Part I, Elements of self-government, shows how voluntary cooperation

depends on parliamentary law, rules and legislation, rulers and officers, and a constitution. Part II, Self-government in cities, applies these elements to all the details of city government; Parts III and IV do the same for the states and the United States. Part V, Some general ideas about self-government, has chapters on: Socialism and capitalism; Parties and leaders; Organized government; and Real international law. In the appendix some of the accepted principles of political cooperation are discussed, i.e. the short ballot principle; civil service reform; the executive budget; the principle of responsible leadership; etc.

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“The book is sure to take its place among the few best ones in its field.”

+ =School R= 28:548 S ’20 530w

=DAWSON, RICHARD.= Red terror and green: the Sinn-Fein-bolshevist movement. *$2.50 Dutton 941.5

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“Mr Dawson builds his thesis that Sinn Fein is Bolshevism by quoting Sinn Fein leaders, and refers the reader to name, page, date of his authority. He goes back to the earliest attempts of Ireland to free herself from England, and traces the whole movement, the influences behind it and the work of the leaders who led, up to today, when the new (Irish) nationalism ‘starting with lofty ideals of national regeneration on the old lines of the ancient culture, begins to seek its inspirations from modern sources of unspeakable corruption.’”—Boston Transcript

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=Ath= p496 Ap 9 ’20 100w

“Will not please those who take the opposite stand, but worth while as a well done presentation of the objections to Ireland’s attitude.”

+ =Booklist= 17:24 O ’20

“As a polemical writer Mr Dawson is a comfort because his proofs are not of the unidentified sort so common in the mouths of platform orators. He does not employ vituperation as argument nor blackguarding as punctuation. ‘Red terror and green’ is a timely, excellent guide book to the present meaning and purpose of Sinn Fein.” W. R. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 14 ’20 1650w

“So evidently prepared from the standpoint of reactionery British interests as to become propaganda in its most palpable and, therefore, most useless form.”

− =Cath World= 112:550 Ja ’21 80w

Reviewed by Preserved Smith

=Nation= 110:768 Je 5 ’20 250w

=N Y Times= p1 Ag 1 ’20 750w

“The intrigues of Casement with the Germans make excellent material for building up a theory that Sinn Fein was part of a German plot, and in a world torn by Bolshevism it is plausible to suggest that Sinn Fein emissaries have been seeking to combine the forces of disorder at home with the agencies of disorder in other countries. But Mr Dawson will not easily convince those who know rural Ireland that its peasantry—now bitterly Sinn Fein—are now or were ever bolshevistic.” H. L. Stewart

− + =Review= 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1150w

=R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 80w

+ =Spec= 124:388 Mr 20 ’20 1200w

“The reader will be impressed rather by the care with which the author has followed Irish events than by his insight into the psychic and temperamental change which has affected the Irish people during the period which he reviews.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 340w

=DAWSON, WILLIAM JAMES.=[2] Borrowdale tragedy. *$2 (2½c) Lane

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The tragedy of the title, altho the central incident of the book, is by no means its central theme. The tragedy is the death of old James Borrowdale, and the subsequent trial of his young wife Flora and her friend Cecil Twyfold for his murder, of which they are acquitted. The major part of the book, however, is taken up with the love of Cecil and Flora, its development while Flora was still bound and the reaction of the tragedy upon them. The expansion of their characters is along lines contrary to convention, as Cecil expresses it, they have taken the “downward path to salvation,” downward, that is, from the standards of material success that the world sets up. A plea for individual freedom, as opposed to the usages of conventional society, is really the keynote of the book.

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“There is an undeniable simplicity in the writer’s style, a genial mellowness that in a tale like this is really extraordinary. There is hardly a writer today that could take the structure of this novel and its strong plea for individualism as opposed to social conventions, with its technically unhappy ending, and not make it despite brilliancy, a hard and cynical book. On the contrary Dr Dawson has written with deep humanness and charm. We have had the fortune to read few novels of the present season with such genuine delight.” S. L. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 1 ’20 420w

=DAY, CLARENCE SHEPARD=, jr. This simian world. il *$1.50 Knopf 817.

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Ours is a simian civilization. If we had not descended from the monkey what would our world be like from the point of view of extraterrestrial beings? If the ant and the bee, or the big cats, or the elephant or any of the other beasts had achieved the hegemony? Such whimsical questions with their conjectures were suggested by a Sunday afternoon Broadway crowd to the author and his friend Potter. The author’s illustrations are as amusing as his fancies.

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“It was a good idea, and Mr Day has a real though immature gift of lightness in treating a solid subject. But his theme is really too big for his ninety pages, and although his thinking is honest and courageous it tends to become unsubstantial.”

+ − =Ath= p145 Jl 30 ’19 150w

“Aside from the amusing quality there is a basis of shrewd comment.”

+ =Booklist= 17:21 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 6 ’20 270w

“No less complete and varied than his estimate of man is Mr Day’s expression of it: a natural blend of wisdom with lightness, humour with profundity, hope with art, economy with abundance, kindliness with malice. The quality that makes possible such alliances is the one most infrequently granted to mortals: Mr Day sees things as they are beneath accumulated centuries of appearances; he cannot, he will not be fooled.” Robert Littell

+ =Dial= 69:197 Ag ’20 1300w

“Mr Clarence Day’s whimsicality is quite virile; it is the expression of a naturally ingenuous mind; ‘innocent’ in the Nietzschean sense and not incapable of a certain gentle philosophic malice.”

+ =Freeman= 1:358 Je 23 ’20 280w

“The most amusing little essay of the year.”

+ =Ind= 103:318 S 11 ’20 360w

=Nation= 111:76 Jl 17 ’20 500w

“It ought to interest any lively spirit because of its grace and reasonableness. And it ought to entrap and enlighten any slack soul who may pick it up in search for amusement. Amusing it unquestionably is, but a great deal more than amusing, to follow this grim parallel between the ways of apes and men.” R. T.

+ =New Repub= 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 650w

“While his treatment of the subject is amusingly interesting, it is none the less a serious one. The whole essay is, in fact, a bitter arraignment of our present order of civilization.” Alvin Winston

+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 1 ’20 640w

+ =Review= 3:306 O 13 ’20 1400w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 500w

=Survey= 44:450 Je 26 ’20 200w

=DAY, HOLMAN FRANCIS.= All-wool Morrison. *$1.90 (2c) Harper

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Stewart Morrison has inherited St Ronan’s mill from his Scotch ancestors and is himself a canny Scotchman. In his absence and against his will he is elected mayor of the city of Marion and then things become lively. Within twenty-four hours and by sheer intimidation he beats the governor, the politicians and vested interests at their game of falsifying election returns and barring duly elected members from the legislature. He prevents the forming of a syndicate for stealing the state’s water-power. He teaches some bloody anarchists, athirst for martyrdom, what’s what by taking one of them across his knee and spanking him lustily before an admiring mob. He diverts a howling mob from the state house thus protecting the conspirators within while teaching them a wholesome lesson. And he wins his bride in the bargain. All within twenty-four hours.

=Booklist= 17:31 O ’20

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 O 13 ’20 220w

“The fun of the book lies for the most part in this unity of time. A quality of the book is that its characters and happenings possess that delightfully feverish and slightly unreal aspect that things often acquire after dark.”

+ =N Y Times= p10 O 17 ’20 420w

“Mr Day’s homely, racy humor goes some distance toward minimizing the glaring artificialities to which he resorts in stimulating the action of the narrative.”

+ − |=Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 380w |=Wis Lib Bul= 16:193 N ’20 60w

=DAY, JAMES ROSCOE.=[2] My neighbor the workingman. *$2.50 Abingdon press 331.8

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“This book is an outspoken word for the capitalistic system and against the methods of organized labor. Chancellor Day has been speaking with strong conviction on the somewhat unpopular side of this controversy. He displays the abuses in the trades union. He calls the labor union ‘an artificial and unnaturally and illogically attached institution in our country, working not for the common good but to create conditions altogether possible and profitable to its own members without regard to how its act may bear upon business of construction and manufacture.’ Chancellor Day calls collective bargaining ‘meddling’ and says: ‘It is high time that the country pronounced with unmistakable law against strikes of all kinds. There should be no doubt left that strikes are crimes.’”—Bib World

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“Full of ‘ginger’ and worthy of attention by everyone who is ready to consider both sides of the burning question of the day. He does not represent the honorable attitude in the contest that will finally make for peace. He is violent and bitter. He is absolutely unjust to the majority of the immigrants who land on our shores.”

+ − =Bib World= 54:647 N ’20 260w

=Ind= 103:320 S 11 ’20 60w

“The readers of this book will find in it much repetition and too much vehemence. It provides in places quite as much heat as light, and is not without a touch here and there of a rather narrow type of politics. There is not great use made in it of the mantle of sweet charity, and small allowance appears for those with whom the author disagrees. Yet with his attacks upon radicalism in its Red form we must sympathize.” W: C. Redfield

− + =N Y Times= p9 D 5 ’20 2150w

“It would be difficult to find a volume more filled with hatred and misunderstanding than this product of the chancellor of Syracuse university.” W. L. C.

− =Survey= 44:417 Je 19 ’20 260w

=DEALEY, JAMES QUAYLE.=[2] Sociology: its development and applications. *$3 Appleton 301

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The book is an enlarged and revised edition of the author’s “Sociology” issued in 1909. It gives a survey of sociological development so that the student may have in fairly brief compass a general view of its rise and its relations to other sciences, a sketch of the development of social institutions, and a short discussion of social problems and of the factors to be considered in social progress. Its contents fall into three parts: Sociology and its kindred sciences; Society and its institutions; and Social progress. Some of the chapters are: The beginnings of social science; Sociology and biology; Sociology and psychology: Social behaviorism; Achievement and civilization; Civilization static and dynamic; Social gradations and genius; Society and the individual; The elimination of social evils; Racial factors in social progress; Economic factors in social progress; Educational factors in social progress. There is a bibliography and an index.

=DEAN, BASHFORD.= Helmets and body armor in modern warfare. il *$6 Yale univ. press 399

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“This book is one of the publications of the Committee on education of the Metropolitan museum of art, in which Dr Dean is curator of armour. It is an account of the various types of body protection used or experimented with by the nations engaged in the great war, with a brief historical survey of the development of armour in earlier times. As chairman of the Committee on helmets and body armour of the United States National research council the author had special opportunity for the study of his subject, not only in America but in the allied countries in Europe.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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“Within his field of special knowledge he has touched and illuminated almost every phase of the art and craft of the armorer ancient or modern. Rarely indeed has such historical erudition as Mr Dean’s been applied to a theme so recent and in most respects so businesslike.”

+ =Nation= 111:108 Jl 24 ’20 360w

“This volume is definitive in its field.” C. O. Kilnbusch

+ =N Y Times= p6 Je 27 ’20 2550w

=Springf’d Republican= p8 Je 12 ’20 50w

“The practical treatment of the question makes the book a valuable contribution to military literature, apart from its historical and antiquarian interest.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p554 Ag 26 ’20 150w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p647 O 7 ’20 1150w

=DEARMER, NANCY (KNOWLES) (MRS PERCY DEARMER).= Fellowship of the picture. *$1.25 Dutton 134

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“Professor Dearmer states in an introduction that on July 31, 1919, at their country cottage, his wife felt impelled to sit down, and allow her hand to write automatically; after that she wrote regularly, being quite unaware of what she was writing. On September 10 Professor Dearmer, reading the script aloud to her, found that the book had reached its end. It came as from a man of high academic distinction who was killed in France in 1918, and who had already written contributions to religion and philosophy. ‘The fellowship of the picture’ claims to be a book which he had been anxious to write after the war. It is composed of thirty-six short chapters setting forth a religious philosophy of life and fellowship.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

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=Ath= p108 Jl 23 ’20 340w

=N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 120w

“There is no particular exhilaration in reading automatically penned platitudes than there is in the reading of the platitudes penned by ordinary beings.”

− =Springf’d Republican= p9a O 17 ’20 220w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 120w

=DECKER, WILBUR F.= Story of the engine; from lever to Liberty motor. il *$2 Scribner 621

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“This book tells about the first prime movers and traces the early history of the steam-engine. A chapter is devoted to each of the following subjects: Steam-boilers, furnaces and connections; reciprocating engines; the locomotive; the steam-turbine; measurements of power; gas-engines; gasoline engines; and oil-engines. ‘It is the aim of this book to show how man first learned to apply mechanical principles; to trace the gradual development of heat engines; to furnish accurate and reliable information regarding present-day types, and to prepare the way for possible later scientific studies.’ (Preface)”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

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“Unusually readable, more accurate than the ordinary book of this type, and well supplied with diagrams.”

+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20

=N Y P L New Tech Bks= 5:32 Ap ’20 100w

=St Louis= 18:220 S ’20 40w

=DE HAAS, J. ANTON.= Business organization and administration. il $1.60 Gregg 658

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The book is intended for a high school textbook and is limited to a statement of the most essential facts of business practice, including the problems of labor management and payment of wages. At the end of each chapter are references to standard works, a list of study questions, and of test questions. Contents: The elements of business success; Business organization; The proprietorship of a business; Financing an enterprise; Financial institutions; Management; The wage question; The service department; Selecting the site; Planning the building; Purchasing; Marketing; Selling and advertising; Foreign trade; The technic of foreign trade.

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+ =Booklist= 17:98 D ’20

“While the volume has some drawbacks in its function, it has nevertheless a broader appeal. Many a professional man or woman ought to have a deeper knowledge of this subject. Professor De Haas’s work is admirably suited for his or her use.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 230w

“The book is written in a pleasing style and is well arranged. Its aim is to aid the teacher in awakening proper attitudes in the minds of the students. Teachers will find it helpful in this respect.”

+ =School R= 29:75 Ja ’21 300w

=DE KOVEN, ANNA (FARWELL) (MRS REGINALD DE KOVEN).= Cloud of witnesses. *$2.50 Dutton 134

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“‘A cloud of witnesses’ is the title of a new book by Mrs Anna De Koven (the widow of the musical composer, Reginald De Koven). The messages, which largely constitute the book, are believed by Mrs De Koven to be from her sister, Mrs Chatfield Taylor, whose death occurred some two years since. Between the two sisters there was an unusually intense affection, and this ‘rapport’ is one of the most potent factors in any communication between the seen and the unseen. There is in New York a woman with abounding mediumistic gifts; a woman of society and culture, whose intelligent interest in the work is such that she gives much time to accredited sitters who seek her. She is known as ‘Mrs Vernon,’ which is not her real name. Mrs De Koven went to Mrs Vernon, an entire stranger, and with no possible clew to her identity. Messages from her sister came of such genuineness as to be unmistakable. Dr Hyslop contributes the introduction to this book.”—Springf’d Republican

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“Deeply sincere, intimate, and instinct with refinement.”

+ =Booklist= 17:137 Ja ’21

“Certainly, except to the most determined skeptic, there is much in the book to convince one of the action of supernormal intelligence.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 1050w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

=Dial= 69:207 Ag ’20 140w

“Unfortunately for the sympathy every one must feel with this beautiful record of a sister’s affection, it is impossible to accept Mrs De Koven’s views of what is ‘evidential.’ As propaganda the book is only one more tale of credulity; but it has unusual value in being entirely free from the sordid crime of ghosts for revenue. Mrs Vernon receives no remuneration when she summons Mrs De Koven to hear a message from the dead.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:230 My 2 ’20 600w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

− =Review= 3:43 Jl 14 ’20 700w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Ap 11 ’20 280w

=DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN.= Collected poems, 1901–1918. 2v *$4 Holt 821

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