Part 2, dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of

the main plant groups, contains: The algæ; The fungi; Bryophytes (Liverworts and mosses); Pteridophytes (ferns, equiseta, and club mosses); Gymnosperms; Angiosperms (dicotyledons). Part 3, Representative families and species of the spring flora, is intended to serve as an introduction to field work and contains: Descriptive terms; Trees, shrubs, and forests; Herbaceous and woody dicotyledons; Monocotyledons; Plant associations. There is an index.

=DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS.= Gambetta. *$4.50 (3½c) Dodd

(Eng ed 20–11835)

It was Gambetta, says the author, president of the French republic, “who launched me on the life of politics” and it is from a certain sense of gratitude that the book was written. “I disregarded all panegyrics, all pamphlets, all legends, whether flattering or not: I sought the truth alone—and no homage could be greater.... In this book, only one passion is to be found: the passion for France.” (Foreword) The contents are in four parts: Before the war (1838–1870); The war (1870–1871); The national assembly and the establishment of the republic (1871–1875); The early stages of the parliamentary republic (1876–1882). There is a bibliography and an index.

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“This volume is full-blooded and vital in every chapter and in every paragraph. It is no fulsome panegyric, no noisy advertisement, but a balanced and critical, a knowing and a sympathetic portrait. There is here no hushing-up of mistakes and contradictions but also no over-emphasis of them.” C: D. Hazen

+ =Am Hist R= 25:491 Ap ’20 740w

=Ath= p381 Mr 19 ’20 1000w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 25 ’20 740w

“Ex-President Deschanel writes with the blend of lucidity and enthusiasm characteristic of the best French political literature.”

+ =Ind= 104:383 D 11 ’20 50w

“Apart from a few questionable statements apropos of Germany and Alsace-Lorraine, the book is substantially what it would have been if written before 1914—that is to say, an admirably well-informed, well-constructed, and convincing account of the public life of Gambetta and of the political history of the times in which he played his part.” Carl Becker

+ =Nation= 110:sup479 Ap 10 ’20 1050w

“There was plenty of room for such a full, intimate, and appreciative biography as this by M. Deschanel, who is well qualified, temperamentally, to interpret his great leader. He does so with a Gallic exuberance, a gesticulatory eloquence that is not suited to the theme, but also he preserves a balance of judgment that saves the book from being mere laudation, and he has painstakingly examined his documents.” H. L. Pangborn

+ =N Y Evening Post= p6 O 23 ’20 880w

“The anonymous translator has evidently a bilingual gift of great precision and scope, but his rendering should be carefully reviewed with the original in order to correct several mistakes, all of which, however, appear to be careless omissions or verbal distractions due to hasty writing.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p6 O 17 ’20 2100w

“On all this human personal side of his subject M. Deschanel’s book is as rich as on the political.”

+ =Sat R= 130:12 Jl 3 ’20 1100w

“The work of the anonymous translator is extremely well done.”

+ =Spec= 125:244 Ag 21 ’20 450w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p262 Ap 29 ’20 2050w

=DESMOND, SHAW.= Passion. *$2 Scribner

20–7288

“The title may be a little misleading. Mr Desmond’s story deals with ‘the nervous, combative passion of the end of the nineteenth century,’ and particularly with the conflict between big business, the passion to get, and art, the passion to create. A good deal of effort is spent on the depiction of big business in London at the turn of the century, and particularly of one Mandrill, the embodiment of its spirit.”—N Y Times

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“‘Passion’ fails for the reason that so many of these novels of confession fail. Our curiosity about human beings, our longing to know the story of their lives springs from the desire to ‘place’ them, to see them in their relation to life as we know it. But Mr Shaw Desmond and his fellows are under the illusion that they must isolate the subject and play perpetual showman.” K. M.

− =Ath= p671 My 21 ’20 700w

“It is a novel without even novelty to redeem it. Its bravery is bombastic, its stupidity heroic, its mediocrity passionate, its passion impotent.”

− =Dial= 69:211 Ag ’20 40w

“Mr Desmond tries to crowd all the modern forces into his conflict, and frequently neutralizes his effects by the nicety with which one violence is banged against another. His picture of London life, in its meannesses and poverty, has touches of Dickens, and touches, also, of the Dickens sentimentality. His purposes grow weak through sheer over-analysis.” L. B.

− + =Freeman= 1:526 Ag 11 ’20 180w

“We know of no exacter study of childhood and adolescence nor of any less steeped in traditional idealisms. Young Tempest at home and at school is immensely genuine and instructive. After that the fine veracity of the book breaks down.”

+ =Nation= 110:659 My 15 ’20 300w

“The hero’s revolt against finance of the most frenzied character is plausible enough, but somehow the entire latter half of the book fails to carry very much conviction. One feels that Mr Desmond is not devoid of the divine fire, but he needs a better boiler under which to build it.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:252 My 16 ’20 600w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

=Review= 2:573 My 29 ’20 600w

“The most accurate description that can be applied to the work is that it is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism, despite its grotesqueness.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 150w

“A remarkable novel, notwithstanding the author’s habit of parodying his own literary peculiarities. Primal and melodramatic Mr Shaw Desmond’s prose certainly is, but it sweeps us along so rapidly as to make a pause for criticism difficult. The book, in spite of its grotesqueness, is a vivid and startling piece of impressionism.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Ap 29 ’20 480w

=DEWEY, JOHN.= Reconstruction in philosophy. *$1.60 (3c) Holt 191

20–17102

In these lectures delivered at the Imperial university of Japan in Tokyo, the author attempts “an interpretation of the reconstruction of ideas and ways of thought now going on in philosophy.” (Prefatory note) He shows that the task of future philosophy is to clarify men’s ideas as to the social and moral strifes of their own day and, instead of dealing with “ultimate and absolute reality,” will consider the moral forces which move mankind towards a more ordered and intelligent happiness. Contents: Changing conceptions of philosophy; Some historical factors in philosophical reconstruction; The scientific factor in reconstruction of philosophy; Changed conceptions of experience and reason; Changed conceptions of the ideal and the real; The significance of logical reconstruction; Reconstruction in moral conceptions; Reconstruction as affecting social philosophy. Index.

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“Concrete, clearly written and unusually free from abstruse reasoning and technical diction.”

+ =Booklist= 17:92 D ’20

“The simplicity and penetration of the statement gives to this little book an importance considerably out of proportion to its size. Although the name pragmatism scarcely occurs on its pages, the book is the most comprehensive and enlightening pragmatic document that has yet appeared.” B. H. Bode

+ =Nation= 111:sup658 D 8 ’20 1500w

“One may agree heartily with Professor Dewey’s polemic against fixed and final aims and yet believe that the most urgent need of ethics now is to work out a science of values. The lack of some such criticism of values makes itself felt in Professor Dewey’s book.” A. S. McDowall

+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 N 13 ’20 1800w

“The book is written with the accustomed fluency and piquancy of the pragmatic school, and it forms a piece of the most interesting reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ja 20 ’21 340w

=DEWEY, JOHN, and DEWEY, HATTIE ALICE (CHIPMAN) (MRS JOHN DEWEY).= Letters from China and Japan; ed. by Evelyn Dewey. *$2.50 Dutton 915

20–7580

“The Deweys, man and wife, are ‘professorial’ people. Mr Dewey is professor of philosophy in Columbia university and Mrs Dewey is a woman of great cultivation and deep interest in the things of the mind. The letters included in this book are written under the spur of first impressions. They have not either been revised or touched up in any way. You are never expected to remember that Mr Dewey is really a Ph.D. or that his wife reads ‘deep books.’ They make you see the cherry trees in bloom, the Mikado passing with his symbols, the chrysanthemums on the panels of his carriage; the Chinese women of the middle classes at home and the panorama of Chinese villages and streets. At the same time you feel that there is a serious purpose in the minds and the hearts of the two persons who write these letters.”—N Y Times

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

=Bookm= 51:631 Ag ’20 440w

“It is quite evident that Professor Dewey has enjoyed visiting countries ‘where the scholar is looked up to and not down upon.’ He writes with all the zest of a boy on his first trip abroad. Most striking is their revelation of Professor Dewey’s responsiveness to the æsthetic aspects of China and Japan.”

+ =Freeman= 1:429 Jl 14 ’20 350w

“It is not difficult to guess the authorship of most of the letters, and Mrs Dewey’s interest in the more pictorial aspects of the countries, in the women, and in their educational and domestic problems, admirably supplements Professor Dewey’s more historical and speculative observations.” Irita Van Doren

+ =Nation= 111:103 Jl 24 ’20 950w

“They are full of delightful descriptions of small events not usually described so sympathetically by travelers in the East.” M. F. Egan

+ =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 750w

=Outlook= 125:281 Je 9 ’20 180w

=DICKSON, HARRIS.= Old Reliable in Africa. *$1.90 (2c) Stokes

20–17655

Zack Foster, otherwise known as “Old Reliable,” is the colored valet of Colonel Beverly Spottiswoode, and when the colonel makes a trip to the Sudan, to see if the climate there is suitable for cotton culture, he takes Zack along with him. Zack’s presence guarantees him against ennui, for where Zack is, there is excitement. At one spot in Africa, he is hailed as “The Expected One,” by an Arab tribe, at another he rescues the most important donkey of the Sultan of Bong from crocodiles, and is suitably rewarded. But perhaps his most worthy exploit is the establishment of a “Hot cat eating house.” He reasons the labor problem out and comes to the conclusion that the natives refuse to work on the cotton plantation because they don’t need anything. He proposes to put within their reach some thing that they will be willing to work for, in the shape of hot fried catfish. This application of the law of supply and demand proves eminently satisfactory. But on the whole neither Zack nor the colonel are reluctant to return to Vicksburg in time for Christmas.

* * * * *

“Like most sequels, a falling off from the original.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:157 Ja ’21

“An amusing book for an idle hour.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 O 30 ’20 80w

“A series of adventures, many of which are of a startling dramatic character but always informed with the dry humor which is the very essence of Old Reliable’s irresistible personality.”

+ =N Y Times= p22 N 21 ’20 210w

“His adventures are as queer as they are funny.”

+ =Outlook= 126:515 N 17 ’20 30w

=DILLISTONE, GEORGE.= Planning and planting of little gardens: with notes and criticisms by Lawrence Weaver. il *$2.25 Scribner 712

20–26877

“Competitive schemes for planting for different kinds of lots are criticized from the architectural point of view. Incidentally, there are discussions on sundials, rock gardens, water-lily ponds, rose gardens, garden steps and pathways, climbers for the little garden, etc. Altho written for England, will be useful in this country where climate permits like vegetation.”—Booklist

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:59 N ’20

“The author [is] as sound on the architectural aspect of garden-making as upon matters of pure horticulture.”

+ =Spec= 124:559 Ap 24 ’20 170w

=DILLON, EMILE JOSEPH.= Inside story of the peace conference. *$2.25 (1½c) Harper 940.314

20–5137

“This is only a sketch—a sketch of the problems which the war created or rendered pressing—of the conditions under which they cropped up; of the simplicist ways in which they were conceived by the distinguished politicians who volunteered to solve them; of the delegates’ natural limitations and electioneering commitments and of the secret influences by which they were swayed, of the peoples’ needs and expectations; of the unwonted procedure adopted by the conference and of the fateful consequences of its decisions to the world.” (Foreword) These fateful consequences, in the author’s final summing up, are that future war is now universally looked upon as an unavoidable outcome of the Versailles peace. “Prussianism, instead of being destroyed, has been openly adopted by its ostensible enemies, and the huge sacrifices offered up by the heroic armies of the foremost nations are being misused to give one-half of the world just cause to rise up against the other half.” Contents: The city of the conference; Signs of the times; The delegates; Censorship and secrecy; Aims and methods; The lesser states; Poland’s outlook in the future; Italy; Japan; Attitude toward Russia; Bolshevism: How Bolshevism was fostered; Sidelights treaty with Bulgaria; The covenant and on the treaty; The treaty with Germany; The minorities.

* * * * *

“The title of this book is singularly non-descriptive. It has none of the qualities of narrative and every page betrays the fact that the author remained entirely outside the real workings of the conference. With all respect to Mr Dillon’s experience, he has written a misleading book.” C: Seymour

− =Am Hist R= 26:101 O ’20 600w

“Dr Dillon’s main intimacies in Paris seem to have been with those delegates [of small states]. That fact, which is not unconnected with his own nationality, has enabled him, thanks to his really wide knowledge of international problems, to get inside the skin of the Paris tragedy in a way which would be impossible to the ordinary advanced radical writer. There are faults of proportion. Not enough is made of the economic aspects of the failure, and many judgments are questionable.”

+ − =Ath= p1334 D 12 ’19 1000w

“Interesting but not easy to read, perhaps too detailed. No index.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:273 My ’20

Reviewed by Sganarelle

=Dial= 68:799 Je ’20 130w

“From ‘The inside story of the peace conference’ the reader takes away the impression of a stubborn and somewhat sour honesty, and also of a vacillating bias that the author intended as little as he suspected. A ripe scholarship, a keen observation, an adequate sweep, but—it is impossible to avoid its conclusion—a decidedly jaundiced personality.”

+ − =Lit D= 64:122 Mr 27 ’20 2200w

“Dr Dillon does not write without bias. On the other hand, his scathing indictment of the ignorance and inefficiency, the cynicism, the bad faith, and the remorseless pride of power of the big five and four and three is only equaled, but not excelled, by the now well-known criticism of Professor Keynes. The two books, indeed, supplement one another admirably.” W: MacDonald

+ − =Nation= 111:246 Ag 28 ’20 580w

“By virtue of his inside knowledge, his ruthless uncovering of weaknesses, his keenness in criticism, he well deserves to be called the Junius of the peace conference.”

+ =No Am= 211:717 My ’20 1100w

+ =R of Rs= 61:556 My ’20 180w

“It is not a history of the conference: it is an account of the way things were done at Paris, written by a man of wide outlook, who knows his way about the diplomatic world. Doubtless there will be many volumes written on the peace conference, but few are likely to be so valuable to the historian as this.”

+ =Sat R= 128:562 D 13 ’19 1250w

“This book does not add to Dr Dillon’s reputation. The allied statesmen, being only human and fallible, made mistakes, notably in regard to Italy and Rumania. But the wonder is that they did so well as they have done. Dr Dillon emphasizes and exaggerates all their blunders. He has taken the scandalous gossip of embassies, clubs, and newspapers a little too seriously.”

− =Spec= 123:735 N 29 ’19 100w

“The whole volume is a bold and dashing and highly fascinating presentation.” A. J. Lien

+ =Survey= 44:591 Ag 2 ’20 550w

“Our criticisms of this book are severe, but we believe they are just. Dr Dillon has had a great opportunity and he has failed to use it. He has failed because there is no evidence in the book of any consecutive thought, of any firm ideas, of any help for reconstruction in the future. Dr Dillon’s analysis of what happened at the conference is always biassed and often incorrect; he has chosen to make himself merely the mouthpiece of the complaints of the smaller states without helping his readers in the least to discriminate as to their justice.”

− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p659 N 20 ’19 1900w

=DILLON, MRS MARY C. (JOHNSON).= Farmer of Roaring Run. il *$1.75 (1c) Century

20–1892

John McClure, a wealthy Philadelphian of Scottish birth, has created a large farm in West Virginia, more or less as a rich man’s toy, which is not even self-supporting. After five years his managing farmer dies, and McClure is astounded when the farmer’s pretty, girlish-looking widow asks to be allowed to run the farm. Reluctantly he consents. He soon finds that Mrs Sinclair is not only quite a capable farmer but also a very lovable woman; quite incidentally too he discovers that it is necessary to spend more time on his farm and—its manager. All sorts of improvements are put into immediate action: forest conservation, careful selection of the best cattle only, clubs for the isolated young people, a church, and other things that spring from Mrs Sinclair’s energetic, fertile brain. Being very young and beautiful, and of gentle birth, she attracts several potential lovers, but McClure, after many heated misunderstandings, and several romantic adventures, eventually wins her. Other minor love stories run through the book, also a mystery.

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“Good descriptions of the country. Women will like it.”

+ =Booklist= 16:203 Mr ’20

“A pleasant, thoroughly conventional and rather sugary little story, the conclusion of which is perfectly obvious by the time one has finished the first chapter, is Mary Dillon’s new novel.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:126 Mr 14 ’20 350w

=DILNOT, FRANK.= England after the war. *$3 Doubleday 914.2

20–20324

England, says the author, is in a stage of transition and is entering upon a new epoch. What this new epoch is likely to be does not enter into the speculations of the writer who confines himself to sketching the main features of England in their present state of transformation. Among the contents are: The mood of the people; The governance of England; The women; Business the keystone; Labour battling for enthronement; Ireland; Britain overseas; From Lord Northcliffe to Bernard Shaw; Where England leads; New programmes of life.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:108 D ’20

“The American reader will find much to instruct him in the chapters dealing with the new leaders in politics and economics who have arisen in England since the war.” J. C. Grey

+ =Bookm= 52:366 Ja ’21 400w

“If he is not profound nor subtle nor concise, he is never dull and seldom altogether commonplace.” C. R. H.

+ =Freeman= 2:310 D 8 ’20 170w

+ =Ind= 104:248 N 13 ’20 50w

=N Y Times= p14 O 24 ’20 1750w

“Mr Dilnot has produced a book entertaining and, in the main, thoughtful.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 N 29 ’20 270w

=DIMMOCK, F. HAYDN=, ed.[2] Scouts’ book of heroes; with foreword by Sir Robert Baden Powell. il *$2.50 Stokes 940.3

“A record of scouts’ work in the great war.” (Sub-title) Contents: 1914; Famous scouts in the war; Scout heroes of the army; Scout heroes of the navy; Heroes of the air service; The heroes at home; Just—a scout; Called to higher service. In addition sixty pages are devoted to records of those who received medals, etc.

=DINGLE, A. E.= Gold out of Celebes. il *$1.75 (2½c) Little

20–8238

Jack Barry, an American seaman out of a job, is loafing about Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies, when Tom Little, a traveling salesman tired of the typewriter business, puts him on the track of adventure. Little has undertaken to go into the interior in the interests of Cornelius Houten, a Dutch trader, who has reason to suspect one of his agents. Houten is looking for a skipper and Barry meets his needs. The two Americans scent mystery from the outset. In the first place there is the strange lady, Mrs Goring, who claims acquaintance with them and asks passage on their ship. In the second place there is something puzzling about the big soft-voiced Dutch mate. There is also the relation between Leyden, the man they are after, and Natalie Sheldon, the charming young missionary. And the last is the point that matters most to Barry. On some of these points the two are in doubt to the end, working often in the dark, but fully deserving the rewards that finally come to them.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:347 Jl ’20

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 50w

“The plot of ‘Gold out of Celebes’ reveals nothing particularly new. The love interest is slight, but pleasing. It is the breezy way in which this novel is written that carries it. The plot is a secondary matter entirely, while the ‘red blood’ element, vivid enough at times, is always kept discreetly within bounds.”

+ − =N Y Times= p23 Ag 8 ’20 650w

=Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 6 ’20 220w

=DINNING, HECTOR W.= Nile to Aleppo. il *$7.50 Macmillan 940.42

“The author of this book is a captain in the Australian forces which fought in the great war. Mr McBey was the official artist which followed the army of the Egyptian expeditionary force and the two together, the soldier and the painter, collaborated to produce a volume which is not a book of the war, nor yet a book of travel, but a combination of the two. The story begins at Taranto, away down in far southern Italy. Here the force was simply in camp near the town, and presumably a transport appeared in the harbor, her nose pointing eastward and business opened up. Thence through Palestine and Syria. The trail leads around the hills of Judea, through its ravines and past its straggling orchards, and, at length, to the Holy City. He takes us through the valley of the Jordan to Ludd; and from Ludd to Damascus and thence to Homs; and from Homs to Aleppo, where the train traversed the burning sands to Beyrouth.”—Boston Transcript

* * * * *

“Captain Dinning is a born observer. He always contrives to see what is worth seeing and to record it vividly, sometimes in the slangy style of his diary, sometimes in the finished manner of his later chapters. Occasionally his judgments are open to criticism.”

+ =Ath= p759 D 3 ’20 950w

“The whole is an intensely breezy narrative, written by a man who understands well the use of his eyes and of the English language to interpret what he sees.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 O 20 ’20 600w

“Mr McBey’s pen sketches deserve more than passing mention, for he is no mere illustrator. His economy of line and his ability to convey an indelible impression of these arid stretches of Palestinian landscape, their undeniable color and beauty, are more than fortuitous.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p24 D 4 ’20 360w

+ =Spec= 124:245 Ag 21 ’20 300w

=DIXON, THOMAS.= Man of the people. *$1.75 Appleton 812

20–13190

This drama of Abraham Lincoln has one purpose: to show Lincoln’s fight to save the Union. We see Lincoln on the one hand as the friend of the oppressed and dispensing pardons according to a deeper sense of justice than is apparent on the surface. On the other hand we see him deal with implacable firmness to carry through his great conviction that the Union must be saved. The whole is divided into a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue.

* * * * *

“Melodramatic and inferior to Drinkwater’s play.”

+ − =Booklist= 17:61 N ’20

=DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL.= Blood red dawn. *$1.75 (2c) Harper

20–10053

A story of San Francisco following the fortunes of a girl who has her own living and her own way to make in the world. She is in turn a stenographer in a business office, accompanist for a singer at fashionable at-homes and Red cross concerts, and entertainer in a Greek restaurant. The latter occupation takes her “south of Market” and into a new social world where she meets the foreign born and has a glimpse of the alien point of view on American life. Two men have a part in her story, Ned Stillman, descendant of native stock, and Dr Danilo, a Serbian doctor. The war is in progress at the time.

* * * * *

“Although it has merit, it is a rather tepid performance. Mr Dobie’s faults, the faults of the novice, grow less noticeable as he warms to his theme. But he fails to warm sufficiently. He handles all his situations and incidents with the indifferent care of a man following a recipe. In spite of its riotous title, ‘The blood red dawn’ is distressingly smug.” M. A.

+ − =Freeman= 1:525 Ag 11 ’20 360w

“Well constructed romance. The author knows his San Francisco. This story—his first full length book—gives a graphic and colorful picture of intrigue in the foreign quarter of that city of lights.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:301 Je 6 ’20 420w

“The characters fail to transcend or to sublimate the type; are all, by a shade, a little second-rate or common; and the result is a disappointing effect, in a book containing so much veracious detail of confused mediocrity. The opening chapters give us hope of creative realism, and we seem to have received, when all is done, a disconcerting blend of naturalism and romance.” H. W. Boynton

− =Review= 3:272 S 29 ’20 250w

=DODD, MRS ANNA BOWMAN (BLAKE).= Up the Seine to the battlefields. il *$3 (3c) Harper 914.4

20–7447

“Why is it that not one traveler in a thousand, no, nor in tens of thousands has known the Seine shores as the shores of the Hudson are known—as the Rhine, for so many years, has been known and sung? Few Frenchmen even are fully aware of the wonders and beauties which a trip up the Seine will yield.” (Introd.) As one of the effects of the war has been the discovery of the Seine’s commercial possibilities the author fears that in a few short years the Seine will no longer be “the lovely river of beauty.” She therefore proposes to immortalize its many surprises in scenic and architectural splendors in a book which is profusely illustrated from engravings and paintings.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:27 O ’20

“The book is intensely interesting both for its geography and its history.”

+ =Cath World= 111:694 Ag ’20 220w

“The book is an amiable introduction to modern French history; and if Mrs Dodd’s manner is a trifle too intense for her subjects, there is at least not a tiresome page in the whole volume.” M. F. Egan

+ − =N Y Times= 25:285 My 30 ’20 150w

“Such a volume as the present will be grateful reading to all those who love France and who feel the force of the old days, no matter how modern some parts of new France have become.”

+ =Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w

“Unfortunately Mrs Dodd’s style is too hasty—at points it is positively slipshod—to carry the finer effects that would make for complete success in such work as this.”

+ − =Review= 2:681 Je 30 ’20 300w

=DODD, LEE WILSON.= Book of Susan. *$2 Dutton

20–11147

“Susan is frankly a phenomenal child. After her stupid, bestial father murders the woman with whom he is living, Susan is adopted by a wealthy and cultured bachelor, and grows up to be a brilliant woman who holds her own in his circle of scholarly and fashionable friends.” (Outlook) “She is now old enough to be in love with [her] guardian, who is, of course, in love with her. But Ambo’s two special friends, a Yale professor and a New York radical, also love Susan. Finally it takes a bomb from a Gotha in the streets of Paris to bring Susan to the point of letting Ambo know that she loves him alone.” (Bookman)

* * * * *

“The reason why one reader is unimpressed by this plot, and even finds it absurd, is because he is unimpressed by Susan. She is over-clever, over-sprightly. So, for that matter, is the whole book.” H. W. Boynton

− =Bookm= 52:68 S ’20 500w

“For all its Stevensonesque touches, for all the moments when one glimpses a mind like Pater’s, or a glimmer of Ibsen, through the palings of the back fence, as it were, one has nothing, except a couple of characters—say five—to take away with one. The first part of the story is delightful.”

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 430w

“The book is much above the average novel, and the author’s insight into feminine psychology quite remarkable. Moreover, it has the great quality of interest.”

+ =Lit D= p114 N 6 ’20 1650w

“Mr Dodd’s style is in another world from the gritty slovenliness of the average story; the earlier part of his book is filled with ripe and intense characterizations; the interpolated passages of criticism and verse are mellow and delightful. But the fable of the book is the fable of ‘Daddy Longlegs,’ not only in fact but, beneath all appearances of intellectual subtlety and integrity, in tendency and spirit. We can only hope that Mr Dodd will soon give us another novel in which his grace of style and temper shall serve to express an austerer strain of thought and imagination—austerer because it is truer and truer because it does not compromise.”

+ − =Nation= 111:329 S 18 ’20 620w

“The people in this narrative are the genuine variety. The character of Susan is a well rounded one. There is nothing commonplace about ‘The book of Susan.’ Mr Dodd writes in a fresh, entertaining style and has shaped his materials with no little skill.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 4 ’20 530w

“In character depiction, in the give and take of dialogue, and in the incidents, the novel is more arresting than the majority of the American novels of the season.”

+ =Outlook= 126:67 S 8 ’20 100w

=DODD, WILLIAM EDWARD.= Woodrow Wilson and his work. *$3 (4c) Doubleday

20–26482

“This portrait of Woodrow Wilson is designed to be a brief history of recent times as well as a chronicle of a great career. It aims to set the man in his historical background and to explain the trend of American life during a momentous period of world history.” (Introd.) “It is surely a record unsurpassed; and the fame of the man ... can never be forgotten, the ideals he has set and the movement he has pressed so long and so ably can not fail.” Contents: Youth and early environment; The new road to leadership; New wine in old bottles; The great stage; From Princeton to the presidency; The problem; The great reforms; Wars and rumours of wars; The election of 1916; The United States enters the war: “We are provincials no longer”; Roosevelt or Wilson; The great adventure; The day of reckoning; The treaty and the League; Index.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 16:343 Jl ’20

“It is fair to admit that Mr Dodd does his work with knowledge, skill, and an independent judgment in details.” J. A. Hobson

+ =Nation= 111:189 Ag 14 ’20 1250w

“Although I am seldom in complete agreement with Professor Dodd, and often a horizon’s distance away from him, I find myself forced to the conviction that this book offers the fullest and fairest amount of Wilson and his work that I have seen, or am likely to see in many a day.” Alvin Johnson

+ − =New Repub= 24:36 S 8 ’20 2250w

“Quite the most discriminating, comprehensive and just appraisement of Woodrow Wilson that has yet been made.”

+ =N Y Times= p21 S 12 ’20 550w

=R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 230w

“As fairly as seems humanly possible, Prof. Dodd has maintained the historical point of view, endeavoring to weigh all evidence impartially, and taking counsel from friends and foes alike, and from the president himself on various occasions.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8a S 19 ’20 1100w

Reviewed by W: L. Chenery

+ =Survey= 45:168 O 30 ’20 520w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p653 O 7 ’20 110w

=DODGE, HENRY IRVING.= Skinner makes it fashionable. il *$1 (5c) Harper

20–6285

“Meadeville was a suburban town of the highest class. It was made up of plutocrats, prigs, good people, snobs, mean people, new-rich, new-poor.” Perhaps William Manning Skinner was one of the “mean people,” for he set the whole town by the ears in a sensational way. He knew how human they all were, how they dreaded, most of all, not to be in the height of fashion and not to do what the “best people” did. So he set the ball a-rolling that was to change the riot of extravagance in vogue among the newly-rich to a veritable riot of simple living. And how he and his good wife, Honey, chuckled over it all!

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“Not as amusing as the earlier ‘Skinner’ stories.”

+ − =Booklist= 16:312 Je ’20

=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 50w

“The little book is a reservoir of bubbling humor, carrying with it a lesson well worth heeding in these days.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:302 Je 6 ’20 550w

“A genuinely funny story.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 260w

=DODGE, LOUIS.= Whispers. *$1.75 Scribner

20–6862

“Louis Dodge’s new hero is named Robert Estabrook, and it is Beakman, the very unpleasant city editor of The News, who gives him the nickname of ‘Whispers’ because of his defective speech. Estabrook—or Whispers—arrives in Missouri City shortly after the murder of old Pheneas Drumm, a dealer in masks and costumes, reputed to be very rich, and goes first to the office of the highly successful News. But not liking the looks either of Beakman or of The News office—whereby he shows his good sense—he decides to try to get a position on the rival paper, The Vidette. This he does. Also, Whispers promises to solve the mystery of the Drumm murder within two days. Of course he makes good.”—N Y Times

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=Booklist= 16:280 My ’20

+ =Cath World= 112:121 O ’20 90w

“Mr Dodge has written a uniquely interesting book. The plot itself is simple enough, the dénouement not surprising; but from the very beginning a subtler interest is aroused by the genuine appeal of the characters revealed and the picturesque quality of the city newspaper life.”

+ − =N Y Evening Post= p3 My 1 ’20 480w

+ − =N Y Times= 25:240 My 9 ’20 350w

“Once the main thread begins to unwind, ‘Whispers’ plunges into an exciting series of dangers. Either through his own, or the author’s clumsiness, Estabrook does not display much craft in his sleuthing.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 250w

“The long arm of coincidence is applied to its limit, but the story is entertaining.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 20w

=DODWELL, C. E. W.= Righteousness versus religion. $2 Stratford co. 201

20–14752

In opposing righteousness to religion the author does not direct his criticism against Christianity in the sense of the “righteousness, simplicity and beauty” of the teachings of Christ, but against dogmatic religion which he makes responsible for everything that has gone wrong with the world. He charges it with promulgating “mischievous errors, falsities and debasing superstitions, ignorance, hypocrisy and narrow-minded bigotry and intolerance.” The contents are: Religion; Many religions; The Christian religion; The works of religion; The Bible; Righteousness. The postscript has paragraphs on the future of the “Church” and “Religion”; on the effects of Catholicism on Spain and Ireland; on the war; and a recommended list of books for further reading.

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“Of his tremendous sincerity there can be no doubt. It might fairly be urged that the book fails to accord to its object of attack the usual privilege of being judged by its best rather than by its worst. Yet his assaults are put forward in such a whole-hearted and self-convinced manner that what he says is not calculated to wound or affront.” L. S.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 N 3 ’20 1100w

=DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER.=[2] Religion for the new day. *$2 (2½c) Huebsch 204

We are facing a momentous crisis in history of which some of the profound facts are: insincerity in religion, and the parting of the roads to which all churches alike have come. The object of the book is to set forth a mode of religion that will now and henceforth serve, not only for Christendom but for all mankind, as the spiritual gospel and working force for a humane and democratic world and that, wherever it is applied, can transform life. It neither antagonizes nor favors any existing institution but insists on the need of some form of social expression of the best that is in man. The contents fall into sections: Signs of the times: how the facts point; The course of spiritual evolution; The victorious goodness; The new civilization; The religion within.

=DOMBROWSKI, ERIC.= German leaders of yesterday and today. *$2 (2½c) Appleton 920

20–26749

These pictures of “uncensored celebrities of Germany” are painted with much spirit, a satirical brush and much intimate knowledge of the personalities and historical facts. Among the subjects are: Friedrich Ebert; Erich Ludendorff; Theodor Wolff; Mathias Erzberger; Georg Ledebour; Alfred von Tirpitz; Wilhelm II; Philip Scheidemann; Von Bethmann-Hollweg; Ernst Graf zu Reventlow; Hugo Haase; Richard von Kühlmann; Georg Graf von Hertling; Rosa Luxemburg; Maximilian von Baden; Kurt Eisner; Karl Liebknecht; Gustav Noske.

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+ =Booklist= 17:29 O ’20

“Dombrowski’s power is nothing short of Carlylean.”

+ =N Y Times= p1 Ag 8 ’20 4100w

“As often happens in the case of sidelights, Dombrowski illuminates only spots. He shows only this or that feature of his men and women, leaving in the shadows many other features which in fairness should be revealed. ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ is highly entertaining, but its value is certainly not higher than that of many books of the hour.”

+ − =Review= 3:538 D 1 ’20 170w

“Some of the sketches are satirical and frankly inimical. Almost all are enlightening and amusing.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:334 S ’20 80w

“Eric Dombrowski’s ‘German leaders of yesterday and today’ has the requisite impartiality and shows also an abundance of keen insight. But these sketches were evidently written with some subtlety as well as vivacity, and while the translator has contrived to preserve the author’s spirit, the English is often confused or incorrect.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 600w

“Dombrowski tries to be clever and rarely succeeds, but he paints vivid pictures of forty-five political leaders, publicists, and agitators, which to the average American will prove illuminating.” C: Seymour

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:420 Ja ’21 160w

=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.=[2] States of South America, the land of opportunity; a complete geographical, descriptive, economic and commercial survey. il *$5 Macmillan 918

“This work, which has been greatly enlarged and re-written since its first appearance, now forms a comprehensive volume of illustrated reference to the whole of the states of South America, and not only as before, a few of the most important Latin-American states.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Notice of the first edition appears in the 1911 Digest Annual.

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“The proportion of bare facts to textual comment is well studied from beginning to end.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 250w

“Aside from its mass of statistics and general information, the chief value of this volume to the American business man lies in the fact that it introduces him, with admirable candor, to the methods of his chief competitor.” B. R. Redman

+ =N Y Times= p15 Ja 16 ’21 840w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 O ’20 40w

=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarine warfare of today. il *$2.25 Lippincott 940.45

20–26104

The book contains “records of many romantic events on England’s sea frontier, 1914–1918. There are descriptions of the organization and preparation of the new navy to meet the submarine menace, and of the new weapons devised. Much attention is given to details and explanation of how things were done; there is an examination of the effect of the submarine on naval strategy.”—Booklist

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=Booklist= 16:164 F ’20

“His book is full of romance as well as of facts. The only criticism which is permissible is that the book is somewhat lacking in detailed description of the instruments used.”

+ − =Nature= 105:36 Mr 11 ’20 240w

“‘Submarine warfare of today’ is a disappointing book. Based on inadequate information, and characterised by annoying repetition, it falls a long way short of the claims which are made by the publishers’ note on the wrapper. If the author is ill-informed as to his facts, not less displeasing is his English.”

− =Sat R= 129:283 Mr 20 ’20 510w

“Mr Domville-Fife’s is a book to be carefully read by all those who look forward to the promised formal histories of the navy’s share in the war.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p706 D 4 ’19 850w

=DOMVILLE-FIFE, CHARLES WILLIAM.= Submarines and sea power. *$2.50 Macmillan 359

(Eng ed 19–18399)

“In this treatise the author examines the effect of the submarine on naval strategy, not as a mere matter of history, but as a guide to preparation for the next naval war.” (Ath) “He says that, though we hope that the League of nations will make war impossible in future, we have no right whatever to rely on this blessed consummation. Until we are entitled to dismiss war as an exhausted evil, which can never return, we must either keep our place on the sea or sink to live at the mercy of other nations. Will the submarine make it more difficult for us to retain our position or not? That is the question which he endeavours to answer.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

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+ =Ath= p1048 O 17 ’19 70w

“Most instructive volume.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p539 O 9 ’19 1450w

=DONNELLY, ANTOINETTE.= How to reduce: new waistlines for old. il *$1 Appleton 613

20–17245

This is a jolly little book which makes the trip from Fatland into Slimville an interesting adventure rather than a dismal undertaking. The author writes from a wide experience and her “simple and commonsensible rules for reduction” are emphasized by wit, humor and jingles which seem to defy her own rules by never losing weight. The menus given “require no additional expense to the household budget nor do they need to upset the meal planning to any unreasonable degree.” The exercises given are illustrated and the contents are: A little physical geography; Some Slimville arguments; Hard facts on a soft subject; The dangerous age; Get the weighing habit; Reduce while you eat; What is an average helping; Reduced thirty-six pounds in six weeks; Exercise; Recipes without butter, flour and sugar. The author is “beauty editor” of the Chicago Tribune.

=DONNELLY, FRANCIS PATRICK.= Art of interesting; its theory and practice for speakers and writers. *$1.75 Kenedy 808

20–18519

The author regards the imagination as the source of interest in written and oral speech, and says that “The place of imagination in prose” might serve as a substitute title for his book. “In the earlier chapters various specific manifestations of the imagination are described and exemplified; then follow several chapters on particular authors, whose methods of interesting are examined in detail. The final chapters go into the theory of imagination.” (Preface) Among the titles are: The tiresome speaker; Interest from directness; The art of eloquence and the science of theology; Newman and the academic style; Macaulay and “journalese”; Tabb and fancy; Poetry and interest; Developing the imagination; Exercises for the imagination. Parts of the book have appeared in the Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic World and America.

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“He has a delicate appreciation of the best in literature and a genius for penetrating beneath the polished work of art to discover the artistry.”

+ =Cath World= 112:389 D ’20 350w

=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for metal workers. il $2 Ronald 671

19–15024

“The suggestion of the title that the content is of value only to the metal-worker is misleading, for this book is in fact an elementary treatise in the field of technology in general. It deals with fundamental principles of chemistry and physics in their relation to our daily life. One-eighth of the material handled, perhaps, applies specifically to metal-working trades; the remainder is of general informational value to the average layman as well as to the metal-worker.”—School R

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=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20

“Mr Dooley has been very successful in many of the chapters in showing that the sciences of physics and chemistry, which in general are too abstract for students in the elementary school, can be put in such a way as to arouse a good deal of interest and promise full understanding on the part of immature students.”

+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 100w

“The book is well within the range of evening- and continuation-school attendants, particularly those engaged in the distributive and productive industries. It should prove of value as a text in vocational high schools and in those regular high schools that are able to differentiate their courses for the benefit of that portion of their school population which graduates into industry.” H. T. F.

+ =School R= 28:155 F ’20 220w

=DOOLEY, WILLIAM HENRY.= Applied science for wood-workers. il $2 Ronald 684

19–15025

The first chapters on the general principles of science underlying all industry are identical with those in “Applied science for metal workers.” These are followed by seven chapters specifically relating to woodworking trades.

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=Booklist= 16:117 Ja ’20

+ =El School J= 20:393 Ja ’20 100w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= Ja ’20 40w

=DORRANCE, MRS ETHEL ARNOLD (SMITH), and DORRANCE, JAMES FRENCH.= Glory rides the range. il *$1.75 Macaulay co.

20–5585

“Gloriana’s father was Blaze Frazer, owner of a horse ranch near the ‘Solemncholy desert.’ Frazer’s delicate and refined wife had mysteriously disappeared some years before the story opens. Frazer receives a penciled letter post-marked Nogales, Mexico, telling him that there is a woman there who ‘sometime cry for Blaze and Glory and says her name is Frazer.’ The writer further requests Frazer to come for the woman and bring with him $5,000 gold for ‘expenses.’ Frazer raises the money and starts for Mexico in the hope of finding his wife; before leaving he leases the ranch to one Timothy Rudd and arranges for the girl to live with a friend during his absence. Gloriana, however, decides otherwise; Rudd was a bad character and, refusing to recognize the validity of the lease, she assumes charge of the ranch herself. The exciting incidents which followed her decision furnish the theme of this story. In the end Gloriana is in her mother’s arms and a prospective husband is hovering near by.”—N Y Times

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+ =Boston Transcript= p4 S 4 ’20 240w

=N Y Times= 25:287 My 30 ’20 320w

“When you read ‘Glory rides the range’ you feel that Ethel and James Dorrance must have had a ‘bully good time’ writing it, so enthusiastically and blithely does it gallop from one thrilling situation to another.” E. M. Brown

+ =Pub W= 97:999 Mr 20 ’20 340w

=DOSTOEVSKII, FEDOR MIKHAILOVICH.= Honest thief and other stories. *$2 (1c) Macmillan

20–26192

This is the eleventh volume in Mrs Garnett’s translation of the works of Dostoevsky. It contains ten stories: An honest thief; Uncle’s dream; A novel in nine letters; An unpleasant predicament; Another man’s wife; The heavenly Christmas tree; The peasant Marev; The crocodile; Bobok; The dream of a ridiculous man.

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“Perhaps Dostoevsky more than any other writer sets up this mysterious relationship with the reader, this sense of sharing. While we read, we are like children to whom one tells a tale: we seem in some strange way to half-know what is coming and yet we do not know; to have heard it all before, and yet our amazement is none the less, and when it is over, it has become ours. This is especially true of the Dostoevsky who passes so unremarked—the child-like, candid, simple Dostoevsky who wrote ‘An honest thief’ and ‘The peasant Marey’ and ‘The dream of a ridiculous man.’” K. M.

+ =Ath= p1256 N 28 ’19 850w

+ =Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20

“Fortunately for the reader, Dostoevski’s desperation of human nature drove him to ridicule rather than to melancholy, and for ridicule he was admirably equipped with a lively and stinging wit. Of the ten stories which make up the volume, ‘Uncle’s dream’ is probably the most entertaining.” G. H. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 14 ’20 550w

“Insouciance, self-possession of the absolute much prized French variety, the all containing nonchalance, the iron-nerved sense of form, Dostoevsky apparently cannot claim. His close realism quite lacks easiness and is impersonal in a rough and elemental, not an accomplished way; he has no suggestion of the considered faint irony of Chekhov. His eminence is the eminence of endowment, not of training or consideration; he is the great artist of few accomplishments.” C: K. Trueblood

+ − =Dial= 68:774 Je ’20 800w

“The stories and sketches in this volume of Dostoevsky are not among his best. His humor is not happy; his compassion is less exercised when he deals with the higher ranks of society. But always there is the incomparable steadfastness of vision and innocence of the imagination that follows life, that does not seek to distort it, and that finds man in his humanity alone.” L. L.

+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 110w

“The restraint and aloofness of the great comic writers are impossible to him. It is probable, for one reason, that he could not allow himself the time. ‘Uncle’s dream,’ ‘The crocodile,’ and ‘An unpleasant predicament’ read as if they were the improvisations of a gigantic talent reeling off its wild imagination at breathless speed. Yet we are perpetually conscious that, if Dostoevsky fails to keep within the proper limits, it is because the fervour of his genius goads him across the boundary.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p586 O 23 ’19 950w

=DOUDNA, EDGAR GEORGE.= Our Wisconsin; a school history of the Badger state. 72c Eau Claire bk. & stationery co., Eau Claire, Wis. 977.5

20–8513

The book is intended for use in the upper grades of the schools of the state, it being a law of Wisconsin that its history and government be taught in the common schools. It is as definite and as concrete as brevity permits. Beginning with Jean Nicolet, the first white man to set foot on Wisconsin soil in 1634, the book describes the Indians, the first settlers, the various nationalities that have made Wisconsin their home, its attitudes in national crises, its laws and industries, etc.

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=Wis Lib Bul= 16:117 Je ’20 30w

=DOUGLAS, CLIFFORD HUGH.= Economic democracy. *$1.60 (6c) Harcourt 330.1

20–5264

“This book is an attempt to disentangle from a mass of superficial features such as profiteering, and alleged scarcity of commodities, a sufficient portion of the skeleton of the structure we call society as will serve to suggest sound reasons for the decay with which it is now attacked: and afterwards to indicate the probable direction of sound and vital reconstruction.” (Preface) The author sees in the centralizing power of capital one of the chief reasons for this decay and in a decentralized cooperation of individuals a direction that a sound and vital reconstruction will take. After analysing our present decaying economic and political structure and considering the imminence of a general rearrangement, he rejects collectivism “in any of the forms made familiar to us by the Fabians and others” and insists on “the maximum expansion in the personal control of initiative and the minimizing, and final elimination, of economic domination, either personal or through the agency of the state.”

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=Am Econ R= 10:571 S ’20 60w

“It is extremely difficult to find a flaw in this doctrine on the basis of ethics or equity, as for the practical workings of any system which attempts to put this poetic Justice into action we must await the event.” J. L.

+ =Ath= p445 Ap 2 ’20 1250w

“Those who agree with the premises will find the logic irresistible. Others will be stimulated by the original though unorthodox thinking and the fertile suggestions of the author’s scheme.”

+ =Booklist= 16:299 Je 20

“Mr Douglas is by no means clear as to the details of his case, although his general contention has substantial force.” Ordway Tead

+ − =Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

“The orthodox economists are in such a helpless muddle in regard to soaring prices that it is a relief to find a thinker who does not scatter explanations with a shot gun all over the barn door but goes straight to his mark. Unfortunately the book is too brief. Excessive concentration has left it obscure in vital portions.”

+ − =Nation= 111:19 Jl 3 ’20 350w

“Major Douglas knows his difficult subject from end to end. If the fates had blessed him with the gift of clear exposition we might have had here a volume of note. When he determines to keep clear from terms which demand explanations, and concentrates on clarifying his message of social regeneration, those who pay lip service to formal political democracy will find in him a telling recruit to the growing band of thinkers who deny the name of democracy to any system not based upon economic freedom.”

+ − =Nation [London]= 27:184 My 8 ’20 800w

“This small book offers much room for controversy both as to its technical analysis of the effects of current accounting and credit practices and as to the feasibility of remedies advocated. The ground for controversy is widened by the author’s unfortunately vague and sometimes bombastic style.” E. R. Burton

+ − =Survey= 44:541 Jl 17 ’20 280w

=DOUGLAS, OLIVE ELEANOR (CONSTANCE) (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS).= Penny plain. *$1.90 Doran

A story of a quiet little Scottish town. Priorsford is the home of a number of quaint and interesting people. Here Jean Jardine lives with her two brothers and “the Mhor,” Gaelic for “the great one,” the pretentious name given to a little boy of seven. Into this placid atmosphere comes the Honourable Miss Pamela Reston, who is tired of London life. The story tells of how she fits into Priorsford society and how she and Jean become fast friends, and there is much description of tea-parties and country social life. Then comes an unexpected legacy for kind-hearted little Jean and romance, too, appears in the person of Pam’s younger brother. Pam herself finds the fulfilment of a hope of twenty years’ standing which has kept her single all this long time. The title comes from the dialogue of the shopman and the small boy: the shopman saying “You may have your choice—penny plain or twopence coloured.” the small boy choosing the penny plain, as “better value for the money.”

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“A pleasant book to read. But we cannot help thinking it would be pleasanter still without the perfunctory introduction of a loveinterest, and of other irrelevances considered more or less indispensable in fiction.”

+ − =Ath= p244 Ag 20 ’20 120w

“The children make the book, especially Gervase and his dog. It is worth reading for them alone.” I. W. L.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 D 11 ’20 480w

“Miss Douglas’s new book in two ways partakes of a quality little short of the miraculous. It is a post-war story without a trace of war-weariness or bitterness; and it is full of people who are nice with the added charm of being entertaining. As a story ‘Penny plain’ leaves something to be desired. Let us add that if an author is to be judged by her literary preferences and illusions and quotations, Miss Douglas deserves a very high mark.”

+ − =Spec= 125:342 S 11 ’20 440w

“A very able and delightful book, but it is not the kind of book that the Marxian kind of person would like. The author has a good style and a subtle sense of humour, together with the skill necessary for the gradual unfolding of the characters.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 Ag 19 ’20 570w

=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Bostwick’s budget. il *$1 Bobbs 331.84

20–18296

“An inspiring bit of a book for all those in debt; being the Odyssey of Sam and Lucy, who owed $4,016.69 and through the advice of a sagacious old lawyer and the use of grit, in a comparatively short time found themselves out of debt and with money in the bank.”—Cleveland

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=Cleveland= p106 D ’20 50w

=N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 100w

“The story, as a story, is closely interesting, and as a sermon on thrift it ought to be read by 100 per cent of the newlyweds in America and by an equal ratio of people above and below that date line in their careers.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 190w

=DOWST, HENRY PAYSON.=[2] Man from Ashaluna. *$1.75 (2c) Small

20–18763

Judson Dunlap comes home from France with the desire to paint pictures. As a doughboy in Paris he had seen real pictures and a latent interest in art had awakened. He buys a painting kit and starts in by himself alone in the Ashaluna hills, his home. But the results are queer and he knows it. So he takes the patents on the churn he has invented to New York, hoping to sell them and get money to learn painting. He also hopes to meet Mary Beverly, the girl he had rescued from the snowdrifts the winter before. He is immediately plunged into a game of high finance, for two rival concerns are after him for his water rights on the Ashaluna and are willing to juggle with his churn patents as part of the price. Jud plays them off one against the other, meets Mary again, learns to wear the right clothes and use the right forks and, altogether, doesn’t find time to learn painting.

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“A cleverly conceived, well told novel. While there is nothing particularly striking in this book in any one place, it is a well made piece of fiction.”

+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 320w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= Guards came through, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821

20–2926

No vers libre for Sir Arthur. It is the old style meter with the old style rhyme and the old style powerful lilt to the old style ballad most suitable for recitations. They are all war poems and are: Victrix; Those others; The guards came through; Haig is moving; The guns in Sussex; Ypres; Grousing; The volunteer; The night patrol; The wreck on Loch McGarry; The bigot; The Athabasca trail; Ragtime! Christmas in wartime; Lindisfaire; A parable; Fate.

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“The title-piece and others show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a master of evening-paper balladry.”

+ =Ath= p558 Ap 23 ’20 70w

“It is good British song one finds in this slim little volume of Sir Arthur’s. And it is British all the way through, this little book; British militarily, British presumptuously satisfied with her destiny.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 400w

“Nothing so good for Friday afternoon readings in public schools has been written since ‘The charge of the light brigade.’”

+ =Dial= 69:323 S ’20 110w

“While the military expert may pass over many episodes as being non-essential, it is these very episodes which lure the general reader on from page to page.” Walter Littlefield

+ − =N Y Times= p6 D 19 ’20 380w

“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a real benefactor to the organizers of town or village entertainments who want pieces of good quality for recitation. His poems, mainly patriotic, are irreproachable in sentiment, simple in expression, and always have a brave lilt. One longish piece, ‘The wreck on Loch McGarry,’ is in a vein of Gilbertian humour.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p783 D 25 ’19 80w

=DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN.= History of the great war. v 5–6 il ea *$3 (3c) Doran 940.3

=v 5–6= The British campaign in France and Flanders, 1918.