early career at the bar; Associate justice of the Supreme court of the United States; The slavery question before the court; On the circuit: filibustering and the slave trade; Efforts to avert civil war; Services to the confederacy and peace negotiations: The problem of restoration; The slaughter-house cases and the fourteenth amendment; Last years at the bar; Personal characteristics, intellectual and social traits; Conclusion. A table of cases follows and an index.
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“The biographer’s judicial experience gives him an advantage in the treatment of legal points, while his sense of restraint eliminates bias in the discussion of matters that ordinarily arouse the keenest controversy. The method of inserting quoted portions is at times confusing, and there are numerous inaccuracies of quotation.” J. G. Randall
+ − =Am Hist R= 26:119 O ’20 680w
“Will interest students of history.”
+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20
=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 550w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
+ =Review= 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1050w
=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w
=CONRAD, JOSEPH.= Rescue: a romance of the shallows. *$2 (1c) Doubleday
20–10316
Mr Conrad’s new tale of the South Seas is the story of a man torn between loyalty to friend and love of woman, forced to choose between faith to his plighted word and her safety. It is a story of a generation ago with civil war rife among the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tom Lingard has pledged his all to the service of Rajah Hassim and has plotted and contrived to restore him to his kingdom. The enterprise has reached its climax when an English yacht blunders into the scene of activity and runs aground. Captain Lingard goes aboard her with offers of assistance, his one thought to get the intruders out of the way. His offer is met with insolence on the part of the owner and he would gladly have left them to their fate, but he had seen the woman, Mrs Travers, and her spell is on him. Thereafter these two are but puppets in the hands of fate and the outcome is the wreck of all Lingard’s hopes and the failure of the cause he had served.
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“This fascinating book revives in use the youthful feeling that we are not so much reading a story of adventure as living in and through it, absorbing it, making it our own. This feeling is not wholly the result of the method, the style which the author has chosen; it arises more truly from the quality of the emotion in which the book is steeped.” K. M.
+ =Ath= p15 Jl 2 ’20 1500w
“A characteristic story, one of his best.”
+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20
“While the charm of its style is undeniable, while it is filled with glowing word-pictures of tropical scenes, we shall doubtless be held to be intellectually blind and artistically obtuse by many Conrad admirers when we say that it has none of the flowing narrative qualities which should be the chief characteristic of a story of its sort.” E. F. E.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 1250w
“‘The rescue’ is characterized by that extraordinary grasp of reality and breadth of outlook for which Mr Conrad is famous.”
+ =Cath World= 112:394 D ’20 350w
+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 100w
“It is not easy to find another name for genius. The effort to describe it is ungrateful enough. When it penetrates so deep to the roots of life one can pay it the tribute of becoming silent at the earliest possible moment.” Gilbert Seldes
+ =Dial= 69:191 Ag ’20 2250w
“If Mr Joseph Conrad’s ‘The rescue’ is an earlier novel, as has been said, it is difficult to see why he did not leave its style intact or re-write it wholly in his later, sparer manner. Yet with all the disappointments of detail, in completion ‘The rescue’ produces a massiveness of effect which belongs only to Conrad.” C. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 1:454 Jl 21 ’20 370w
“Mr Conrad remains a writer who approaches greatness. In ‘The rescue’ there are prose harmonies as rich and plangent as in ‘Youth’ itself. There are glimpses of men—Shaw, Travers, Jörgenson—that are sharp as etchings. His senses are marvellously active and acute and his ability to render their perceptions into language is superb. He fails, contrary to a common opinion, when he seeks to explain the operations of the mind or the character of the passions or when he reflects.”
+ − =Nation= 110:804 Je 12 ’20 1150w
“The book is absorbingly interesting; dramatic, subtle, fascinating with that allurement, that sheer power and sweep of romance which is Joseph Conrad’s to command.” L. M. Field
+ =N Y Times= 25:263 My 23 ’20 1450w
“Begun some twenty years ago, finished last year, it combines the lucidity of his earlier work with the subtlety of his later manner.”
+ =Outlook= 125:280 Je 9 ’20 560w
=Review= 2:604 Je 5 ’20 240w
“We who have had a sense of groping for the old magic amongst the later tales of Joseph Conrad may find it in this book.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“His command of what was originally an alien tongue, probably unequalled in the whole course of English letters, has gained in mastery and subtlety, and the gifts that he brings us are still rich and strange and new.”
+ =Spec= 124:52 Jl 10 ’20 850w
“It matters not how often Mr Conrad tells the story of the man and the brig. Out of the million stories that life offers the novelist, this one is founded upon truth. And it is only Mr Conrad who is able to tell it us. But if the statement of the theme is extremely fine, we have to admit that the working out of the theme is puzzling: we cannot deny that we are left with a feeling of disappointment.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p419 Jl 1 ’20 1500w
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 150w
=CONSTABLE, FRANK CHALLICE.= Myself and dreams. *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 150
19–15968
The book is a contribution to the literature on psychical matters in which the soul is treated as a psychical subject whose physiological state is but transitory, merely an “occasion” for conduct. Part 1, Myself, includes such subjects as the relativity of knowledge, insight, self-consciousness, the intelligible universe and the sensible universe, ideas, free-will and the categorical imperative.